Art and Colored Pencil and Heart and design and drawing Art, Colored Pencil, design, drawing, Heart, heart art 2:02 am
I’m been holed up in my house because of the winter weather the last few days. Watching hour after hour of the Travel Channel has been my way of coping. Today I wrapped my electric blanket around me, tuned into Samantha Brown who was somewhere in the rain forests of South America, and started drawing with colored pencils.
Colored pencil on bristol board, 4 x 6 inches. The real colors are a little more vivid, especially the aqua background.
Art and Digital Collage and Heart and Irish and celtic and design Art, celtic, design, digital, Heart, heart art, knotwork 10:09 pm
Today’s heart art is greatly helped by some pre-drawn celtic designs I found on the drawing celtic knotwork tutorial at Clanbadge’s website. From there I bought some patterns that I can copy and paste into Photoshop, as well as a knotwork font with which I’m supposed to be able to create my own knotwork designs. It was too interesting to pass up.
I love all things Celtic. I’m only part Scots and Irish, but if you do your research you’ll find that the Celts migrated into Europe from the east thousands of years ago and were the ancestors of most Europeans. So my German blood counts, too, in that case.
I always feel the Celtic vibe this time of year, starting around the first of February which is an ancient holiday dedicated to one of the Celtic goddesses, Brigid. It builds right up to Saint Patrick’s day, like an energy river flowing through me just under my conscious radar. I think I’ll let my celtic heart express itself this year here on the blog.
Art and Collage and Heart and Mixed Media Art, Collage, Heart, Mixed Media, sweet repeats 1:25 am
My wanderings across Flickr led me to Lucy “SweetRepeats”, a collage artist who also enjoys working with a heart theme. Visit her blog, Sweetrepeats, and her Etsy shop to see all of her collage magic.
Art and Collage and Digital Collage and Heart and Holiday and Valentine and Vintage and design Art, card, children, Collage, design, digital, Heart, Valentine, Vintage 6:47 pm
Happy Valentine’s Day, everybody. I found a great resource for vintage images and clip art on Flickr. It’s a group called, appropriately enough, “Collage Images“. There are many great images available to download there (or upload your own to share).
Image below was done entirely in Photoshop. It’s my last Valentine’s “gift” to you all, so take it and use it. You can right click and “save image as”, or left click on the image and go to Flickr where you will have more image choices.
Art and Clip Art and Collage and Digital Collage and Digital Scrapbook Design and Heart and Valentine and design Art, chipboard, Collage, design, digital, element, freebie, Heart, Valentine 2:21 am
More free heart art Four digitally created “chipboard” hearts free for you to use in your scrapbooking, valentine making, etc.
Please use these for personal use. If you want to print them out for swaps or even try and sell some handmade collage cards, go ahead. If you post them on the web somewhere I’d like a mention and a link back.
Clicking on the image will take you to Flickr where you will have a choice of sizes by clicking on the “all images” icon above the picture.
Art and Backgrounds and Digital Collage and Digital Scrapbook Design and Heart and Valentine and design Art, background, card, craft, design, free, Heart, paper, scrapbooking, Valentine 3:41 am
Yes, there’s more! I’m in a creative Valentine’s heart art frenzy!
Once again, these were made in Photoshop using slightly altered brushes from Graphics-Illustrations and Obsidian Dawn. And again, if you use these and post them anywhere on the web, I’d like credit and a link back, please, as well as credit to the brush makers.
Also, when I say non-commercial, I mean no mass reproduction, no putting it up on Zazzle or Cafepress, etc. But if you can print it out and make some handmade art from it and sell it…go for it! Check with Graphics-Illustrations and Obsidian Dawn first, though. Not sure what their policy is in that case.
You can download these by right clicking here, or left click and you will be taken to Flickr where you will have a range of size choices by clicking on the “all sizes” icon above the image.
Art and Backgrounds and Digital Scrapbook Design and Heart and Valentine and design Art, background, card, design, free, Heart, pattern, quilt, scrapbook, Valentine 9:01 pm
As I promised yesterday, here are four different backgrounds I made for you to download and use in your Valentine’s Day cards, scrapbooking, etc.. You could even use them for wrapping paper. I used Photoshop (as usual), this time using the shape tool and the standard shapes that come with PS.
If you think they look like a quilt patterns that’s not a coincidence. I’ve always had quilters in my family. My maternal grandmother hand pieced a beautiful red and white nine patch quilt (1 inch pieces) the year before she died. She was around ninety years old. I think I get my life long love of red and white from her.
You can right click on any of these and “save image as” (at least in Firefox), or you can click on the image and go to Flickr where you’ll have a larger size selection to chose from by clicking on the tiny “all images” icon above the image. The two backgrounds with the smaller overall pattern are just slightly different in color. One is more brown for those of you who are like me and think a little burnt sienna makes all art better. All images were uploaded as 3 x 3 inches at 300 dpi.
Just a reminder, these are for personal use only and if you use it anywhere on the web (like as a Myspace background), please give me credit and a link back to this page. You can alter it for collages or cards or whatever, though.
Art and Collage and Digital Collage and Digital Scrapbook Design and Heart and Tags and Valentine and design Art, Collage, design, digital, free, Heart, scrapbook, tag, Valentine 7:48 pm
I decided to make some free heart art for all of you making Valentine’s Day cards or putting together Valentine’s scrapbooks. In case you don’t already know, using shipping tags for collage, rubber stamping, etc. has been popular for years. I’m pleased with how my first digital attempts with them have turned out. These were completely constructed from scratch using Photoshop and the Grunge Heart #1 Photoshop brushes from BSilvia at Graphics-Illustrations and Texture brushes from Obsidian Dawn. I altered some of the brushes to create different effects.
Once again I wish I knew how to offer downloads in such a way that you could get a PNG file so you wouldn’t have to remove the white background. I’m working on figuring that out. In the meantime, click on the images below and you’ll be taken to Flickr where you will see a link to “all sizes” above the image. That will take you to different sizes. Or just right-click and “save image as” from here.
Note: These are for your own personal use. You can alter them in any way, print them out, use them for swaps, but it you publish it anywhere online please give me a mention and a link back. You should also give credit to BSilvia/Graphics-Illustrations and Obsidian Dawn. Don’t worry…if I ever strike it rich I’ll start giving away no-strings-attached free stuff.
Art and Collage and Digital Collage and Heart and Valentine and Vintage and design Art, brushes, Clip Art, Collage, design, digital, Heart, love, Photoshop, Vintage 11:03 pm
This heart art was created digitally, the main image from a Dover Publication called “Holiday Vignettes“. I also used Photoshop Love Hearts Valentine’s brushes from BSilvia’s graphics-illustrations site, and Obsidian Dawn Texture brushes.
Art and Collage and Digital Collage and Heart and Valentine and Vintage and Vintage Couples and design Art, Collage, couple, design, digital, Heart, love, Valentine, Vintage 10:24 pm
A month or two before I even thought of the heArt-a-Day concept I was busy learning how to use Photoshop. It was a struggle at first, but my boyfriend had built me a virtual art gallery in Second Life and I wanted to use Photoshop to fill it with art. Finally, a couple weeks before Valentine’s Day I invented a sort of “formula” for collages using my own flower photos as backgrounds and some free domain vintage couples images. It was like I’d found the key to Photoshop and after five or six of those Valentines I felt like I’d developed some competence.
Today’s art is a nod to my beginnings. I’ve made a whole gallery for them at Zazzle (Vintage Collage Gallery), where you can also find this collage on a card as shown.
