Friday, July 31, 2015

Everything


Model - http://shanethemainmanstock.deviantart.com/art/Stock-woman-dress-2-131713355

Top texture my collection

Everything else AWAKE course content

I had a plan and this was not it but I will continue to work on my idea.

Thursday, July 30, 2015

Into The Woods


Background - I created the BG using content from the AWAKE course, textures and my photographs of trees

Model - http://s-t-a-r-gazer.deviantart.com/art/Stock-Gothic-Lady-dark-dreaming-6-508365261

Crow - http://peroni68.deviantart.com/art/crow-13-213858039

Stars - purchased from Mischief Circus


Textures, bird brushes all my collection

Tuesday, July 28, 2015

Young and Wild


Background - I made the BG using all AWAKE course content

Model - extracted from http://artemisaesthetic.deviantart.com/art/Visual-Kei-is-a-dying-breed-521471292

Textures - my collection everything else AWAKE course content

Sunday, July 26, 2015

Creeper


Background - I made the background using all AWAKE course content



Textures - my collection everything else AWAKE course content

Saturday, July 25, 2015

Wings




Background - I made the BG using 3 photos and many layers of “stuff” from the AWAKE course content.



Webs - http://frozenstocks.deviantart.com/art/Spider-Webs-2-13286449

Textures, spider  - my collection

Thursday, July 23, 2015

Dancing In The Dust


Background - created the BG using four images - the actual BG was created using The Storm Beyond by http://night-fate-stock.deviantart.com and I extracted the distant mountains from a photo in my collection.  I used two other images from my collection for shading and toning the BG.


Dust - I created the dust layer (extracting smoke and coloring it)

Writing, flower and extra texture - AWAKE content Katie Pertiet, Foxey Squirrel and Kim Klassen

Hair brushes - http://frozenstocks.deviantart.com/art/Hair-Strands-133311562

Textures - my collection

Wednesday, July 22, 2015

Hydrangea


Background - I made the BG using all content from the AWAKE course (four photos by Sebastian Michaels and lettering by Katie Pertiet)


Textures, grasses - my collection

A little B&W for today!

Tuesday, July 21, 2015

It's Not Too Late


Background - I made the background using lots of AWAKE course content


Textures - my collection

I love everything about this image!!!!! One of my best to date.

Sunday, July 19, 2015

AuSable River


AuSable River near Lake Placid, NY.  My photo with some filters and a lot of textures from my collection. Took a few pictures on my recent trip to Lake George - this is one of them.

Saturday, July 18, 2015

Friday, July 17, 2015

Lightning Strike


Photos of pole and trees - Sebastian Michaels


Textures and rain - my collection

Did this one before I went on vacation and just posting it now!

Monday, July 13, 2015

Hope


Created using photos by Katie Lynn and AWAKE course content

Textures and bird - my collection

Sunday, July 12, 2015

Starting Over


Model - photo from the Colby Files

Background - made from Awake content and a clock from my collection

Textures - my collection

Saturday, July 11, 2015

Indigo 10


Model - extracted from a photo by Sebastian Michaels

Background - created from a photo of butterfly wings by Sebastian Michaels and other AWAKE course content

Textures - my collection 

Something more artsy!!

Thursday, July 9, 2015

Tuesday, July 7, 2015

Lunch


I took a painting by Ilia Repine (a Russian painter of the Peredvizhniki artistic school) and combined it with an photo taken by Sebastian Michaels

Background - part of a painting by Ilia Repine - A PARISIAN CAFÉ

Man and table - extracted from a photo taken by Sebastian Michaels




Textures, flower and vase - my collection

I love to take an old painting and add to it.  I haven't done one of these in awhile and they are really fun to make.

Monday, July 6, 2015

Indigo3


Model extracted from a photo by Sebastian Michaels

All other content AWAKE course material and my collection

Saturday, July 4, 2015

Almost Independence Day


Model - from a photo by Sebastian Michaels

Edge treatment - Amanda Rockwell AWAKE content


Flag image, texture - my collection

Thursday, July 2, 2015

Paige


From a photo by Sebastian Michaels 

Awake course content

Louise




Background - made using a number of textures and a lot of the AWAKE course content 

I guess I am into portraits right now!

Wednesday, July 1, 2015