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07/22/2015 - Peace In The Valley

7/22/2015

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The Daily Texture for 07/22/2015
Peace In The Valley

Peace In The Valley
Amish Wagon - horse and buggy painting
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Today's Daily Texture features glorious golds, greens, cream, brown and even a touch of light blue.  I used this texture with a small painting I just finished.  The original photo of this Amish horse and buggy was taken through the car window and was soft, slightly blurry and dull.  Despite the poor photo, it was clear enough for me to work from it to get the outline for a painting.  I painted just the horse and buggy - I didn't paint any of the road or surrounding scenery from the original photo.  After I finished, I had just a horse and buggy with a completely white background.  After making some color and sharpening adjustments to the painting, I then placed this texture on top of it as a new layer and set it to multiply layer mode.  This allowed the texture to fill in all of the white areas, giving me an instant background for my painting {which looks much better than the original background in the photo!}.  The multiply layer mode darkened my painting a little, and I could have masked some of that off the wagon, but I liked the way it looked a bit darker and more dramatic, so I left it alone.
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