Jezebel

For Lianne and Lisa who could see the images in my poem Jezebel.

Before I started the manipulation I looked up Jezebel on Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jezebel and found out she had a very interesting history. Even the historians can't seem to quite agree if she was the devil incarnate or just and independent woman who stood up for what she believed.

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I used some stock photos and textures for this:


Stock:

• Girl
• Ruins (on the left)
• Flames

Textures:

• Rusty Scratches
• Mossy Wall
• Destructive News

The rest of the textures and images are mine. I also did a lot of drawing (hair and Alice band, skin colour etc) in Corel Painter plus added lots of my own textures and stock photos.

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.

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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.

Blossom

 

 

Another experiment after watching another interesting PS tutorial.

This time I went for a different kind of effect. I've always had a thing about Art Nouveau and the way they create something almost magical but in a simple way with subtle colour and ornamental effects. This is my version of an Art Nouveau poster.

I've used a stock photo by M3ment0M0ri of an actress (I believe) called Maude Fealy and a texture by Dazzle-Textures called Destructive News.

The rest of the images/textures are mine, namely a photo of a cherry blossom and one of my Victorian Wallpaper textures.

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