His Eyes Were Watching Godivia | LMAC Collage FreeStyle No. 79

Each week, the LMAC Community run by Hive account@shaka holds a collage contest round for its members to participate. In the Community, you'll discover a variety of themed contest entries submitted for consideration in the contest. Hopefuls anxiously await result indicating where their creative collage scenes will be chosen for the final round of competition. If you'd like to participate, just visit the LMAC Community account here for details on the latest contest.

The LMAC Community also offers an opportunity for members to create "freestyle" collage themes and post to the Community. In the freestyle option, you have more freedom to design your creations without having to incorporate the weekly contest photo. You still, however, have rules in which you must abide by when posting to the Community.

For my Freestyle Collage No. 79, my theme is eyes forever watchful.

Inside the prism of his soul, the vision of her rose until his mind filled with wonder. Could this be real? He shook his head, then opened his eye. But he could not look upon her face. Through the window she stared back. The knowledge of his pain throughout the years flooded her heart.

As Godivia wept, his eyes filled with the flowers' bloom cascading down his cheek. Instantly, his socket turned the color of her favorite flower, Tulip.

He smiled understanding his soul would now soar with hers.

In preparing my theme, I discovered a unique abstract half facial granite statue. It's unusual features immediately drew me to the possibilities of a story. My first question was "what was he staring at"? My answer came in a lovely photo of a female staring back.

Below are the additional images I included that for me I felt added a romantic vibe to the scene. I also added a water landscape feature:

• LMAC Round 199 Original Contest Image Source

• Eye, rock, water and tears at PxFuel

• Ducks in water Contributed to the #LIL by @redheadpei

• White duck Contributed to the #LIL by @redheadpei

• White gull in flight Contributed to the #LIL by @redheadpei

• Blue flower Contributed to the #LIL by @edgarafernandezp

• Tulip by NiaLoader at PurePNG

• Pure Fractal titled "Eye of the Swirl" created by me in Apophysis

In my design program, Canva, I uploaded the images in order to blend the scene. Below are my procedures that you can view how I utilize the tools available to me in my upgraded Annual Pro Membership Subscription.

To a blank, white canvas, I added the granite sculpture.

I wanted sculpture as the background, so I duplicated it to fill the screen. This procedure was time consuming as I didn't want to stretch the image because I would add the house and landscape features later. I left an opening for the female as though the man was looking through the window.

Added the fractal flower to the eye of the statue. Added the female image, then removed background.

Added the beautiful moon, tree, fog image at a foreground partially hiding the female.

Added the final landscape water scene.

Added the ducks to the water and the bird to the skyline.

Added the tulip. Duplicated, colorized, then resized and repositioned them. Then added the blue flower. Completed the project.

I share with you below my completed freestyle collage:

Thanks for your visit. I appreciate it. I hope you like my freestyle collage theme.