on the hunt - 119

[earthmother45]

Two red bellied woodies in a kapok tree . . . Here's the end result of a photo I took today that I thought had good bones and might be worth saving. It had some nice qualities, but was kind of ho-hum. Once I got into it, I really had fun and thought I'd try and make it look like a painting of sorts. I worked on it in Elements using a few of the

Comments

[egg_shell]

Oh wow - miraculous! This really worked well. I can see you did a lot of moving of elements and creation of parts yourself too.

[earthmother45]

It was like painting on canvas. The original picture was my beginning idea or rough sketch on a canvas, and Elements was my box of paint tubes and brushes. I really like this method of "photo painting" which I'll call it for awhile until I can think of a better word for it.

[kabuldur]

Oh wow, what a difference! I like your treatment of the leaves. I can see you have moved around some elements, too!

[earthmother45]

I really had so much fun "creating" the new picture. It kind of took me back to my roots of painting on canvas.