Pre-visualization with Photoshop
25 09, 16 Filed in: Watercolor
| I wanted to continue painting in a fantasy series that I had started a while ago. I envisioned a fairy standing on a begonia leaf, reaching skywards for the flowers to fall down on her. The problem was to get the correct scale for this imaginary vision. Since I have a large begonia plant, I took a photo of that. | 
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| Then I took a photo of a doll placed on a fabric-draped chair in the correct position was taken (there is thread tied around her neck to keep her upright). I took care that the lighting was from the same direction so that I could include the doll's shadow in my planning. By photographing the background and doll separately I was able to scale the doll to the desired size in the next step. | 
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| The photos of the background (flipped horizontally), the doll and butterfly wings were then combined in Photoshop Elements to create an image of my vision. | 
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| I choose to do this painting in watercolor, and I laid in the background and then the greenery, leaving the fairy to the end. | 
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| I call this painting Flower Shower. You can order prints from my Fantasy gallery at Fine Art America. | 
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