heArt #38 “Cupid Hearts”

This and the preceding 2 pieces were inspired by Traci Bautista’s book, Collage Unleashed. It’s a great book that really breaks down the conventions of what makes art, both in imagery and techniques. She uses a lot of ordinary, easily available materials such as paper towels (!) and encourages doodling and “repurposing” previous pieces of art. The book has given me permission to do whatever I wanted without thinking it through first.

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heArt #37 “Foiled Heart Collection #1″

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heArt #36 Blue Window

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heArt #35 “SweetheArt”

Made in Photoshop CS2 with a brush made from the “Pictorial Archive of Printer’s Ornaments”, my own background, layer styles, a vector heart. All rights reserved.

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heArt #34 “Heart of Dreams”

 

Drawn in Photoshop CS using assorted brushes, gradients, a vector heart, layer blends, and a pretty font.

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heArt #33 “Trust Your Heart”

Made entirely in Photoshop CS2 with gradients, brushes, layer styles, a vector heart and some big type. lol

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heArt #32 “She Gave Him Her Heart”

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heArt #31 “Second Chakra Goddess Amulet”

I learned how to needle felt last fall for the purpose of someday making heads for art dolls. I hadn’t touched it since. Somebody over at the Artella Cafe website mentioned needlefelting and so today I thought I’d try making a heart. I really enjoyed it. The face came alive under my needle. I was laughing when I made the mouth.

Made from dyed wool roving. It just fits in the palm of my hand. I’ll use it as an amulet.

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heArt #30 “Rose of Avalon”

ACEO, 3.5 x 2.5 inches. Colored and graphite pencils on Bristol vellum.

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heArt #29 “Freya, Goddess of Glamour”

Starting to break out of the big-heart-in-the-center-of-the-image mold. In my “rules” I defined heArt-a-Day as anything that contained a heart in it somewhere.

See my magickal blog about Freya for more.

Drawn in Photoshop.

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