The Flatland Digital Artwork Clip Art Gallery

The Old-Fashioned Valentine.

   

When I was a little girl, way back in the last century, this is what I always secretly longed for on Valentine's Day:  something handmade in shades of deep rose and that pinky silver, with a flower in the middle and---I admit it---chocolates inside.  They didn't have to be the good sort----I'm not sure there were any good sorts back in the seventies; it was all sugary American stuff---because it was the box I really longed for.  I was a very sentimental child; I loved keepsakes.  When I was last visiting my mother, I found a lacy heart-shaped (empty) box in my closet.  Who?  What?  When?  Feeling baffled, I threw it away.  This image is to make up for that.

Cherished Recollections.

Overlapping ivory colored cloth stars with a satin border in red, with two interlocking stars on top (the center one in platinum and charcoal with a purple central flower with a satiny finish.  The background consists of the edges of other similar images, in green, gold, and red.  A star pattern in ivory and jewel colors.

Sunbirth 2.

Digital tile:  A beautiful, lacy clay star-shaped plaque on a black background.  The plaque shows a sunburst, starburst or supernova, with a smaller image in deep reddish gold, surrounded by a sunburst in gold.  Each part of the image is lavishly embellished.   Within this rim is a lacy image in gold and green.  The starbust is surrounded by a brilliant enamelled blue. 

Earthy Alternatives.

   

I'm trying out some alternative techniques.  This is a previous image reconfigured.  A badge showing a 10 pointed star or 10 petaled flower in earthy clay and terra cotta colors with just the hint of gold.  The background is mottled in color.

Ancient Chaldean Lady's Timepiece.

Or, and this is just a thought, you could see it as a homage (I refuse to type "an homage," even if it's right) to Georgia O'Keefe.  I've just been reading The L Word Recaps by Scribe Grrrl at AfterEllen.com, so either works for me.   I love that show.   But it's not a really good homage to Georgia O'Keefe, is it.  So maybe I'll go back to the original title:  "Ancient Chaldean Lady's Timepiece."  It looks like something that would be worn on the wrist of a    17 year old mother of five and chatelaine of whatever sort of living quarters they lived in.  I picked the Chaldeans because it was so damn long ago and they didn't, as far as we know, have wristwatches. 

Anyway, you're to see it as made of clay and as a sort of objet in its own right (which probably rules out Georgia O'Keefe, and anyway I've done some better flowers than this).  The colors are traditionally girly, such as my formerly five year old niece would have chosen:  a purple "violet" made from clay with a pink border made of arcane symbols.   The violet has a tiny clay star in the center in pale aqua.   The outer "shell" is made from hot pink and silvery white clay.  What redeems it from mawkishness is the background, which is an intense army green. 

Doesn't sound as if it would look good....but it does. 

Birthday Star.

An Artsy-Craftsy little 3D star in platinum and purple dancing against a background of a brightly colored  "concentric" (?  You know what I mean) stars in green, purple, bright red, and yellow.  Festive, as for a birthday or similar occasion. 

Florida Ornament 2. Christmas in the Sunshine State.

   

What color is the sky in your world?  Ours is all the shades of blue you see right here, ranging from indigo to cerulean; and the sun in the late afternoon is that exact warm golden shade.  Flowers sometimes bloom.  There are palm trees.  It's a green and gold and indigo Christmas.  We like it like that.  A "clay" ornament in all the colors of a Florida Christmas. 
           

The carousel ride.

     

ABSTRACT DIGITAL ARTWORK.  There are a number of ways to look at this image, but I liked it for the lacy effects and the rich range of colors.  Crimson, a touch of scarlet, tangerine, a softer peach, jade green, flourescent purple and a deeper purple or indigo:  all are here.  You could see it as a very fancy ceramic bowl or artifact.

A glazed looking polygonal rim in rings of neon purple, scarlet, and tangerine, surround an elaborate, lacy, inner ring, with details in varying shades of jade, a touch of teal or aqua, minute crimson roses, and images like very elaborate little boats or gondolas in jade and peach.  In each little gazebo, you can see the back of two heads, so I'm thinking of the Owl and the Pussycat going to sea in their beautiful pea green boat or maybe just a carousel ride...   Hey, as Spongebob said, IMAG-IN-ATION.

The boats are silhouetted against a background of black, a ring of hot violet, and in the center, an elaborate, lacy jade-green star.  very pretty. 

Handcrafted clay bead in southwestern colors.

ABSTRACT DIGITAL ARTWORK.  The image is a bead on a black background.  In the center of the bead is a raised "flower" with a large center in a reddis purple with a center gemstone in aqua, surrounded by a "petals" in terra cotta.  The image is surrounded by a ring in dark green and khaki,  enclosed in a much darker ring in terra cotta.  The remainder of the bead is pale green, with raised dots in purple, rose, aqua and green.  Around the "equator" of the bead are scalloped rings in the same terra cotta as the central ring and flower petals. Might also be seen as a Christmas colors, though the colors are very southwestern, not what I tend to think of as Christmasy. 

     

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Looking Southwest 2.

     

ABSTRACT DIGITAL ARTWORK.  Two versions of a primitive-looking glazed clay tile mixing colors of midnight blue, peach, ivory, and gold.  In the center is a sunburst or starburst----a supernova perhaps---with 12 white rays.  The image is surrounded by a rim in peach and other images are arranged concentrically about it in alternating shades of dark blue and peach.  One version of the tile is flat; the other is raised.  Evocative and talismanic.

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