Put on Your Dancing Shoes

Tea Dance

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

After the Dance

© Sybille Sterk
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  My own shoes and jewellery. Part of the Seduction series.

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

 All my images are available on Redbubble, Artflakes, Society6 and Bluecanvas as prints, cards, posters, skins for laptops, Blackberry, iPhones and other phones (for the skins go to Bluecanvas). You can now also get most of my images on cushion covers (go to Society6 for these).

dreams

© Sybille Sterk

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

Isn't it strange how in dreams so many things make sense and are perfectly reasonable and even normal and when we wake up we are left with this feeling that we missed something, that there was a message there which we failed to understand?

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

All my images are available on Redbubble, Artflakes, Society6 and Bluecanvas as prints, cards, posters, skins for laptops, Blackberry, iPhones and other phones (for the skins go to Bluecanvas).

This is Cloud Nine

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Another of my images in my "This is" series. See the others below.

When you're happy it's easy to share the light. :-)

Model: Jessica Truscott, faestock 

Stock: Maureen Older, Hearts in the Wind

All other resources my own images or bought stock.

Sisters under the Skin

This is Who We Are

This is Wonderland

This is the Sea

All my licensing images are available on Redbubble, Artflakes and Bluecanvas as prints, cards, posters, skins for laptops, Blackberry, iPhones and other phones (for the skins go to Bluecanvas).

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.

This Is Wonderland

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I've always had a thing about Alice in Wonderland. I love the utter whimsy of it and the way it plays and grows in my head. Here's another interpretation with the lovely Jessica Truscott as the 'centre piece'.

First proper image in a week as I've been ill. :-(

This image partners well with This is the Sea

Credits

Red silk14 by faestock

Hair brush set by para-vine

All other images are my own.

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.... 

Part of my new series of images for licensing on Arcangel-Images - use this code: SYST-0177 

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

dreamer and the dream

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Illustration for my poem of the same name (read here)

Credits

• Rosa14 by faestock
• Another Mixed Texture Set by Shadowhouse
• Hair brush set by para-vine

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

Girl With Ribbon - Girl With... Series

 

 

 

Sub Title: Entanglements

Again, a deceptively romantic and sensual picture with a totally different message. This is about the traps we set ourselves and the traps we're caught in - from self perception to role models we find ourselves tangled up in sometimes barely visible constraints - the way we look, the way we behave, what we're supposed to do and what we want to do - signified both by the (outer restraints) spiderwebs and the (inner restraints) ribbons and bow. The sky and clouds can be seen two ways - the striving for 'enlightenment' and the freedom from the restraints we seek, or maybe it's just about the way we often walk around with our heads in the clouds, totally unaware of the constraints that hold us back? There are fragments of fairy tale princesses in there as well - I can see Rapunzel and he hair, Sleeping Beauty and Snow White both asleep and all of them waiting for Prince Charming. However, in real life there rarely is a Prince Charming to rescue us and, personally, I'd rather rescue myself. LOL

You can see the whole series here:

Credits

Model

• Shampoo Commercial 1 by AimeeStock

Stock

• Bows PNG by AWorldOfMagic by aworldofmagic
• Spider webs - my own

Backgrounds and Textures

• mr youngstrom by CKdailyplanet
• Wind by CKdailyplanet
• All Hallow's Eve Texture Set (Ghost Matter) by Shadowhouse
• Damaged Goods by Shadowhouse
• Grungesque Texture Set (Soft Turbulence) by Shadowhouse
• Worn Thin Texture Set by Shadowhouse
• Sky - my own textures

Brushes and Actions

• Hair brush set by para-vine
• 17 Grunge Border Bars Brush Set by Shadowhouse
• Cloud Brush - my own brush set
• Retro Actions by Apples & Sisters
• Perfect Portrait 3 Action by TheCoffeeshopBlog

All other images/textures/stock/brushes my own.

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Sisters - Photo Manipulation - Diptych

 

 

 

Part of my diptych series.

Dedicated to my sisters, those in the flesh (three of them) and those in the spirit (you know who you are). :-) You are all special.

Credits

Model

• Three Sisters by Eirian-stock

Stock

• Heart Locket 1 by shelldevil
• bow 01 by chulii-stock
• bow by KAWproductions
• Bows PNG by AWorldOfMagic by aworldofmagic
• Wet Hair 6 by allyekhrah-stock
•  Scissors 02 by ashlee7307-stock

Backgrounds and Textures

• Stock 10 by UmbraDeNoapte-Stock
• Snow Stock 01 by mother-of-all-stock
• Trees Backdrop stock by rocamia-stock
• dunes 5 by darkw0lf09stock
• stew in your own juice by CKdailyplanet
• The Devil's Flesh Texture by Shadowhouse
• Slightly Delicate 4 Texture by Shadowhouse
• Square 89 Aged Canvas Texture by Shadowhouse
• Square 154 by Shadowhouse

Brushes

• Crack Brushes I by hawksmont

All other images/textures/stock/brushes my own.

