Spring Light

© Sybille Sterk

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Picture taken last week and since it is almost the weekend (and it's of course raining) I thought it'd be the perfect image to spread a little cheer. Textures and colour adjustments added, but mostly as is. :-) In case you're wondering, I think the flower is called a grape hyacinth.

All images/textures/brushes my own or bought. Edited with Photoshop.

All my images are available on Redbubble, Artflakes, Society6and Bluecanvas as prints, cards, posters, skins for laptops, Blackberry, iPhones and other phones (for the skins go toBluecanvas). You can now also get most of my images on cushion covers (go to Society6 for these).

iPad mini case on Society6. 

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Custom CD Cover Design

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She Walks In Beauty

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She Walks in Beauty 
She walks in beauty, like the night

Of cloudless climes and starry skies;

And all that's best of dark and bright

Meet in her aspect and her eyes:

Thus mellow'd to that tender light

Which heaven to gaudy day denies.

One shade the more, one ray the less,

Had half impaired the nameless grace

Which waves in every raven tress,

Or softly lightens o'er her face;

Where thoughts serenely sweet express

How pure, how dear their dwelling-place.

And on that cheek, and o'er that brow,

So soft, so calm, yet eloquent,

The smiles that win, the tints that glow,

But tell of days in goodness spent,

A mind at peace with all below,

A heart whose love is innocent!

Lord Byron, 1814 

Picture taken earlier this year and edited a few days ago. I changed the colours and added the fog, I also edited out the people at the end of the path. I wanted a spooky ethereal image but in the end there was something so hopeful about it that I felt the poem was the perfect companion.

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All my images are available on Redbubble, Artflakes, Society6and Bluecanvas as prints, cards, posters, skins for laptops, Blackberry, iPhones and other phones (for the skins go toBluecanvas). You can now also get most of my images on cushion covers (go to Society6 for these).

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Sweet and Pink

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Cherryblossom image taken on Saturday, a vignette, colour adjustments and a texture. I love spring and the new fresh light and the blossoms and colours everywhere. Makes you hopeful after all this winter darkness and these sweet pink cherryblossoms are particularly pretty and lovely..

All images/textures/brushes my own or bought. Edited with Photoshop.

All my images are available on Redbubble, Artflakes, Society6and Bluecanvas as prints, cards, posters, skins for laptops, Blackberry, iPhones and other phones (for the skins go toBluecanvas). You can now also get most of my images on cushion covers (go to Society6 for these).

Spring Blessing

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Forsythia image taken on Saturday, colour adjustments and a texture. I love spring and the new fresh light and the blossoms and colours everywhere. Makes you hopeful after all this winter darkness.

All images/textures/brushes my own or bought. Edited with Photoshop.

All my images are available on Redbubble, Artflakes, Society6and Bluecanvas as prints, cards, posters, skins for laptops, Blackberry, iPhones and other phones (for the skins go toBluecanvas). You can now also get most of my images on cushion covers (go to Society6 for these).

Below a selection of iPad and iPad mini cases on Society6. Most of my artwork is available on these.
Grab yourself something pretty to celebrate spring finally arriving!

Yellow Explosion

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Forsythia image taken yesterday, very little editing except for some level adjustment and a texture.

All images/textures/brushes my own or bought. Edited with Photoshop.

All my images are available on Redbubble, Artflakes, Society6and Bluecanvas as prints, cards, posters, skins for laptops, Blackberry, iPhones and other phones (for the skins go toBluecanvas). You can now also get most of my images on cushion covers (go to Society6 for these).

All new totebags on Society6

Marvin and Friends

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Meet Marvin the Meerkat and his friends.

Marvin is the latest friend to join the group. 

Patterns for all three will be available soon - I am in the process of typing them up and adding photographs. You will be able to get them either through this blog or possibly in my Etsy shop.

More animals to come. The next one I am making will be a raccoon, but also on my list are a bat, a pig, and maybe a kangaroo and a piebald rat. Any other ones you'd like to see?

The View

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Taken a little while back in Cambridgeshire on a 'photo walk'. I loved the way the view was leading the eye towards the horizon. The day was almost as sunny as it looks but nowhere near as warm.

All images/textures/brushes my own or bought. Edited with Photoshop.

