Lost boys background

They're so cute...
This is also a desktop background (for resolution 1024 x 768) (just like the Cptn. Hook one)

Media: computer iamges

Captin Hook

It's a desktop background - click on it to get the large version. Then save it to your computer, and ta-da!
More Peter-Pan things coming...
Media: computer images

Turkish Delight Avie

Purple Martin

I believe this is Jolie again (*cleara throat* and I ask that you politely refrain from comment. I simply found this picture somewhat intriguing)(however you spell that).

I have this thing with changling people, especially cats and birds. I dunno why....although I suppose I could blame it all on 'Hawk Song'. (Wonderful book - highly suggested). I was wondering what different birds would look like as people, and although she's really not all that bird-like, I kind of thought it fit....my favorite bit was layering the feathers in her hair. Such fun.

Media: computer images, feeling rebeliousagainst all forms of school/homework

yes...more Turkish Delight.

So what? I happen to like this pic. He's nearly looks like an elfin changling with that expression.

Something about this bothers me, and I can't put my finger on it....a little help, perhaps?

Media: Computer images

The Fair Katrina

I fixed up an old sketch in photoshop - don't care for it much, but whatever; can't say I didn't try.
I need to get back to the old pen and paper - all this computer buisness is getting a little old.

side note: Katrina is a chracter from the "Legend of Sleepy Hollow". There's a book by Washington Irving (Er, I believe) (I have yet to get my hands on it); there's a disney cartoon that I have watched every year since I was...geez...5 or 6; and there's a Tim Burton film, with costumes to drooooolll over. Unfortunantly, its a trifle gory, so if you're going to watch it, I recomend not eating directly before or during the movie, and watching it with someone who has seen the nasty bits and can just fast-forward. But it is worth the time to see, if only for Johnny Depp, and his fantastic waistcoat, and his book of doodles that, erm, might look familiar in some of my own art pieces. (No, not copied; just inspired.)

Media: pencil sketch, watercolor, photoshop

Sage

This was a black and white photograph, and I couldn't resist - I wanted to know if I could make things into color. Turns out, I can. *dances around* I feel like Peter Pan at times..."Oh, the cleverness of me!"

You know what? I think this was a picture of Angelina Jolie. *grins* Not that I'm making any connections between movie stars and our dear little mystic friend - no, sir-ee. I'd be a teapot before I knew it.

art...?

I think I can call this art; can't I?

I was just playing with the beautiful new camera and as my sibling was pouring her cereal, I snapped a photo. I rather like it. It could be the new pop-icon.

A still-life from the Scarlet Letter

"....Certain it is that, some fifteen or twenty years after the settlement of the town, the wooden jail was already marked with weather-stains and other indications of age, which gave a yet darker aspect to its beetle-browed and gloomy front. The rust on the ponderous iron-work of its oaken door looked more antique than anything else in the New World. Like all that pertains to crime, it seemed never to have known a youthful era. Before this ugly edifice, and between it and the wheel-track of the street, was a grass-plot, much overgrown with burdock, pig-weed, apple-pern, and such unsightly vegetation, which evidently found something congenial in the soil that had so early borne the black flower of civilized society, a prison. But on one side of the portal, and rooted almost at the threshold, was a wild rose-bush, covered, in this month of June, with its delicate gems, which might be imagined to offer their fragrance and fragile beauty to the prisoner as he went in, and to the condemned criminal as he came forth to his doom, in token that the deep heart of Nature could pity and be kind to him.

This rose-bush, by a strange chance, has been kept alive in history; but whether it had merely survived out of the stern old wilderness, so long after the fall of the gigantic pines and oaks that originally overshadowed it, or whether, as there is far authority for believing, it had sprung up under the footsteps of the sainted Ann Hutchinson as she entered the prison-door, we shall not take upon us to determine. Finding it so directly on the threshold of our narrative, which is now about to issue from that inauspicious portal, we could hardly do otherwise than pluck one of its flowers, and present it to the reader. It may serve, let us hope, to symbolise some sweet moral blossom that may be found along the track, or relieve the darkening close of a tale of human frailty and sorrow."
-Excerpt from Chapter one of “The Scarlet Letter”, written by Nathaniel Hawthorne

I never realized how much literature influences my actions, my art, even my way of thinking until recently. I don't particularly care for the Scarlet Letter (though this may change; I haven't finished it yet) but this one gleam of such palpable beauty struck me, and would not leave until I had given it a voice of its own.

Media: photography, computer images, sketches

New Blog

I don't know if I've mentioned it here or not, but I have a new blog! It's simply bits and pieces of my short stories, poetry, quotes, and whatever in my life that I deem interesting enough to be read by another human.

You can find it here:
http://melle-melomane.blogspot.com

enjoy.

sky

I've gotten a little into photography; nothing big, mind you, just little things.
This is a picture I took on the way to the homecoming dance as the sun was setting. I like how the power-lines criss-cross across the sky, becuase it contrasts the stark man-made things, and the beauty of the planet we so often ignore or destroy.

(I have done nothing to this photograph in photoshop, nothing at all what-so-ever.)
(not yet, anyway.)

Library Brownie

A brownie is a little sprite from Scottish Lore, usually known to keep things clean, and cause mischief. Jack drew the creature in pencil, and I've since fixed him up, and put him in a modern day setting.
Isn't he just adorable?

Media: Pencil sketch, computer images, watercolor, photoshop, intense boredom

Dead Poet's Society Avatar

I finally found a good pic of Charlie, and couldn't resist...

Moon Guardian

This began as pure accident - I was trying to color in and fix up my cat/bird sketch, and I hit a wrong button and everything went BLUE!
I then put in the pastel moon from a previous drawing, and stars, and texture and yadda yadda yadda. I don't think it flows very well - its an elegantly jerky prose to the eye - but it was fun making it all mystical.

Media: pencil sketch, computer images, photoshop

The Writer Inside

I was feeling all rather poetic-ish, and wanted to do a graphic involving the art of words. And then I found this old photograph from camp a couple years back. So yes. Call me vain. *shrugs* I was just interested in the words.
I didn't mean for it to turn out so busy - it seems to explode with half-seen dialogue. But I like it, because thats kind of how your brain is. (Well, maybe yours isn't, but mine is. Exploding words is a fun part of daily life).

Media: photographs, photoshop, computer images

Alien Territory

I honestly have NO idea why I decided to do this. Other than perhaps the whole sci-fi short stories idea that I've been chewing on for the past...well, seriously, past 4 years of life. Ha. Sadnesses.

Everything is done by hand, except for a few texture touches, and those are - yep, you guessed it, you little genius, you - layered photographs.

Should I go into CD art graphics? Because I think I could pull it off with very little sweat. (That and movie posters. And media advertising. And book illustrations. And, and and....)

Media: photoshop, images, and one tired little brain