Texture Tuesday - Ocracoke Harbor

 
















Today is Texture Tuesday.  We were free to select any of our photographs, and add one of Kim's textures.  The photo was taken at Ocracoke Island, North Carolina, this past August.  The texture I used is called "Dear Dreamer."  Here's the original photo before treatment:

Doll #9 - Zelda Zebra

When you find a knit top in black and white stripes, there's not much choice but to make a zebra!  Zelda started off with a different set of eyes.

 

These eyes are buttons and, even though they went with color in the hair, I wasn't happy with them.  Still, I had taken the first set of pictures before I decided to change the eyes from buttons to pompoms.

 

Early stage - all of my dolls, except Gilda, have the head and body cut in one piece.

 

Her hair is yarn that I crocheted, hooking to long running stitches on her head.

 

Zelda, from a couple more angles.

 

I sewed joints into her legs so that she's be able to sit.

 

Lastly, front view that shows the convergence of the stripes.

 

Seven Words

It's been a while since I participated in Photo Art Friday, but this week's theme interested me:

 

This week you can use the prompt to compose a seven word sentence that describes your life or experience or process as an artist (be it a photographer, painter, mixed media artist, digital artists, whatever ...) and marry your sentence to a piece of photo art that somehow illustrates your sentence.

 

This must be my favorite picture of myself - it keeps showing up in my art!  I didn't think long before "Art opens my eyes to the world" popped into my head.  Below are the two photos I used to build my image:

 

Lighthouse along the Portuguese coast, taken from Tropic Moon's deck

Me, on the island of St. Maarten in the Caribbean, circa 1980