This week at Pixel Dust Photo Art Bonnie challenged us to use graffiti in our art work. I thought I might write something outrageous on my wall but when push came to shove I wasn’t moved to. I expect when the challenge isn’t there to play with I will want too…contrary me.

I have been taking a few pictures of graffiti lately, they were in my library, quietly waiting for the day they would be the very pictures I would need.

Right near my home is an underpass that goes from the school to the shopping precinct. At one time it was preferable to be at the mercy of the traffic on top of the pass rather than use it. Now it has been painted with wonderful graffiti by the local school children. It is beautifully lit and safer for us all to use. (and photograph!)

I spent a rainy afternoon playing, here is my contribution to the gallery this week. Not graffiti by my own hand but graffiti I have seen and played with in photoshop.

This is my favourite piece this week and the one I would like to hang in the gallery please Bonnie.

And I did this just to see if I could write on the wall. I wasn’t going to post it but I saw that Bonnie had written the exact phrase on her wall, I sent it to her first earlier in the week.

I can’t wait to visit the virtual gallery this week to see the writing on the walls.

Earlier in the year I noticed a white painted wall along a village green. It was planted with roses. I was thinking that I would love to see the wall ‘in bloom’. At one end there was a tree arching over the wall making a natural frame, now I can never resist photographing a natural frame, like the magpie I am I knew that this picture ‘would come in useful’ one day.

Bonnies optional challenge this week is “self portrait’
There is not much digital fiddling going on with these pictures, I am getting braver at selfies.

I hope you like the results of my quest for a self portrait to hang in the Pixel Dust Photo Digital Art gallery.

Thank you Bonnie for once again inspiring me to try something new.

…on a cold rainy Saturday afternoon with some time to myself.
Bonnie, at Pixel Dust Photo Art has an optional challenge each week. This time it is Portrait.

There are many definitions of Portrait. Should Portraits be posed or candid? Should they be in a studio? One definition suggests that Portraits are works of art that record the likenesses of humans or animals that are alive or have been alive. Another suggests Portraits are a representation or impression of someone or something.

At the end of my research I just did my own thing and played and Bonnie did say there will be no portrait police in the gallery this week.

All animals were definitely alive when I left them…

I think I will get the last space on the wall of the gallery this week.
I feel so indecisive now, which one should I hang?

Hope you have a ‘Happy St. Patricks Day’ tomorrow if that’s where your heart lies, if not, just have a really lovely Sunday.

Bonnie’s challenge this week was to Create a piece of abstract art using only pdpa textures.

I couldn’t wait to have a go at this. I spent a happy morning layering some textures that I particulaly like waiting to see something I liked the look of…and here it is.

Something new for me, I hope you like it.

If you fancy a wander around a digital art gallery this weekend, have a look at this one.

Over at Pixel Dust Photo Art we have gone Vintage and Bonnie gave us a couple of beautiful new textures to inspire us. I worked with a lovely bouquet of flowers and both of Bonnie’s textures.

I think this looks a bit like damask fabric. Anyone for a couple of metres for some new cushions?

This is the forge up at our local quarry

And Fort Redoubt is on the Isle of Wight

I really loved working with these vintage, grungy textures this week.
If you have some time, pop over to the gallery to see what the theme ‘vintage’ inspired in others.

We have a beautiful bright morning here and the first weekend in March.That means it is almost spring and it is Sian’s Story Telling Sunday on Sunday! See you there?