Winter Solace

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Mother Nature has provided many wonderful mountains to marvel at!
This is based on my oil painting Green Pasture posted last year.
I try to make that transformation from traditional to digital with as few alteration as possible.
Ample time spent on brush tip shape and dynamics to mimic my oils, especially the mountain and evergreen trees.

Thanks for watching! :)

Mystery of the Crystal Necklace

Just watched Indiana Jones and The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. Since 'Sex and the City' edged out the latest Indy flick at the recent weekend box office, I thought I'll do a female version of it. Let's call it The Mystery of the Crystal Necklace!

This is a digital/traditional combo. The mountain range, sky and distant trees are part of my oil painting, Blu-Truth which I have posted much earlier

Except for the beautiful model, all other stock images are taken from sxc.hu.

Ships that pass in the night v.2

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Did some alteration to my previous posting. I decided turn the image into grayscale and layer a golden colour filter on top it. I wasn't happy with the main tall ship (too low resolution) so I've decided to replace it with another stock image.
Stock credit for this posting remains the same as the last one here.

Ships that pass in the night

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We sat and watched the distant light
Two ships that pass in the night
We both smile and say its alright
We're still here
It's just that we're out of sight
Like those ships that pass in the night

(Lyrics by Barry Manilow)

I'm really shocked today to learn that an acquaintance of mine had passed away due to a cardiovascular event last evening. He was undergoing follow-up in the National Heart Institute. I was halfway thru this when I heard the news. In fact, I just saw his son 2 days ago. He's working in a cafe/bakery while on his school break.

This is a moment of great sorrow. I hope the grieving family will stay strong in this time of tribulation. I shall email this to them real soon.

To the whole family, this one's for you. Listen here

Farewell, my friend.
As for me, this will be another soul searching journey.

Stockroll:

Puffin birds
by http://www.sxc.hu/profile/horsch
Ships
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:TheEnduranceInFullSail.jpg http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Cisne-2g.jpg http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Alex_von_Humboldt_%28ship%29_Grosssegel.jpg
Mountain island church
Galaxy

Wind beneath my wings

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Some of the stocks used:


Stock credit:
sxc.hu :
middle mountain by vxdigital
temples
temple 1
temple 2
eagles
eagle 1
eagle 2
eagle 3

Wikimedia Commons
foreground mountain


Inspired by Bette Midler's song of the same title.
This is a Mother's Day Tribute.

In good company

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Initially I was thinking of doing some sort of sky parade with hot air balloons and all that stuff but decided against it later as it would obliterate the city skyline. Maybe I'll try again in my future posting.

All stock images from sxc.hu including gargoyle statue.

Autumn in my heart

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Inspired by the song with the same title.

Stock images from sxc.hu
Autumn Tree
Lake
Horses