Lovely

This week SoArtful Challenge theme is Isn't She Lovely. Jeanette inspired us with a beautiful drawing by Arthur Jule Goodman.

She is indeed lovely, so I decided to post one more image in order to show you more details of this beauty.


Lady: Lucky Palm Free Vintage Art
Peaches and flowers: Redouté Flowers and Fruits CD-ROM and Book (Dover Publications)
Butterflies: Photoshop Brushes & Creative Tools CD-ROM and Book: Butterflies (Dover Publications)
Hummingbird: Google Search (beija-flor)
Textures: Freaky665 and Sheisprettystock both at DeviantArt.

Killing time?

This is my very first entry for the SoArtful Challange, which I discovered at June's blog. This week challenge is Time.

The background is a photo I borrowed from Laserandlight's blog.
The graphics are Dover samples or The Graphics Fairy freebies.
Quote by Irish dramatist and actor Dion Boucicault(1820-1890).

Speaking Numbers

I’ve made this photo collage for this week Three Muses challenge: Numbers. It was really a challenge because we don’t have a good relationship at all, I mean, me and numbers.

So, I pick this Nathanael West (writer, 1903-1940) quote, a bunch of numbers graphics from Google Search, which I altered and cut like cartoon balloons, and this beautiful old photo I had already (sorry, I don’t know where it came from) and voilá.

WrightStuff asked me about Gimp (yes, it’s a weird name). I did all my stuff using it and have no complaints. I choose it because Photoshop and all these licensed softwares are pretty expensive here in Brazil. As I’m a beginner why not try free software that has good references?

I live in Brasília and we didn't have even a raindrop in 104 days. Weather people say we will have to wait a little more. I know, it's boring to talk about weather, but I can't BREATHE!

Back to Nature - Back to Simple

For this week three muses challenge, Back to Nature, I’ve tried something a bit different and sort of simpler (it should be…). I've done a pencil drawing, scanned it, and then painted in Gimp. This was my first try in digital painting and it took ages to finish it (where the hell I put that old box of watercolor pencils?). Finnaly, I added an autumn leaves layer. Nevertheless, it was fun drawing again after twenty years or so...

Zetti What?

Digital Collage for The Three Muses: World of Zetti, whatever it is.

Lovely face is Bárbara's, my daughter. Everything else I googled.

Roostamlet

Photo Collage for Digital Whisper: Egg.

Credits:
Background: "Medieval Room" by MichaelMills1947 in his public picasaweb album.
Texture: it's a photo of a rooster stamped fabric (sararulesquilts.blogspot.com) that i've altered.
Rooster: it's a Roger S. Thomas painting for sale (US$ 30) at livinglargeministries.com.
Framed Rooster: it's a porcelain painting for sale (US$ 35) at lpmchina.com.
Skull: dappercadaver.com.
Egg: digital-whisper.blogspot.com

Wheels Quilt

Rodas

This digital collage for The Three Muses Chalange is also a homage to the marvelous women dedicated to quilting.

It's made of parts of several quilts. Some of them you can find at these blogs: YukiQuilts, JulieKQuilts, sewmanyquilts, mairakist.

Door to Freedom

Educação: Porta para a Liberdade

Digital Art for The three Muses Challenge: Doors

Girls: this photo appears everywhere, but is somehow related to Greg Mortenson's work in promoting education, especially for girls, in remote regions of northern Pakistan and Afghanistan.
Door: I don't have any idea where this one came from.
Quote by George Washington Carver (1864–1943), American scientist, botanist, educator and inventor.

How will she survive without her famous eyes?

No restaurante de Matisse

Digital art for Digital Whisper: Eyes.

Background: Henri Matisse's 1908 oil on canvas The Dessert: Harmony in Red (The Red Room).
She: Elizabeth Taylor as Cleopatra in the 1963 movie.
Beret: borrowed from Coco Chanel (Evening Standard—Hulton Archive)
Hair: personal arquive.
Eyes: e-vint.com

The Worship

Adoração

Digital art for The Three Muses Chalenge: Love is Blind or is it blind love?

Worshiper: Life Magazine photo taken in April 1947 by John Phillips.
Goddess: Ava Gardner in "One Touch Of Venus"; photo taken by J R Eyerman, in March 1948, for Life.