The Right Road

© Sybille Sterk

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Quick pic taken a while ago. I have a thing about horizons and roads. I find them enticing and forever fascinating. The quote is by Dejan Stojanovic, a Serbian poet.

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

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The Bear

© Sybille Sterk

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A little finger puppet that I couldn't bear to part with. I had such lovely memories of the bear, the bear, the bear.... that's what we called him whenever we had a story with him in it. I tried to capture the happiness of the moments we shared with him.

Straight from the camera, no textures just a few colour adjustments.

All images my own. Edited with Photoshop.

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Holidays by the Seaside

© Sybille Sterk

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Imagine a Stephen King-esque holiday. :-) This is a photo manipulation using 4 of my images. I love these bullet shaped caravans, although I am not usually a fan of caravans. I could imagine this parked in a big garden though and used as a studio. :-)

All images and textures my own or bought. Edited with Photoshop.

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Outdoor cushions now available on Society6. 
How great is that, now you can take your favourite cushions outside with you. :-) All my images that are available on cushion covers already are also available as outdoor cushions (special pads can be bought with the covers). If there's an image that isn't available as a cushion cover yet, send an me a quick mail and I see what I can do. :-)

dreams and visions

© Sybille Sterk

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I am not sure if I can explain this one or if it even should be explained. Flower petals (peony) a small snail shell and a feather. Dreams and visions are made of very little that's substantial, at least in a material sense, they require us to withdraw into ourselves (shell) and find our wings, so we can float like petals off a blossom in an inner space that grants us dreams and visions... 

All images and textures my own or bought. Edited with Photoshop.

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discarded houses

© Sybille Sterk

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Throughout our lives we find ourselves growing and we grow out of our lives and the wishes and dreams and hopes we had and into others we never knew we had.

All images and textures my own or bought. Edited with Photoshop.

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MagpieMagic on Craftsy

The gang is now available via 

Craftsy and Etsy

And here is the first picture of Ruben made with my pattern by Dominik in Germany. Isn't he cute?

Icarus Series

Yearning

Flight

Falling

All © Sybille Sterk

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This is a series of three. 

I have a thing about feathers and flying. I am terrified of heights and suffer from vertigo, so I have always felt jealous of birds who have wings and hollow bones that allow them to fly so they never have to fear falling, or rather smashing into the ground. There is such an amazing beauty in watching a bird in flight. Such freedom and happiness. 

The first of the three images is about the yearning when you look up and wish yourself to be in the sky amongst the clouds.

The second of the three images is about the gift of flight, being there and feeling the air holding you up.

The third and last of the three images is about the falling, not such a scary thing when you're a bird but terrifying for me.

All three images are edited photographs of feathers. I removed the colour and reduced them to a strong contrast black and white image, then overlaid them with a texture to remove even more of the original photograph before I added subtle colour back into the images. I wanted to create the feeling of Dürer's engravings.

All other images and textures my own or bought. Edited with Photoshop.

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On Redbubble you can also get stickers and kids/baby clothes of the first two: