Three Muses: Artist of choice.

Secret Artists.

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I have always been very fascinated with the street art of the world...not 'tagging'... but 'proper' spray can art that has been very much maligned for many years.

The tide has turned and there are now many 'outdoor' galleries in lane ways, on buses, on abandoned anything...but in Melbourne, Australia they have taken it a step further and have opened galleries in lane ways that change about every couple of months. Some of these works are now being 'collected' by the National Gallery of Victoria as part of their art collection. How do they do this? By simply buying a piece on the wall and covering it with a sheet of perspex to keep it from being covered with other art.

It blows my mind... the talent of these "Secret Artists"!!

Take a Word: Butterfly.

BUTTERFLY KISS.

Should such a magical thing happen to you,

make a wish and the dreams will come true.

It rhymes!!!

Collage Obsession: Mario

FAMILY PORTRAIT

Mario the family man??

Cabaret Reflection

Not that I have much time.... but of recent weeks I have given myself a 'holiday' from my normal 'job' ( do I have a normal job? never sure about that!!) to play with Photoshop, catch up with my blogs and learning a whole lot of new techniques, so that I can be up to speed when I do the challenges for Collage Obsession, Take a Word and Three Muses
Cabaret Reflection is just one of the 'trial' pieces... different, eh?

A Rainbow at the end of Turmoil.

We live in a country of extremes.... bush fires on one side of the country and devasting, deadly floods on the other.

I am pasting a poem that my 15 year old grandaughter wrote, that really captures how we all feel and how we will come through all that Mother Nature wants to throw at us.

Rainbow

By the time we sensed it, it was too late

We had no warning

It just came and took away

Everything

It was strong

we tried so hard to get away

but we couldn’t

It was tall

It towered the trees

It destroyed

every

last

breath

It was destructing

nothing was left

It took away

our pride

our Happiness

our life

but only for a while

Still, Im waiting for my

rainbow

to tell me everything's going to be alright

because I know it won’t be

at least not for a while.

Serena Gonsalves Ó

2011

Three Muses: Nature's creatures.

Waiting!

A Contributor with Collage Obsession.

You will see this face on the Collage Obsession blog site! Why? I have had the honour of being selected by Itkupilli to be a team member and a contributor for this blog.
Along with Eila, from Finland, Rick and Tiffany from California and Itkupilli... we will present to you challenges that are exciting and encourage you to extend your artistic imagination.
I will be setting a challenge for you once a month and I look forward to being a part of this fabulous team!

Bring it on!!

Collage Obsession: Jewellry

Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds!

One of my all time favourites from the Beatles! Diamonds are a girls best friend, when it is all said and done!

Take a word: Beauty

The Beauty of Softness.

Collage Obsession: Under the Magnifying Glass

She thought there was something suspicious on his shoulder!

New Blogsite

Needed to start something fresh for 2011.
After a lot of thought and a whole lot more consternation, I decided that I would concentrate on a blog that has a lot of images... from the camera or made in photoshop... that are not related to any challenges that I do with my other blog site.

So a few musings.... a few thoughts.... a few limitless things that I will place here to encourage you to look at what is happening within this world and mind of mine.

THE LIMITLESS DIARY.

Three Muses: Old Fashioned

The Times they are A-changing.

The Bob Dylan song was in my mind for this challenge for Old Fashioned.

Being married is old fashioned to some!

The Times

They Are A-Changing.

Bob Dylan

Come mothers and fathers

Throughout the land

and don't critisize

If you don't understand

Your sons and daughters

Are beyond your command

Your old road is

Rapidly agin'

Please get out of the new one

If you can't lend a hand

For the times they are a-changing.

Take a Word: Zetti

Modern Zetti Woman.

Boy!! You sure did start it hard for 2011!! Zetti(?) is something I know nothing about..but stripes you suggested... so stripes it is!!

Happy New Year and am I looking forward to this year of creativity?

You bettcha!!

Welcome to 2011 !!

What a year 2010 was!!

To bring in the New Year, I would like to thank all of my followers and many friends for being so supportive during 2010.

