Destruction Island Night Magic - Viking Visual Art Mini-Tutorial

I was talking with Hive account@jamerussell this morning about where my photo/artistic abilities end... In particular, we were talking about my lovely friend Hive account@daring-celt who did a marvellous painting based on one of the pictures I took of the Grand Tetons last summer. She also sells her work on MakersPlace which looks very interesting for sure, but probably isn't quite right for me.

Still, I felt the challenge to create something unique from one of my photos... Here is today's creation:

Creative Process

Today's work was done 100% on Gimp. I began with this picture I shared a few weeks ago - of Destruction Island off the Washington coast.

I utilized 5 separate layers on Gimp.
I created a reflection of the island itself...
I replaced the sky with a Pixabay image of the cosmos.
I created a reflection of the cosmos picture as well and placed it behind the island/sea layers.
I created a separate layer with just the sea, which I set at 70% opacity so that the cosmos would appear to be "reflected" in the water.
I probably could have done a bit better with it still, but I love the result I achieved anyway.

Here it is again - along with where you can obtain this work on products, canvas or just a digital file.

(Image available at RedBubble and DeviantArt

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Photo is mine, taken in 2019 on my Pentax K30.
The cosmos image is from Pixabay.
All editing work done by myself on: Gimp
Cross-posted on: Steem, Whaleshares, WeKu

Past A'mara Books tutorials:

• Map Development for Alacantis (on GIMP), part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4
• Cover image for Acting the Part
• Cover image for Brighid's Blood (part of the update).
• Cover image for Birth of the Neví, part 1, part 2
• Map Development for Velantia, part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4
• Map Development for Kranisis, part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4
• Cover Image for Name of the Neví, part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5, part 6
• Beginning with Daz 3D Studio - my cover image for Mind of the Neví: part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, changes
• Cover image for Game of the Neví, part 1, part 2, part 3
• Cover image for Pawn of the Neví, part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5
• Cover image for Freyja's Fire, part 1 , part 2 , part 3 , part 4 , part 5

DAZ 3D tutorials (not A'mara Books related):

Organizing Daz 3D Studio content ,

Photo salvages:

Droplet, Bellis Daisy, Baby Blue Flowers, version 1, version 2, 2-Spot Ladybug, version 1, version 2, Bridge Over River Kennet

Coloring Tutorials & Mini-tutorials:

Zen colouring #43, Zen colouring #39, Zen colouring #38, Zen colouring #37, Zen colouring #36, Zen colouring #35, Zen colouring #34, Zen colouring #33,

Butterfly Colouring #11, Butterfly Colouring #10

Halloween Artwork:

2018 - Pumpkin Patch Harvest
2019 - Haunted Pumpkin House, Jack-o-Lantern Forest Cemetery, Shadow in a Misty Forest

Miscellaneous Artwork:

Painting Wooded Easter Eggs

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Lori Svensen
author/designer at A'mara Books
photographer/graphic artist for Viking Visual
(Buy my work at RedBubble)
verified author on Goodreads
find me on Twitter
blogging on: Steem, Whaleshares, WeKu

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