My Creative Images Promoting Digital Photo Artistry and Digital Photography
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November 2020
Welcome to the Mycreativeimages Magazine November sees the colours of Autumn starting to fade away and the greys of winter forcing its cold fingers into our lives with the first frost nibbling away at the corners of the windows. This is also the time many people start thinking of decorating the house, brightening things up to banish the grey of winter. Coincidentally most of the artwork in this month’s magazine is extremely colourful and available to buy! Whilst you are flipping through the pages, visualise what each piece of artwork would look like either framed or as a canvas hung on your wall. Look at the colours the textures the images included in the artwork, do they complement your existing decor do the greens and blues match do the reds and yellows offer a contrasting colour which brings warmth into your room? Does the artwork stand out and shout as soon as you walk into the room, or is it more subtle and blends in with the plants and throws.
Featured artists Bernie Tuffs 4 Claude Trew 8 David Walker 12 Esta Moon Artistry 16 James Hurley 20 Keeley McCleave 30 Norma Slack 36 Susan Jones 42 Vivien Capper 54
Art is many things for many people, but without it life would be very grey and boring. Imagine everyone wearing plain coloured clothes with no patterns, imagine plain white walls, think about magazines with text only and a life without art in one form or another. Embrace the colours and creative textures encourage new and emerging artists to continue their journey of self-discovery and support them with friendly words of encouragement and by purchasing some of their amazing work to banish the grey of winter and create a smile on your face when you see the amazing artwork hung on your wall. When you reach the back page, don’t forget you can find a huge selection of artwork in the previous issues of the magazine. Thanks for visiting and see you again soon. James Hurley Photo Artist / Magazine Editor Cover Artwork by James Hurley https://www.mycreativeimages.com
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, ©mycreativeimages.com 2020. Please feel free to share the magazine but do not make changes to any of the content.
Bernie Tuffs 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!
https://www.facebook.com/bernadette.tuffs 4
Accepting Her Wings
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Afraid Of Life
Achieve
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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The Magic Library
Testing the leadership painted - hand painted
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Badger - hand painted
David Walker September in Cornwall After a lockdown of six or more months I travelled to Cornwall for a cottage holiday. Luckily in the last week of September the weather was, on the whole, pretty good! This enable a few hundred digital photographs to find their way onto my Lightroom program. A normal year will see me download several thousand images, this year to date have I have managed but 500 new images. To celebrate I have decided to dedicate this month’s images to “September in Cornwall”. It would have been easier to produce several different images using the same digital techniques. I have tried to illustrate the potential depth of my PhotoArt using a completely different style for each image. I do not know when my next foray away from my home will take place, I have booked accommodation in Anglesey, Wales in March 2021, but I may be able to escape for a short break before then. I strongly believe that we must all work together to solve our present crisis (or perhaps more accurately crises) at least with my PhotoArt I can work from home and limit my social contacts!
https://www.vista-foto.com/
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Blasting In
Boscastle’s Monet Bridge
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Evil Genius at Work Graphic Art
Guarding the Harbour Approach
Playing in the surf
Esta Moon Artistry 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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Camille
Gemini
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It was always you
Come with me
James Hurley James is a Photo 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 and painterly landscapes. James is a self-taught photographer and Photo Artist he loves photography and the digital mixed media approach to artwork. His artwork ranges from simple colour corrections in landscape photographs to enhance an image, to a complex piece of art that is made up of multiple images blended together with textures and masked out with brushwork. This month James is presenting a set of images from an annual commission to provide images highlighting the amazing Waterfall Wood Walk on the Estate in Patterdale. “You don’t take a photograph, you make it.” Ansel Adams
https://www.mycreativeimages.com/
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Keeley McCleave I studied illustration at art college, so there is a story-telling feel to most of my work. I used to paint all my work, but space and time constraints made me turn to Photoshop. Photoshop allows me to change compositions more easily and use elements multiple times and in multiple ways. I am only just beginning to explore the possibilities of creating atmosphere and magical effects in Photoshop but I love this aspect of working digitally. I also like the hard enamel colours that can be achieved on screen, so I am not much of a grunger! I am inspired by Greek myths and return to them again and again. This is the first time that I have given them the digital treatment, so I hope that you enjoy them.
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Arachne
Athene
Danae
Gaia
Poseidon curls
sphinx
Norma Slack I am an artist from Northern Ireland who enjoys working with a variety of mediums and experimenting with new techniques. This includes photography - digital and alternative such as cyanotype, paint, collage and a variety of mixed media. My work is driven by emotion and a sense of connection to place, people and life events. When you view it my hope is that you will get a sense of my love for what I do and that certain pieces may remind you of connections and events in your own life. The art I share here all includes a elements of a digital or photographic processes. More of my work including a sample of my illustrated poetry book, Thunder In My Soul can be viewed on my website
www.normasue.com
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Absrtact Earth 3
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Abstract Earth 2
She Emerges
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Susan Jones 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.
https://www.instagram.com/sulisloveswater/
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Film Noir
I Spy
Vivien Capper Hello my name’s Vivien and I’m from the beautiful county of Kent, England though currently living on the coast near Rome in delightful Italy with its exciting, lively way of life and vibrant colours and designs. I started out as an artist in 1982 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 amazing courses at ‘Photoshop Artistry’ and the advanced courses ‘Awake’ and ‘Kaizen’. My inspiration is drawn from my love of nature, figurative artwork and Italian design 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 have had various artworks mentioned in the Shift Art Challenge and was thrilled to win the challenge with a piece called ‘The Mysterious Cobbled Street’ in 2018. Now in 2020 I am concentrating on a series of Fresco-style Art taking my inspiration from Italian Frescos. This involves a lot of patterns, swirls, designs and colours and adding them to the model. Most of my models are from my Photoshop Artistry and Awake courses and the Colby Files.
http://vivienartdesign.com
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The Elegant Lady
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On the Floral Bridge
Elizabethan Chaos
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