Punk Heart

© Sybille Sterk 

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Another in my vintage hearts series. This one was created from a simplified version of the first one (vintage battered heart) and whilst I was creating things came to me... :D Lots of textures in this one (mostly bought) mixed with public domain images and bought and made shapes. All mixed in Photoshop.

Subtitle for this one is: Punk is not dead

Don't forget, hearts are for forever not just for Christmas. :D

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be still my beating heart

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I love graffiti, there's something immediate and spontaneous about it that is sometimes missing from other art, hearts are a special favourite. This was on a shiny sign reflecting the houses on the other side of the street. Lots of textures added and colour adjustments and, of course, the words.

The words are by William Mountfort Zelman (not Shakespeare): be still my beating heart.

Read my poem here

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Awaiting Your Pleasure

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My contribution to the new zine on Society6. This was taken in Rochester, England, and heavily edited. 

To me the image is about the memories remaining in the things we leave behind. They are ethereal things and by losing the object we often lose many of the memories we made, leaving a 'vacancy' for new memories to be made.

Wish me luck. I'd love to be in the new magazine.

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

Image available on Society6 as a print.

Love Found

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I am so pleased with this image - the letters are from a vintage Junior Scrabble the background is as is except that I changed the colour and added more texture, however the arrow and the little peeled off heart were already there. I thought it made the perfect image together.

Part of my new series of images for licensing on Arcangel-Images - use this code: SYST-0247

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

Cambridge Triptychs

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

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From my Cambridge series, taken with Hipstamatic. Exclusive to Redbubble.

A juxtaposition of grungy urban texture and the lovely countryside. There’s a town and gown thing going on between the university of Cambridge and the town itself.

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From my Cambridge series, taken with Hipstamatic. Exclusive to Redbubble.

I have a thing about textures and how some textures seem to have symbolic meanings, almost like a secret language. When you walk on the edge there’s no knowing what you may find…

The first one is a pathway through the park. The path on one side, the grass just on the edge of the other side.

The bottom left picture is of broken glass by the side of a pub.

The final image is a broken sticker on a lamp post. The part of the sticker torn off had the shape of a wolf, which I found amusing because the sticker was about dogs (or rather their leftovers….) :-)

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From my Cambridge series, taken with Hipstamatic. Exclusive to Redbubble.

Another juxtaposition of urban grunge to lovely countryside. This time it was more about colour and texture.

The top image is of the Cambridge countryside which is extraordinarily pretty in the sunshine.

The other two images are textures I found on a wooden wall built around a building site.

Currently there’s a huge building boom going on in Cambridge and a lot of the pretty countryside is vanishing.

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These were chance shots. The first is a house number on a fence. I am never sure if 66 is a lucky number or the devil’s number….?

The other two shots are from a building site again. I thought they worked with the luck. Sometimes luck is not enough and you need to follow the rules to be safe. :-)

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Remnants

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Dedicated to my friend Ali who died a year ago.

Words from my poem (also dedicated to Ali) New Beginnings.

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Sisters Under The Skin

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I've been reading so much about women's rights being abused everywhere in the world recently  - from Honduras to America we seem to lose all the hard earned rights to our own body and what to do with it. Read this article here and weep.

I was so upset and angry about this article and tried to think of why it made me so upset, and a large part of the reason is that these are 'my sisters' what happens to them happens to me and it shouldn't happen. The long history of women's rights (or the lack of them) has shown we only get things done, if we stick together.

So this is what this image is about. Sisters under the skin, no matter what colour or where we are. :-)

Credits

Model

• stella-5 by xstockx

Brush

• Hair brush set by para-vine 

 All other images etc my own.

Cambridge Collection

A walk around Cambridge - exclusive print collection, get them on Redbubble.

Towers - University Buildings on Kings Parade

Windows - Buildings with wonderful cast iron railings

Reflection - Reflection in a window

 Shops - Shops on Kings Parade

Gates - Delicate, intricate cast iron gates

 

Phone Box - Iconic red phone box

Cherryblossom - Church building with flowering cherryblossom

Cakes, One - Cupcakes in a shop window

Cakes, Two - More cupcakes this time inside a coffeeshop

Coffee Break - Two cups of coffee in a coffee shop.

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Hearts for Valentine's Day II

Icy Heart I

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Icy Heart II

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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.

Street Life I and II

Street Life I - Window Shopping
Taken today walking home from town. Collage of 5 of my photographs plus textures by Shadowhouse. I love the colours in this one. The images were of Indian ornaments and hangings in a shop window and a graffiti image of a heart on a skip. :-)

Credits

• You'd be surprised texture by Shadowhouse
• Photo Tints Overlay Set (Harvest) by Shadowhouse
• Square Texture Set "3 New Ones" (Square 70) by Shadowhouse
• Square Texture Set 19 (Square 182) by Shadowhouse

All other images my own.

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Street Life II - Graffiti

Taken today walking home from town. Collage of 5 of my photographs plus textures by Shadowhouse. I love the energy in this one. The images were of several graffiti paintings on a wall under a railway bridge and a graffiti image of a heart on a skip. :-)

Credits

• Photo Tints Overlay Set (Harvest) by Shadowhouse
• Square Texture Set "3 New Ones" (Square 70) by Shadowhouse
• Square Texture Set 19 (Square 182) by Shadowhouse

All other images my own.

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