Showing posts with label ornaments. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ornaments. Show all posts

Thursday, October 23, 2014

travelling with elephants

© Sybille Sterk
Do not copy or publish this in any way, shape or form without my written permission.

I love the idea of travel and travel in unusual ways. Here I am imagining myself travelling in a sky cage contraption with mini elephants. :D 
Created in Photoshop with bought and public domain and free resources.


Wednesday, May 28, 2014

The Perfumed Garden


© Sybille Sterk
Do not copy or publish this in any way, shape or form without my written permission.

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:

Thursday, December 19, 2013

Crafting

It's been a couple of weeks of crafting and all sorts of little things, in preparation for Christmas.
These are last week's fruits of my labour:
Hearts, 

birds 
and stars, wooden shapes covered in fabric (birds), paper and glitter: Ready to hang.


This is how I started off yesterday:
These bits of tissue paper became

flowers:
 and then were attached to a wire frame:
 which in turn was covered in at least 40 but more like 50 flowers to hang as a wreath on my door. :-)
These little fellows and their fellow bambi wooden shapes were first fixed up with some brooch pins and little hangers (or in the case of the bambis relieved of their bits of string),
 then covered in a couple of coats of paint:
before they were painted individually, little owls
 and little foxes
and bambi had a coat of glitter applied:
They all still need a coat of varnish, then they can go off into the world, except for the bambis, the first lot of ornaments and the wreath, those are this year's Christmas decorations. :-) If you want a little owl or fox (pendant or brooch, colours available are brown, white and black), give me a shout, otherwise they'll go in my Etsy shop soon.

Wednesday, August 10, 2011

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
All other images my own.
MCN: CLHF6-284FR-ULLX2

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
All other images my own.
MCN: CKWLX-1PSJ7-3JQ7W

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