The Woods in Winter

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Created using both Illustrator and Photoshop, bought resources and my own illustrations and photography. 

Woods are lovely never mind the time of year. This was my take on a Snow White wood where the prince never came to rescue Snow White. Instead red apples grew where she fell asleep in her glass coffin. 

Sometimes life doesn't work out the way you hoped.

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Icy Heart

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Photography, edited in Photoshop. :D

An icy heart scratched into the frost on a wind screen. :D Lots of textures added to give it more depth. I love hearts, what can I say? :D

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Black Ice and Icicle Crowns

My new crowns, handmade by me. :D

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Heart of Winter

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A picture I took a while ago to try out a lens. It wasn't quite right so I went to town on it. Now it's probably one of my favourite images from this year. :D

Edited with textures and overlays and lots of curve adjustments and other lovely stuff in Photoshop. 

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the view from the tower

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Image taken at Hedingham Castle. I've changed the view through the window, added the water, the mist, the crow and the necklace... and changed the colours and played around with it quite considerably. LOL I like the fairytale atmosphere. :-) I think this would make the perfect book cover.

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

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Also, on another little bit of news, my art will soon be available on displa.io. They print images on metal plates. The site isn't open to the public yet, but feel free to as for an invite, just leave your e-mail address in a comment and I'll send you one.

Lost Souls

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Taken yesterday in the snowy, icy cold. A weed in the wind flowing backwards and forwards. Cropped and edited with colour adjustments.

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Snow White

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We finally have a bit of snow even if Christmas (and therefore a chance of a White Christmas) is long gone.

This reminded me of Snow White. One of my favourite fairy tales.

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words from the dark

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Illustration for my poem "words from the dark" which can be read in full here.

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Lonely Winterberry

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Merry Christmas everyone! Have a lovely holiday (even if you don't celebrate).

This was taken last week when I went out to coffee with a couple of friends. I couldn't resist the red berries against the foggy background. I seem to have Snow White on my mind all this winter. LOL

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Winter Collection

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My latest products in my Society6 shop. Lots of new cushion covers, totebags, laptop, Pad and iPhone skins, t-shirts, cards and prints. This is just a small selection of my latest images. I ♥ the new cushion covers on Society6, they're so cute. 

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A Touch of Frost

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Taken in my garden. I have no idea what this plant is - it's probably a weed but it looked totally magical covered in frost. The picture on the right-hand side is of the frost collected on a wheel barrow. It might be cold but it's pretty. :-)

No textures, just cover adjustments and a little cropping. All my own images edited in Photoshop.

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Icy Needles

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Taken in my garden a few days ago when it was cold rather than raining. I love the icy needles on the gooseberry leaves. They look like glitter. :-) The images were taken with a macro lens and then edited with curves and colour adjustments in Photoshop. No textures.

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A Sprinkling of Sugar

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Taken in my garden yesterday morning. There's a wild rose bush in my garden which I haven't had the heart to cut down because it's so pretty both in summer when it's covered in lovely pale pink flowers and in winter when it's covered in rosehips and provides some much needed winter colour. I've been using a macro lense to get a closeup of the frozen frost on the rosehip and the leaves. Some cropping and colour adjustments, no textures.

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Rosehip

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This was taken in my garden yesterday. There was a low hanging fog that made everything a bit vague, a little faded. This is not a rose but a rosehip where the outer skin has burst and is now hanging off in strips so the rosehip looks like a rosebud, rather than a rosehip. Seemed poetic somehow. :-) I've edited the colours and added a texture and vignette but otherwise it has been left untouched.

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Winter is coming

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I love the Game of Thrones series (and, yes, I did read all the books, can't wait for the new one). This image was taken in my garden last week to try out my new wide anlge lens. I had a play with it in Photoshop and that is how it came out after lots of colour adjustments and a few snow textures.

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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).

Winter Moon

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My first use of my new wide angle lense. I took an image of the sky through the bare rose bushes in my garden and then added textures and colour adjustments and cropped the image to this size. I also added a vignette to exaggerate the sense of cold moon light.

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

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Baby, It's Cold Outside

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This was an experiment. I overlayed three images taken in quick succession to create this blurred effect that - to me - feels almost like a video still, as if you could see the movement out of the corner of your eye; a song caught between movements. I added textures, a vignette and colour adjustment layers to get to this and love the ethereal feel of it.

Created with my own photographs in Photoshop, no stock used.

The Little Match Stick Girl

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I've always loved Andersen fairy tales, and this one is no exception, although it's one of the saddest ones (amongst a whole lot of tragedies). The Little Match Stick Girl is about the preventable death of a little girl and still as valid today as it probably was then, what with all the runaways and homeless people on the streets everywhere. I tried to tell the story with the minimal amount of symbols, using nothing but a box of matches in front of a grubby wall and a picture of snow I took a while ago. It's one of my favourite images I took this year so far. I love the simplicity and singular message in it.

Part of my new series of images for licensing on Arcangel-Images - use this code: SYST-0191

Created with my own photographs in Photoshop, no stock used.

Heart of Ice

Another in my 'Perception' series - see Heart of Stone and here.

and the poem to accompany this Altered Art, Heart of Ice
The image is a collage of my own images and textures, two digitally painted hearts and the following stock and textures.

Stock:

• Frostflower 4 and Frostflower 9 by Hermit-Stock
• Iced Planet Background by Mystic Morning
• Stock - Ice 2 and Stock - Ice 3 by Divided Unity
• Cracks in Ice by LoveLikeHeroineStock
• Blue Ice by Affen92
• Icicles by CyborgSuzyStock
• Textures by Sirius_SDZ