Mayfair Hotel! Deviant Scrap becomes Mischief Circus. CrowAbout Studio.

Deviant Scrap is a great site for digital collagers.  They offer digital images in png form with transparent backgrounds, ready to download and pop into your next collage. Images. Backgrounds, Numbers and Letters, themed sets and heaps of inspiration.  And as you might tell, these are funky, fun, unique, grungy, oddling images too. Up my alley and hopefully yours too.

They are a collective of artists who offer their images and designs.  Recently, the changed their name to Mischief Circus, which does seem to capture the essence of what they're about. All this at prices you can easily indulge yourself with and many freebies to boot. Do check them out and add to your fun.  The Halloween images will grab your attention.    http://www.mischiefcircus.com/

I recently got a particularly fun group of stuff there from CrowAboutStudio.  It's always nice when a Crow Sister speaks to me.  You can see her digital kits at Mischief Circus and check out her blog at http://crowabout.blogspot.com/

This great retro Hotel Mayfair was a background in the CrowAboutStudio package.  I then came upon these languid Armani lovelies and there you go.  And to add a touch more to the retro mood, the blimp is the Hindenberg indeed.

Hotel Mayfair collage

Lorde & Taylor and Ghosts oh my

I just love Lorde, the intense young New Zeland singer who has sprung on the scene via YouTube and most recently won a Grammy for the best Song of the Year and Best Solo Pop Performance.  I like her music, her attitude, her social consciousness and her dramatic looks.  An Art Girl for sure!

Somewhere in a conversation about Lorde, I made the association to the elegant old-school department store, Lord & Taylor.  My husband laughed and said, 'Hey you should do a collage with Lord and Taylor, like Taylor Hawkins.' and that set me off.  Taylor Hawkins is the intense drummer from Foo Fighters.  Next up, of course, was Taylor Swift and then with a variation on the theme, Koko Taylor, Blues Queen.  The Lord & Taylor store image is of an appropriately retro 1953 store in New Jersey.

Lorde & Taylor Rock collage

Lorde & Taylor Country collage

Lorde & Taylor Blues Collage

An earlier combo of Lorde & The Very Large array.  I came across the two images randomly one after the other while looking for something else.  I've amped and altered the original images.

The Very Large Array

Another another note entirely, our gallery, Shenandoah Valley Art Center is going to feature altered books in March, so I was inspired.  I opened this book literally to the page featured here, with the chapter heading 'Do you believe in ghosts?'.  From that, and with a laugh out loud, the theme was set.  The wonderful oooky-spooky figures come from a set of images I purchased around Halloween at DeviantScrap.com and these were included in the Hotel Hell series.

Do You Believe In Ghosts altered book