happy spring voices

"Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colors, 

there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night."  

Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke


photo edited in photoshop using kim klassen's "primmed" texture

creative handscape

"hands are the heart's landscape."

Pope John Paul II

wishing you a wonderfully creative weekend, sweet bloggy friends!

xo

photo edited in photoshop using textures and lessons provided 

in kim klassen's skinny-mini online course.

choose happy

i've been wanting to learn some of the in's & out's of photoshop for a long time......right now i know just enough to be dangerous, and i don't really have the patience to sit and figure the rest of it out!  but kim klassen has made the world a very happy place by offering a free (yes, it's free!!) online photoshop class!  she's a wonderful teacher, and her photographs are absolutely gorgeous!!  just click here to register......her new session just started a couple of days ago, so maybe you can still get in!  

moving ahead

all of my blog posts up to this point have been highlighted with an image, usually of a recent piece of artwork.  today, i would like to showcase the artwork that you see above...my elvie studio banner.  i created this in photoshop, using a piece of scrapbook paper and an image of my lettering that i scanned into the computer.  while this banner is new to my blog, i actually created this banner for my new shop at etsy.  i've been working on all of the specifics for the shop, as well as creating the artwork that i plan to begin selling as prints. admittedly, i've been dragging my feet a little, as life has a habit of interfering with my best-laid plans.  but, i hope to have my "doors" open soon, so stay tuned....

rejoice

my very artsy pal martha has created some absolutely wonderful pieces of art using photoshop. she shared some of her tips with me and i'm so happy that i was able to create this piece. the lettering comes from a piece that i did a few years ago and the background is a piece of fabric that i scanned. i had so much fun creating this...thanks, martha, for being my computer-tutor!