Icarus - The Romance Version

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A new piece based on my original Icarus - The Yearning. It's one of my favourite images and I thought it was time for an update. 

This is a mix of a photo I took of five feathers, which I then edited in Photoshop to look like a painting and overlaid with vintage images of wings and a Delft blue colour. It reminded me of Delft porcelain and the delicate blue designs you find on that. 

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The Cage

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Another in the Vintage Times Series. :-) I love goldfish and birdcages. They seem to go together. In my head. LOL

Bought stock photographs/vectors/textures, my own photographs, vintage public domain line drawings and lots of hard work in Photoshop. 

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Spirit of the Butterfly

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 Image of my beautiful butterfly ring and some ribbon. Edited with light leaks and colour adjustments.

Sometimes we make too many excuses and there always seems to be tomorrow, but what if there isn't? We never know what tomorrow may bring, so we better make the most of today.

The quote is by Rabindranath Tagore and the font is Ellennn.

My own images plus bought resources.

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Sweet and Pink

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Cherryblossom image taken on Saturday, a vignette, colour adjustments and a texture. I love spring and the new fresh light and the blossoms and colours everywhere. Makes you hopeful after all this winter darkness and these sweet pink cherryblossoms are particularly pretty and lovely..

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

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Destiny

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This is a manipulation of several images and brushes. I took the bottom half of the image a while ago and because it had a plain and boring sky forgot about it for a bit. However, I came across it again yesterday and decided to play with it. It's another vartiation of my images on the future and the uncertainty of it and how our destiny waits just beyond the mist of time and still we walk blindly forward because there is no choice.

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

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Unfinished Story

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Now and again the story of my first love comes up again in a dream. It's, oh so many years ago, but still sometimes I remember it. Do you have a love like that?

This is the illustration to my poem of the same name which you can read here:

All my own images and words. Edited in Photoshop.

 
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Summer Hills Blues

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All my own pictures. Taken in Cambridgeshire.

Words from my poem 'Blue':

"hold on to the memory

count each single lash

and the look in my eye

when we first met"

Story

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Scrabble tiles on a 'found' wall of wood. That's all a story really is, isn't it? A beginning, a middle and an end? What makes a story? What makes a good story?

Here's my poem Fairy Tales Are Lies to go with the image.

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

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.

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this sinking feeling

 

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Words from my poem this sinking feeling and a photograph I took of an aquilegia.

All other images/textures/brushes my own. Created with Photoshop.

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Forsythia

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I thought we all could do with some sunshine with all that rain (at least here in the UK) coming down on us and trying to wash us away.... Yes, yes I know, how are we supposed to be in a drought, when it rains all the time? Well, the water hasn't made it all the way through to the ground water level yet. So we need some more rain. Miserable, I know. However, here are some golden forsythia and a blue sky to tide you over. (Pun intended.) :-)

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

Eat Me

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I love fairy tales, so I tried to recreate the feel of Snow White (a little tongue-in-cheek) with this one. You can't beat a red apple. There's a little Adam and Eve in there too.... 

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Secret Heart

 

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This is an image I took for the 1/52 project although I didn't use it in the end but used a different shot. The shot is of the reflection of a heart necklace I made for a commission. The heart is made from bronze wire, a red bead and handmade barbed wire chain. :-)

The image is named after the necklace - everybody has a 'secret heart' they hide from most of the people in their lives, but it's that heart that makes them who they are. Meaning, we often don't really know the people in our lives all that well.

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

Death of a Butterfly

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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.

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Mystical

Just received the go ahead to post the image on my blog and portfolio sites, so here's a bigger version:

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I loved the original stock images of the girl in the gold corset and wanted to create something magical with it. :-) It reminded me of all the female mystics of history - from the Oracle of Delphi to Cassandra, Theresa of Avila, Hildegard of Bingen and so on.

Credits

• Gold Corset 8 by sd-stock
• Textures from Shadowhouse

All other images/textures/brushes my own or bought. Created in Photoshop.

Now for something spooky and a new story

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I wanted to have a play with a hand coming out of the ground. The hand is my own. :-) Maybe this means I am going to come back and haunt you all. LOL

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Here's a new story called The Heart of Wood for everyone who liked the Secret Keeper series. It's related to the Secret Keeper Universe. :-)

Through a Glass Darkly

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I've always loved this phrase and wondered what it meant and how it (probably) has a different flavour for each one of us. This is how it looks to me. :-) The phrase is from the Bible, 1 Corinthians 13:12 - see here.


There are three more images in this series, which I'll post over the next few days. :-)

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The Sky is Blue Somewhere Else

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I am still going with the Snow White theme here. Don't we always think that somewhere else the grass is greener, the sky more blue... etc? And whilst we think that, we neglect what we have.

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

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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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