Sepia Wood

I enjoy the process of blending two images together, so today 

I had a little play after not using photoshop for two weeks to see how much 

information I retained.

I'm happy to say it all came back fairly easy.

The above image is of a tree rubbing that I did, then gave it a watercolour wash.

I've used this image before in other works.

Here I used the watercolour filter on the rubbing, then added the tree

image and reduced the opacity to make it transparent.

With this image I used the graphic pen, which changed the colour and added texture.

Wild Wood

I went wandering along the Yarra River a little while ago,

and took along some paper, pastels and crayons in my satchel.

I was looking for interesting subjects to Frottage.

Frottage is a bit of a fancy name for a rubbing.

This is crayon with a watercolour wash.

My photo of a cool looking tree covered in moss.

My tree then when through some Photoshop treatment.

I adjusted the levels, exposure and gamma correction.

Then I added a conte crayon filter.

The images were then merged together, but I had to then adjust the levels on the rubbing for it to make a bolder impact. From here I then used Illustrator for the final touches.

I gave the image a title and added some shapes with the ellipse tool and multiplied them.

They were then made transparent to show the image behind.