In mythology, rose meaning is associated with Aphrodite, the Greek goddess of love who was often depicted adorned with roses around her head, feet and or neck. The most common interpretation is that the rose symbolizes an immortal love or a union that will never fade.

Here are some photographs I recently took of roses, they are so moody and muted in colour {click on images to enlarge} If you would like to see more, they are a part of my heirlooms set ...

Just some of my photographs made into 'antique' photographs ... {click on the image to view}

Inspiration: palimpsest.

Here are some paintings I started working on yesterday evening. The paintings are in antique frames. I plan to paint layer upon layer, leaving traces of the previous layers, so they show through. This is the first layer, I'm just showing my work in progress ...

Inspiration: Nature. For Father's Day we went on a two hour nature walk as a family ... It was such a nice walk around the river with a cool break under a shaded tree ... I took some of the shots from our walk and made these...

I made a couple variations of this photograph of crows sitting on a wire ...



And combined this photograph with another I shot the other day ...


And here are some flowers I picked up at the Farmers' Market this morning ...

A couple pictures I took outside of Bragg Creek today - a sunny pasture with llamas and horses ...



Check out chealseArt ... Chelsea Groves makes bird art (collages + linocuts) Here's a sample of her collage work:

(wedding wrens 11 x 14)

Jessie Chorley's Mon Marriage is a beautiful vintage + antique inspired wedding collection. Here is a selection from her wedding range:

I especially like this piece, silk corsage ...

Inspiration: love quotes and an antique wedding theme.

Here are a couple new images I have been working on. I added this love quote:

When you are in Love you can't fall asleep because reality is better than your dreams. - Dr. Seuss



I love wedding work, especially making wedding bouquets. This is the first wedding season in over ten years that I am not doing wedding work and I am really missing it! Here is a little sample I put together, the flower bouquets and the lollipop image are my work ... the other images are not, but I'm using them to show a colour palette of pinks and blues.

The best thing about me is you. -Shannon Crown

Today's inspiration: a whole lot of love and a whole lot of heart ....

I made this with shape collage...these are pictures of all things I love!

MY HEART

Could make for a fun home project ...

Here is 'love me, love me not' heart necklace I made a while back ... The arrow spins to reveal your fortune ... I believe I still have one available for purchase ...

I love the following two heart images...

(artist - unknown)

(artist - unknown)

And this is definitely someone we heart ...

And another picture I took about a month ago. It looked like an old photograph, so I simply antiqued it further ...

Here are a couple new photographs, I am experimenting a little more in photoshop to make the images appear more raw. More of my photographs.




I really like the following two artists for their amazing line work...

Jason Thielke




Gabriel Moreno




And just something fun to play around with...Autodesk's Project Dragonfly is a free floor plan software, which is extremely user friendly and fun to design with.

This cabinet pictured below is called Monster... I love it! Ellen Seegers designed this unique piece together with Jolanda Slegers.


Bloesem Kids is probably the best blog for children's design, everything on here is absolutely fantastically adorable!

This bamboo bird mobile by petit collage is so cute...


Graphic designer and illustrator Tutti Shafir makes beautiful and cute prints...

Here are some scans and photographs I have been working on lately, I am loving the antique look with touches of colour ...

As promised, here are a couple pictures from my photo shoot with Zachari and Barrett today. I edited all the naked body parts out and antiqued the pictures afterwards. Both guys looked very stoic in the photographs, and true to the real definition as well. It was very cold where we were photographing and they don't seem to be affected at all.


I recently discovered Spanish photographer Eugenio Recuenco. He mainly photographs for fashion and advertising. He sets up these elaborate backdrops and then manipulates his photographs afterwards, which creates a cinematographic style to his work. I especially love these works of his, because they are very macabre. Below are some more of his recent photographs with fairytale narratives.