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Creative Spirits of Queensland

For All Those Creative Spirits that Live in the Sunshine State

Featured Work

In Focus by maileilani

Taken using a Sony A350 / Settings: f9 1/13 ISO1600 / Lens: SAL-1870 DT 18-70mm f3.5-5.6 Standard Zoom lens / Edited using Adobe Photoshop Elements 7, Color Correction. This is a photograph of my hand and I’m holding one of my close up lenses. I think it’s my +10 close up. Anyway, I thought it was a neat contrast between the sharp focus through the lens and the out of focus surrounding outside of the lens. I did not create that effect with photoshop. The only thing I did was color correction. This image was taken at twilight time which is where the cool tones come from. However, I did soften that cool tone a little bit.
R.I.P. by Helen Martikainen

This is a photo of the gravestones on St Helena Island, Brisbane. I have edited the original image to create a different look. / November 20 2009 St Helena Island is an Island in Queensland, Australia, 21 km east of Brisbane in Moreton Bay. Originally used as a prison, it is now a national park. Named Noogoon by the Australian Aborigines, it was renamed St Helena after an aboriginal named Napoleon was exiled there in 1826. / In the 19th century St Helena Island was a quarantine station which became one of the most profitable prisons in Queensland history. / For more than 60 years from 1867, St Helena was home to many hundreds of society’s outcasts, for here was located colonial Queensland’s foremost prison for men. / The toughest years on St Helena were undoubtedly the early ones, and the ruins on the island testify to the hard work that the prisoners had to do. These, too, were the years of severe punishment — the lash, the dreaded dark underground cells, the gag, and energy-sapping shot drill. These were the years that gained St Helena its fearful reputation as ‘the hell hole of the Pacific’ and ‘Queensland’s Inferno’. But in these days tough measures were called for, because St Helena housed some of the country’s worst criminals. / Because of this, St Helena had to be a secure prison — and it was, through its isolation and iron rule. During its lifetime, there were fewer than 25 serious attempts by prisoners to escape. In fact, history was to show that the island was almost escape-proof. / By the turn of the century, the St Helena establishment had grown to accommodate over 300 prisoners in a maze of buildings surrounded by a high stockade wall. It operated as a self-sufficient settlement, and even exported some of its produce to the mainland, including bricks for many of Brisbane’s buildings. In many ways, St Helena was regarded as a model prison for the times, and held in high regard by visiting interstate and overseas penologists. / By the 1920s, the prison had begun to show its age. In its latter years, the island became a prison farm for trustees, with a few dozen resident inmates tenaciously dismantling the ageing edifice. Many prison buildings remain. / These days, the island is a tourist destination for school children and visitors to Brisbane alike. / Text Courtesy of Wikipedia Wikipedia St Helena Island National Park
Psychedelic Eye by ChristineBetts

original was Charcoal on Paper, but this has been freaked out in Photoshop! /
Metamelics - #002 (Best viewed large) by MelDavies

Kaleidoscope and digital colour changes using PSE and photostudio. Based on original textural and acrylic artwork (Ocean Floor). FEATURED IN THE FOLLOWING GROUPS / The Patchwork – Nov 2009 / Creative Spirits of Queensland – Nov 2009
Liittle Cups of Joy by warmsoul

I made these little cupcakes for my children recently.
English Coast 1 by GloriaDK

This is the first of two acrylic on canvas measuring 50×41cms. It also will be one going into Angela Legge and my exhibition coming up.
Scooter © Portrait by Vicki Ferrari

Scooter © Portrait Vicki Ferrari Animal Portraits and this is Scooter, the working dog, and pet! I love the expression in his eyes here. / Vicki Purchase Card / Purchase Framed Print / / Purchase Poster / Tech / Scan of original 8×10 print / Photoshop UL 200911170206
Distant Eden by Cliff Vestergaard

Long Road out out Eden
Yang by Tcrawshaw

Yin also available www.timcrawshaw.com
37 Days... by sparklezdtr

until christmas. Yikes!
Wishing you a Merry Scary Christmas by Adara Rosalie

Just like the GRIM BROTHERS and their fairy tales, is it possible the Frosty the Snowman was not always so sweet? Mixing Halloween and Christmas together. I wish all of you out there a MERRY CHRISTMAS!! RB Rocks! Would you like to see a Christmas shirt of this character?
Petes pooch by crispur

Ink on 350 gsm paper measures 14×10 inches. Done as a gift for Peter and his family

