Icy Heart

© Sybille Sterk 

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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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Heart of Winter

© Sybille Sterk 

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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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Deer Dreams

© Sybille Sterk

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Inspired by Hannibal the TV series. I have a thing about antlers, so the dream like sequences in Hannibal impressed me greatly. 

This is a composite of free and bought resources, and my own images combined and mixed up in Photoshop.

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L'Hiver

© Sybille Sterk

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Another a digital collage of images from various (vintage) resources, including some I bought, some which are in the public domain and some from The Graphics Fairy, Vintage Printable and Karen's Whimsy. I added my own flair and and imagination and a little magic to make this. 

I don't much like winter, but there is beauty to be found and just like magic spring is back. Something to look forward to during the cold dark months. :-)

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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

© Sybille Sterk

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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.

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

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Winter Collection

© Sybille Sterk
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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.

All images my own or bought. Edited with Photoshop.

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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

© Sybille Sterk

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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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Winter Moon

© Sybille Sterk

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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.

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waiting in silence

 © Sybille Sterk

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This is an image I created for the 1/52 project (week 48). There are two photographs of the ice that has frosted over a water barrel in the garden, one a close-up shot (macro lens) of the ice at the front, the other a macro shot of the reflection of the rose bushes in the ice. I've added textures and colour adjustments and cropped it. There's a second landscape version I'll post tomorrow.

There is also a poem to go with it, which can be read 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).

Hearts for Valentine's Day II

Icy Heart I

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Arcangel: SYST-0122

Icy Heart II

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Arcangel: SYST-0125

The recent heavy frosts have allowed me to have some fun with scraping hearts into icy surfaces. The original surface was black so when I mixed it all up it looked like I'd scratched it into glass. :-) I love the intense feel of the first one and the grunge look of the second one. An alternative to all the sweet cards and images, something different and a bit edgy. :-)

Part of my new series of images for licensing on Arcangel-Images.

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

Angels and Demons

I was sent an image by the model and asked if I could create something similar to my Dissembling - Welcome to the Dark side image (see below) and this is what I came up with. :-)

We always have a bit of both inside us... 

Credits

Model Kirsty Childs

Backgrounds and Textures

• FIRE IN THE SKY STOCK by ArwenArts
• Fire by Tortured-Raven-Stock

Brushes

• Feather Brushes PS - 01 by silinias
• Feather Brushes PS - 02 by silinias
• Hair brush set by para-vine

All other images/textures/brushes my own.

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Snow Queen - Photo Manipulation

Illustration from my fairy tale series - see the other images in my gallery. :-) I've always loved Andersen fairy tales since I was little. There's something special, thoughtful about them. Something that explores the grey areas rather than just trying for the black and white... This is one of my favourites. :-)

 

 

Credits

Model

• Pines pack by faestock

Stock

• AthenaStock: Icicle Single 1 by AthenaStock
• AthenaStock: Icicle Single 3 by AthenaStock
• Icicles 02 by escapist1901
• Snow Melt by FoxStox
• Gothic black frame 01 by goth-stock

Backgrounds and Textures

• Ice Stock by DugAmy-Stock
• Stock 5 by UmbraDeNoapte-Stock
• all wet by CKdailyplanet
• blue sparkles by DyingBeautyStock
• frost flower 1 by Hermit-stock

Brushes

• Hair brush set by para-vine
• All other images/textures/stock/brushes my own.

MCN: CNX8H-PQW2T-TS1HC

Breakdown

 To accompany the lovely poem of the same name by Shar.

Credits:
 
Stock:

• Erisa 14 by Faestock (image on the far left)
• Butterfly, spiderweb, ice crystals by Alison Ashwell

Textures and Background:

• 66 by sullenstock
• Barbed Wire Stock 1 by texurestockbyhjs
• adult about this by CKdailyplanet
• texture015 by buzillo-stock
• fire textures by shin-rhys
• Backblech 04 by sundel

Brushes:

• Ice Ice Baby by Shiranui
• Crack Brushes I by hawksmont

All other images and textures my own.

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