Tuesday 30 June 2015

THE THREE MUSES



LUCY IN THE SKY WITH DIAMONDS

Picture yourself in a boat on a river

With tangerine trees and marmalade skies

Somebody calls you, you answer quite slowly

A girl with kaleidoscope eyes

Cellophane flowers of yellow and green


Towering over your head

Look for the girl with the sun in her eyes

And she's gone

Follow her down to a bridge by a fountain

Where rocking horse people eat marshmallow pies


Everyone smiles as you drift past the flowers

That grow so incredibly high

Newspaper taxis appear on the shore

Waiting to take you away


Climb in the back with your head in the clouds

And you're gone

Lucy in the sky with diamonds


Lucy in the sky with diamonds



I had some fun with this one people, almost imagined I was on the same 'trip' as Lennon and McCartney! 

Credits - mostly free brushes from a number of sources.  (Why don't artists label them so we can give credit where it's due?).  Also SharingTubes and MartaVanEck.   The newspaper taxis and rocking horse people are my own.

NOTE : I will be away from home (holidaying in Greece - hee hee) for a couple of weeks from tomorrow so won't be able to comment on your lovely work until I get home.  Back on 15 July.


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Sunday 28 June 2015

TAKE A WORD


Marie has asked for HOT COLOURS this week at TAKE A WORD and that reminded me of the strange dream I had a week last Tuesday night.   There I was dancing the Swan Lake and the audience were applauding my beautiful light touch and lovely moves when I was rudely awakened by some strange noise from outside.  I got up to look out of my window and could hardly believe what I saw.  There it was, a dirigible floating (almost silently) across the sky, and there were people in it taking in the wonders of the scene below which I think was somewhere in Africa.  There were animals and people and those strange flat topped trees they have in Africa and it looked very very hot indeed.  I can't be sure but if I had to guess I'd say it looked for all the world like a steampunk safari!

Credit to SharingTubes for the setting sun, whilst the trees, animals, people and dandilion clocks are brushes.  The background is my own.


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Tuesday 23 June 2015

THE THREE MUSES


Bev has called for APPLES as the theme for this week at the Three Muses and that reminded me of the apples I spied a week last Tuesday.  On first glance they looked shiny and healthy enough, but on closer inspection I'm sure I saw a caterpillar sitting there as bold as brass ... smoking.  Imagine!

Credit to NicolaYoung, FinecraftedDesigns and Pixabay.com.

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Sunday 21 June 2015

TAKE A WORD


We have DANCER as our word for inspiration this week at Take a Word and here is my interpretation.

Credit: SharingTubes, JoesSistah and Anoident (free to use at Flickr).

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Tuesday 16 June 2015

THE THREE MUSES


Our challenge this week at the Three Muses is to create art containing fish and that's when I remembered what I saw a week last Tuesday.  Just as I opened the curtains to a new day something caught my eye, and I know you'll find it hard to believe, but there was a lady sailing a beautiful silver fish with green fins across the sky.  I stared at her for a while transfixed and she seemed to look my way for an instant too before she continued serenely on her way.

Credits to Frank-1956 for the birds, Pixabay for the fish, NumbBumm for the clouds, me for the background textures layered and blended,  and the lady, well she began her life elsewhere!

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Sunday 14 June 2015

TAKE A WORD


It's BEAUTY this week at Take a Word which could have been a tricky one.  However,  just as I was giving this some serious thought the decision was taken out of my hands as this little lady had already decided who was the most beautiful of them all!  Who am I to argue.

The raven haired beauty is courtesy of the public domain, though she did get a bit of a makeover from me.  The mirror was labelled on Google free for re-use and the background is a number of  my own textures layered and blended.

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Tuesday 9 June 2015

THE THREE MUSES


For the MALE of the species challenge at the Three Muses my interpretation of Franz Hellens painted beautifully by Modigliani and then 'played with' by me!



Also for the MALE of the species meet great Uncle Bob who ran away to sea when he was nine.  Nothing was heard of him for almost 60 years until he returned one day covered in spots.

Credit to SharingTubes, HiddenVintage, the PublicDomain and Mr Modigliani.

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Sunday 7 June 2015

TAKE A WORD


It's TIME PIECE this week at Take a Word and this is my interpretation.

Credit to SharingTubes and RubyBlossom.

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Tuesday 2 June 2015

THE THREE MUSES


It's CIRCUS time at the Three Muses this week.  Drum roll please ....... roll up, roll up ...

Credit to Imagekid.com and  HoneyDesigns for the background textures,  GraphicsFairy for the Elephant and acrobat.  The clowns are in the PublicDomain and the font is 'Circus'.

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