Paul Grand

Chasing the wind

Chasing the wind

Its always nice to wake up and find another one of your babies gracing a published book cover! Here's today's, an American thriller, heavily textured with our flypaper painterly textures. Its just a preview copy as its not yet out, so I expect their colours will...

Canal avenue

Having started this image months ago I abandoned it. Jill reminded me of it and so I reluctantly had another go! I used the original textured image and simply added more. It created this picture up on Fickr. Unfortunately the quality was too small as a 'keeper' being...

Iris

Last week, armed with a piece of black card, I took the dog a walk to our local Park of the poets to photograph iceland poppies, thankfully as the wind was low I managed several acceptable shots. See it on Flickr . Later, at the duck pond I took a few experimental...

Good Friday shirt

I'd like to show how I did this surreal effect a little later, as I have a few more ideas to realize and don't want to spoil the magic just yet. However, with the addition of just one Flypaper texture and a little color desaturation, the image was pulled together,...

Cherry Blossoms

This is a simple version of the desaturated Cherry Blossom image I have up on Flickr. I'm not showing the full version's recipe because it incorporates a new texture from the upcoming pack! We hope to complete the new pack soon, so please watch this space! To get this...

les visiteurs

Captured from the hip on my way up to the spectacular bell-view, previously photographed many times, next door to the cathedral, which can just be glimpsed at the top, behind the end house. I spent hours removing the electrical clutter, mostly from the right hand side...

hydrangea resting on a stool

Continuing in a pale Dutch mood, this image was post processed in almost the same simple way as the last pears image, but omitting the muscatel texture. The stripped Stool is originally antique English country furniture. Lime Plaster (flipped vertically) Hard Light @...

nature morte

Firstly, I must fess-up, I'm not too used to still-life set-ups, as they're a bit of a new thing for me. But knowing those few basics about three being better than two and five being better than four objects, gets you into the right arrondissement of Nature Morte!...

soft blues

Its uncanny, but when I look at this image, I'm transported back to painting scenic backdrops for Harrods Bridal windows! I had the job of doing all the back few dozen windows, all the while being chased from window to window by the designers. Not that they had...