All my images are available on Redbubble, Artflakes, Society6 and Bluecanvas as prints, cards, posters, skins for laptops, Blackberry, iPhones and other phones (for the skins go to Bluecanvas). You can now also get most of my images on cushion covers (go to Society6 for these).

Destiny

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This is a manipulation of several images and brushes. I took the bottom half of the image a while ago and because it had a plain and boring sky forgot about it for a bit. However, I came across it again yesterday and decided to play with it. It's another vartiation of my images on the future and the uncertainty of it and how our destiny waits just beyond the mist of time and still we walk blindly forward because there is no choice.

All images/textures/brushes my own or bought. Edited with Photoshop.

All my images are available on Redbubble, Artflakes, Society6 and Bluecanvas as prints, cards, posters, skins for laptops, Blackberry, iPhones and other phones (for the skins go to Bluecanvas). You can now also get most of my images on cushion covers (go to Society6 for these).

a rose is a rose is a rose

Vintage Rose

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Stages of Deconstruction

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More experiments with flowers at various stages of dying. I like the faded beauty as much as I like them when they're all fresh and plump. I added textures and colour adjustments in Photoshop. The pictures were taken of the flowers lying flat on a bit of cream cardboard. I only used natural light.

All images/textures/brushes my own or bought. Edited with Photoshop.

All my images are available on Redbubble, Artflakes, Society6 and Bluecanvas as prints, cards, posters, skins for laptops, Blackberry, iPhones and other phones (for the skins go to Bluecanvas). You can now also get most of my images on cushion covers (go to Society6 for these).

Tulip

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Something a little different for me. This is for a competiton at French Kiss Collection. Check it out here. I've used two of the Chalk Board freebie textyres. They're lovely and the effect is really subtle. You can download them from the page.

 

The image was taken this morning and I've added some colour adjustments and two of the chalk board textures.

All images/textures/brushes my own, free or bought. Edited with Photoshop.

All my images are available on Redbubble, Artflakes, Society6 and Bluecanvas as prints, cards, posters, skins for laptops, Blackberry, iPhones and other phones (for the skins go to Bluecanvas). You can now also get most of my images on cushion covers (go to Society6 for these).

Seductive

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Another image in my Seduction series. This time I went for an elegant pinup look.

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Undressing (Seduction series)

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This is another image in my Seduction series... I was going for subtlety here. :-)

All images/textures/brushes my own or bought. Edited with Photoshop.

All my images are available on Redbubble, Artflakes, Society6 and Bluecanvas as prints, cards, posters, skins for laptops, Blackberry, iPhones and other phones (for the skins go to Bluecanvas). You can now also get most of my images on cushion covers (go to Society6 for these).

 

Safe (Fox Love)

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I have a real thing about foxes at the moment. I've always liked them, but suddenly, I don't know, they just make me smile. This is a fox I made from fimo and then placed in  his own little nest to take pictures of. There are a few more shots of him which I will show you soon.... 

All images/textures/brushes my own or bought. Edited with Photoshop.

 All my images are available on Redbubble, Artflakes, Society6 and Bluecanvas as prints, cards, posters, skins for laptops, Blackberry, iPhones and other phones (for the skins go to Bluecanvas). You can now also get most of my images on cushion covers (go to Society6 for these).

All available through Society6

I am so busy with all the crochet, painting (yes, on real canvas) at the moment, it's difficult to keep up with everything. 

  

Ferdinand and Fritz

Ferdinand the Owl

He is vegetarian and likes Yoda. (Yes, he told me that personally.)

Pattern can be bought here. I changed the pattern slightly because I wanted stripes and I made the ears pointier and added the little brushes at the ends. Nice pattern, easy to follow with detailed pictures.

Fritz the very sleepy fox

He likes raisins and the sound rain makes on the leaves in the forest. 

Work in progress pictures:

 

 

 

Pattern can be bought here, but it's a little vague in parts. :-(

Both Ferdinand and Fritz were crocheted from perle cotton on a very small crochet hook and they are both tiny. Fritz is maybe 2.5" long (from the tip of the nose to the end of his back) and 1" tall, whereas Ferdinand is about 3" tall.

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the heart collector

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Image to illustrate another instalment of the Secret Keeper stories.

Read it here

The heart was made from Fimo by me and then photographed in various positions in the chest of drawers. I added all the other bits afterwards.

All my own images. Edited with Photoshop.

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