This is an original one. I took this one on this morning. These butterflies do stay here during winter and that's why the first ones can be rather light and crispy, but this one looks quite good. It has found a good tree hole where to stay during winter.
That's my painting. Look at the layers by clicking the image.
The original snail.
I start by making levels and curves adjustment layers.Then I merged down layers and took a copy of it. Then Cut Out filter and draw a path with a pen tool of the background layer. Made a mask on the cut out layer and add couple of layers for details, which I draw using several brushes like spatter brush, but I took smoothing away and add scattering to it. Then I made the new background by using art history brush using Tight Curl Long and byRO's Oil Colors brush.
03.09.2010 20:10