I love tall ships, I think theyre the most beautiful things on the water. When I was little I would spend hours drawing them. I would have them on stormy seas, in calm waters and lots of times full sail. I would imagine pirates and their treasures. All of it seemed so romantic to me at the time. Sometimes I would even add a whale. I remember one drawing in particular where the viewer was peaking at a tall ship at anchor through tree branches. I wish I still had those drawings.

ArtPlay Palette NobleArtPlayPaletteNoble
ArtsyTransfers NobleArtsyTransfersNoble
Remember WordART Mix No. 1RememberWordARTMixNo.1
ButtonThreadz No. 2ButtonThreadzNo.2
Oasis No. 2OasisNo.2
LightLeaks No. 3LightLeaksNO.3
CoolGlows No. 1CoolGlowsNo.1
FotoGlow Mix No. 2TravelAmericasNo.1
MultiMedia Arrows No. 1MultiMediaArrowsNo.1
Fonts: Linesman Regular and Jellyka Saint Andrews Queen
Photo: Public Domain

Process Notes: With an action I made the photo into an illustration and placed it on solid paper 5 and then moved in several artsy transfers and glows over and underneath the photo, blending to create a stormy atmosphere.

Using the bits and pieces of the psd artsy transfers I rotated, resized and blended away, all of it very experimental. There is no set recipe for doing any of this, its just play time.

I brought in the oasis stamp and placed it at the bottom left resizing and clipping a cool glow to it, leaving it on Normal blend mode and turning down the opacity. I added the map at the bottom right, recoloring, resizing and turning down the opacity. At the top left corner I tucked in the word art and map, recoloring, blending to Multiply and turning down the opacity.

Adding the title, button, button thread, arrows and float completes the layout. Most of this layout consists of the artsy transfers, theyre a lot of fun to use.