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The picture started as a vector image. The shapes were made by converting a brightly coloured bitmap photo to vectors. I then scoured the vectored "pieces" to find interesting shapes. I then changed the dimensions of those pieces, re-arranged them, and tinkered with the colours to create the below basic vector image.
It was then reworked into this picture. My aim was always to make a digital piece that didn't look digital. I wanted to add lots of texturing to give the impression of paint blobs and multimedia (ie. gauze, stonework, etc). Oh, and I wanted it to look FABULOUS!
Based on some feedback (the version appears on this site here). I made the picture a bit brighter, with the dark magentas on the LHS now more of a golden colour and the dirty reds changed to burnt orange.
Below is a reduced version of the TIF image sent to the printer (dimensions are 10787 x 3789 pixels at 250 dpi). A rellie suggested that I just take a slice of the most powerful part of the image. A good iea!
The colour saturation has been greatly increased, again, based on her feedback. Also, in order to have the print wrap around the 3.2cm frame I had to add additional content around the picture's margins. While the RH edge has obvious clone marks, it was not going to be obvious once wrapped around the edge (fortunately, it turned out that way).
Below this is how the picture looks, printed to treated canvas, hanging on a wall at my family's place (size is 1.16m x 30.5cm). One important thing I learnt was that, when printing to canvas, you need to exaggerate any subtle shading or texturing in dark areas. The subtle shading in the middle blue areas didn't show and instead appeared as a flat blue, I guess because the relatively dark colour throws a lot of ink on the canvas. Next time I will need to exaggerate the textures so they come through.
The below picture (if unevenly exposed) shows how the cloned edges scrubbed up ok.
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