M e t v IImages ae My CCreative
Promoting Digital Photo Artistry
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February - 2020
Bernie Tuffs Seizing Her Power
Welcome to the Mycreativeimages Magazine “Art is too important not to share.” – Romero Britto
featured artists James Hurley 4
This month yet again see artwork created solely for your enjoyment, a visual feast for your eyes and mind.
Vivien Capper 8
All the featured artwork is made with care and attention to the fine detail and is crying out to be hung on your wall.
Claude Trew 12 Susan Jones 14 David Walker 16 Bernie Tuffs
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Esta Moon Artistry
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Cover Artwork by Linda Celis
https://www.facebook.com/linda.celis.100
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Turn the page and spend time looking at the stunning photo digital artwork and imagine what it would look like in your home. Picture the vibrant colours, the warmth, the textures all blended by the artist with an underlying story or message. Spend some time looking at the amazing soft colours of the cover artwork created by Linda Celis, who featured in an interview in last months magazine. Then soak up the drama and power of the image apposite created by the talented Bernie Tuffs. Two totally contrasting works of photo digital art both with different messages and stories, both using different techniques and requiring focus, concentration, a creative talent and the ability to use Photoshop to manipulate the image add textures and brush work to produce some truly awesome artwork. As a reminder, the sole purpose of this magazine is to showcase photo digital artwork from emerging and established artists from the UK and Europe. Artists can showcase their work in the magazine at no cost and have a link one of their social media pages, blogs or websites. So if you enjoy what you see here reach out to the artist and share the links to this magazine far and wide so more people can enjoy it!
All images in this publication are sourced / created by the artists, unless otherwise stated on their websites or social media pages and as such must not be copied or sold without the express consent of the artist. This publication is created and owned by James Hurley, ©www. mycreativeimages.com 2019. Please feel free to share the magazine but do not make changes to any of the content.
James Hurley
www.mycreativeimages.com
James is a photo digital artist that captures landscapes photographs as well as painterly portraits either in the comfort of his home or on location. He is based in Huntingdon, near Cambridge, and has a passion for incorporating his emotions and frustrations into surreal artwork. James is a self-taught photographer who has learnt Photoshop by taking a number of online course hosted by Sebastian Michaels. His current focus is to further explore and enhance his photography skills and further develop his own photo digital artistic style which incorporates lots of colour and textures and employing a Chiaro-oscuro style with the aim of producing artwork and photographs that lean more towards a painterly or surreal feel than a realistic photograph. This led to a mini series of photo artwork being produced following a series of short walks around his home town of Huntingdon. The four pieces of phot digital artwork that was produced are show here and the floowing page. For more backgorund on the inspiration of this mini series and an insigt into his cretive process visit his Blog: https://www.mycreativeimages.com/houghton-hartford-and-godmanchester/ If you are looking for a portrait photograph or want a photograph of you blended into a scene / artwork or just want some unique artwork to decorate your home or give as a gift, get in contact with James, who would be happy to work with you and create something special just for you. Email: James@jameshurley.art
Website: www.jameshurley.art
Portholme Meadow 4
Riverside Park Hartford
Houghton Moorings
Godmanchester 6
Norma Slack
https://www.normasue.com/
I am a digital artist, writer and poet from beautiful Northern Ireland. I currently live in County Down, within sight of the majestic Mourne Mountains. I have been an enthusiastic photographer for many years but it was only when I discovered digital art that I finally felt able to create images that reflected both my emotions and vision. Every day I work towards improving my skills within the fascinating world of the digital workspace. For me it’s a place of magic, a place where I can give free reign to my imagination and create the type of art I feel connected to. About eighteen months ago I began to combine my new digital skills with my poetry and have recently published my first illustrated poetry book, Thunder In My Soul: a collection of illustrated poems. The book is now available at Amazon. It is a project I feel a strong emotional connection to and has been a labour of love. A free sample, along with a selection of my art, can be viewed on my website. You will also find me on Instagram @artbynormasue or on my Website
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This Too Will Pass
Vivien Capper Hello. My name’s Vivien and I’m from the beautiful county of Kent, England though currently living and working near Rome in delightful Italy with its exciting, lively way of life and vibrant colours and designs . I started out as an artist developing Indian ink artwork of a variety of subjects especially figurative artwork and abstract floral designs, then progressed into creative photography and digital artistry thanks to Sebastian Michael’s courses at ‘Photoshop Artistry’ and the advanced courses ‘Awake’ & ‘Kaizen’. My inspiration is drawn from my love of nature, figurative artwork and Italian design and I love using many textures, patterns and colours. I’m thrilled to have some of my artwork in various publications including: Living the Photo Artistic Life, My Creative Images and also gained ‘honourable mentions’ in the Shift Art Monthly Challenge. I was also pleased to be the winner of the Shift Art Challenge with a piece ‘The Mysterious Cobbled Street. If you would like to see more of my art: https://vivien-jane-c. pixels.com/
The Cat at The Fish Bistro’ 12
https://vivien-jane-c.pixels.com/
Waves on the Shore
Waves on the Shore - Vintage
Reflections
The Lady in the Woods
Claude Trew I am a retired lady who is a keen photographer and I belong to a local camera club. However, while I enjoy entering the competitions organised by the club, I feel that the style of photographs that are most successful in club competitions is inhibiting my creative output. I am following some online courses to try to improve the artist in me. So far I have enjoyed every course I have done and hope to share my work with a bigger audience. This is an ongoing process.
