Creative interpretations: Flowers - Poppies

[JustChecking]

Originally Posted by pjb

poster edge on flower
lighting effect on stems and background then put a impressionist screen blending

wow, that looks great! reminds me a lot of the watercolour paintings on the raw (handmade) paper with inking we did at arts school (hope you understand i don't mean it as insult, though i've been 10 at that time ;-) )

[kiska]

Another trip around 'ps world'.
kiska

[Cheryl H]

I love poppies--they are so photogenic. I also enjoy that they lend themselves to both strong and soft interpretations-as the submissions so far show.

I used my ink and thin water color action. Basically several impressionist layers (tinfoil, thick paint, and fossil) blended together and topped with a find edges layer. I added a glaze layer (render clouds followed by impressionist and mostly masked out) in screen mode at reduced opacity to lighten the image.

[pjb]

JustChecking- thank you for your kind comments.

[JustChecking]

you're welcome pjb!


i tried a pontilistic style here (if the impress plug-in does some kinda "the same" thing, sorry; i don't have it, so donnow...)

i applied artistic->"paint dubs" w/ medium sized brush and high contrast, then artistic->"rough pastels" w/ high detail and medium sized strokes [maybe this phase could've been left out...]; duplicated the layer, and set the upper one to "hard light", and applied distort->"glass" to it (frosted, smooth 2, distort 5)

the rescaling smoothed it a lot... better try it at home ;-)