On the Road Again

© Sybille Sterk 

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Country lane in Cambridgeshire, UK. Inspired by the song 'on the road again' by Willie Nelson. Country music is not my thing normally but there are exceptions and this seemed to fit perfectly.

All images/textures/brushes my own or bought. 

Edited with Photoshop.

Grunge Texture by Vanilla Spring

Arrows, Sample Me by LaRue & Com both from CreativeMarket

Font Bella K. Hopeless

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Sleepy Daisies

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Image of daisies closing up and going to sleep taking at the weekend. I wanted to show the night time cosy feel I got from looking at them. Lots of colour adjustments and a texture.

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 toBluecanvas). You can now also get most of my images on cushion covers (go to Society6 for these).

end of days

© Sybille Sterk
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This is an image I took at the end of a long hot day. The simplicity and light seemed to perfectly complement the poem of the same name that I wrote.

The extract reads:

everything's right here
and it's up to us
to make something worthwhile
to paint our life
in many shades of grey
in all the colours of the rainbow
to live through the ups and downs
to love all we can
until the end of days

 You can read the whole poem here.

All images and words used are my own, edited in Photoshop.

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Dragonfly

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This was a photo of a necklace I made for a friend a while back (the necklace is made from vintage chains, vintage beads and charms and mostly semi-precious beads although a few are crystal).  I wanted a mysterious, tragic mood for this image so it is heavily edited and colour adjusted to give a vintage 'film noir' feel.

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

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Late Afternoon in the Park

Last week, when I needed a break from all the rushing around, knitting, wrapping presents and organising Christmas, I went for a walk in the park with my camera. I took lots of photographs for a new project, but also a few just for fun which I then played around with in Photoshop (TM).

This one was through the branches of a willow tree at the late afternoon sky:


This was through the branches of a different tree. I like the almost Rackham quality of the image.


This is the sunset all in peaches and apricots with a few dashes of vanilla. Looks almost edible to me:


This one reminds me of a horror movie. Maybe the view out of a frosty window.


This one was another picture of the early evening sky but I changed it so much that it now looks like a print on silk. I love the 'Japanese' quality of it.


Finally, the willow tree. I love willows and the rustling of their leaves in the wind. The original photo looked dreary and grey - like a proper English winter - but this now looks like a woodcut where you see the lovely lines made by the tree trunk and the branches. You can also just see the birches in the background.