On a cold October morning they took to the skies on an ambitious flight over Saint Petersburg. Who are they? Maybe early aeronauts testing whether it is possible to breathe at such heights or wealthy pleasure seekers wanting to be among the first humans to fly.
In any case, their journey must have been an amazing one, filled with exhiliration and awe and I have imagined the scene here in this print.
I’ve been so fed up with web design these last few days that I finally took time away from work and wound down with some Photoshop. I started and completed A Gentleman’s Regret this evening within a couple of hours. This one is definitely gonna get printed. I like it’s dark, moody style and plan to do more in this style very soon 
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“A gentleman alone with his regrets”
Here’s the framed version too! I’ll be selling my prints after Christmas on Etsy. Very excited!
I did this sketch some time ago in Photoshop. You can see I got lazy (or bored) and left her ear sort of deformed. I do remember spending a lot of time on her hand, which is my favourite part of this portrait.
Kristen Scott Thomas in one of my favourite actresses. The English Patient, probably being one of her most memorable movies, but she is also fabulous in many of her French movies, particularly Il y a longtemps que je t’aime (I’ve loved you so long), in which she plays a mother who has apparently murdered her young son. Let’s not forget her outstanding perfomances in Gosford Park and The Horse Whisperer. I last saw her in the emotionally turbulent French drama, Leaving, alongside Sergi López. An brilliant movie!
She has such class and is of course beautiful and unlike many big movie actresses is ageing gracefully. She is still gorgeous at 51. So this sketch was my small tribute to her and her amazing acting talent.
Here’s another photomanipulation I did recently. I’m not too keen on this one, only because it’s a little too angelic and ‘pretty’ for my taste but when I start an image I often have no idea where it’s going to go and I guess this one strayed off my usual path. I’ve called it the lonely time-keeper and maybe the idea is that she is an angel charged with keeping watch over time. And the minutes tick by slowly.
For those of you are aren’t sure what photomanipultion is, let me explain quickly. You take some photographs and edit them (cutting parts out, changing colours, adjusting shapes) until they create a completly new image. It’s now considered an art form in its own right, as to do it well you need to have the same understanding of light and form, perspective and composition as any artist has.
Working on this image for instance, I created some textures for the background, edited the girl (see original photo below), by changing her skin tone and texture, altering the shape of her face and her lips particularly to make her look more angelic. I painted her hair and added in stock photos of her wings, along with the balloons, birds and the watch. I also added some lace textures for her dress straps.
Here’s the original photo I worked with to create the image.
The image took about 6 hours to complete (with breaks for munch and so on).
When doing photomanipulation, all of the elements need to blend seamlessly for the image to work. You need to pay special attention to adjusting the colours so that each element works in the image. Hope you like.
The Lonley Timekeeper : Copyright Tracey Meagher 2011
How did the rabbit get into the bottle? With the help of Photoshop of course. This is another piece I did a few months back, during my ‘take time out to get arty’ phase. Obviously this girl is a little demented and doesn’t really deserve to have a pet rabbit. Let’s pretend the rabbit gets out in the end, or maybe it’s an illusion and he’s not really in there at all! I like how odd things are in this image. It took me a couple of days to complete, only becauseI was really stuck when I tried to think what I could put in that bottle.
I gave this girl a sort of fun and crazy hair style. I think it lightens the mood of the image a lot. I really have no idea what the story behind this image is but it’s interesting to look at and I really enjoyed working on it.
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I’m a web designer, internet marketer, writer of very odd poetry, digital artist, film lover, mother of four, wanna be photographer, happy go lucky, agnostic dog lover. This is my blog.
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