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I started with a photo of a mannequin shot through a shop window, which I thought had an appealing pose. I made a mixed media watercolor painting of her, and photographed the painting. Then I added several effects in iColorama. The result has almost Art Deco feel to it.
I shot this photo through a shop window at night. I liked her pose and the old fashioned feel of her costume.
I used a watercolor pencil to draw the outlines of the figure on a 9”x12” sheet of watercolor paper. Then I used several different rubber stamp mats with different colored ink pads to stamp different textures onto the different areas of the image.
I used watercolor pencils to add more color to the drawing.
I used a water brush with plain water to go over the image and smooth some of the colors. Then I used watercolor paints to add more color.
I used an acrylic paint pen to go over the outlines of the figure and chair. I used my iPhone and the ProCamera app to photograph the painting.
I opened the image in iColorama and used Form/Crop to crop to the borders of the paper.
I used the last preset under Style/Water, at low to medium opacity, to smooth the image. I used Adjust/Levels to increase the contrast. Then I used Effect/Sharpen preset 3 to bring back some sharpness in the edges.
I used Style/Tensor preset 6. I used a texture as secondary photo. I like to try Tensor 6 because it can give a kind of glow or transparency.
This is the texture I used. I got it from Donald Bishop’s iColorama Background Exchange texture collection on Flickr.
I blended the Tensor output onto the pre-Tensor image, using one of the negative blending modes (Negative, Difference, Exclusion), trying all the sliders, including the Lightness slider and the Gray slider under Set. I put the Lightness slider all the way to the left, and I moved the right end of the Gray slider most of the way toward the left.
I used Adjust/Exposure with an inverted brush mask to lighten her face. I applied and removed the mask. Then, using Effect/Blend, I blended the image onto itself twice, each time using a brush mask and rotating the image 90 degrees, to blend the chair arm on the left to create a bench seat on the right.
I used Adjust/Exposure with a brush mask to lighten the background.
I used Effect/Blend to blend the image with itself, with an inverted brush mask, to replace the hand with a larger hand.
I used Effect/Blend to blend an earlier version of the image onto the work in progress, to get a somewhat smoother look.
I used lettering I had created as a layer in another project in SketchClub, which I had saved as a transparent png. In iColorama, I used Effect/Blend to blend it onto this image in Overlay or Multiply mode.
I used Brush/Paint and a large soft round brush in a pale yellow color at low opacity to paint soft sunbeams onto the image, coming from the upper right.
I used Effect/Blend at medium opacity with a brush mask to blend some more of the stamped texture onto her clothing, from the pre-water-brush drawing, in Overlay mode.
I used Effect/Blend to blend an earlier version on to the image, with an inverted brush mask, to blend a lighter version of the chair arm onto the image.
Finally, I used Adjust/Levels and an inverted brush mask to add contrast to her eyes and lips.
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