Milkweed - Challenge-Repost

Gallery: Photo ArtPosted July 7, 201161 views8 comments

As I'm sitting in my drawing class today, I had an idea of combining my pen and ink drawing and a photograph of the same plant. One of my issues is that my drawing was done in a small journal.

After class I photographed the plant, a single stem from a milkweed plant, and then I photographed the page from my journal. Now how to combine the two? And then I decided I wanted to add some text to the image and possibly some texture overlay.

I created a new file for the text, using various fonts. I enhanced the image of the milkweed in Viveza to bring out the colors and brightness. Then I enhanced the image of my pen and ink drawing and resized it to fit the flower image. I placed the text file on top of the flower and then I placed the pen and ink drawing file on top of that. Once I was happy with all the placements I then added Citron Vert texture overlay with a blending mode set at Multiply and opacity at 68%. Once more back in Viveza to brighten it up just a bit.

I think this was time well spent to try something new, but I welcome your comments and thoughts. I'll post the original images of the flower and the pen and ink drawing.

Comments? Thoughts?

Comments

8 comments

Comment posted by Barbara Sammons on July 7, 2011 at 4:35 PM

Here is the original image of the milkweed.

Registered on September 20, 2009, 109 Posts, 323 Comments

Comment posted by Barbara Sammons on July 7, 2011 at 4:36 PM

And here is the original image of my pen and ink drawing.

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Comment posted by Carol Hyman on July 7, 2011 at 9:08 PM

Barbara, I think this would make a great poster.

I'm intrigued with your final result.

Carol

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Comment posted by Barbara Sammons on July 7, 2011 at 10:43 PM

Hi Carol, thanks for taking a view of this image. I'm very happy with the end result. I like your idea of a poster or possibly note cards. Thanks again for stopping by.

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Comment posted by David W. Kelly on July 8, 2011 at 9:51 AM

This is awesome Barbara. My only suggestion would be to not have the printing on top of the flower.

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Comment posted by Barbara Sammons on July 8, 2011 at 6:25 PM

Thank to all for viewing. I have gone back to my image and removed the text that was sitting on top of the plant as well as parts of the pen and ink drawing. I think I've lost some of the detail on the pen and ink, but I'll work on that some more. I also replaced a few of the words.

Thoughts? Comments? Thanks again for viewing

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Comment posted by David W. Kelly on July 10, 2011 at 6:55 PM

I really like the changes Barbara.

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Comment posted by Barbara Sammons on July 10, 2011 at 11:11 PM

Thanks David. I agree, I like the repost. I printed it out on glossy notecard stock and it makes just a lovely card. Thanks for the suggestion. I am working on a new one now of some patty pan squash. Maybe I'm on to something here??? Thanks again to all who stopped by to take a view.

Registered on September 20, 2009, 109 Posts, 323 Comments