Curious Vintage Fictions
Featured Work
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Lets Call The Whole Thing Off by Carrie Glenn
My Work is Featured in Pop Art / (Thanks Everyone) ...You like potato and I like potahto / You like tomato and I like tomahto / Potato, potahto, Tomato, tomahto. / Let’s call the whole thing off… Have you ever wanted to throw tomatoes at a work of art? It’s wonderful! Thank you to Dogbreath for the use of his very special Grandpa’s Watch to paint for this piece. You can contact Carrie at: carrie@carrieglennstudios.com and please visit Carrie Glenn Studios /
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THE CANDLE FLAME by Larry Butterworth
There is a part of us that ages-our body, primarily-and a part that doesn’t. The part that doesn’t age has something to do with the mind, but it isn’t the mind as we usually think of it; our mental faculties of memory and concentration begin to slowly subside with age just as the body does. But our primary or innate awareness, our feeling of being alive, of just being here, doesn’t age. It is as bright as always, like a candle flame that puts out steady light, whether the candle is new, half gone, or almost out.The trick is to pay attention to the flame, and not the candle. The flame of a candle half gone may burn just as it did at the beginning, but by now it has burned longer, and it knows something about burning. Innate awareness never ages, though the body does, and maturity and wisdom is the compensation for what time eases from our grasp. From Lewis Richmond’s The Candle Flame Burns Just As Brightly
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Guilty Pleasures by phatpuppy
stock purchased / cat = http://fc04.deviantart.com/fs40/f/2009/030/2/e/Moonshine_5_by_PhantasmaStock.jpg
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PRIDE & STUPIDITY by Carol-Anne Kozik
Hurrah for the cat….....Captain Proton and the Boys from the music-hall…......... / /
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Boo! by Carolyn Prior
Decided to make something for Halloween.
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Myrna, a Patchwork Faerie by mollywog
The Patchwork Faeries are very shy, but I finally coaxed one of them into the digital world. Allow me to introduce Myrna. I found her arranging the stars one night and she agreed to pose for me during her midnight break. She’s snacking on fruit, a common food for a Patchwork Faerie. I created her portrait in Photoshop Elements 7 using public domain images.
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the very bad hair day ! by Martine Roch
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Witchcraft by WinonaCookie
It used to be that every town and village had someone like Thalia, a woman living alone or perhaps with a child on the edge of the forest. Gathering her herbs by the light of the full moon, infusing her elixirs, brewing her tinctures, boiling her concoctions, she was indispensable to townfolk for her wisdom and her expertise in healing their ills, soothing their pains and easing their woes, and it was that necessity that made her dangerous. A person one needs is a frightening person indeed. Fortunately, no one came after Thalia with a pitchfork or trussed her up to a stake, but she was isolated and avoided and had only her owl and mouse for company, at least until pain stabbed through a man’s heart, or a woman’s baby refused to be born or until all the desire simply packed up and moved out of someone’s marriage. Then would come a midnight knock on her door, a gift of money, or embroidered cloth or simply a hen offered to her and Thalia would pack up her poultices, her tiny vials and her foul-smelling powders and set off to do what she did best, and gratitude and relief would pour forth from the healed – at least until the next time they saw Thalia at market. / Thalia’s closest secret is that she preferred this arrangement. She loved her tiny house tucked in the woods, the arcane mysteries of plants that unfurled before her, her familiars and her solitude. And of late a young woman often came calling, a girl with a spark Thalia immediately recognized and a talent for the art that they both delighted in uncovering. This original artwork and story are copyright Ramona Szczerba 2009. Copyright to this material is in no way transferable with the sale of this item. The buyer is not entitled to any reproduction rights – neither image nor story can be reproduced without my express written permission. Thanks!
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Gaudi, visitors, and owner. by egold
During my Gaudi-day I’ve been on the roof of Casa Batlló with its beautiful chimneys covered by a mosaic made of broken ceramic tiles (trencadís) that starts in shades of golden orange moving into greenish blues. As always, there are a lot of visitors around. Everyone is busy: looking, shooting or just collecting information for the future talk with friends, telling them about Gaudi and wonderful Barcelona. Looks like everybody having fun and enjoying… but it’s not truth… I saw the black bird, who was very disappointed by everything around her. She looked like real owner of this place and all uninvited people just were in the way for her lunch and after lunch siesta… Casa Batlló is a building restored by Antoni Gaudí and Josep Maria Jujol, built in the year 1877 and remodeled in the years 1905–1907. The local name for the building is Casa dels ossos (House of Bones), and indeed it does have a visceral, skeletal organic quality. It was originally designed for a middle-class family and situated in a prosperous district of Barcelona. / The building looks very remarkable — like everything Gaudí designed, only identifiable as Modernisme or Art Nouveau in the broadest sense. It seems that the goal of the designer was to avoid straight lines completely. Much of the facade is decorated with a multicolored mosaic. The roof is arched and was likened to the back of a dragon or dinosaur. A common theory about the building is that the rounded feature to the left of centre, terminating at the top in a turret and cross, represents the sword of Saint George (patron saint of Catalonia), which has been plunged into the back of the dragon.
