at night all cats are grey

© Sybille Sterk

Do not copy or publish this in any way, shape or form without my written permission

I love all cats equally. Just getting that out of the way.

Heart & Soul font with bought and vintage (public domain) resources mixed up in Photoshop and Illustrator.

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This Haunted Life

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Image to go with my poem The Glass Coffin

Model: Jessica Truscott, Faestock

All other images my own or bought stock.

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.

Face in the Mirror

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Part of my new series of images for licensing on Arcangel-Images - use this code: SYST-0072  

I was experimenting with my favourite mirror. I've used it before in "The Sky is Blue Somewhere Else" and in "All the Jewels in the World". I wonder how many more versions I can come up with, all different of course. LOL

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

The Sky is Blue Somewhere Else

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I am still going with the Snow White theme here. Don't we always think that somewhere else the grass is greener, the sky more blue... etc? And whilst we think that, we neglect what we have.

Part of my new series of images for licensing on Arcangel-Images - use this code: SYST-0042 


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

All my licensing images are available on Redbubble, Artflakes and Bluecanvas as prints, cards, posters, skins for laptops, Blackberry, iPhones and other phones (for the skins go to Bluecanvas).

Wall Flower

Another in my hipster series.
Don't you just hate waiting for your date? All dressed up, ready to go, and a no-show. :-(

Credits

Model

• dress stock 003 by deadstarx-stock

Stock

• bow by KAWproductions

All other images, stock, textures, brushes, my own.

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Girl With Swan

 

 

 

Sub Title: Swan Song

Credits

Model

• Another Cliche "waiting" theme by AttempteStock

Stock

• Braid by NiennaAlatariel
• My-Stock - Grass by my-stock
• STOCK PNG leaf scatter by MaureenOlder

Textures

• 5 Assorted Textures Set by Shadowhouse
• Entropy Texture Set by Shadowhouse
• 6 Faves Texture Sets 2 by Shadowhouse
• skate+land by CKdailyplanet

Brushes

• 17 Grunge Border Bars Brush Set by Shadowhouse
• Hair brush set by para-vine
• Feather Brushes PS - 01 by silinias
• Eyelashes Photoshop Brushes by redheadstock

All other images/brushes/textures my own.

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Heart Seeds - Illustration/Photo Manipulation

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I couldn't decide which version I liked best so here are both. :-)

The 'heart seeds' were painted in Corel Painter and I added the sky (2 photographs) for the background.

Both images are available as prints from Redbubble... and they might be available soon as something else soon. Sshhhh, and fingers crossed. :-)

Weight of a Feather - Photo Manipulation

How much weight until you reach your breaking point?

Credits:

• Alison Ashwell for storm clouds and cracked mud
• Model, Craft11 by Faestock
• Turn back time, Texture 4, Princess of Shadows:
• Hardcore Grunge, Texture 4, Princess of Shadows (Collection removed from DeviantArt)
• Feather Brush by Silinias
• Cloud Brushes HiRes Nr.1 of 5 by Leboef

The rest of the images/textures are my own.

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Dark Matter - Photo Manipulation

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Illustration to a poem by Autumnwind on Redbubble.com.

Credits:

• Girl 10 - Buzillo Stock
• Grunge Texture 04 - Good Textures
• Fish, net one - Teatoo
• Monoprint 21 - pendlestock:
• Nyctophobia - dazzle-textures
• Bryn metal decay texture 17 - Enframed:
• Bryn metal decay texture 7 - Enframed
• Destructive News - dazzle-textures
• Nuit lascive - dazzle-textures
• Several of the smoke textures by MySnapz
• Corner is messy - TheSpook:
• Rise - TheSpook:
• Lightning - Stock-By-Kai:

All other images are my own.

Dragon's Eye - Experiment - Variations

This was an experiment.

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I painted the original in Corel Painter and then used it as a base for 'Altered Art' by adding textures and photographs to make a new altered image.

I wanted to try out the different effects of different textures on the image and see what variations I could achieve using this technique. I overlayed the image with textures and added photos but barely changed the original, in some cases not at all.

The idea for the orginal was to make it suitable for manipulation as I wanted to integrate the techniques used in photo manipulation in my digital paintings to create a new style. I've always been using the patterns and papers in Corel Painter, but this is going a step further by integrating textures and photographs.

Woods Dragon

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She was completely lost in the woods. There was no sign of habitation and no sense of the woods ending. She struggled through leaf mulch, over roots, snagging her dress on bramble and snapping twigs. Eventually, when it began to get dark she saw an orange light shimmering through the trees. With nowhere else to go, this seemed as good a direction to head towards than any. She parted the branches in front of her and looked a huge glowing eye. Her heart took a double beat and she tried to retreat back, away from the huge beast....

Credits:

• Texture 41 - Sirius SDZ
• Candle Smoke - wasd
• Grunge Textures 04 - Goodtextures

The leaves surrounding the dragon's eye are all photographs I took with the intention of using them to frame my illustrations. All other textures used in the image are mine, too.

Tapestry Dragon 

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She had followed the instruction in the book to the letter, followed one landmark after the other until it lead her here to this dirty window in a part of town she had never been before. She wouldn’t have believed that there was any part of the town that she did not know, hadn’t been before, but the book had lead her here. She decided to follow the rest of the instructions. Standing in front of the window, she rubbed the glass, the looked through. Right behind the window was a tapestry wall, framed by tatty velvet red curtains. She spoke the spell under her breath. A huge eye opened in the tapestry wall. The oracle had awoken…

Credits:

• Dirty Glass - Enframed
• Concrete Bunker - Goodtextures
• Paper Texture - Night-Fate-Stock
• Texture 28 - Night-Fate-Stock
• Backblech 01 - Sundel
• Curtain 03 - LunaNYXstock
• Art Nouveau Pattern Texture - Enchantedgal-Stock

Stone Dragon

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He had lost his way amongst the tall oaks long ago, when he came across a crumbling wall. Behind it loomed a huge structure, partly overgrown with moss, grasses and wildflowers. He decided to climb the wall. Laboriously he looked for handholds amongst the crevices between the stones. Finally, he reached the top of the wall and looked across it. At first he couldn't make out what he was looking at, then he realised it was a huge reptilian eye. It blinked....

Credits:

• Texture 145 - Sirius SDZ
• Texture 117 - Sirius SDZ
• Paperstock 13 - HateStock
• Bryn Metal Decay 17 - Enframed

All other textures and photos are my own:

The ivy is one of my photos I took at Sawston Hall and the stone wall at the front is part of a wall in the Colosseum in Rome.
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Please let me know which variation (or the original) you like best:

 

  

  

If you'd like to know how I created these variations, check out my journal entry on Redbubble.

Trailing Secret

This artwork was inspired by a group I was invited to join and also by a song going round my head, Feist's Secret Heart.

Currently featured on Redbubble:

 

Make sure you check out all the other featured artists - there are some real treasures! 

Currently featured in the Secret Society Group:

I've used the following stock, textures and brushes (apart from my own):

• Ribbon Brush
• Chateau Boots
• High Altitude texture
• Fake Old texture

Plus my own painted heart, my own Victorian wallpaper textures... etc.

The image also contains a couple of lines from my poem Secret Language
The lines are:
Souls touching briefly, longing for eternity.