I have been working on this for some time. Between problems with the old computer and not
taking many tutorials on texture, going by what I've learned as I've been blogging along here, this is
what I came up with. The idea began with a quote challenge, but I was not ready. I first superimposed the image of the woman in Berthe Morisot's impressionistic painting, Reading (1874) and a gramophone separately onto the scene (which is a view from my back yard looking south across the creek). \
Using a "painterly finesse" texture of Bonnie's and then a Shakespearean texture, I tried to blend or fade them into one. I erased the area where I wanted the focus because the various settings of opacity (overlay, multiply, normal,) that I tried did not give me the desired result.......either too much light, not enough, or loss of lettering. I am using Pixlr only right now since Picnk closed, where I knew how to get the desired effect. Then, of course, I added a
favorite quote. It's a learning process...but it's fun to see ideas materialize
on canvas, albeit digital ;-) BTW, I won't be able to comment on other 'painters' blogs until tomorrow.