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Me say, want Tom-Tom, not Tom-Cat. by Karen Scrimes
Featured in the In-Between Group – Thank You / Featured in the Curious Vintage Fictions Group – Thank You / Featured in the New York State: Up, down and all around Group – Thank You / The image began with my photo of the Empire State Building taken from the Rockefeller Centre building in January this year. The gorilla has been extracted from my image taken at Taronga Zoo, Sydney in Dec 07. Credit to Robyn England www.happyrobyn.com for the La Femme elements of cat and striped hat. Credit to Katie Pertiet of DesignerDigitals.com for the LetterBox traveller paper (vintage aircraft ). / The title reflects the humour in the image with an oversized cat watching nonchalantly on the other building while flames lick at King Kong. If you look closely you might spot my daughter (the heroine) standing on the Empire State building waiting to be rescued by a confused King Kong. Hence the need for a Tom-Tom! A little whimsy is good for the soul. Thanks for looking. / / Gorilla image /
Recent Work
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Brad by Martine Roch
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May your memory be eternal by Milos Markovic
15.11.2009, is sad day for Serbian people. The head of the Serbian Orthodox Church, 95-year-old Patriarch Pavle passed away. / Known for his kindness, wisdom, personal humility and modesty, He will be dearly missed by many. / Rest in peace dear Pavle, may your memory be eternal. / Church from the photo is located at the heart of Divčibare, Serbia. P.S. All the funding from print sales will be donated to Serbian Orthodox Church
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READAPTACJA by KEIT
2008 featured in / A Spiritual Walk on 06/09
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Carnival Moon by Ron Moss
Digital Printmaking / All photgraphs for my Canon 350D and G10. / Scans and textures made building layers to create favourite textures. Hand colouring and concepts by the ‘inner artist’ that’s busting to get out! Please VIEW LARGE and bless you for looking :-)
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Courage, Angel at my shoulder by Bec Schopen
Mixed media, collage cut outs, stencil,tissue paper, old fabric,gel medium on canvas. Painting is at a strange angel as it was hard to photgraph with the lighting on the gold paint.
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The Raven by Sarah Moore
A series of digital collages created for And so this is Christmas…Art Market My titles from this series are all taken from Edgar Allan Poe. (c) Sarah Moore 2009 Stock Used / Brushes and textures / Bird / Other Textures
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Wee Willie Winkie on Xmas Eve by LindaAppleArt
“Wee Willie Winkie on Xmas Eve” / oil on canvas – 6”x8” / animal art My version of Wee Willie Winkie with his Teddy on Xmas eve. Did you know the origin of the Wee Willie Winkie? / The explanation of the words to Wee Willie Winkie was to teach children to associate every day tasks with their own lives. Before the days of the wireless, television and the Internet great reliance was put upon the Town Crier to pass on the latest news and information. ‘Wee Willie Winkie’ was the children’s version of the Town Crier! The author of the poem was William Miller (1810 – 1872) and the first publication date of the words to Wee Willie Winkie was in 1841. / /
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waiting for you by midzing
Canon 400D Featured in The Woman Photographer Group November 14 2009 Featured in The Grunge Art Gallery November 15 2009 Featured in Passionate about Vintage November 16 2009 Featured in hats and boxes group November 18th 2009 Part of a series,,,click here to view 2 part of the series Favourited 88 times
About This Group
This group is for people who love photomanipulation and/or collage with a strange vintage feel. Postings to this group must be
Curious: Unusual or surprising in a way that is unsettling or hard to understand. Odd, peculiar, weird, quirky, strange. Out of the ordinary.
Vintage: Denoting something of high quality, especially something from the past. We prefer a faux Victorian look, but the important thing is that it doesn’t look overly modern.
Fiction: Imaginary events or people. A fabrication; a story whose purpose is to deceive.
Collages and constructs of the Joseph Cornell type are welcome. We love sepia, we love color.
Please respect the work of others, leave constructive feedback, and take part in the discussions. There’s so much we can learn from each other! Tutorials are available for basic texturing techniques to help you achieve that vintage look as well as tips on how to use selection tools and control color.
Please be familiar with the group rules and remember: you can only post three strange vintage fictions per day.
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