99 posts and counting! - Gone Fishing Surreally

Looking at my blog posts a few days ago, I realized that this blog 

has been running about a year and we are up to almost 100 posts!

Cue the marching band!

Virgin State of Mind - Digitalmania challenge a la homage Catrin Welz-Stein

Our inspiration this week at Digitalmania was the wonderfully surreal work of Catrin Welz-Stein.

I've been enamored of the song "Virgin State of Mind" by K's Choice since I heard it featured on the episode of BTVS "Dopplegangland".

"There's a chair in my head on which I used to sit

Took a pencil and I wrote the following on it

Now there's a key where my wonderful mouth used to be

Dig it up, throw it at me..."

Sonnet Glammed! - Digitalmania challenge

The inspiration this week at Digitalmania was the art of Florian Nicholls.

Artwork focusing on the human face or figure is not something that I usually gravitate to, but I love to try something new or different.

I had several false starts, but finally ended up with a few pieces that I like.

I started with a portrait of a young boy by Perugino (my favorite medieval portraitist) and glammed him up.

I added some watercolor brush splatter courtesy of photoshop brushes and finally included some Shakespearean verse.

Voila!  My first digitalmania piece of the week!