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Pandora - The Secret Keeper's Daughter - Photo Manipulation

The Secret Keeper's Daughter - illustration for the story The Secret Keeper - Part II

Credits:
Model:

•  Ethereal - Stock by steamed-pepsi-stock:

Backgrounds/Textures:

• Nr 44 by Angelia61-Stock
• Antique1 by SheisprettyStock
• Aged by SheisprettyStock
• BlueTextures by letinhastock
• sky stock 150 by hatestock
• Sparkles 10 by PandoraLore-Stock

Stock:

• Clouds by Alison Ashwell
• field sky in ResourceNation by night-fate-stock
• field sky2 in ResourceNation by night-fate-stock

 Keys:

• Key 1
• Key 2
• Key 3
• Key 4
• Key 5
• Key 7
• Key 8
• Key 9
• Key 10
• Key 11
• Key 12
• Key 13

Butterflies:

• moths and butterflies stock 19 by hatestock
• moths and butterflies stock114 by hatestock
• moths and butterflies stock134 by hatestock 
• moths and butterflies stock 43 by hatestock
• butterfly 6 by kayne-stock
• butterfly 5 by kayne-stock
• butterfly 4 by kayne-stock
• butterfly 1 by kayne-stock

Brushes:

• Hair brush set by para-vine
• Sparklies Photoshop Brushes by redheadstock
• Glitter + Sparkles Brushes by redheadstock
• Grasses and Plants PS Brushes by redheadstock
• Lace mix by NadinePau-stock

All other images/textures/stock are my own. The ribbons are handpainted.

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The Secret Keeper - Story and Photo Manipulation

Illustration to accompany the story of the same name.

He stood in the dark wood, doubtfully looking at the moon through the trees. He shivered in the cold air. Before he had time to consider his choices and give in to his fears she stood before him.

Her hair was long and shimmered blue in the light of the moon. Ribbons were tied in it, each with a key at the end of it.

“You are the Secret Keeper?” he asks her.

Read the rest of the story here.

All images,patterns and textures are my own except for the credits given below.

Credits:

• Model, Faestock
• Background, Trinketstock
• Moon, Fantasystock

Textures:

• Texture 1, Sirius-sdz
• Texture 2, JRMB-stock
• Texture 3, Violentkiwiresources

Keys:

• Key 1
• Key 2
• Key 3
• Key 4
• Key 5
• Key 7
• Key 8
• Key 9
• Key 10
• Key 11
• Key 12
• Key 13
• Keyhole

Brushes:

• Clouds 1, Leboef
• Clouds 2, Leboef
• Script, Lady Victoire
• Lace Mix, NadinePau-Stock
• Hair, Para-Vine

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Trailing Secret

This artwork was inspired by a group I was invited to join and also by a song going round my head, Feist's Secret Heart.

Currently featured on Redbubble:

 

Make sure you check out all the other featured artists - there are some real treasures! 

Currently featured in the Secret Society Group:

I've used the following stock, textures and brushes (apart from my own):

• Ribbon Brush
• Chateau Boots
• High Altitude texture
• Fake Old texture

Plus my own painted heart, my own Victorian wallpaper textures... etc.

The image also contains a couple of lines from my poem Secret Language
The lines are:
Souls touching briefly, longing for eternity.

Artemis - Wrist Warmers and Brooch Set

Here's my latest wrist warmer set:

Artemis

The wrist warmers have a fancy yarn (guinea fowl yarn is what I call it) cuff section and a burgundy red Debbie Bliss Cashmerino 'glove' section. There is a lovely diamond lace pattern running up the centre front and picot edging along the edge of the hand section and thumb.



The brooch is a double cabbage rose in both yarns and adorned with real guinea fowl feathers:


When the writst warmer is worn the lace pattern shows up nicely. There's also a little irridescent ribbon to finish off the 'Artemis' look - elegant, glamorous and timeless. :-)

The back has my trademark cable at the inside of the wrist. This makes sure the wristwarmer sits nice and tight around the wrist.

Here you can see the details:

The set will be available in my Etsy shop unless you snatch it up first. If you're interested, drop me a line.