Sunset Beach

Background - created from two images plus textures - http://thevikingstock.deviantart.com/art/Stock-74-449118578   

Model extracted from - http://night-fate-stock.deviantart.com/art/Dancing-At-Sundown-528716844

Sea Gulls - http://egomod.deviantart.com/art/Sea-Gulls-psd-cut-out-92590632

Textures - my collection

AWAKE course content

Kind of hi-key for me but I love the light in this image.

The Spellcaster

Background - I created the background using 3 images, writing and textures

Model extracted from - http://nerium-oleanders.deviantart.com/art/Black-Widow-Stock-372322984

Tears - http://frozenstocks.deviantart.com/art/Bleeding-Mascara-Brushes-133311687

Left skeleton - http://wolverine041269.deviantart.com/art/Skeleton-15-351259182

Bones on right - http://mjranum-stock.deviantart.com/art/Bones-1-66681800

Ghost - http://linzee777.deviantart.com/art/Creepy-Ghost-Brushes-155894893

Textures, feather, flower, bird brushes, mist - all my collection

Out Of Here

Background - http://frantisekspurny.deviantart.com/art/Dark-road-3-140056130

Model - extracted from a photo by Sebastian Michaels

Scare crow - http://doloresminette.deviantart.com/art/Scare-crow-PNG-329663285

Textures, lightning, birds - all my collection

Love this image!!!!

Fate

Background - combined  two images from my collection

Model - http://dheks.deviantart.com/art/Misery-187792217

Textures, feather, bird brushes - all my collection

Her Love

Background - from an image at unsplash - https://unsplash.com

Model - http://estruda.deviantart.com/art/Waiting-For-Her-Love-430419160

Crow on cross - http://peroni68.deviantart.com/art/crow-24-301878543

Textures, flowers, flag, additional crows, bird brushes - all my collection

I really love this image!!!!!

Renaissance Girl

Background - I made the background - combining textures with a lot of AWAKE content

Model - http://dazzle-stock.deviantart.com/art/Free-Spirit-8-342761194

Textures, feather, brushes - all my collection

Wanted something painterly/artsy.

Demeter

Created for the Goddess challenge at Castle of Cards Deviantart 

Demeter is intimately associated with the seasons. Her daughter Persephone was abducted by Hades to be his wife in the underworld. In her anger at her daughter's loss, Demeter laid a curse on the world that caused plants to wither and die, and the land to become desolate. It became perpetual winter.

Background - I made the background by combining http://frozenstocks.deviantart.com/art/Winter-Wonderland-Premade-145308745  with one of my images

Model - http://nanfe-s.deviantart.com/art/stock-58-60873364

Ice crown - http://pranile.deviantart.com/art/IceCrown-stock-494098078

Textures, feathers, bird brushes, snow brush, ribbon, wheat, moon - all my collection

Let It Rain

My entry for the challenge Rain at Stewed Tomatoes Deviantart

Required stock rain texture - http://funnybunny-stock.deviantart.com/art/Rain-Texture-109062956

Background - Image from unsplash - https://unsplash.com

Model - http://tf-stock.deviantart.com/art/model-female-XII-86216954

Seagull - http://ravenslane.deviantart.com/art/Seagull-2-352764069

Boat, rope - purchased from Mischiefcurcus - http://www.mischiefcircus.com

Additional textures - my collection

Painted Nude

I wanted to try something that looks like it was really painted.  I have Art Rage and have never really used it so I did play around a bit with that then over to Photoshop. It's a start.

Model - http://fetishfaerie-stock.deviantart.com/art/Nude-Bed-II-60281343

Textures, letters, brushes - my collection and AWAKE content

The Hunt

Background - pretty much created the background using a bunch of textures and some tree photos - all my collection

Model - http://nerium-oleanders.deviantart.com/art/Fantasy-faun-stock-430575264 

Other textures, additional leaves, moon and dust brush - all my collection

The Tattoo

Background - I made the background using a number of textures and papers some from AWAKE content some from my collection

Model - http://lockstock.deviantart.com/art/Back-07-17593964

Additional textures, tattoo, flower - my collection

The Stairwell

Background - http://darkmysty-stock.deviantart.com/art/Beelitz-47-ruin-527660373

Model extracted from - http://gracies-stock.deviantart.com/art/Death-Living-Again-39-77771258

Textures, feather, birds - all my collection

I just love the light in this image!

Sea Spirit

I wanted a very grainy B&W image almost ghost like. 

Background - image from unsplash https://unsplash.com

Model - http://auroradreams.deviantart.com/art/Red-Silk-requested-204490338

Bird brushes, texture my collection.  I am very excited about this image - I like it a lot.  I am enjoying working in B&W and I like the grain.

The Promise

Model extracted from - http://faestock.deviantart.com/art/Holly-8-508111229

Background - created using a couple of papers and textures

Flower purchased from Mischiefcircus

The Nest

I walk every morning and this is a picture I took a few weeks ago before the leaves started coming out.  I love bare trees - their silhouette against the sky and all the little mysteries that are revealed when their leaves fall.  I especially like the abandoned nests and I wonder what bird created this home and how the baby birds faired.  

