This isn't my usual subject matter but I got inspired by Heather Robinson's post - see her fabulous work at Creative Solace - which led me to the Gothic Art Challenge site. This building is actually the 3rd oldest synogogue in the United States, Mickve Israel, and was built in the late 1700's and founded by Spanish / Portuguese Jews. It is in Savannah Georgia where I spent some time last summer visiting my daughter. At first I thought the building had originally been a church but found out that the architecture of the day was like this. I thnk it is gothic. This digital collage was posterized and then inverted.
I just realized that this isn't at all whacky but totally conventional. Oh well! :)
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beautiful arch!!!
ReplyDeleteThis is really funny --- the theme was whacky and wild and my entry is totally conventional!
ReplyDeleteOOPS! :)
maybe not wild or wacky, but beautiful anyway!! we are not too stuck on coventions here.... (at least I'm not)
ReplyDeleteLove your art ! Love all the details!
ReplyDeleteOutstanding!
This is really fabulous! Gorgeous arch.
ReplyDeleteA beautiful arch! I love the raven!
ReplyDeletethis is an incredible arch! a little goth wacky - cheers!
ReplyDeleteReally a beautiful piece, Sharon! Arch is beautiful as well as the Raven.
ReplyDeleteHugs, Diane
Lovely spooky piece!
ReplyDeleteI really quite like it!
ReplyDeleteThis is, indeed, a beautiful piece and the raven adds that special touch!
ReplyDeleteSharon, thankyou so much for your kind comments on my blog. Do you use Photoshop or Photoshop Elements? It is very easy to make a digital brush/stamp from an image. If you don't already know how to do this, I am happy to help. There are only two layers plus the digital brush of the girls that I made (and a little touching up with digital paint. The trick is finding beautiful backgrounds. (Mine are from Phuong Ton at Scrapbookgraphics). The large font is one I picked up somewhere along the line.
As far as the image goes - making it into a brush means that there are transparent parts of the image and this allows the background to show through and also gives it an "other-worldly" look.
My email address is on my profile at
http://ozstuff-ozstuff.blogspot.com
if you would like me to explain the brushes further.
Cheers, Marie.
This is cool, whether conventional or not, Sharon. And if you want to, you can always go back and do some more work to it!
ReplyDeleteThanks Laura! Glad that you visited again.
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