Texture Tuesday for May 30

Ok, it’s not quite a garden but I live on an Arizona rock farm and this is much nicer than my yard. What could be more welcome than water in the desert? A tiny rivulet dances in the dappled light; a cottonwood’s leaves twinkle and shimmer in the desert sun, roots quenching a deep earth thirst.

I used the same texture twice, “Yesteryear”, the first layer is multiply 42%, the second is soft light 72%. Check out the textures at kimklassencafe.com !

Happy Tuesday!

Texture Tuesday for May 17th

The theme for this Tuesday is vintage – the picture was taken in Jerome, Arizona, a former ghost town that still has a few ghosts. If the door opened it would go under the highway now, but a grand building once stood here. I used the textures “Believe” multiply 80% and “Pour vous” multiply 60% over the central portion of the image – so there’s a little bit of handwriting on this old wall.

Happy Tuesday!

Texture Tuesday

Yes, there’s a mouse in my teacup. When I was setting up for the photo Miss Mousey had to jump in the teacup and with her vintage handbag. There are two textures – “Life is Good”  multiply 49% and “Warm Sun” multiply 72%.

 

Here’s the Parisian version of the photo, Miss Mousey likes things a la francais. The flourish is Rhonna Farrer’s Swirled Corners from Two Peas in a Bucket 

 

Finally, the mid-century modern version with vintage plastic, the texture is “Love” multiply 60%.

Happy Tuesday!

Texture Tuesdays

This is my first post for Kim Klassen’s “Texture Tuesdays” more info is available on her blog Kim Klassen Café   She creates and shares  Photoshop textures and tutorials – like turning a watermark into a brush. I’ve never turned anything into a brush before, what fun! The texture used above is “Silence”, the effect on this photo is subtle – it added depth and I really like it.

Welcome Spring!

I haven’t been here in a while but this time I didn't disappear into my studio, I vanished into my day job – bookkeeping – preparing for an annual audit and going through the field work. Schedules for this and that, ledger reports and more reports. My focus turns from the creative to putting numbers in little boxes and when all is said and done and it all balances, I breath a sigh of relief and my attention can again turn to creating.  On March 27 this blog turned two and I’m still visiting blogs from OWOH. So let’s celebrate the blog birthday in hobbit style – eat two breakfasts and here’s a gift of old postcards for you, if you’d like.

 

 

 

 

 

Now off to the studio…

I’m the Lucky Winner of…

These magnets from Susan of Pieces Of Fate for her OWOH giveaway. These are beautifully made, quality magnets…

signed on the back, and a close up view…

… of  seashells. I may live in desert but I was born by the sea. I learned to swim in the ocean so young I don’t remember learning – just swimming and loving the water. My family would often go to a restaurant called “Anthony’s Fish Grotto” that had a fishy gift shop and  I would come home with an abalone shell  filled with seashells, wrapped in cellophane with a piece of day-glo coral on top or a spiny, purple dried sea urchin that smelled like the ocean. I love these reminders of the ocean, thank you Susan!

And the winner is…

Ok – the first winner is me! THANK YOU all for the lovely, kind comments! What fun!

I have consulted the magic random number generator at Random.org and the winner is: # 33.

Congratulations to Shama-Lama Mama!

Because I’m such a pokey blogger I’ll still be visiting OWOH blogs for some time. And again thank you all so much for making this such a positive experience.

 Applause for Lisa of a A Whimsical Bohemian!