Joy to the Earth

I was a bit sluggish this morning, and reluctant to get started, so I decided to look at some bloggers art.  When I saw Diana Evans and her sons earth day efforts in her post for 10 Minute Warm Up, I knew immediately what I would do.  In my journal for ages I had a sketch of a girl with her arms flung out.  I would have her dancing for joy in the landscape.  She was celebrating the earth!

 

So I made a mug of tea and got started.  I got this far and my mug of tea was cold!  Umm more than 10 minutes! 

So, thank you earth and Diana for getting my creative mojo working today.  I will finish this tomorrow.  Think I will reheat my tea and have breakfast.  Nah, I’ll make some decent coffee and savor the patterns of the stormy skies we have at the moment.

Happy Earth Day 2013 everyone.

 

Linking also to Creative Every Day

Behind the Lace

For Mandarin OrangeMonday I am using two photographs.  One a copyright free vintage photograph I found on the web.  The other a picture of lace I found at a website I discovered this week at http://shadowhousecreations.blogspot.com, a wonderful place where you can down load for free wonderful backgrounds for digital manipulation.

 

First I gave a bit of colour to the lady and distorted her lightly in the lens filter in Photoshop.

Then I distorted her a bit more and merged her with the lace photo. And then fiddled a lot!

More distortion and fiddling.

Then I went back to the original photos and merged them, a shy lady unlike the confident Miss above.

 

Decided to crop image and get a romantic look.

Finally decided to bring her alive with lots of orange!

 

Also linking with Creative Every Day