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05/09/2015 - Spring Garden Dreams

5/9/2015

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The Daily Texture for 05/09/2015
Spring Garden Dreams

Spring Garden Dreams Texture
Bluebird On A Spring Day
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Today's Daily Texture is another spring one, filled with beautiful spring greens and touches of other spring colors.  I used this texture on the bluebird photo {left}, first as a background, and then as a layer on top.  I placed the bird photo on top of the texture and masked away the background, blending things softly with the branches.  After I was satisfied with the blending, I duplicated the texture layer and placed it on top, setting it to soft light at 50%.  That finished out the photo art.

I didn't stop there, however.  I was inspired to continue on with this piece and turn it into a painted work of art.  I've seen a lot of people who purchase the textures using them as backgrounds for their digital paintings, and I decided to do that with this work.  Below is my finished painting, which started with the finished photo above.  I took the merged image into my digital painting program and started playing with brushes and colors.  I chose to make the painting a bit warmer in color overall, and I'm really pleased with how it turned out.  Using the photo merged with the texture gave me a great starting point for this painting, so I can see why others are doing this -- because it works really well! :)
Spring Bluebird Painting
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