Une Valentine Parisienne Tie | Zazzle

I don’t know about you but I think this detail from Une Valentine Parisienne looks fabulous on this necktie! I happen to know that lovely blogger Sally Cronin of Smorgasbord is very fond of ties so I dedicate this post to her!

Style: Tie

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• Dimensions:
  • Length: 55″
  • Width: 4″ (at widest point)
• Printed in vibrant full color
• Made from 100% polyester; silky finish
• Double-sided printing available at small upcharge. Check out the “Design Area” tab to the right to customize
• Dry clean only

Source: Une Valentine Parisienne Tie | Zazzle

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First Night Design | Une Valentine Parisienne #New #Art

I had a two-day window last week during which I could see rather better than usual. I read a book and created the piece below. Back to ‘normal’ now, though!

Une Valentine Parisienne © Sarah Vernon Framed Print at Crated

I blended and tweaked two images from Wikimedia. One is advertising a French event on 14th July 1915 in aid of The Great War. The other is a fashion illustration from Journal des dames et des modes, 1913, by H. Robert Dammy. Both are delightful in their own right but blending them together was a fascinating process and enhanced the Art Deco effect.

I can’t pretend it’s my favourite period in the history of the decorative arts when it comes to architecture and interior design but the fashion and illustration of the time has a place in my heart.

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“Copper Pear” iPhone Cases & Skins by Sarah Vernon | Redbubble

Features / Vavoom 24 November 2014 / Creation 25 October 2014 / Everyday Women 23 October 2014 / Photoshop / Personal textures / Pear • Also buy this artwork on phone cases, home decor, stationery, and more.

Specifications

• Material

  Slim fitting one-piece clip-on case

  Protective Lip	Weight	Thickness
  Yes	15g	10mm

Features

• Slim fitting one-piece clip-on case
• Allows full access to all device ports
• Extremely durable, shatterproof casing
• Long life, super-bright colors embedded directly into the case

Source: “Copper Pear” iPhone Cases & Skins by Sarah Vernon | Redbubble

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“Copper Pear” Framed Prints by Sarah Vernon | Redbubble

Features / Vavoom 24 November 2014 / Creation 25 October 2014 / Everyday Women 23 October 2014 / Photoshop / Personal textures / Pear • Also buy this artwork on wall prints, apparel, stickers, and more.

Source: “Copper Pear” Framed Prints by Sarah Vernon | Redbubble

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First Night Design | Pier into the Depths

Pier into the Depths © Sarah Vernon [Buy at Crated]

I’m putting my cards on the table to tell you I’m in love with my latest piece, a burnt-out pier! I keep looking at it in Photoshop and giving a contented sigh or two! And this I say coming straight from a conversation with Vanessa Couchman about the difficulty of promoting your own work after an upbringing which taught us never to put ourselves forward or show off — if anything, we were directed to show off the work of others. “I don’t think it gets any more comfortable but one becomes more proficient at it,” said Vanessa. She’s right. It’s something we have to do on social media if we are to get any attention. That said, I’m not feeling remotely uncomfortable telling you of my love on this occasion; I wonder why.

I began with this photograph by Victoria Alexander at Unsplash (loving this site of free, high-resolution photographs, if you hadn’t already guessed).

Victoria Alexander

I used one texture — 2LO Distressed 11 from Denise Love at 2 Lil’ Owls, bought via Design Cuts – and another from Lenabem-Anna J. on Flickr.

2LO Distressed 11

Lenabem-Anna-J

There followed a great deal of blending and stretching and tweaking before it was done.

Pier into the Depths Greeting Card

I hope you like it too. If you do, as Olga Núñez Miret says at the foot of her posts, you know what to do — like, comment and share!

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Fine Art America
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First Night Design | Copper Pear

Copper Pear © Sarah Vernon [Crated]

Vintage pear from The Graphics Fairy.

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“I warrant they would whip me with their fine wits till I were as crest-fallen as a dried pear.” The Merry Wives of Windsor

‘Eating pears cleans the teeth.’ Korean proverb

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First Night Design | Embracing the Unexpected with a Salmon

Pink Salmon © Sarah Vernon [Crated]

It really is astonishing what can be achieved with digital art software — in this case, Photoshop. I was playing around with a map and a fish (from The Graphics Fairy), and a photograph of a setting Cretan sun — no, please don’t ask why this combination! I discarded the map and selected the sun area of the photograph to make it the background. I then went through all the available blending modes for the salmon layer without success until I came to one near the bottom called ‘difference’. Immediately I was struck by the effect and it is what you see here. It reminds me of etching on copper scraperboards (scratchboards in the US), which I once tried my hand at. Unsuccessfully.

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First Night Design | La Poire #1

La Poire #1 © Sarah Vernon at Fine Art America

Also available at Fine Art England

Step away from the frame and put down your mouse!

Can I stop showing off my art as framed prints? Of course I can’t. It looks so grown-up!

US

UK

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