one last kiss

© Sybille Sterk

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

View from the back of the house when it was misty and foggy one day. Heavily edited to go with my poem of the same name.

Words from the poem:

one last kiss
scented with
almond bitterness
flavoured with
salty tears

shimmering in the light of the moon

Read the whole poem 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).

This Haunted Life

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MCN: C56MV-BW51L-963T4

Image to go with my poem The Glass Coffin

Model: Jessica Truscott, Faestock

All other images my own or bought stock.

Silent Tears

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MCN: C9MNL-D3XYR-DQ1DT 

Part of my new series of images for licensing on Arcangel-Images - use this code: SYST-0229

When I created the book cover for Elemental Rising, I bought a simple papier-mâché

mask, which I wanted (and did) to include in the final image. However, I also wanted to create an image with just the mask. This is the image I made with it. :-) There is something about masks... something magical and a little scary and something a little sad. It always makes me think of Carnival in Venice but also of the Phantom of the Opera.

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

Bound IV

 

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 MCN: CXYSU-C1N5R-EAAD8

Part of my new series of images for licensing on Arcangel-Images - use this code: SYST-0220

The final in the series. Sometimes even tears aren't enough....

No one was hurt when I took this picture. :-)

Created with my own photographs and bought stock in Photoshop.

Death of a Butterfly

MCN: CBCLC-L5KDW-6JDP1

This is a conceptual work and I am not sure I can explain it adequately. Normally a butterfly is the symbol of renewal, re-incarnation however, in this the butterfly dies, so the renewal is cancelled. I've made a plain white paper origami butterfly for this to indicate the death of the magic and innocence. On a subconscious level this is deeply feminine and feminist to me, hence the blood on the butterfly and the wall. Once girls turn into women their deaths begin, the only renewal remains in reproduction, until then everything was possible.

Part of my new series of images for licensing on  Arcangel-Images - use this code: SYST-0076

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

Circles Within Circles

 

 

Illustration to go with my poem of the same name.

Credits

Model

• 33- verde by petronieska-stock

Stock

• Butterfly by dreamweaver69stock
• wave 3 by stockofshutterbugmom

Textures

• 6 Faves Texture Sets 1 by Shadowhouse

Brushes

• Eyelashes Photoshop Brushes by redheadstock
• Waterfalls II by midnightstouch
• Teardrop Brush Set by Cynthetic

Actions

• Freebie Actions by Apples & Sisters
• Perfect Portrait 3 Action by TheCoffeeshopBlog

All other images/textures etc my own.

MCN: C5LMW-LHFMU-GS1EG

Blood Rose Tears - Photo Manipulation

Illustration for the poem Blood Rose Tears by Autumnwind

Credits:

• Model, Face 1, Psamathides
• Crow, Phatpuppy
• Bird Cage, MRanum and MRanum
• Cloud brushes, Leboef
• Grasses and Plants PS Brushes, Redheadstock
• Background, Moonchild-ljilja (first on the left)
• On Crack, dazzle-textures
• Backblech 04, Sundel
• Paper Texture, Night-Fate-Stock

all other stock/textures are my own.

MCN: CDTE5-FE33Y-UNSTB

Unravelling - Photo Manipulation

This is my latest photo manipulation to go with my poem Unravelling.

I created the texture for the code on the model's back:

Texture on the model's skin:

• Blood Spatter Textures
• Paper Texture
• Texture 02

The writing was created by using many, many different fonts and symbols and blending them with textures.
I also knitted part of my 'stock' images this time, took a photo of the knitting and then 'welded' it to the model's lower back. I also used the knitting to create a paper texture (or grain) in Painter and painted it over parts of the back to make it homgeneous.

 Credits:

• Model

 Textures:

• Fake Old
• Sky 121
• Firework Stock 44 
• Flood Background
• Barbed Stock
• Wall 3
• Texture 32 V2 (from Texture Pack)
• Fire Textures

All other textures and stock are my own.

MCN: C9L1E-MX5P8-DH9LY