Photo - taken my me and a number of textures and overlays - all my collection.  Photo taken with my iPhone.

Painted Angel

Well this complete image is made up even the model.  

I created the background using an oil painted texture - I added textures and trees over this and a couple of blend modes.

The model is a composite of two different photos.

The wings were created from a Katie Pertiet gesso brush that I thought might make good painted wings

Flowers in her hair cut out of a flower picture in my collection

Textures - my collection

Underwater

So I heard on the news someone put skeletons underwater in lawn chairs as a joke.  I thought that would make a great digital image - so here are my underwater skeletons.

Underwater - created this by combining 2 images from Eenas Creation - http://www.mischiefcircus.com

Skeleton sitting - http://qroot-stock.deviantart.com/art/Skeleton-Sitting-Stock-1-63255435

Bones on the right - http://mjranum-stock.deviantart.com/art/Bones-1-66681800

Fish, rope - Eenas Creation

Textures, chair, bubbles, starfish, hat, seaweed, skull, beer can, sun glasses - all my collection 

This was such fun to make. Skeleton news story - http://www.usnews.com/news/offbeat/articles/2015/05/05/authorities-find-fake-skeletons-in-underwater-lawn-chairs

The Readers

Something vintage and artsy too.

I extracted the women from a vintage photo and then created the background and all the stuff around it with textures and over lays. AWAKE content and training by Katie Pertiet.   Something a bit different for me - I want to work on a few images with more white so this is a start.

Patty

Background - I created the background with textures, word images and elements - AWAKE content and my collection

Model - extracted from - http://kittythecat-stock.deviantart.com/art/The-Gypsy-09-414745929

Textures, feather, tattoo (I colored it) - all my collection

Old school tattoo!

Angel

Background - I made the by by combining 2 images purchased from Mischiefcircus

Angel - extracted from a painting by William-Adolphe Bouguereau - Cupidon

Tears - http://frozenstocks.deviantart.com/art/Bleeding-Mascara-Brushes-133311687

Textures, flowers, bird brushes - my collection

The Wall

Background - I made the background using two photos, spatter, weed brushes and graffiti fonts -all my collection

Model extracted from - http://random-acts-stock.deviantart.com/art/Urban-Gothic-stock-38-163560377

Cats - http://camelfobia.deviantart.com/art/black-cat-png-335453060    and    http://camelfobia.deviantart.com/art/black-cat-png-335453198

Textures and flowers - my collection

I created the image below first - I liked it but I wanted something more artsy/painterly especially with the background I had made.  The image above is the rework using the original as the base.

Night Of A Thousand Stars

Background - I used this image http://dragoroth-stock.deviantart.com/art/Rocks-in-the-water-1-199561511  then I used 2 other photos of sky, stars and water to complete my background image

Model extracted from - http://trinket-stock.deviantart.com/art/trinketstock31-18142995

Textures, moon - all my collection

B&W Swamp

This is a photo I took last week at a nature center here in NJ.  I converted it to B&W - played with it a bit and added lots of grain.  I wanted a real grainy look.

Textures, bird brushes my collection.

This is not exactly what I envisioned but it is a start and different for me.

Fashion Week

Model extracted from - http://liam-stock.deviantart.com/art/Aylen-9-96684143

Hats - http://roys-art.deviantart.com/art/Gothic-Hat-PNG-Stock-443378763

Black rose, other flower - purchased from mischiefcircus

Background, textures, dress dummy, dog, flower drawing - all my collection

The Photograph

Woman from a vintage photo - http://mementomori-stock.deviantart.com/art/Vintage-beauty-V-104674622

All textures my collection - I used five

Lady With A Black Hat

I love to make digital images with old paintings - here is my latest

Background -  http://darkmysty-stock.deviantart.com/art/Beelitz-01-512054719

Woman extracted from a painting by Lord Frederick Leighton  - http://www.wikiart.org/en/frederic-leighton/portrait-of-may-sartoris

Spider web - http://frozenstocks.deviantart.com/art/Spider-Webs-2-132864493

Crow - http://peroni68.deviantart.com/art/crow-24-301878543

Textures, feather, dog - all my collection

Edge Of The Swamp

Background image - a photo I took on Thursday at the Manasquan Reservoir environmental nature trail

Cormorant extracted from a photo by my friend and amazing photographer Garry Henderson

Textures - rainy background photo Gary Henderson and two other textures my collection

Moon and bat brushes - my collection

The original photo was of a very bright sunny day so I added an additional sky from another of my photos and I worked with a lot of textures to darken everything up. I love this bird photo - it is so amazing the feathers look like velvet.

The Perfect Storm

Background - I created the BG using 3 different images

Model extracted from - http://dove-stock.deviantart.com/art/Green-Cloak-I-21563631

Skeleton - http://wolverine041269.deviantart.com/art/Skeleton-15-351259182?q=sort%3Atime%20((15)%20AND%20(by%3Awolverine041269))&qo=32

Textures, hat - my collection

More of a me type of image!!!