A journey of thousand miles begins with a single step!
I made this LO for Marnie!
Using Anna Aspnes Artplay Palette wilderness!
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Across the miles word art from Anna Aspnes.
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I have used water color techniques for the flowers.
Step details of the technique.
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I duplicated the treated image and reduced it in side, then I have placed it just above the main focal flower image,
subsequently I placed among the layers of the flowers the animal image to facilitate the blending between both composites, that was treated with a combination of effects of a cutout filter, border edges and watercolor techniques.
I applied also a layer Multiply blending mode to the flowers and I used below a background paper from the Artplay Palette wilderness
I also used word art with a style applied to it with colors that were aligned with the overall composition.