Bonnie’s suggestion for this PAF was straightforward – create something with her free texture: ‘Rice Paper‘. The title immediately suggested something Oriental but also, I felt that in order for the highly-defined texture to be made best use of, it needed an image with a large, spatial background. Thus I tried out several possibilities before finding one that worked.
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Japanese gardens frequently include Clematis and it is easy to see why, for when a trailing strand escapes the vine, it does so with all the wisp-like gracefulness of a Geisha girl.
Such modest beauty needs little adornment and so after some minor adjustments to the original image, a watercolor SPE effect was added. This created a paler, smoother edit over which the texture was layered, in a 75% hard light opacity. Boosting both lighting and colour in a final tweak, resulted in a pretty simple piece of photo art, which I am hanging in the PAF gallery
Pretty simple
Like these pretty simple pictures, the watercolor effect is most beautiful.
thank you anki – I like it with and without the texture
This is absolutely a work of art howbeit in the photographic field.
Amazing piece of art. Bravo
thank you Sherwood – if I could paint, this is how I would want it to look
love this. especially your insights. I like the thought BEhind your art. sometimes just “hearing” someone else describe their process I come to see mine in a new way!!
thanks for your comment on my PAF. you encouraged me.
thinking out loud is part of the sharing Currie and hence we egg each other on
Simple, but oh, so very beautiful! P. x
a favourite plant Pam – just need a garden now
Love your photo art!
thank you Birgitta – I do enjoy PAF
beautiful~
merci Lisa
wow! this is beautiful!
thank you Ewa
Your photo work made clematis so beautiful and even more graceful.
the montanas are particlarly graceful though, aren’t they, Amy
Amazingly gorgeous captures and compositions, Laura. I love the three images side by side. Perfect application for Brown Rice Paper. ;->
I like to outline the consecutive changes I make before the finale, Lissa.
Lovely!
thank you Roberta
So beautiful! I love your processing on this…thank you for sharing.
made a change from my usual multi-processing Sherri -
What a beautiful piece, laura! Love the collage as a stand alone piece too.
your texture makes a great background for the collage, Bonnie
Your techniques are wonderful….this could be a painting! Lovely!
thnaks Jan – will print it out and see how it looks on the wall
Oh I really like this one..reminds me of some of the art my Mother always liked..Michelle
your Mother had a great eye for the Oriental, Michelle
This is stunning! Love the finished piece and the collage showing the progression was a great idea.
glad you thought so Ida – not much processing for a change!
I think I like the middle image best. Lovely photo.
the watercolor effect is very effectve
I really love this one. The colours and the effect…smooth, yet not emotionless.
nice way of putting it – the emotion is embeded in the history of this old church wall too
How did I miss this! So pretty (love the textures and colours)
I nearly missed the shot as the eye does not always catch on to the simplicities
wo wo wow… what so lovely fflowers !
and yet so simple. Thank you