even death has a heart

© Sybille Sterk

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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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Punk Heart

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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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Ribcage Heart

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Another in my vintage hearts series. This one was created from an upside down ribcage (yes, I know it's the wrong way round but it fitted better with the shape I wanted to create), and ivy (several public domain images) and lots of textures, mostly bought but I think one freebie. 

Subtitle for this one is: love grows in the strangest places. 

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

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Butterfly Witch

Just in time for Halloween

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This started off as a self portrait and they I went to town on it in Photoshop. The lashes are part of the original photograph I just enhanced what was there already. 

Created for a contest.

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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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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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Better colour than dead - Collaboration

© Denis Marsili and Sybille Sterk

Collaboration between my dear friend Denis Marsili and myself. He started the skull because of a challenge I set him. He'd asked what he should create next, so I suggest a skull, paint splatters and some floral accents. He did the skull and the spattered paint but couldn't do anything with my suggestion of floral accents. So we decided to make it a collaboration. This is what happens when two people get together and have fun. A wonderful experience. :-)

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