Friday, March 13, 2009

First art piece done



I've not yet come up with a name.

I cut up a photo, and blurred out the features a little to get a smooth otherworldly quality.

I tweaked the black in the iris a little to make it darker and increased the rise and fall to the right of the eye to make her more dramatic. Removed any blemish from the white of the eye and spread the grey skin to the left of the iris.

Finally, I took some pictures of feathers (some cocky feathers from our regular visitors on the veranda) ... trimmed them down and reduced their size, then positioned them over the arch of the eye. I found the lovely green feather image on a free stock website stock.xchange and added that for a little color.

The result is better than I'd hoped for, dark and a little abstract.