One of my creative goals for 2011 was to do a Blog Giveaway every month. I love inspiring and sharing my love for art and photography and I appreciate all my readers who continue to encourage and support me. A giveaway each month seemed like a perfectly wonderful way to say "Thank You"!
What is this month's giveaway? January's giveaway is for the book "Digital Expressions" by Susan Tuttle. This book will teach you how to create digital art with Adobe Photoshop Elements. Don't worry if you don't have Elements, any Photoshop or other digital art software such as Painter, will still work. The book is brand new and comes with a CD that includes digital design elements.
You will be inspired by this book and will learn how to include elements of photography, paper, vintage images and other digital design elements. Here's one I did today:
Life is a Circus
In this image, I started with a peeling paint texture that is available for everyone to use. You can find this texture and more in my Textures and Backgrounds Gallery at DeviantArt. I used an image of a ferris wheel I took in London as well as vintage images from my own collection (you can find some also on DeviantArt in my Vintage Stock gallery) and from Flickr Commons. Add in some paper butterflies to give a 3D element to the piece, throw in some word texture, an inspirational saying and viola! A work of art! With Digital Expressions, you too will be creating digital collages in no time!
Good luck to everyone and may you have an inspired week ahead!
9 comments:
What a great giveaway!
And what a surprise to see your "Life is a Circus" image on a "do nothing day" I *love* it! So much to see and appreciate ... I REALLY love the 3-d texture feel and the cool hues. Very well conceived and executed, my creative soul sister! =)
wow what a great give away! i'm tempted to buy the book, looks like a great one, i have elements but am only brushing the surface of all the things it can do so this would be very helpful! :) thanks!
I agree with Mia. I may end up buying the book regardless of the outcome of this giveaway!
And I love, love, love the circus print you did! That's a lot of work on a lazy day!
Hello Laura! I'm loving your blog site. It so creative. Really you have much talent to share ;). I'm going to continue looking around ... much to explore here. Love it!! xxoo
I love doing photo manipulations. Right now I'm working on a circus series myself.
Thanks for the 3D textures. Keep up the good work!
Oh, what a yummy looking book! :-)
Hi there!
I love the soft, delicate vintage look and feel of your Blog.
You're a wonderful artist. I'm glad I ran into your image at Flickr.
I like your life is a circus print. Very interesting. The textures really make it stand out.
Is that the ferris wheel from London?
Thanks everyone! And, congrats to our January winner, Nichole!
Alex: The wheel is from London but it's not the Eye, it's a little ferris wheel that was at a German Christmas Market in Hyde park! :)
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