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Set me Free
Your Time is UP
Mystery cellar
Susan Jones
https://www.instagram.com/sulisloveswater/
My name is Susan Jones I have loved photography all my life, though I was rejected from the photography class at school due to not having my own SLR camera. About 20 years ago a bought a DSLR and haven’t looked back, I love taking photos, mostly studio but as often as possible getting out and about, particularly London. I have been using Photoshop for a few years, and to my joy found Sebastian Michaels Photoshop Artistry courses and then Awake and have learned so much about Photoshop and continue to learn every day. I love the program, I love changing plain photographs into fantasy colourful worlds. I hope you enjoy looking at my work as much as I enjoyed creating it. You can see more of my work here: https://www.instagram.com/sulisloveswater/
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Whimsy Waif
Be My Valentine
Dreaming
David Walker
https://www.vista-foto.com/
Having your art admired is a wonderful feeling for an artist. At a recent party one of my customers had two pieces that I had specifically produced for them and people gathered around to view and discuss the works. The purchasers are delighted with the work and that enthusiasm was shared by their friends. New business may not be forthcoming from this event, but then again it might? The important thing to me was that people took their time to discuss my works and then come to me with questions about my methodologies and styles. For someone who never dreamed that he could produce any form of art, I am delighted that people show interest. That is enough to keep me motivated for the coming months!
Trojan Horse
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Lady of the Lake
Which Fairy Did this
Below the Stairs
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Mosque & Cathedral Cordoba
River front at La Roque-Gageac
Bernie Tuffs
https://artboja.com/art/utucc4/
Hello! I’m Bernie and I live in the little seaside town of Margate and having lived here all my life, I couldn’t live anywhere else now! I’m continually inspired by the scenery here, with skies and light that so excited famous artist J.W.Turner, who said of this area, “…the skies over Thanet are the loveliest in all Europe”. Apparently, a love of the sea stayed with him all his life and I can well understand that! Painting with light holds a real attraction for me - the gentle light that is still strong enough to dispel darkness. I’ve always been arty, progressing from childhood sketching, through gouache and then oil painting, then paper crafting and scrapbooking which led me to digital scrapbooking and finally to Sebastian Michaels and Photo Artistry. Now I feel I’m home and am having so much fun with my art! If you would like to see some more of my art visit: https://artboja.com/art/utucc4/
We Stand Firm
Restoring Life
Esta Moon Artistry
https://estamoonartistry.art.blog
I retired in 2017 and am able to spend my time doing all the things I enjoy. I am a hobby photographer and particularly enjoy going to nature reserves with my cameras hunting for bugs. I am trying to learn more about birds but bugs will always be my love. I have always enjoyed playing about with my photos and after taking part in some challenges in a 365 photo project, I was told about the photoshop artistry course. I signed up not long before I retired and in the following January, I also signed up for the AWAKE course. I found myself getting interested in creating things to use in my photoart and this reawakened my love of multi media art and I have been concentrating more on that recently. Going into the new decade, I want to bring my photography, photoart and multi media art together and to do that I have decided to do both bullet and art journals. I have also started a new blog on Wordpress which I hope to do regular updates on. There are links on there to my other social media accounts and also to the two places where I intended to put work on so that it is available to purchase. Esta Moon Artistry is the name I will be using going into the new decade. I hope that you will follow my journey. - https://estamoonartistry.art.blog
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Help Me Plant Trees! I took this photograph in October this year on Patterdale Hall Estate (PHE), Ullswater. This is a small section of a waterfall that runs through private land actively managed with the help of many volunteers. If it was possible, I would be there helping the conservation work every weekend, but sadly its not. So instead, I will donate 50% of the profits made from the sale of any of my Ullswater based photoart to PHE to help them plant trees and continue the amazing conservation work they do on the estate. To help me help plant some trees, visit: https://www.mycreativeimages.com/productcategory/ullswater-landscape/
Upper Falls - Waterfall Wood Walk, Patterdale Hall Estate James Hurley
Take a look at the Featured artisits in the Artisan Craft Centre at Baytree Garden Centre and you will find some amazing hand crafted artwork from many talented creatives. To see their work click the image on the right. Amongst these you will find samples of the work created by James Hurley. You can also visit in person: Baytree Garden Centre, High Road, Weston, Spalding, PE12 6JU
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M e t v IImages ae My CCreative Promoting Digital Photo Artistry