SOARTFUL CHALLENGE - Angels Everywhere

This past week has been hectic. Today I have spent a lot of time on the computer going through emails, catching up on things. One of the things to catch up on were challenges, down loading some photos from my camera, and my blog.

I enjoy these challenges so much. They give you a starting point. Sort of like a "prompt" for a journal. I guess it is a visual prompt. This week for Soartful Challenge it was this lovely digital grid that June created. I decided to use some of my own Freebies and make this digital collage.

One of the things I have experienced this week is that there are Angels everywhere. Sometimes they are in human form, but they are there. Lifting our spirits, helping to point us in the right direction, giving us strength, showing us love and laughter.

SOARTFUL CHALLENGE - Owl - Magical nights

Last Saturday's challenge for Soartful Challenge from Art Freebies was this awesome picture of an owl. I was late working on it as I was out in the country listening to the crickets. I really love these birds. I have a Great Horned Owl that lives in this big old pine tree off of my driveway. Every afternoon right before dusk she comes out to hunt.

First, she sort of hops out of this large crevice in the tree. Then, a quick stretch of the wings and she is about six feet out on the limb looking around. Sometimes she will just sit there. Other times she will fly up into my neighbors very large magnolia tree. Just waking up and getting the lay of the land. Then she takes flight and soars across the front of my yard, across the golf course high up into another pine tree where she waits for dinner.

Off and on during the evening you can here her return to her nest and feed her two owlets. Some nights if I go for a late swim and lay still in the pool on my back, she will fly over me so quietly that I feel the air move and see her large shape. I think she is as curious about me as I am her. This year she left me the broken shells to her eggs on my patio. A gift.

My collage is about young love and the things that go on at night. The owl in his painting represents the hunt that all people go on to find their mate. The courtship - flowers, first date, first kiss...Thank you June for such a wonderful image.
p.s. all the images in my collage come from June's Art Freebies blog.

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SOARTFUL SATURDAY CHALLENGE - Angel Tears

The sky is crying

This is my entry for Soartful Saturday Challenge over at Art Freebies. The theme is Angel tears. How sad is that? We were allowed to use any images we wanted to represent this theme. I have a vast collection of cemetery angels photographs I have taken all over the world. So that made it a little hard. This angel is from the mountains of North Carolina. I took this photo this spring. The tears are from a 1500's woodcut of rain that I have collected over the years. Somewhat crude yet effective. And of course the phrase is from Stevie Ray Vaughn's song of the same name. A tune that brings tears everytime...

SOARTFUL SATURDAY CHALLENGE - Evening Walk

This is my entry for the Soartful Saturday Challenge that June over at Art Freebies puts on. The digital image we had to work with was way cool this week. June called it Seacaves. I don't know what it is but I really like it. I took the image and inverted it then added my own spin to it. My images come from that great children book illustrator Warrick Goble. I liked the idea of the princess out taking a stroll in the early evening with her cats unaware of all the fairies around her.

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SOARTFUL CHALLENGE - Believe in Magic

I slipped this one in just in time. The challenge was offered last Saturday. This was June's challenge on her Art Freebie blog. The Soartful Saturday Challenge. I was not sure if I would get it finished in time. I have been playing catch up since the air conditioning was fixed. So little time so much to do. This background reminds me of that stuff you make molds out of. I had to sort of step back and think about it so that image did not get in my way. The wings are from my freebies, the girl is one of my French postcards, the sequin waste stamp is an old one from Raindrops on Roses.

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SOARTFUL SATURDAY CHALLENGE - Gypsy

This is my first entry for the SOARTFUL SATURDAY CHALLENGE that June at Art Freebies is putting on. June is so sweet and generous with all of her freebies. June is one of those really kind people that I have met through my blog. So when I saw she was starting the challenge I just knew I had to join in all the fun. This week's challenge is Gypsies. All of my images used in this collage are from June's freebies. The font for the word Family is from Photo Shop. Thank you June.