And so..after spending nearly 8 hours on a different composition out of the flowers of the rosemary photograph, I couldn't get it just right, but knew something was there. I couldn't let it go, despite intending to. Took out another copy of the flowers alone, (I am learning slowly the benefit of keeping copies of every major step and component) extracted off the rosemary bush and in an hour and half ended up with the following piece of work. Of course, the hours and hours of pixel level extraction off the photograph I guess should be included in the time. Anyway, it just goes to show, art is a living thing, it can't be forced and once loosed, it flows smoothly. Not a bad result I don't think after the hours of frustration not knowing what I was looking for. I felt rather as a painter, a sculpture all of it, in search of the hidden treasure. That is how I approach this.
Original photo taken yesterday afternoon.....
rosemary by
-jorden, on Flickr
Unexpected surprise....
rosemary flower composition by
-jorden, on Flickr
Edit: By the way...I was amazed, astounded as I worked late last night at the pixel level...at the colors within what seems to be a simple light light blue flower...bold blues and greens, oranges and reds, I learned a lot about the colors within nature last night.