Last week I made use of Bonnie’s texture ‘ Bamboo dreams’ simply because it fitted so well with my camellia phototart. Since this friday’s theme suggestion is to create an image with this very texture, I had to scour around for another suitable subject.
1st attempt at edits – click to enlarge
I chose the faux temple garden area, off Warwick Lane (at the back of the Old Bailey) but even after soft watercolouring and overlaying the texture, it is obvious that the whole just does not gel. The windows of the distant building are inappropriate whilst the left to right slant of the view works contrary to the symmetrical lines of the ‘bamboo dreams’ texture.
sequence of edits -click to enlarge
The answer was a 180 degree effect (2) which copies and flips vertical the left hand half. Immediately this created a desired symmetry thought it still felt unfinished, even after the addition of the texture (3). On a flight of fancy, I added a ‘Chinese fan’ SPE effect which nicely encases the image but adds a dull, plain background. My solution was to first save it and then import the jpg as another layer, with a ‘saturate’ opacity. This blended nicely, doing away with the realism of the fan and creating a golden arc which sits centrally on the foreground ‘cushion’ of the hedging.
All that was left to do was restore some of the greenery of the original, so a ‘Spring dusk’ SPE effect did just that, determining the title of my photoart, to hang in this week PAF gallery
Spring dusk – click to enlarge
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PDPA free textures: ‘bamboo dreams‘
Wow! Very impressive processing and the final result is gorgeous.
thank you Stephanie – pleased to have the best of both with 3 +4
Wonderful art! Love it!
thank you – have yet to try it as a print Birgitta and that is my litmus test
So creative! Love it. Thank you for sharing your artwork with Photo Art Friday!
Friday would not be the same without your theme Bonnie
just extraordinary!! I love your process and how thoughty it all was/is. sometimes I really wonder where someone came up with an idea and you have given me a gorgeous peek inside your brilliant brain!!!
bit of a trained rat brain often Currie- with a lot of trial and error. This edit mostly fell into place without too many ‘gos’
p.s. I wanted to thank you, too, for your delicious comments, but I don’t seem to BE able to find any email for you, so I will thank you out loud here and hope you’ll help me communicate with you via email. I always learn so much from your treasures!!
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So creative and you have done a great job with explaining your process as well. Appreciate that very much.
I like to record the process, even when it does not work out 1st time!
for some reason this reminded me of what I used to work with.
But this is more artful. 
Nice work.
intriguing and thank you
Wow you really thought this through. So many steps but your final piece is very cohesive. I think I like the piece within the fan the most though.
I nearly stopped it there but wanted more of the origianl back Ida
Goodness, if you hadn’t shown all the steps I would never have believe you could turn that photo into the final result. Amazing.
artful is smart photo editor Janet!
Wow, that’s just … the way you’ve reworked the original to create something entirely new and so… brilliant! So creative, and so beautifully done!
I’m sorry for the ramblings that my “recipe” turned into; I’m afraid it was my brain that was cluttered – perhaps more so than the image, actually… Thanks for your lovely words nonetheless!
thank you for your exuberance Anna, with your lovely words and your own creativity!