Photoshop - Sauvie Island Clouds I - Part II

Sauvie Island Clouds 1
by Linda Rothchild Ollis
Sometimes our eyes play tricks on us.
Are you convinced that there is a whole in this wall and
you are looking through it to see the clouds?
Or does it look more like there is a framed painting
hanging on the wall?

(Continued from the last post)
To emphasize the clouds and farmland, I added more
color to what will be the hole in the wall. It might
still look like a frame at this stage.

Following the idea I tried using the Brush Tool

in Photoshop Elements (described in the last post),

I protected the area of the frame and clouds by covering

it.
Next... the fun of spattering!

I deliberately tried to create a variation of warm to cool

as I mixed the paint used to spatter.

Once the spattered area dried, I began painting the

dark area on the lower right side. Saving some of
splattered areas was done by painting around them.

Just as I used the Gradient Tool (in my last post) to

make the corners more convincing, I graded the color
as I painted the corners of the "hole", to create the
perspective we see when there is a window in a wall.
Scroll up to the top of this post to see the difference
in the finished painting and this stage.