Here's another challenge...

From Three Muses.

This one is digital. The theme is "hair".

'The Haircut'

I wore my hair very long for most of my life. It was kind of a trademark of mine.

I remember how scary it was the first time I had it cut very short. I went straight from the lengthy tresses - to a "pixie-do". The scissors seemed HUGE. I can even recall the sound!

Needless to say, I survived, and am letting my long hair grow back. It feels more like me.

The beautiful image of the lady is from a painting by E. Delacroix circa 1825.

Found Something "Interesting"

I've been working behind the scenes to improve my digital art skills. and have found something that really gives me a workout.

Make It Interesting is a Flickr pool.

Members post photos and the challenge is for others

to digitally "mess with it"

and make it more interesting.

What a great exercise in trying out techniques and styles.

My postcard entitled:

Angel on the Stair

The original.


My postcard entitled:
Home Invasion

The original.


Now, if that's not fun, I don't know what is.

What IS Zetti?

I get asked this a lot, as do others who attempt to "do" Zetti.
And I say 'attempt' because so many of us struggle to "get it".
But...
No one seems to be able to put it into words, exactly, myself included.
It seems to be a state of mind. Sometimes I can get there and sometimes I can't.

What I do know (I think):

• There are often pointy hats, stripey legs and strange faces with mismatched eys.
• There are lots of black and white stripes in borders and other places.
• Backgrounds are usually painted and textured.
• It IS collage work, usually, along with hand drawn and stamped images and backgrounds ... sometimes.
• Clown noses appear pretty frequently and bodies and heads are usually very mismatched.
• Magazine cut outs are commonly used along with other kinds of materials.
  
  So..... Does that help? No. I thought not.
  
  Teesha Moore is the person who "invented" as an art form/style, and you can see some of her work Here. She's the queen.
  There is a Flickr Group called Zettiology, and I've installed our hot-button in the sidebar to your right. It looks like this.

It was created by the group admin, Jade Adams, a true Zetti guru.

You can go there and see what others of us are doing with varying degrees of success.

Oh, and thanks for asking.

Zlightly Zetti

That is the theme for the Three Muses challenge this week. Here is my entry.

"Honest!" ~ A Postcard

One more song for You

As long as there is time

And one breath left in me

There will always be

One more song for You.



lyrics by Michael and Stormie Omartian

Imitation

There are forces at work on another level of reality-- forces for good or evil -- always at work 'backstage' on the theater of life.

Magic. What is it? Does it exist somewhere out there as a something to be grasped and harnessed by the fortunate seeker who finds it? Or is it more or less than what it appears to be?

Who or what is the power behind it

Is what we think of as "magic" only an imitation of the power behind Creation, pretending to be the Power of God, Himself?

Thank you, Sandy, at Thank God It's Friday, for a wonderful theme. Mine is a digital Postcard.

Texture from JoesSistah.

Sunday Postcard Art

SPA challenges us to the theme of "Mr. Right."

'A Big... What?'

He really was a balloonist (See Below)
New York Times Article

"SANTOS-DUMONT'S ESCAPE; His Balloon Burst, but He Got Off Without a Scratch August 9, 1901, Wednesday
PARIS, Aug. 9. -- M. Santos-Dumont, the aeronaut, had a narrow escape from death yesterday morning. His balloon burst and fell with tremendous speed. Had it not been that the framework caught in the coping of a building, the plucky Franco-Brazilian would almost certainly have been killed. As it was he was unhurt."