Gate

A gate, a mirror, a door, a window, a dream -- all ways to another dimension. Can you feel that Halloween is near?

Germs

Illustration Friday's topic of the week is "Germs." Leave it to me to find beauty in germs...

Geisha

Art Creations Friday offers a lovely background for its new challenge. For me it has an oriental touch, so I came up with this digital ATC:

Mysterious

Artarazzi provided the image of a vintage woman who turned out to be a really mysterious lady after all:

Steampunk Babe

Art Creations Friday provided the image of a lovely vintage lady who happens to be a real Steampunk Babe:

Up Up And Away

The Three Muses take us up up and away this week. So here's my little vintage butterfly girl on the verge of flying up up and away:

Wild Thing

The Three Muses have come up with yet another interesting topic for their challenge blog -- wild things. So what's the ultimate wild thing after all? Somehow, that made me think of Mothman, a creature that was seen in West Virginia in 1966 and 1967.

More fractal art

Lately, I have been on a roll with all those gorgeous fractal images! Here are two of my fractals and how I further worked with them in Paint Shop Pro 9:

Fractal Art

Lately I have been more and more fascinated by fractal art. Apophysis is a fantastic software to create stunning fractal images. I enjoy making fractals very much, often using the images as background for digital collages. A word to the additional images I use in my collages -- I use as many of my own as possible, yet at times images I receive through sharing groups suit the mood of the collage better. Often enough people who share graphics can't name the image source, so it's frequently impossible to credit the original artists. In any case, the copyright always belongs to the original artists -- no copyright infringement intended. Anyway, here are a few examples of my fractal images and the collages I made from them: