Olde Saint Nicholas Baseball T-Shirt

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Olde Saint Nicholas is a photograph I took in our dining room. The original Saint Nicholas was born, according to my research anyway, sometime between 270 and 280 AD and was known to be generous, loved children and became a Christian Bishop. Lore has it that he tossed gold into a poor young girl's window to provide her a suitable dowry. The story continues that the gold landed in shoes or perhaps it landed in stockings! These stories contribute to Saint Nicholas becoming known as Santa Claus! I did lots of digital manipulation to my photograph, then put it through a digital paint process and then one more step of digital manipulation to achieve this painterly rendering (in my Paintique collection).

God has given me this gift and being a Christian, I always give Him all the glory for allowing me the opportunity of sharing it with you. More often than not, the purposes of my photographs are the result of seeing beyond what is drawing me to grab my camera. It is like an extra sense and when they are loaded to my computer, their purposes are revealed and thus the process begins. This revelation walks happily hand in hand with my desire to learn more digital creative techniques, explore and experiment with the end result enhancing what originally captures my eye. I continue to grow, both in my interests and skills and am now offering abstract and even digital artwork that are created totally through manipulations in a variety of artistic...