even death has a heart

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Someone said 'skull' when I asked what's next. Problem was trying to find a good quote. And I did, this is from 'The Book Thief' by  Markus Zusak. One of my all time favourite books. I have to yet find someone who didn't love it.

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

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Purple Skull with Moustache

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I liked the geometric patterns that are making the rounds at the moment but wanted to do my own, so I did. LOL 

Then I used it to create this. The skull is based on a vintage illustration. I created my own 'shape' so I could then play with it because I wanted something simple. I added lots of textures and the elements. All bought or public domain resources. 

Edited in Photoshop as always.

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Love Kills

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Inspired by song of the same name. :D

The image is a mix of the type (font is Skumfuk), which I bought a while ago and was dying to use, and a bull skull picture I bought and then edited into a silhouette, some textures and my own blood spatter photogaph :D 

Edited and mixed up in Photoshop as always.

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Die Trying

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A quote by Groucho Marx.

I wanted to play with my new fonts and some of the cool vector graphic sets I just bought and a couple of vintage illustrations. The fonts are (from top to bottom): Abegnale, Bobbin, Eveleth Slant and Monstro. All combined and coloured in a played around with in Photoshop. :-)

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Die Young

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A quote by Ashley Montagu a British-American anthropologist.

I wanted to play with my new fonts and some of the cool vector graphic sets I just bought and a couple of vintage illustrations. The fonts are (from top to bottom):  Ruba, Scamfuk, Bobbin, and Lunchbox. All combined and coloured in a played around with in Photoshop. :-)

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The Perfumed Garden

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This is the first in a new Vintage series titled The Garden. I read a sign for a beauty salon somewhere called 'The Perfumed Garden' which inspired me to start this series. 

These vintage works are almost like picture puzzles, one element leading to another.I am sure each viewer will have his/her own interpretation. It all started with the idea of a garden and a lovely picture of an octopus, next came the skulls and the trees and then it grew to what you see now. Every garden carries it's death already in it and each death feeds the flowers to grow from it. It's all intricately spun together by the master of the web, which has eight legs, like the octopus who connects both life and death (in my head anyway). The beauty of this cycle is a heady perfume to those that see, from the scent of the flowers to the rotten stench in death. :-)

Assembled with the help of Photoshop and Illustrator, using free and bought sources and public domain images, and of course as always my own kind of magic.

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