#28 Sorrow

Sorrow
The main images is from a cemetery in Germany. How sad this is...
The angel is from the Graphics Fairy. I used it before in the Heaven piece.
The background was made using bits from Brenda Starr and Rubyblossom from T4L, altered with gradient layers, blending modes and PS brushes. I used one of my "go to" sets for interesting texture, called Botched Ornaments. I don't remember which free brush site I found it on, but if you Google it, you might find it. it's worth looking for.

#27 Rock Star

Rock Star
Photograph of 19th Century Kabuki actor from the Peabody Essex Museum collection
Background made with a piece from JoesSistah at T4L.
The foliage is a PS brush set called Japanese1 by Darkgarden from Deviantart.
All were altered with filters, layer styles and blending modes.

#26 Tears

Tears
The main image is Sarah Bernhardt.
Illuminated text was googled.
Background made with pieces from Cynthia Powell's Painted Silk collection, Frogmuseum, Encounter_Laura and Playingwithbrushes at T4L, and pieces from Shadowhouse and Land of Nod Studio.
Embellishments and texture are Photoshop brushes.
The quote is by Anne Bronte

#25 Summer Haze

#25 Summer Haze
Photo taken at Cape Elizabeth, Maine as the morning fog was burning off one summer morning,
Background made with texture pieces from Shadowhouse (the postcard overlay) and Encounter_Laura at T4L.
Filters, blending modes and PS brushes were applied as well.

# 23 Hunted and # 24 High

Hunted
Images found on Google images.
Background made with textures ffrom Encounter_Laura, Jfrenzel an Annie Maree at T4L, and a painted background from an old ACF challenge

High
Main image found on Google Images.
Textures from PlayingwithBrushes at T4L and the overlay border is from Cottage Arts.
Up, Up and Away was written by Jimmy Webb nad made famous by the 5th Dimension.

#21 Cave and #22 Mother Nature

Cave
Another difficult one...
Background created with bits from Mbgrigby and JoesSistah at T4L and a painting by Monet, Irises. The children and cave images were googled.
The rest is the usual playing blending filters and brushes.

Mother Nature
Images from Mucha and NASA,
Bacground bits from T4L and one of my own texture pieces.
Frame from Dover
Blending, brushes and filters applied.

# 19 Silver and # 20 Half

Silver
Just a play with brushes (from Cottage Arts) and layer styles, trying for a metallic effect.

Half
A portrait of Virginia Woolf, whom I admire very much as a person and an artist. Her struggles with being a woman and a writer in a man's world, as well as her long, long struggles with depression paint a portrait of a tormented soul.
The photo is public domain.
The background was created using a piece from Spektoral Addendum at T4L and some original textures I made.
The rest was done with brushes, layer styles, filters and blending modes.

#17 Upside Down and #18 Rain

Over the Rainbow
Headstanders from Google Images
Brick wall from Decar66 at T4L
Spectrum gradient, PC Graffiti brushes and filters applied.

Rain
Created with 2 separate photos of mine of the interminable rain we endured last February and March.
Overlay from Struck Dumb at Deviantarts