Recent Work

Im loving memory by Darsana

Alternative process photo of a gravestone at Nundah Cemetery, Queensland, Australia
Painted by Nature by Darsana

Late afternoon view from Mt Mee looking toward the mountains behind Dayboro. Photographed at Mt Mee, Queensland, Australia
Patterns in Red by MelDavies

Original hand drawn ink on paper design with digital experimental kaleidoscope using PSE.
Fading Away by Darsana

HMQS Gayundah, a former flagship of the Queensland Navy, lies at rest at Picnic Point near Woody Point at the southern tip of the Redcliffe Peninsula, Queensland, Australia. Woody Point has historical significance as a place on the coast where Mathew Flinders landed in 1799.
Flowering Thistle by Darsana

Thorny Thistle flower head vibrantly lit against a textured background
Mt Coot-tha Botanical Gardens-wonderland by Darsana

Digitaly manipulated photo of the Geodesic Dome photographed behind the cacti and succulents section of the Mt Coot-tha Botanical Gardens, Brisbane QLD Australia
Bottlebrush by PhotosByG

An Australian native plant, growing at Redcliffe, near Brisbane.
Byron Bay Lighthouse by PhotosByG

209 views at 21/11/09. Taken at Byron Bay, New South Wales. This headland is the most easterly point of Australia. Featured in “Don’t Fence Me In” July 2009.
Bush Christmas by MelDavies

Digital painting in Arcsoft Photostudio

Featured Members

About This Group

Here is my FAVE OF THE DAY! (or DAYS! depending on how I go…)

Dream of Peace by Alison Pearce

What a beautiful watercolour painting with a message about Peace, I love the koi and the Oriental look, all round great creativeness and beauty, Dream of Peace is my…

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Scroll Down For LOTS More Group Awards!!
To Promote the AMAZING Creative Spirit of Queensland! Be Prepared to SELL your work in this Group and find your Spirit!!

This group accepts most artwork from any artist in Queensland. There is no set subject except to let your creativity shine through!
Photography, Painting, Artwork of any kind, Highly Edited images and photos, Nature, Greeting Cards, Poetry, Writing…anything that lets loose your inner creative spirit!

I started this group to showcase the amazing talent of people living in the Sunshine State, in the process, find ourselves and have some fun, to gather together the most outstanding talent one state can offer and show it to the world!
Let’s Do It….

It’s A Beautiful Life by Adam Gormley
The Spirit of Queensland Challenge Winner.
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CHALLENGE WINNER from I Can See A Rainbow was The Light by Kazoom

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CHALLENGE WINNER from It’s History was When The Tall Ships Came To Town 2 by Helen Corr

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CHALLENGE WINNER from Making The Ordinary Extraordinary was Angela Legge with Brush Away

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CHALLENGE WINNER from When The Music’s Over was ginnymac with Give Me A Home Among The Gum Trees

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Our New CREATIVE SPIRIT OF THE WEEK is…
Karen Cougan and her amazingly unique and sometimes provocative artworks! I love Karens work from her child portraits, flowers and enchanting scenes thru to the nude Goddesses exploring our womanhood. A big cross section of ideas and work make it stand out. Every work looks to be made with love and passion, can’t say enough great things about Karen’s beautiful work, check them out yourself, for Karen is our new CREATIVE SPIRIT OF THE WEEK!

Above & Beyond by Karen Cougan

Check the Forums for Creative Spirit of The Week announcements…
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butterfly

by the very inspirational
Helen Corr

This is what she said next to butterfly

- a butterfly pinned to my curtains dreams it can fly … a piece of pure self indulgence, it’s blurry and all wrong, but I like it …

Hard to beat that for pure, unrestrained, imaginative and downright fantastic inspiration…

A BUTTERFLY PINNED TO THE CURTAIN

dreams it can fly…. :o)
a piece of pure self indulgence…. perfect
it’s all blurry and wrong but I like it… unrestrained and full of spirit.
I love the whole concept and that is a perfect illustration of

i n s p i r a t i o n i n c r e a t i o n

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Here is Kerryn Madsen-Pietsch’s winning Spirit Of Art Challenge entry that is our new Group Avatar!

The SPIRIT really shows in Kerryn’s amazing works..
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**Every month I will be choosing a few artworks that have been submitted to the group to purchase and add to my collection of incredible Red Bubble artists! It does not have to be a weekly Feature, it has to make me go WOW!

Check out the amazing artwork I have purchased from Creative Spirits in our group:
Flutterby by JennyDean