Dias de los Muertos

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Dias de las Muertos Gown with Headpiece

Dias de los Muertos an entrancing gothic gown in deep lush black satin with a deep crimson red perfect for the day of the dead. The fabric is trimmed with a deep red lace  skulls and crimson roses.  The set includes an aline skirt with overlay adorned with sculpted skulls and crimson roses,  also included is a set of hand painted gothic wings and a rose and skull head dress with a shimmery black lace tulle veil.  An optional blood splattered top is also included.  This gown is on sale this weekend for %50 off.  Shown with the Vanya hair.

Available at my Main shop Sparkle Skye Designs

he Day of the Dead (El Día de los Muertos or All Souls' Day) is a holiday celebrated by Latin Americans. The holiday focuses on gatherings of family and friends to pray for and remember friends and family members who have died.  To lear more go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day_of_the_Dead

Sophisticated Romance - Eternal Love

Eternal Love with Train

Eternal Love Aline Train

Eternal Love Ball Gown

The Eternal love gown is a beautiful 24 piece ensemble with silver & pearl jeweled details trimmed with a delicate lace and a gossamer overlay of a sheer silk chiffon.

The set includes A cathedral gown, A-line gown with long train, ball gown, tea dress optional long sheer sleeves with lace appliques, lace wrist, prim rose & lace chiffon sleeves. All skirts come an optional sparkling overlay and can be worn without the chiffon overlays as well. Also included is the Heart of the Ocean Tiara, a medium length veil, long veil and blusher.
A Rose and diamond jeweled chest piece with diamond hearts complete this gorgeous set.

If you wish to see the gown in world visit our
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Eternal Love set 2

Eternal Love Aline with Train

Eternal Love Tea dress

The Eternal love gown is a 24 piece set by Sparkle Skye featured with the Vanya Hair available now at the Main shop Sparkle Skye Designs or at our new Bridal Salon by Sparkle Skye

Toyz for Big Boyz

Ever wanted to experience the trains of yesteryear? Visit our beautiful working replicas of Steam, Diesel & Electric Trains and experience the most sophisticated railway system in SL, complete with signalling, multi-car trains, automatic or manual switches and much much more!

This has been a long several month project that is finally read to open come ride the trains and explore the sim a great place for the guys in your life to have some fun!

http://slurl.com/secondlife/ImaginBoyzToyz/50/87/25

Sophia

Finally got some hair done Sophia is a sophisticated chignon the sweeps the hair softly to the side adorned with diamonds featuring and optional soft sparkle.

Available now at:
Sparkle Skye Designs

Fairytales and happy endings?

This is the last one of the series I had to paint for my class, the assignment was to take something and recreate it with your own vision. It could be a famous painting, iconic image, fairytale pretty much whatever you wanted. There were some very creative ideas presented at the final critique there was a satirical painting of the last supper but with Jesus sitting at a table alone at McDonald's under a fast food sign.

I had a few different ideas that I wanted to work from so decided to combine two of them I always liked the stairs to heaven image and I wanted to incorporate a fairytale. I saw the play Wicked not to long ago and decided that I would make my stairs a brick road before Glenda has gone to the Emerald city my story is she walking along the brick road and the leaves are falling around her and as she walks along the road her magic turns the lave on the road to gold and it becomes the yellow brick road. Haha well its a bit of a stretch but its my little story to meet the assignment.

I was thrilled with how this one turned out I ended up abandoning Painter for this painting I was short on time and getting frustrated so this is completely painted in photoshop. Ill keep hacking away at painter but its definitely going to require more time and patience. There are a couple areas that I may go back and rework on the girl but overall I'm satisfied with the result. The original is 11 by 17 150 dpi done in photoshop.

My happy ending is I got an A in the class yayyy! Hope you have enjoyed seeing these.

Desire

Just quick post been sick since Christmas I wanted to get these gowns out they are great for your New Years Celebration. The Desire gown is made of a soft shimmery metallic chiffon with lace detail and delicate organza prim flowers that adorn the skirt and bodice. Included in the set are a BallGown, Aline Gown, Day dress and a tea dress with a chiffon overlay as well as an optional sparkling overlay.

Available at
Sparkle Skye Designs

Dualities and some more meandering

Deep in the forest

A few posts ago I mentioned I had an assignment to create a diptych (technically these are 2 paintings or panels that work together) of dualites. Most times these are a continuation of a theme or a story and relate to each other, however our teacher decided that he wanted two images were opposites of each other but had some kind of link, Some examples would be life, death, young, old etcetera. It took me a long time to come up with a concept for these mostly because I didnt really want to do opposites, I wanted to do something along the lines of the panels you see in the iconic russian art, that what came to mind when I thought of drawings that are panels of linked image or some of the beautiful Japanese art prints. Needless to say I dawdled and dawlded cause everything seemed to be either to cliche, blah or not fit the assignment criteria.

Finally out of desperation I ended up settling on doing landscapes that were opposite in location, feeling and technique. Deep in the forest was mostly done in photoshop this time I did it after I did the LightHouse at sea. I love how this one came out with the dark moody feeling of the deep dark forest it makes me wonder what is lurking out there in the woods.

Lighthouse on the Ocean

The light house painting was done entirely in Painter and to be honest is not a finished as it should be I spent so many hours on those darn clouds and I am still not happy with them, by the time I got to the light house I was fed up and wanted to be done so I rushed through and did a very loose painting of the light house and rocks.

What I discovered from this is Painter is hard! I can move so fast in photoshop and painter takes me so much longer, I am sure this is still lack of familiarity of how to get the tools and brushes to give me the results I want, I have seen some beautiful work done using painter but I am a long way off from what I would call competent. The second thing I discovered it so sucks to paint things you arent interested in. I really didnt want to paint a lighthouse lol so that probably made it so much harder. I think its important to try to do things out of your comfort zone to help you grow and develop as an artist (but its probably better not to on a deadline for your final projects).

Both paintings are 11 by 17 300 dpi- Kinkos does a great job printing on color stock by the way if anyone needs a place they also do calenders and all kinds of fun things you can print your own art work and photos on.

I have been able to get som gowns done but not in all their colors I tried to get them out for Christmas but that just want happening this time, hopefully Ill get them out this weekend.