Created for the Artistic Manipulation Group's Mixmaster Challenge #58.

CHEF xandram wants to see where a bridge will lead us!

➤ Your image must feature a bridge.

➤ Include one or two people.

➤ Also something pointed or with points (not including the bridge).

➤ Feature dark red somewhere in the composition.

➤ NO BIRDS.

Credits: All photos mine (thanks for posing, Danielle!); star brush by Moondustdream.

Created for Award Tree's "Holiday Creations" challenge.

Created for Award Tree's "Seeing Stars" challenge.

Begun with Flowpaper on the iPad and finished with Photoshop and FilterForge on the iMac.

Thanks to "alsnd12" and "Moondustdreams" for the stars brushes (both from Deviant Art).

Created for Award Tree's "Tree and Texture" challenge.

Created for SYB's "Birds in Flight" contest.

Created for TMI's contest: "Winter is Coming" ...

And for HandHeld Art's "The Festive Season".

Created using iColorama and Repix on the iPad plus a touch of Photoshop on the iMac.

Created for Hypothetical Awards' "The Hypo Music Festival!" challenge. Musical inspiration from Chicago.

Paul and I had such a good time on our last challenge-inspired collaboration that we decided to do it again. This one morphed about 6-7 times before we decided it was done.

Look for more fine work from Paul here.

Created for Kreative People's "Three Things" contest.

All photos and textures are mine. The dancer is Tashara Gavin-Moorehead.

Created for TMI's contest "Moonlight Serenade" and for TMI's challenge In the Style of ... the Squiggle!.

EXPLORE Worthy, Challenge 85 - MOONSCAPES (Art from 2016)

Thanks to PixelSquid.com for the moon!

Thanks to my beautiful friend Danielle for posing!

This image grew out of the same initial session as Glitch

Created for Award Tree's "Art Like Tim Noonan Challenge."

Created for the Artistic Manipulation Group's Mixmaster Challenge #63

CHEF xandram envisions a bright summer!

➤ Your image must contain a trellis or arbor.

➤ And at least one orb or sphere.

➤ Plus at least one mushroom.

➤ Use primarily bright and/or saturated colors (minimal pastels and black/white).

➤ NO PEOPLE including humanoids (robots, statues, etc.).

Credits: arbor background via Pixabay; mushrooms and squirrel via PixelSquid; spheres created in Photoshop using my textures.

Created for Vivid Imagination's "Flower Fantasy Challenge" and for Art Museion's "Selective Color" contest.

Created for Award Tree's "Watercolour Style" contest.

The original photo was taken at the Hollywood Sculpture Garden. These are painted mannequins and sculptures on a hillside.

Created for the TMI challenge In the Style of ... Mag, Denise & Sandy.

Created for Hypo's "Strange & Peculiar Challenge".

Created for TMI's October contest, "Nature in Black and White"

Created for Award Tree's "Maps and Paths" challenge.

Created for SOTN's "Dark Abstract" challenge.

Created for CDA's "Creative Bridges" challenge.

Created for Blind Pig Speakeasy's "Simply Minimal" challenge.

Created for the Artistic Manipulation Group's Mixmaster Challenge #53. All photos (setting, bougainvillea, hydrangea, butterflies, centerpiece) are mine.

➤ Your image must depict a backyard scene that includes a building (house, shed, etc.).

➤ We want to see many flowers in this backyard.

➤ Plus one or more animals.

➤ And creative textures.

➤ NO PEOPLE (statues okay, but not mannequins).

Created for Artistic Manipulation Group's Mixmaster Challenge #62.

CHEF Temari 09 wants us to enjoy our gardens!

➤ The main focus of your image must be a macro (closeup) of a single flower..

➤ The flower will be surrounded by a significant frame that includes an outer edge that is highly patterned and/or fractal.

➤ Include at least one other garden element (flowers, leaves, etc.).

➤ Also ILLUSTRATIONS (cartoon-like) of at least two funny animals (max 4).

➤ NO PEOPLE including humanoids (robots, statues, etc.).

Credits: flower macro and fractal background are mine; frame via PixelSquid; bees and flowers via PNGWing.

Created for HandHeld Art's February contest: Geometrics.

Created on the iPad with Leonardo, Decim8, and iColorama; with a little help from Photoshop on the iMac.

Happy Birthday, Thea!!!

Created for TMI's challenge: Those Amazing Animals ... focus on Scales!.

Created for Kreative People's "Locked & Latched" contest.

Created for Award Tree's "Risqué Colour Screen" challenge.

Thanks to my friend Lauren for the original photo!

Created for Award Tree's "Winter Reds" challenge.

Created for Award Tree's "Music Works" challenge.

Textures from my library (purchased).

Created for Award Tree's "Art Like Tim Noonan Challenge."

The clock face is real – except that I switched out "noonish" for "twelveish," of course ;-).

Mom, Junior, Fido and Dad ;-). Mashed up from a photo I took of a silver exhibit at the Seattle airport a couple years ago. Kite photo from Pixabay.

Created for EXPLORE Worthy - The Number Games 4, Season 2 (Art from 2015)

Award Tree holiday challenge.

EXPLORE Worthy, Challenge 95 - HOLIDAY MAGIC (Art from 2017)

Created for TMI's challenge: "Those Amazing Animals ... focus on Underwater".

Credits: Turtle, duck and fish via Pixabay; the elephant is mine, as is the photo of my sister's pond.

Created for Shock of the New's "Rusted" challenge.

Created for TMI's January contest: "Marine Biology"

Three source photos all public domain via Pixabay.

Created for the TMI challenge In the Style of ... CHAOS.

Original photo shot in the "Elfin Forest" of Los Osos, south of Morro Rock on the mid-coast of California. The name comes from the modest height of the moss-covered Coast Live Oaks.

Created for TMI's June contest: Roses, Just Roses

Created for SOTN's "Brainstorms" challenge.

The source photo – a shot of the wall in a Legos store – is HERE

Created for the TMI challenge INTERACTIONS.

Created for Award Tree's "Sculptures and Statues" challenge.

Created entirely with Photoshop's ACR and Displacement filters. View large for the best effect!

My apologies and homage to Alexander Calder.

Created for the TMI challenge "In the Style of ... the HUDSON RIVER SCHOOL"

I shot the landscape in northern California and the sky in southern California (we do get an occasional stormy day).

Created for the Award Tree's "Autumn Diptych" challenge.

Also, EXPLORE Worthy, Challenge 72 - AUTUMN TIME (Art from 2015).

Created for Award Tree's "Abstract Scape" challenge.

Created for TMI's November contest: Landscapes.

Created for TMI's September contest Autumn Leaves.

Created for TMI's September contest: "Flights of Fancy"

Created for Artistic Manipulation Group's Mixmaster Challenge #29.

CHEF BETH's theme is "Animal/Vegetable/Mineral/Abstract"! Here are the ingredients:

➤ Your image must be a pure, non-representational abstract.

➤ The source of your abstract must be a photo of a bird and/or a flower and/or a scissors (any one, two or all three).

➤ Your <b source photo(s) should not be recognizable (or only vaguely so) in the finished image.

➤ Be creative with your title which should convey the concept, composition and/or emotion of your abstract.

➤ You may use no other photos but the one, two or three noted above (though painting and other digital manipulation is fine).

Created for Explore Worthy, Challenge 118 - Your Favorite Color (2020 Art) and for the TMI contest VIBRANT NATURE.

My favorite color is the exquisite salmon-ish pink of the padparadscha sapphire.