Donna B Miller

Fallen Angel

Fifteen dollars for a magazine! Highway robbery? Not when it's Photoshop Creative. This beautiful magazine offers detailed tutorials, software and equipment reviews, and beautiful examples of digital art.  It also comes with a disk full of video tutorials, brushes, fonts, and more. Based in England, Photoshop Creative can be hard to find here in the United States, and even when it's available, it's usually a few months old before it shows up. Luckily, our local Joseph-Beth Booksellers carries it, so at least once a month I make it a point to hit the magazine section there.

It was a Photoshop Creative CD that led me to the brushes of Eduardo Rubina Hidalgo of DeviantArt. I started layering the brushes onto a blank canvas until the page was covered with swirls and light. Just to see what it would look like, I added another layer and stamped on BittBox's beautiful grungy wings. A little blending, and I ended up these technicolor wings. All they needed was a Fallen Angel, and my work was complete.

Photo from Art E-Zine. Something Blue Studios Overlay. Catherine Designs Zen Attitude feather.

I'm Late, I'm Late

I often feel like the White Rabbit scurrying along, running behind on everything. So it's with my humblest apologies that I'm posting this belated thank you to Moo and Illustration Friday. Back many, many months ago, Illustration Friday ran a little contest with a prize from Moo. I left a comment on the blog and was totally thrilled when my name was randomly picked.

Being the procrastinator that I am, I waited until the certificate was about to expire, so I ended up using bits and pieces of past artworks for the project. The package included Moo minicards, postcards, and a booklet of stickers. The backs of the postcards and minicard are personalized with my name and blog address. I'll use the postcards and minicards for promotion. The stickers are perfect embellishments for the art swaps that I'm involved in. Aren't they cool? Thanks again, Moo and Illustration Friday.

I also wanted to update you on the wonderful Gothic Arch challenge we had at Digital Art Quirks. In honor of the month of October, the theme was Halloween. As hostess, I put together mini accordian books for each of the 10 participants. It was so much fun waiting throughout the month for all that spooky goodness to arrive.

Here's the book.

And here's the arch I did for the swap.

For Your Shopping Pleasure

This past Saturday was National Digital Scrapbooking Day, and I spent the whole weekend shopping, exploring new stores, and then downloading and organizing my purchases. Along the way, I found some items for creating altered art that should be in every digital artist's stash. Here are some of my new purchases, along with a few old favorites.

Paint the Moon Design's Charmes d'antan

 

Tangie Baxter Design's Fairy Grace

Traci Sims' Altered State ATC

Maya's Fun and Games

Kathryn Balint's Ultimate Altered Art: Make a Fairy

Nancie Rowe Janitz's ATC Backgrounds 1

Christina Renee's Collage Bits

Lie Fhung's Lumoz Whimsy Overlays

 

If you hurry, several of these items are still on sale. Have fun shopping.