Digital Whisper Challenge - Bunnies

This weeks Digital Whisper challenge is bunnies. Who doesn't love bunnies?

The image of the girl and the bunny beside her are from vintage scrapbook pages. I just adore these old illustrations.

Star Catcher - Neon Signs

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. 

Steampunk Fun

Steampunk Sea Creature Tag

I love the new rage in steam-punk art. Think Wild, Wild West and Artemus Gordon. Gears and gadgets and metal. Bowler hats and bustles. You can invent anything! And it can apply to almost every medium. But it works best, I think, in assemblage art.

The Sea Creature tag was done for a swap at Paper Digital Arts. There is a group I am a member of called Everything Steampunk. I made the background digitally. The big fish is made from pieces of a vintage metallic belt. The small fish's belly is the guts of a watch I took apart.

Steampunk Art Doll -Altered Spoon

The lovely lady on the right, the Queen of Steampunk, was done for an altered spoon challenge for the same group. She is a conglomeration of costume jewelry, enamel paint, glue, wire and gears. Her stand (which you can remove her from if you want to play with her) is a piece cut from an old classification folder.