not something new but i still like it
Best seen bigger..click on the image for full view





The Original Photo was not mine but from http://www.flickr.com/photos/two-wrongs/

And is this

those are amazing PC.....

Love those gargoyles. They are so fine.

I just noticed something odd with the "original" gargoyle pic. the background generally looks 'far away' except for the lower left corner. That looks textured and very close, like a studio backdrop. Wierd.

Very scary looking Gargoyle.

I believe that is not a real stone Gargoyle, but a paper papier pulp/ paper mache copy of a Gargoyle part of some travelling Circus attration
or some cheap "horror Museum"

and so also the BG was a fake, a gigantography or a paint , put behind it, and washed up by exposition to light and rain

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thank for the comments i have some more Gargoyles...

BIGGER ARE MUCH BETTER...so you may click on the images for a full size view

IMPRISONED GARGOYLE



LITTLE GARGOYLE

i lost reference for the original (A photo of sculpture left at the entrance of a bankrupted "Horror Museum" dedicated to Stephen King ) that anyway had the same compostion (but not same colors) of the first 2



STEP 1



STEP 2



LAST STEP




FUTURISMO






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Whoa! More scary critters. Those are great, PhotoComix!

I would love to have the little gargoyle in my garden!

THOSE ARE AWESOME!

photo comix: i agree with fullback66, these gargoyles really are awesome! my favourites are the imprisoned one, the last one and the blue one that's sort of on repeat. you always do a good job on the atmosphere in the pictures, pc!

oh what a nice surprise see this emerge from the sand of time to raise again on the surface !

I did that series long ago , before gmic , and i did also a bit as a joke :
in that period i was a mod in another gimp forum , gimptalk , and one of the Mod used Gargoyle as nick

So when i posted the series the title had originally a double meaning ... oh i think is till cool anyway , the idea of a joke was what ignited my creative process at that moment

And as always to get cool result, start from cool originals help a lot, i spend a lot of time browsing in search of interesting images ... not strictly to edit just to fuel , ready to form interesting combination (i.e. humm a new filter , should do that ..oh a moment where was that weird landscape ..that should be adapt !)...it is amazing how the mind tend to make nice associations if stimulated by playfulness (instead rigid rational self-imposed goals always lead straight into shame and disasters , at least in my very subjective experience )