Week Three - #3

At this point, I’ve firmly set my mind on making a digital etching and using the piece to make prints. Now I have to start exploring visuals. I have done that by gathering images and splicing them together, first in illustrator for convenience using the clipping mask tool, and then more seriously in photoshop once I’ve decided on each reference.

I chose a landscape picture of the mountains of Glencoe, Scotland to set the geographical location of my piece and I added an abandoned Celtic castle on the left. I then searched for a burial mound because fairies are said to have lived in them. I cropped out the metal doorframe of the original mound and found a better-looking stone entrance to the mound to make it believable that a mythical creature made it. I added a cloudy sky to give the appearance of Scottish weather and I multiplied the flowers in the foreground.