For my Freestyle Collage No. 74, my theme is "Take Me Home". Do you ever wish that you could just flay away instantly somewhere to a peaceful time or place you remember as being comforting? Sometimes I remember childhood and certain aspects of it, like riding back to another state and visiting relatives who lived the simple life in the country compared to our hectic one in the city.
Looking out the window of the transit bus, thoughts of asking my parents to stay seemed urgent at the time. But once we arrived, within a few days of nagging insects and no indoor facilities, I was ready to return home. I did love going back and forth. Perhaps just the travel away from my everyday life in the city.
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I'd like to share with you my version of going home.
In preparing my theme, I envisioned first an ethereal atmosphere when either an angel or fairy would take me home on her shoulders. Once I located the image, I instantly knew it would work for my vision.
Also, I had in mind a recent LMAC original contest image of a house. It looked dilapidated and actually resembled a old motel I would see along the highway in small towns that are now old and worn, but still standing. I'd have to transform the home. I feel it worked well, but I had difficulty removing the background within my design program. Didn't want to waste too much time, so I decided to use the entire photo in a frame as shown below in my procedures.
Since the original angel image was a beautiful color with detail and flowers and a lovely skyline, I decided not to clutter it too much with other images. However, I wanted to adorn the angel, so I chose a few free-sourced images to add a pop of color and a bird or two which I love to add to my collage scenes.
Below are the additional images I included to complete my scene:
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Mushrooms by susannp4 at Pixabay
Checkered staircase by Jazella at Pixabay
Elephant on sticks Contributed to the #LIL by @eve66
Blue eye Contributed to the #LIL by @eve66
Surreal flower Contributed to the #LIL by @eve66
Angel sitting Contributed to the #LIL by @eve66
Pure Fractal titled "Cone Inward-Yellow" created by me in Apophysis
Once my images were assembled, blending them was achieved in Canva, my design program. Below you can see the tool I use in my upgraded Annual Pro Membership Subscription.
To a blank, white canvas, I added the angel image.
I resized the angel to fit three-fourths of the canvas since I wanted all the colors to use as the background. However, I didn't want to stretch the image too large, so I duplicated the bottom portion. Now it resembled a reflection of the top part of the angel's body.
I added the various accessory images, such as the bird, hair pieces, eye, and my fractal, then resized and repositioned them in various areas on the canvas. Removed the water background for the standing gull. Placing the gull in the tree branch and blending it with transparency was interesting. What I truly love was inserting the alien flowers in the angel's hair.
Added the LMAC image for the house.
Deciding where to place the image was key. I finally decided to put it on the back of the angel and the elongated elephant. I used a frame to insert the house in so it would fit properly on the angel's back. This completed the project.
I share with you my completed freestyle collage theme:
Thanks for your visit. I appreciate it. I hope you like my freestyle collage theme.
CONTEST RULES
IMPORTANT NOTICE:
| What is Let's Make a Collage? | It is a weekly photography and collage contest. |
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| Who created the contest? | @shaka is the contest owner. |
| What type of contest is it? | This Contest utilizes a single photo provided by the contest owner as the basis for you to create your own photo collage by adding to the photo provided. |
| What are the rules? | 1. Use as your starting point for your collage the photography provided by the contest owner. It is located on the contest owner's post for free use without any copyright protection. |
| 2. Entries are required to be posted to the LMAC community and must contain a link to the contest post. | |
| 3. Entries need to set the LMAC account (@lmac) as 20% beneficiary to be eligible for the dynamic component of the prize pool.; | |
| 4. Extra support with the LMAC trail to all collages where LIL assets have been included AND the respective LIL-contributors set as 2% beneficiaries; | |
| 5. By submitting your contribution you agree that your artwork remains public domain and that it can be copied, modified and distributed, even for commercial purposes, without requiring further permission. | |
| 6. Any graphical element that is added to the photography either needs to be your own original work (e.g. own artwork or photography) OR needs to derive from sites whitelisted by LMAC. | |
| 7. IMPORTANT: Indicate the source of all materials used in your accompanying post. Otherwise your entry can NOT be put up for the final vote. | |
| 8. All sort of editing, modification and/or manipulation is allowed as long as no copyright is affected. | |
| What do you win? | Prizes listed on the contest owner's post. |
SOURCES:
a) JustClickindiva's Footer created in Canva utilizing its free background and images used with permission from discord admins.
b) Unless otherwise noted, all photos taken by me with my (i) Samsung Galaxy 10" Tablet, (ii) Samsung Phone, & (iii) FUJI FinePix S3380 - 14 Mega Pixels Digital Camera
c) Purple Butterfly part of purchased set of Spiritual Clip Art for my Personal Use
d) All Community logos, banners, page dividers used with permission of Discord Channel admins.
e) Ladies of Hive banner used with permission of and in accordance with the admin's guidelines
f) Thumbnail Image created by me in Canva.
g) "Flames." What is Apophysis 2.09. https://flam3.com/
If translation included, I use DeepL to assist my readers.
Thanks for your patience an understanding.