Wonderfulicious Wednesday

Where has May gone!? 

Last thing I remember it was March and mom had passed . . .

And now June is upon us! Gads! 

Perhaps the time has flown due to a timely class that I'm deeply immersed in

 Susan Tuttle has a new online class, Mobile Art Mastery

that appeared just when I needed something to lift me

out of a dark place. 

Both of the above images are based on Lesson 1. Dad built about

60 birdhouses a few years before he passed in March, 2000, the year mom

started disappearing into Alzheimer's. 

For years I've wanted to use photos of the birdhouses in my work. The lesson

called for using a house or building and extracting it from a background

and blending it into a landscape. 

The first piece is of the Salton Sea; the house, sunset, tree, and

birds were added.

The landscape in the second piece was created using

two images. The line of trees needed a foreground  . . .

The sun, foreground tree, and textures were added.

Lesson 2 images. Enter iColorama!

Oh my! This is only one of the 

myriad of effects that the 

app is excellent at doing.

A leaf of chard above and 

succulents below.

Complete departure for me! Multiple apps were used

to create this image of a statue photographed in

Rome, 2009. 

Another lesson using multiple apps.

Orvieto, Italy, 2009.

For years I've wanted to learn how to combine images

and now the mystery has been solved. Yay!

Two more images based on the 

same lesson. 

Haunted Cemetery Lesson, or in

my case, Haunted Pompeii. 

Multiple apps used along with images

from my collection including two vintage ones. 

The image of Pompeii is one I consider to be

an outtake and one reason I rarely delete photos; you

never know when one might be the perfect photo.

Using what I've learned in some of

the lessons I created the photo below. 

Evening Sky.