Artistic Passion Tutorials

I Smell Winter

Supplies Needed

Tube of choice
Font of choice
Brushes of choice
Embellishments [optional]
Filters:
Eye Candy – Gradient Glow [optional]

Artwork © Camilla Drakenborg.
You need to purchase a licence to use her beautiful artwork. You can purchase one from AMI

Lets begin!

1. Open up a new 500 x 500 image. Floodfill with white.

2. Choose a complimentary colour from your tube for the foreground and your background colour white.
Click on your preset rectangle shape and draw out a square/rectangle of your choice.
My line width was 7, yours can be any width you choose! Convert to Raster layer.

3. Using your magic wand click inside the rectangle you just made. Layers- New Raster Layer.
Add brushes of your choice. You can add different kinds of brushes and lower the opacity of some of them.
The choice is yours! Selections – Select None.
On your layer palette, hide off your background layer and merge visible on the other layers.

4. On your top layer (which should be your rectangle layer) Layers – Duplicate.
Resize the duplicated layer by 60% (all layers unchecked).
Duplicate your resized layer and arrange these to your liking.
You can use my tag as a reference or create your own style!
Once you are happy, hide off your background layer and merge visible all the rectangle layers.
I added a Gradient Glow of white at this point. Then a drop shadow of V & H – 0, Opacity – 50, Blur – 5, Colour – Black.
You should now have 2 layers again.

5. Resize your rectangle layer by 95% (all layers unchecked). Duplicate this layer.
With your bottom rectangle layer active apply Gaussian Blur. Adjust – Blur – Gaussian Blur – 20.00.
On the same layer: Effects – Artistic Effects – Halftone with the settings below.
*If you are using a version that doesn’t have Halftone, why not try adding blinds. Play around with the settings until you achieve the look you want*