Spring Magic

© Sybille Sterk

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Found these lurking in my garden and couldn't resist, especially with all the snow this morning and the cold this time of year. You wouldn't believe it is Easter if not for these littel guys hiding away or the buds on the trees... Brrrrr....

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Busy week....

... so here is one I made earlier:

This was made for my sister and took forever. It's very delicate and like real dandlelion seeds gently sways in the slightest breeze. I love dandelions and dandelion seeds. They are so very pretty....

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Found this on shutterstock and it looked very useful:

Fox

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This was another experiment with vector graphics, drawn in Illustrator and then edited in Photoshop. I added lots of textures and a few effects to make it feel like a hand drawn cut out and glued image. Something for the kiddies (or those that are still kids at heart). I have thing about foxes at the moment... LOL Watch this space for more to come.

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Sea Shells by the Sea Shore

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I took this image of the shells yesterday when I took some other still life images for photo manipulations I have planned. I've tried a few times to get the perfect combination of shells and the light falling on them just right and this time it worked (imho) perfectly.

The water and splashes were added. Below is the original image:

I like it and it's pretty but it lacks the drama of the eidted one. I added water reflections, textures, the splashes, colour adjustments and highlights/shadows to create the drama.

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Snowdrops

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 Taken a few weeks back, I just never got round to posting the image. I love snowdrops, like cherryblossom and magnolia they're heralds of spring. These were wild in the middle of the woods.

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Golden Light Cherryblossom

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Taken a few days ago on the one sunny day we seemed to have last week. I love cherryblossom and magnolia and the plumtree in my front garden because they herald spring and that winter is almost over. I am not a winter person, unless it's big drifts of snow and blue skies... However, spring is almost here... despite the snow last week.

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Summers Past

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Some lavender from last year's summer. I loved the simplicity of it and played around with until it looked like a pinhole image.

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Cherryblossom a la Chinoise

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Taken a couple of days ago. The first spring blossom. Makes you hope that winter might be over again for a year, maybe, even if there's snow on the ground in March. :-) 

 

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The Black Cat (Sammie)

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Most of the time my cats just run off or are moving around a lot to make sure I can't get a decent picture of them (except for by accident), however, now and then they take pity on me and pose. Sammie was obviously in a generous mood and sat there, completely still and as perfect as can be. :-)

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The Woods at Sunset

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This is the second in the "The Woods at..." series. I used 66 critters (butterflies, bugs, beetles and dragonflies) in this image; they were all public domain images from old books. The trees are hand drawn (by me) vector graphics and the ferns and grasses are brushes. I've added colours and textures to create depth. :-)

Each and every evening and sunset all the beetles, bugs, dragonflies and butterflies congregate to watch the sun set in technicolour and to catch the rays for their own colourful wings to keep them bright and pretty.

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Barney the Fox

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Pattern © Chiwaluv
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 My first amigurumi crocheted from a pattern. I've done a couple of knitted ones, but this is the first crochet one. :-) I used a proper cherry red rather than a rusty red, just because I like it better. LOL It was fun to make and the pattern was easy to follow.

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The Woods at Night

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A little magic on a grey day. This was another experiment. Vector graphics aren't my thing normally, but I thought sometimes it's good to do something outside your comfort zone. This was inspired by the opening screen for Once Upon a Time and then it turned into something else and I think there's more where this came from. I have already started on "The Woods at Sunset". 

I started off with vector graphics for the trees (drawn in Photshop and edited in Illustrator), then I took them back into Photoshop and added colours, textures, the water for the little fish to swim in and the fish themselves. The fish are vintage images which I cut out (digitally) and added into the image. Then I played around with it to add all the magic. ;-)

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