With Easter on its way, hopping through all this thawing snow, I thought I’d try something a little experimental as well as seasonal with our textures. I was after an antique surreal scene, perhaps in the style of the old master Alfred Stieglitz ‘Camera Work’. I used an old wine crate from my cellar, (with […]
Feb 23, 2010 | Categories: Blog, Uncategorized | Tags: antique Liasons, easter, Elysium, Hare, Holmes, Labyrinth, Paul Grand, Raw Linen, sepia, Tex Box 1, Tex Box 2 | Comments Off on hare tricks
Goodness, how time flies on the net! Last week we received an email asking for fuller recipes of our early images from way back, at the time of last summer’s launch. It came as a surprise to me as I couldn’t remember our early blogs being so minimal! Thus, to rectify at least one post, […]
Jan 30, 2010 | Categories: Blog, Uncategorized | Tags: barn, Elysium, France, Leaky Garret, Necropolis, Paul Grand, Tex Box 1 | Comments Off on white barn II
Another AutopanoPro merge of two portrait formatted landscapes. I’ve left the base showing where I had a missing bit to clone in. Shot as the sun was setting behind riverbank trees. The first copies of the shot were treated to give a Painterly effect.. Then treated with the following textures: Apple Blush ~ opacity ~ […]
Jan 17, 2010 | Categories: Blog, Uncategorized | Tags: apple blush, Caramel soft, Elysium, France, Paul Grand, Raw Linen, Tex Box 1, Tex Box 2, Vertorama | Comments Off on winter wheat treescape
One for the guys?Found in the corner of a field, this retro tractor seemed abandoned but probably wasn’t. I was struck by its white hand painted bonnet. If you look closer at the ‘before’ image, you’ll see I’ve removed a white twig from the bottom right, as it was catching my eye too much… For […]
Oct 16, 2009 | Categories: Blog, Uncategorized | Tags: abandoned, Caramel soft, concept, Dangerous Liaisons, Elysium, farm, farming, field corner, Flypaper Textures, France, Getty, grass, Harvest Tractor, hills, Languedoc, Mediterranean, moody, overgrown, Paul Grand, retro, Tex Box 1, tractor, vacation, weeds, white, wild | Comments Off on Harvest Tractor
I spotted this wonderfully lit building whilst coming out of a Beziers art gallery one Sunday afternoon, the weather was a little washed out and everything looked bleached gray except this eighteenth century building painted a cool shade of ocher.Naturally, when I uploaded it was washed out too..:-/So out came the rich flypaper textures to […]
Oct 07, 2009 | Categories: Blog, Uncategorized | Tags: Beziers, bleak, bordom, building, Caramel soft, city, concept, depressing, Ed Hopper, Elysium, France, French, gray, green shutters, grunge, Languedoc, local, moody, Necropolis, painterly, Paul Grand, Pompeii Stucco, Raw Linen, sky, stone, sunday, surreal, Tex Box 1, winter | Comments Off on l’ennui du dimanche
Here I used five of our ‘flypaper 1’ textures.I find that using several textures at a gentle opacity, really helps build up interesting depth and atmosphere!Pomeii StuccoBruised SaffronRaw LinenWhite ShagreenElysium
Sep 23, 2009 | Categories: Blog, Uncategorized | Tags: antique, appartment building, banisters, Beziers, Bruised Saffron, building, circles, concept, dizzy, Elysium, France, French, Getty, hallway, infinity, Languedoc, looking up, mind, Paul Grand, Pompeii, Raw Linen, staircase, structure, Stucco, surreal, Tex Box 1, vertigo, White Shagreen | Comments Off on Circles of your mind
