Music Monday - Forbidden Love

Hello Blogland!

I am sitting in my pjs drinking a cup of cinnamon coffee and eating a square of dark chocolate. The day is off to a good start! I am so excited to share this image with you. This week's Music Monday theme is from a song title: Forbidden Love by Madonna. I managed to catch this crow picture last week, and I was so excited, because I knew exactly what fairy image would go perfectly with it. This fairy's wings are actually a photography of one of the pairs in my collection. As usual, I have used some amazing Kim Klassen textures. My favourite is the Lyrical texture, which borders the piece.

For those of you who would like to join the Music Monday challenge, please post a link to your image in the comments thread by Saturday night, and on Sunday I'll display all your works! Courtesy of the lovely women at Collage Obsession, here are instructions about how to link to your image:

Copy and paste this simple code into the comments box:

<a href="link">text to click on</a>

First replace the link with the permanent link to your work (leave the apostrophes). Next replace text to click on with your own message.

Here is a sample: <a href="http://collageobsessionchallenge.blogspot.com/">my first entry.</a>

I can't wait to see your interpretations of Forbidden Love!

Next week's Music Monday will feature lyrics by Matthew Good:

she is the trick of my trade
she is the thing that can't be made
she is gold and nothing less
and she is fearless

Later on this week, I have another fairy to share for the Three Muses "Hats" challenge.

A call out to those more experienced bloggers out there: I have been playing around with customizing the look of my blog, and for now have settled on plain white until I can do something better. Any advice on sites that could help me learn the ins and outs of designing my own blog template would be greatly appreciated! I am a little intimidated by the sheets of code I have seen.

Hope you have a hot drink in hand and good music playing in your ear! Oh, and speaking of good music, I found the most amazing YouTube video by a band called Atomic Tom. Click on the link and I guarantee it will bring a smile to your face!

Have a beautiful day,

Joyelle

Music Monday

Hello all,

I am very excited about this image today, I feel like it represents a vision of where I want my digital art to be going. Today's song lyric collage was created in Lightroom, Illustrator and Photoshop, and utilizes my favourite Kim Klassen texture, Extreme Grunge. Just after I had finished creating it, I saw that the Three Muses Challenge this week is all about music, so I am very excited to submit this piece to their site.

I had mentioned a few weeks ago how my son (at 3 years old) has chosen The Scar That Never Heals by Jeremy Fisher as his favourite song. Now, every time we get in the car he asks us to put on "his" song. So I have heard this song about a million times now, and this lyric was so fantastic, I kept thinking "what would that look like?"

Love Jeremy Fisher! He has a new album coming out on October 26 and he is coming back to Vancouver for a show on November 17. Weee!

In other music news, I had a really productive session with Rick last week, and have posted some works in progress on my Myspace site for you to check out. Listen to Just a Memory and a new version of Notice Me.

Lastly, I have been thinking about these cool art challenges abounding in blogland, and how my weekly Music Monday is my own art challenge to myself, so I was thinking I would open it up and see if anyone else wants to join me. I'll post the lyric now, and then next Monday after I post the art piece, if you want to add your interpretation in the comments that would be great! Any art style welcome, you can use the text in the piece or not, whatever you feel inspired to do.

The lyric for next week comes from the One Republic song Come Home off their album Dreaming Out Loud. I have been listening to this song a lot lately, and I love this line:

I get lost in the beauty of everything I see
The world ain't half as bad as they paint it to be


Isn't that gorgeous? It perfectly expresses what I am trying to achieve both in my life and with this blog. Choosing to focus on what is good and beautiful in this world, instead of listening to the haters and doomsayers.

Look to the light, all.

Joyelle