The Three Muses Art Challenge - Floral

Our challenge word this week at The Three Muses is Floral.  These looked like spring flowers to me, beautiful colors, and this little fairy has clothes and wings that matched!  Wasn't that lucky?  😉

Can you see the three gnomes hiding, hoping to watch her fly?

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Take a Word Art Challenge - Silhouettes

Our Theme this week at Take a Word is Silhouettes.  I liked this element of the young woman in silhouette with a dress made of butterflies.  Is he proposing?  ❤  How romantic!

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Sunday Postcard Art Challenge - Alter Mona

This week's challenge at Sunday Postcard Art is Alter Mona.  I had this great graphic of the Mona Lisa dripping with colorful paint - I loved it and hoped to use it.  Enter...Alter Mona!  Perfect.

I gave her a feathered headdress, to which I added a couple of things, then the beautiful owl, a few more elements, and here's my Alter Mona.

This is one of my favorites that I've done so far.  Hope you like it!

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Sunday Postcard Art Challenge - BINGO

This week's theme at Sunday Postcard Art is BINGO.  I don't play BINGO and this one kind of eluded me as far as how to put a BINGO challenge together.  I kind of liked the bird eggs used as number covers, so I went with Bird's Egg Bingo.  Kind of crazy, but again, fun to create!

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Take a Word Art Challenge - Moon

The theme this week at Take a Word is Moon. 

I haven't done a lot of artsy stuff in the past.  Not like this.  These challenges are so interesting, the way our brains work, the way we put things together, how sometimes the end result is exactly what we visualized even before we found the right elements, and sometimes we go off on a completely different direction and end up with art we like even better.  At least that's what's happening with me.

It's all a new experience and it sure is fun - and interesting!

By the way, this one is exactly what I was seeing when I thought about how I wanted to do this Moon challenge.

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The Three Muses Art Challenge - Grunge

The theme this week at The Three Muses is Grunge.  I love grunge - but haven't worked with it much.  So this is my first grunge piece.  It was pretty fun to put together, hopefully we'll have some similar challenges in the future!

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Take A Word Art Challenge - Bird

Our challenge theme this week at Take A Word is Bird.

I did this one on a rainy night in New Mexico.  Warm and toasty inside and rainy and windy outside. 

I liked the way the lovebirds' color stands out in the darker background and I loved the church element.  The moon is from a full moon photo I took.  I removed the background and saved it as a PNG so that I could use it as a graphic in collage pieces.  I'm sure I'll be using it again!

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Sunday Postcard Art Challenge - Airmail

Our theme this week at Sunday Postcard Art is Airmail.

It looks like using a bunch of helium balloons to deliver air mail isn't working.  Our good old bird, Howard, to the rescue!

Happy Valentines Day, everyone!

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Take a Word Art Challenge - Time

Time is the word we used this week when putting together our pieces for Take a Word's Challenge.
 

I found this Grand Central Station wall clock graphic and decided to use it with this train/crowd element. I added a bunch of colorful elements to the black and white scene, and I liked it!  I hope you do, too.  😊

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The Three Muses Challenge - Umbrella

Our theme this week at The Three Muses is Umbrella.

What can I say about this one, except I love these two women.  And old houses and old buildings and lightning and storms.  Waterbirds and owls.  And they're all here!

Notice the bird nest in the lady's white hairdo.  What a do, huh?  There was a hole in it large enough for a bird's nest, so there it is.  😉


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Sunday Postcard Art Challenge - Fruit and/or Vegetables

The challenge theme this week at Sunday Postcard Art is Fruit and/or Vegetables.

After going through lots of graphics and different elements and ideas, nothing really stuck.  Then I came across some beautiful strawberry cupcake elements and ended up settling on just one fruit - the strawberry.  Specifically on and in cakes and cupcakes.  Beautiful strawberry pastries.

"Cupcakes are LOVE with icing on top and a Strawberry."  🍓

So... this is an area of the Cake Works Bakery.  Surprisingly it's dog friendly, as you can see by the three pups in the piece.   Gotta love a dog friendly business.

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Take a Word Art Challenge - An Old Fashioned Girl

Our challenge this week at Take a Word is An Old Fashioned Girl.  I've added an old fashioned car, bike and narrow downtown street.

I'm learning how to use brushes in Photoshop Elements, and finally put some on an art piece - this one has green and yellow watercolor splotches, but I've made them pretty transparent, just a touch.  I like it!  I'll try more brushes in the next challenges. These art challenge web sites are a great way to slowly learn a new program like PSE. 

A little at a time works for me.  😉


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