CC Virtual Art Gallery.

Thank you, Oblio... my work is digital collages... so I do not do the drawings, just take multiple pieces (for instance, the welcome panel has about 50 separate "elements") and make multiple edits to each one as it is added...

I could get very detailed in telling you how I do it but that might bore you LOL Hoping not to bore you: my process is very spontaneous, though hours of searching out the individual pieces is involved in the collecting of them, of which I have over 11,000 by now (after 4 years). As I find the elements, such as flowers, butterflies, borders, frames, backgrounds, special effect, stars, clouds, horse, dove, eagle, dress, wings, human elements such as arms, eyes, faces, torsos etc, I save it to my computer in one of multiple folders from which I randomly select what I think might look good in whatever panel I am working on. Once I have selected and sized it and positioned it on the panel, I usually make a number of many other edits to each individual piece such as color correction, brightness, hue, saturation, contrast, exposure (yeah they sound similar but have differing effects) as I attempt to bring each element into balance with the others and the panel as a whole. I might spend hours working with an element only to eventually delete it and start over with a new element. It is not unusual for me to try several border, frame, and background elements (I often layer them) before I settle on a combination that satisfies, and the same goes for many other of the element categories.

Constructing figures takes the most time, as I try many different faces and hair styles and dresses and do a lot of work blending the skin tones from the various elements that went into the making of any one figure. There comes a point in each design where I just have to say it is enough and stop working on it, because even looking at some of those older ones previously posted, I can see things now I could go back and alter slightly, even just to make the font easier to read. I can be very persnickety with them to the point of feeling it is imperative to make an adjustment of moving something one pixel this way or that

I used Emma Stone's face for this one after getting the idea of designing one with a red-haired woman


Psalm 33:20-22

I recognize the creative process! Hard work but fulfilling! You are very good at it! Has your work been used by anyone?
I led a worship team for a few years back in the '90s and I felt like I was doing what I was created to do. Which was to help God's people to enter into His manifest presence. It was the best time of my life!

I worked in three different photo labs over the full course of my adult life before involuntarily retiring when covid hit, so saw literally tens of millions of pictures, individually inspecting each one and colour correcting them as needed, and I do believe that laid a very solid foundation for what I am now doing, including the piling through hundreds and hundreds of pictures every time I do a search just to find a few I think suit my style that I may be able to use... plus, I learned very remedial photoshop skills after digital came in and changed everything. I probably only know about a tenth if even that of what photoshop can do but, haha, it is enough... And I have always loved being caught up in the creative process, which is why I went after working in a photo lab in the first place It was the only thing I knew I wanted to do weighed against a very long list of everything else I had no interest in doing or being.

I was trying to think of who your music reminded me of... Doug and a Slugs a little?
I thought it was a band with cats in the name, but Stray Cats did not quite fit, either



I have no idea whose face that is The body/dress and hair likewise come from different sources...

I just noticed that the top of her head needs to be fixed LOL

1 John17:2-3

@Oblio : you inspired me to finish this one, finally! LOL

That is to say, I think it's done, I hope it's done... I started it on the 12th.

That's beautiful!

Thank you I began ^ that one ^ the next day...

Funny story: I thought I had lost access to the 10k image files I had on my older
laptop, and began collecting all over again, and discovering the beauty of daisies,
they featured in a few panels until I found out the USB thing-a-ma-jig storage drive
with all my other images actually does fit into this new device... in the meantime,
I had collected about a thousand more elements to use.

This one is also nice. They're very colorful! I like bright colors!

Got to agree. For crying out loud, from what I listened to, I didn't hear a note missed.

I got classical art training in college. But, I've done nothing since school. I want to get back into it, but I need a mentor -- something I may seek out when I retire.

Now, I do computer animation for visual effects. I could point you to my online demo reel:


Beyond this, there are artists whose work I greatly admire. Rembrandt, Da Vinci, the ancient Romans and Greeks, etc. They had a sense of composition that no one seems to see or understand today.

In terms of contemporary artists who's work I respect, there are only two (all the modern "art" can get flushed into the sewer as far as I'm concerned). These are Tina Bradford and Kent Wallis. Tina died in 2008 (and I believe she knew the Lord), but her work demonstrated a genuine aesthetic eye.

I don't always get alerts for some reason...I don't know why.
It's good that you were able to work in a field that you enjoyed.

Thank you! I don’t remember how many takes I did to make sure lol

Thanks for sharing melita, very peaceful.

Has a Bob Dylan feel to me. Nice one!

Thanks for the offer! I'm thinking of using this photo as my demo cover. What you think? It's a picture of a star.

It's a little dark and gloomy, so maybe not. I'm not quite ready to post my music, it needs to professionally mixed, it's still a little rough around the edges, but still good.

I'm gonna try to find my video clips that I made and post them.

Thank you, and me too! I have been working on one that is very unlike most
others, being quite dark... actually, I am working on at least three right now.

@kinda I do not see a star in the image you posted..

Plus, I like your music the way it is! With a bit of a real grunge feel

You have a beautiful soothing voice.

Thoroughly enjoyed your video.

The last 2 things I’ve lettered.

The white spot that looks like a moon is the star zoomed up in a telescope. Shocking I know. I was rather surprised that the star looks like a moon.

I'm thinking about posting my music, but not all of it is appropriate for CC. Most of it is though. I found my two videos I made, they might encourage someone who is happy, or someone who is sad.

I hope people like them, they are artsy videos.