Cheryl Richards: Star Catcher

As I've said before one of the best ways to keep your creative edge is to join a creative tribe. My tribe at the moment is Digital Whisper. A fun online group of artists who participate in weekly challenges, ATC swaps and digital round robins.

This week's challenge is Neon Signs. For this challenge I altered this gorgeous illustration by Henry Clive (1882-1960) titled A Melody of Ancient Egypt. I tweaked the colorization of the illustration and transformed the monument behind the redheaded beauty into a Star Catcher complete with neon Egyptian hieroglyphics. What fun!

Grapefruit Moon Gallery has become a leading dealer in the works of renowned artists from the Grand Age of American Illustration including works by Henry Clive. They have a detailed biography of the artist on their blog.

Guideposts:

passionate - adj. 1. having or showing strong feelings; capable of or susceptible to passion 2. resulting from, expressing, or tending to arouse strong feeling; ardent; intense; impassioned

perceptual abstraction - n. a broad term referring to a reaction against several types of abstract art originating in the 1950s such as hard-edge painting, minimal art and op-art indicating a change from expressive and painterly qualities to an emphasis on clarity and precision based on objective perception. i.e. M. C. Escher

photography - n. the art or process of producing images of objects upon a photosensitive surface by the chemical action of light or other radiant energy

play - v. 1. To amuse oneself 2. To participate in 3. To act frivolously or idle 4. To perform 5. To cause to emit sounds 6. To move lightly, rapidly, or sporadically 7. To make a pretense of being

promote - v. 1. to raise or move (a person) forward to a higher or better position 2. to further the growth or establishment of (something)

prose - n. the ordinary form of written or spoken language without rhyme or meter

Star Catcher - Neon Signs

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