Waiting for the hummingbird

This week at Take a Word the challenge is to celebrate the world of nature.  I don't know this flower's name. What I do know is that the hummingbirds love it. Maybe fairies love it too...

Background: my photo; fairy (cutout and colored): Graphics Fairy; texture: Elné.

Time off for a book

The theme is LEISURE in Take a Word and other doing digital art, what I most like is reading, a passion that has started in my childhood.

Yesterday, I went to the first meeting of my Book Club. Several women chatting over a book (A Visit from the Goon Squad), sipping tea or coffee and eating cake. Lovely!

Quote in the book by Zetta Hupf; quote on the paper by Confucius; all illustrations by Jessie Willcox Smith; background by LunaNYXStock.

Little Red Hood first photo

Hi! The theme in Take a Word is AUTUMN and like Marie, in my part of the world seasonal changes aren't dramatic at all. We could summarize them in the rainy period / period of drought. As my country is very large, rainfall and drought occur at different times depending on the region. In Brasilia we are about to enter - Thank God! - in the rainy season. So whenever the theme is AUTUMN, I seek a beautiful photo of an Autumn I've never seen to be the background of the scene I imagine!

I'm also submitting this to Digitalmania which theme is free this week as long as we use a vintage picture altering its background.

Background by Emerald Depths (dA); leaves by Maureen Older (dA); baby by Jamie Miller; texture by Natalya Semenchuk.

Prime color of the world

El verde es el color principal del mundo, y que a partir del cual surge su belleza.

Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises.

Pedro Calderón de la Barca

This coloring thing is kinda addicting.  When Take a Word asked for Green it seemed a good idea to take an old photo of a beautiful teenager and to transform her into a Green Fairy. Then I found this photo gently shared by Jamie Miller and did that:

Flight of butterflies: Dover; Texture: Kim Klassen.

Friendship is precious

Original B&W picture by Philippe Halsman. I enlarged, colored and applied filters. 

Quote by Thomas Jefferson.

The theme word for this week at Take a Word is FRIENDS and I'm very honored to be the guest host. The problem was providing a sample good enough.  I made a first attempt, but didn't like the result. So I decided to try a different proposition, I liked. Then I decided to try to improve that first. It was not bad. As I didn't know which one to choose, I sent the two and left the hard work for Marie. She was kind enough to post both. Thanks, dear Marie, for the opportunity.

Original illustrations by Ida Rentoul Outhwaite and Jessie Willcox Smith. 

Background are cutouts of a gorgeous quilt. Texture by Kim Klassen.

O tema desta semana em Take a Word é AMIGOS e estou muita honrada de ser a anfitriã convidada. O problema foi fornecer uma colagem suficientemente boa. Fiz uma primeira tentativa, mas não gostei do resultado. Então, decidi tentar uma proposta diferente e gostei. Aí, decidi tentar melhorar a primeira tentativa. Não ficou ruim. Como eu não sabia qual escolher, enviei as duas e deixei o trabalho duro para Marie. Ela foi gentil o bastante de postar ambas. Obrigada, querida Marie, pela oportunidade.

Moo on fairy tales

Hi. This is my take on the this week theme at Take a Word: Moo. Whatever it is...
Illustrations by Nancy Ekholm Burkert and Warwick Goble. Quote by G.K. Chesterton. Texture by Kim Klassen.

A princess or an evil queen? Both! (anything but ordinary)

(please, click to enlarge)

Hello, I hope you had a sweet Christmas (if you celebrate it). This is the picture I put together to attend the Three Muses challenge of the week: all about me.

In these days when movie studios struggle to draw attention to their different versions of Snow White, I found myself thinking that all of us at some point dreamed of being princesses, but deep down we knew that we had our evil queen side. What's good, after all why be the silly princess instead of the sexy witch? ^=^ No wonder actresses prefer the role of the antagonist instead of the nice girl...

Well, back to my digital collage, I took two pictures of different versions of Snow White and switched the beautiful faces of the actresses for mine (the one I had kind of 10 years ago or so - I confess) to represent these two sides that we all have: the brighter one we show in the light of day and the other, darker, we try to suppress or at least keep to ourselves.

I also used two textures (Brighteyesgal, GRSites) and a free wallpaper. 

Meanwhile, in Fairyland

I love old fairytales books' illustration. As a child I was drawn to that world of magic and wonder through those pictures.I made this digital collage for this week theme in Take a Word: WINGS. Please enlarge to see the details.

Illustrations: the Moon Maiden and The Three Beggars by Warwick Goble; the King & Queen of Fairies and their court by unknown. Some trees and bushes were googled; texture by Buzzilo Stock (deviantArt).