Frida Winking

Original photo

Frida Kahlo

I love playing around with portraits of Frida Kahlo!

Art Journal Caravan Week 43 - Quotable

Elements from Tangie's "Grunge Bliss Paper" and "Spark 2 Freebie."

Stay Human

My wonderful friend Marguerite has a very interesting post on her blog that all of us people who feel "weird" would enjoy reading. We artist-type people are all a little weird, and to me, that's a good thing! Who wants to be like everyone else anyway? I borrowed the picture below from her post, but she has another picture and video I know you would appreciate seeing. The link to her blog is: http://redballoontothemoon.weebly.com/1/post/2013/04/stay-human.html

I hope you will take the time to go read her post. Tell her a friend of Frida Kahlo's sent you. :o)

Dark Whispers Challenge March - Frida Kahlo

Dark Whispers is a group inside of Digital Whispers where deeper, more emotional and darker subjects are chosen to illustrate. This month's challenge was to create an illustration using colors Frida Kahlo would use in a way to represent her life. I used the colors cobalt blue, red, black, and leaf green. The red and slight orange variations definitely portray the pain she experienced in her life. Having the monkey being cobalt blue and steampunk gives it a kind of nightmarish feeling. Frida included a monkey in several of her paintings. The green leaf symbolizes the life she wanted but had cut way too short.

The monkey was from a steampunk kit by Holliewood. The heart from an anatomical kit by Tangie Baxter. The background by Paci.

Three Muses Challenge - Stripes

Marie Markham's wonderful collage of Frida Kahlo inspired me to think about Frida.