heArt 101: Digital Scrapbook or Collage Freebies Plus Tutorial

This heart art is my attempt at digital scrapbooking. Below are some of the details as to how I created it, as well as a background and a couple of heart elements free for the taking. Note: If it has heartaday written on it, don’t take it. In fact, if you take the freebies and [...]

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heArt #100 Heart Agate

I was experimenting around with Photoshop today, trying new things. My inspiration came from the January 2008 issue of American Quilter magazine. In it are two different articles about creating fabric digitally (awesome!). Using the instructions in the article Digital Delights: “Applique and Piecing” by Computer (by Gudny Campbell and Sandra Hart * ) I [...]

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heArt #99 Peaceful Snow Tree Scene

Admittedly, the hearts are hard to find in this one, but they’re there masquerading as snowflakes. I made this in Photoshop with the freely downloadable brushes from BSilvia at Graphics-Illustrations. Her “snow scenes” tutorial was my inspiration. I used the Snowy Sky, Swirls (around the tree’s star), Christmas Trees Grunge, and Grunge Heart brushes.

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heArt #98 Snow Queen of Hearts

Painted in Photoshop using brushes from my friend BSilvia at Graphics-Illustrations, including her new “grunge heart” set inspired by heArt-a-Day! Thanks Silvia! I’m in a bit of a hurry today and didn’t show them off to their best advantage, but I’ll be using them in future pieces. Update:  I entered the Snow Queen at the [...]

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heArt #97 Mystical Santa Claus

Digital collage using vintage images from the Jack and Cat Curio blog. This is a slight variation on my entry in the Creativity Challenge #4 for Jack and Cat. I used some Photoshop brushes from Obsidian Dawn. You may have noticed the mystical looking symbols. Those are norse runes representing strength and joy, basically. I [...]

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Luvvahug by Steve Rack

Steve Rack is an artist who is doing a project of drawing 365 characters and posting them to a blog dedicated to them. They are very friendly and whimsical, so I asked him if he would like to draw one for heArt-a-Day. That’s how the wonderfully cute “luvvahug”, below, was born. Thanks, Steve!

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heArt #96 Vintage Christmas Angel Collage

I created this collage in Photoshop with clipart from Jack and Cat Curio’s blog, as well as photoshop brushes from Obsidian Dawn (Snow & Snowflakes) and BSilvia at Graphics-Illustrations (Grunge Stars, Magic Circles, Grunge Snowflakes, and Beads).  

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heArt #95 Rustic Tuscan Tile

This is a heart I drew a few months ago. I was in a hurry that day, but sometimes the less time I take the better. My art professor at Cornell, Hugh Lifson, drilled into our heads that “less is more” and I tried to adhere to that. But I’m a glutton for layers and [...]

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Guest Artist, Kent Looft, on “Creating Art With Heart”

Through Facebook I’ve met an wonderful Arizona artist by the name of Kent Looft. His paintings are mainly realism (check out his chili peppers, they’re hot!), something I aspire to but have not reached the levels he has. I asked him if he’d like to be a guest “heArtist” on this blog. Below is his [...]

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heArt #94 Altered Happy Holidays

For this I took the photograph of my heart ornament and altered it in Photoshop using gradients. I’m really happy with the way some of the gradients look. I sense variations on a theme to come from that. This was supposed to be an entry for a digital holiday card contest, but I misread the [...]

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