Sunday 15 March 2009

Gothic Arch - Mother and Child

The theme this week is mother and child at Gothic Arches.

I was inspired by the Gustav Klimt picture Three Ages of Woman.

I extracted and duplicated the mother and child from Klimt's Three Ages of Woman and used an Overlay blend to brighten the image. I created the Arch background with brushes by Graphicxtras and Vanilla Dreams which I then duplicated and blended again to achieve a pleasing colour. I added the background which is courtesy of Booland Designs. Finally I added a Poster Edges filter to give definition to the lines of the mother and child.

Credit to Freeparking for the Klimt image (free to use) at Flickr.

Thank you for looking.

20 comments:

  1. Wow this is fantastic.
    Love the Klimt image. Awesome.

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  2. I am so impressed with the work done by digital artists! This is fantastic!

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  3. Klimt is one one my all time favorite artists. Nice choice!

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  4. Great arch, lovely use of the image!

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  5. Fantastic is right! Perfect image for the challenge!

    I am currently learning about Klimt and I have painted my first painting at http://garyreef.ning.com/

    He was amazing...all the detail!

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  6. You are SO talented! I know that Klimt is smiling somewhere. Well done!

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  7. Wonderful piece. Your image is super. You really know how to use the digital art software effectively.
    Faye

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  8. What an absolutely dream approach to this theme....fabulous work!

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  9. You did some amazing work with this one, Ann. All the positive comments are richly deserved!

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  10. Your arch is simply incredible! Just great! Lynn F.

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  11. Absolutely stunning, Taluula, brilliant colours & so different - love it!
    JudyNZ

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  12. wow! your arch is fabulous! what a fantastic image and beautiful work!

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  13. This is stunning. I do love the work of Klimt and this is wonderful. It's so colourful and rich.
    jaine

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  14. WOW this is just so stunning! Amazing interpretation of the theme.
    And i love Klimt-Pictures.

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  15. This is so beautiful that it brought tears to my eyes. It is my favorite arch I'v ever seen anywhere. I admit that I'm a sucker for anything about motherhood and Klimpt is an artist whose work fascinates me. You have created a brilliant piece, Taluula.

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Thank you.