Dreaming of India

© Sybille Sterk

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Old map of India with a vintage bracelet edited in Photoshop with words from Saint Augustine. :D

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The perfect bag for storing your travelling literature:

Dream of your holidays over a steaming mug:

On Redbubble:

Lean back and relax:

... and a mug that will travel anywhere:

Or tell someone it's time to pack their bags and see the world with you:

Angels and Demons

© Sybille Sterk

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More Vintage magic... a combination of bought and (found) public domain resources, combined as always in Photoshop. I love mannequins and wings and clouds and fire. You can't go wrong with them, they always go together. :D

The quote is by Christopher Poindexter. The full quote is:

I loved her not for the way she danced with my angels, but for the way the sound of her name could silence my demons

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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.

Available as always on Redbubble, Artflakes, DeviantArt, FineArtAmerica, and Society6:

Magic Leaves

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the world in a leaf

A picture of a birch leaf mixed with a map of the world. Leaves travel the world on the wind... :-)

© Sybille Sterk 

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the magic of the leaf

I always felt leaves were magic - the way they begin from simple little buds and then the way they change their colour through the year and fall to the ground to make a rustling carpet of leaves to return on the tree the next spring. Wonderful.

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

1st leaf on Society6, 2nd leaf on Society6