It was a 'growth' year and at times a difficult one...but those mountains have now been successfully conquered and I am on a new path of artistic and creative endeavours.

May 2011 be a fabulous one for you all.

Glenys

Three Muses: Comfort and Joy

Comfort and much Joy!

To be able to write a few words about this time of the year when we all are looking forward to the New Year and reflecting on the 'old'... I am writing this note to let you know that the 'comfort and joy' that I experience is with my dear husband, Robert.

We were married when we were 'about 3' and in April 2011 we will have been married for 48 years.

During that time we have produced 4 fabulous children, whom, I might add, are older than us now.... 7 absolutely beautiful Grandchildren some are just about to enter the big world of 'working'!

Admittedly, there have been some very tough times, some very sad times, some times that we have put in the 'too hard basket' and just got on with it... but all in all the times that we are sharing now are the best times in our 'young lives'!

A lot of travel, a lot of sitting and having cups of tea, a lot of 'new love' that has been generated by the fact that we have been together for so long and no need to question each other... such a beautiful time that we are able to stroll on the beach, when ever we can get there, that is... and just be at one with ourselves.

"Great tidings of comfort and joy"

Sending this early, as we are off to visit family for Christmas.

May you and yours have a very happy family time together and may 2011 bring all your dreams true.

Thanks for a fabulous year of 'creating'...I am looking forward to even more excitement in 2011.

My fondest wishes to you all,

Glenys

Take a Word: Celebrate

What more can I say than...

Peace on Earth and Good Will to all Mankind and especially to you and yours.

My special Christmas wishes to you all, Glenys.

Three Muses: Odd Couple

RATHER ODD!

A very close view of a very eccentric ODD couple.

Not quite what was expected.

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Enjoy!!

(This image made in Photoshop.)

Take a Word: Childhood

Childhood ... Imagine.

What an honour to be guest artist this week... thanks for your invitation... much appreciated!

Imagine….Childhood ... how I made it.

Background: scanned image of a sheet of paper that I rusted, placed a ‘differnce’ filter to change the colour. Used a jagged eraser tool to rough the edges.

Little girl: Scanned image from a children’s story book. Ipod drawn in with fine brush tool.

Pods: made with the ‘eliptical marquee tool’. Added a layer style “bevel and emboss”. Used different brush tools to get the images onto the surface of the Pods. Filter>render>lens flare>zoom onto each pod. Tails of the pods are different brush tools.

In large pod a brush tool “tree” shape was used for dark images, layer copied, flipped vertical and transformed with opacity set at 65% to form a shadow.

Final touch was on background layer, filter>render>lens flare>movie prime, for the blue lines.

Lower left corner .. many clicks with brush tool.

Text: Bleeding cowboy.

This piece was made with many layers, more than 25, so I could have control of what I actually wanted in the image.

Hope you enjoy!

I then made this other art piece.... Childhood: Imagination

Childhood Imagination 4

Same image as Imagine… For this result I used a photoshop Action: Out of Bounds which I download at PanosFX.com I've never tried this before.

It was mentioned on Rian’s blog http://freubel-art.blogspot.com/

that she used for the ‘cube’ to make a recent image…. So I went looking and found a whole manner of stuff on this site… what fun I have had! Thanks, Rian!!

Three Muses: Flowers

MORTICIA'S GIFT.

I am sure you all know me by now and I like to take the challenge to beyond what is 'normal'(?)!

This is another one of those that just 'tickled my fancy'!

I knew that there would be many 'pretty' works this week.... but how I loved it when MORTICIA from THE ADDAMS FAMILY received her roses and immedialtly cut the blooms off!

Hope it really 'tickles your fancy'!!

Have lots of laughs on me with this one!

Take a Word: Mail

RETURN TO SENDER!

OH No!! Not again!!

That pesky postal machine has eaten my precious envelope and then it had to go through the defacing embarrassment of being 'stamped' on from all manner of departments!

I save them and put them in my journals!!

Such works of art made by unknown hands!!

Love it!