In Wonderland

For Think Monday - Think ATC & more's Im Wunderland challenge:

'I should see the garden far better,' said Alice to herself, 'if I could get to the top of that hill: and here's a path that leads straight to it ... But how curiously it twists! It's more like a corkscrew than a path!'

- Through the Looking Glass, Chapter 2: The Garden of Live Flowers

This corkscrew garden path started with painted paper and a punch, but I digitized the shapes and played with them on the computer before sending them back to paper sized for an ATC.

Thanks very much for having a look.

Vögel

For Think Monday - Think ATCs & More's birds challenge - Bosch Vögel. Yes, the robbery of dead artists continues. They don't put up much of a fight.

If you click the image, you'll get a larger version.

Credits:  Hieronymus Bosch, Andrew Smith

I severely altered Smith's stock tarot design to make mats for 2.5x3.5" ATCs, but his design got me to thinking that Bosch major arcana cards would be fun.  Now hunting through his incredibly intense and imaginative images for tarot-ish details.  When I first saw his work, I must have been 14 or 15 and I felt like I had to hide the book.  It was like I wasn't supposed to know that adults were as crazy as kids, even adults in the 1400s.

I should be altering things more, shouldn't I?  All right, then.  Next week I will.

Da Vinci

For Think Monday - Think ATCs & More's Da Vinci challenge - I played with one of his horse sketches.  Couldn't bring myself to embellish them, though.  Nothing I tried to add improved them.

An image of the original sketch is here (once on that page, click the sketch to get a much larger version to play with).

Thanks for stopping by.  I can't be online much right now, so please don't feel ignored.  I appreciate your comments and peek at your work every chance I get.

Berühmte Persönlichkeiten

For Think Monday - Think ATCs & More's famous people challenge - Mohandas Gandhi - "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win."

This began with an Indian postage stamp found online commemorating Gandhi's centenary.

Clicking the image will bring up a more detailed version.

Resuming Work

For Think Monday - Think ATC & More's book challenge

The last challenge image on my tumblr site is, I think, a good start for this blogger site.

I've set up shop over here because people whose work is inspiring to me were finding tumblr's non-approach to leaving comments frustrating and because I was finding tumblr's latest upgrade pretty much a downgrade.

As on tumblr, I don't expect to have much to say for myself.  I want this to be about images, not words.

Thank you for stopping by.