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Bonnie’s prompt this week is The Beauty of Ageing. I found this prompt even more challenging than last weeks!

I have two illustrations of the prompt. The first one because it was the first thought that came into my mind.
My mother.

I work with older people and see beauty in ageing every day. I chose this photo because the man is very young and the woman is in her late eighties, they are laughing together, their eyes are shining with love and respect. It was good to see.
I wanted to convey the emotion without showing the detail which I found challenging because I know the picture so well. What do you think?

Of course Bonnies beautiful texture, Christmas Berries (slightly tweaked) helped.

Have a look over at Photo Art Friday to see some beautiful illustrations of The Beauty of Ageing

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Over at Pixel Dust Photo Art Bonnies challenge this week was to come up with a seven word phrase describing your process as an artist with an accompanying piece of photo art.
Very different and very challenging for me.

It has been a slow and tentative journey and I have felt very timid about showing my pictures on a Digital Art meme but Bonnie’s Photo Art Friday community is so encouraging and supportive… I love it!

I was thinking along the lines of travelling, and sunlight, dark and light. Travelling along a road towards sunlight? My words for this year are create and contentment. I think that my phrase kind of sums up my creative endeavours so far.

This is what I came up with.

It is two images, two of Bonnie’s textures and tweaking with levels and curves adjustment layers.

It will be interesting to see what others come up with this week over at Photo Art Friday

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Bonnies challenge this week is to link an image that ‘features a door/s’
This is one of the beautiful Sand Sculptures on our beach last year.

I haven’t been able to see this years yet. A dry day + a day off has not happened yet!

There are some interesting doors over here this week.

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Photo Art Friday

For Photo Art Friday this week our challenge is to share any macro image (with whatever manipulations you choose) that pleases you.
I am still learning how to take macro images so I have played with the crop tool for this challenge 🙂

This is two copies of the same image with one turned 180deg to give me a blue background and the other cropped to put the flower head in the foreground. I used Bonnies texture, Abstract Elements Drops of Jupiter, altered the blending mode, added a frame & stamp, felt happy and called it done.

This is three images, the sea shore, a close crop of a pink rose and a close crop of some grasses. All at various blend modes until I felt happy. Three textures: Bonnies Heavenly, Purple Dust and Splash of Gold. It’s my favourite. Not forgetting a frame of course.

This is two images. The base one is of a plate of strawberries which I added a swirl effect to. I closely cropped one strawberry with leaves, and placed it on top, altered the blend modes, brushed away some texture from the leaves and put a vellum overlay on, added a frame, liked what I saw and called it done.

This is an image of a white tulip with one petal missing. I closely cropped the flower head and added 3 of Bonnies textures: Sweet Secret, Dream Wonder and Splash of Gold texture. I really liked the yellow stamens spilling over onto the yellow part of the gold texture.

I always liked the original photo of the Iris because it reminds me of a lovely afternoon spent with a girlfriend. I have given it a new lease of life by adding a Topaz Simplify action, a texture from Ruth West and a vellum overlay from Bonnie and yes, a frame.

What’s with the frames? Quick and Easy frames was something I learnt on Kim Klassen’s fabulous Beyond Layers Course.

I had a really lovely day off today, It was freezing cold outside so I stayed in and played.

I am linking to Photo Art Friday where there is some very beautiful digital art today.

I hope you have a wonderful Easter Weekend, that the weather is kind to you and all your eggs are chocolate. I on the other hand will enjoy my first glass of wine in seven weeks…Cheers.