The Woods in Winter

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Created using both Illustrator and Photoshop, bought resources and my own illustrations and photography. 

Woods are lovely never mind the time of year. This was my take on a Snow White wood where the prince never came to rescue Snow White. Instead red apples grew where she fell asleep in her glass coffin. 

Sometimes life doesn't work out the way you hoped.

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Burst of Nature

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Can you tell, I am missing Spring... and winter hasn't even properly started yet... :(

I love deer. There's just something about them. :D 

Public domain images mixed with bought and free resources, mixed in Photoshop and Illustrator and made into something all my own. 

Enjoy. 

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Heart of Winter

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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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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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The Ravages

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As per usual I used various sources for the vintage images within the picture including Vintage Printable and Graphics Fairy. I am still not quite sure where I was going with it myself. It's about age and time and the way we slide through them and the way they affect us mostly. Or maybe something else entirely. :-)

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In the darkest hour

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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. 

Even in the darkest hour there is a light to be found... maybe. :-)

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The burden of the inquisitive mind

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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. 

There is something about inquisitive minds. Sometimes ideas are just sparkling and flitting through, at other times thoughts require more pondering. 

A whimsical conceptual artwork that considers those who like to think deep thoughts.

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The Price of Freedom

© 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. 

When I tried to explain to someone today how they come about I realised that in a way they are like a picture puzzle but they're also a story and the solution to the puzzle all in one. This one is about the vagaries of destiny and how it determines our everyday.

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