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January 8: MOC Technique Challenge

I might have overworked this. I was having fun and it was hard to stop. I love the way every little layer change gave me a whole new look. At one point it looked like a massive fire storm with the fog becoming smoke but I took it back to the more tranquil misty morning for this..
 
Thanks for the fun challenge! I used 15 layers, using various masks, magic lights, watercolour brushes, and gesso.

 
Does anyone want to share more details on how you accomplished this? Did you resize each mask and place them in different locations under your photo? I didn’t think of that until my 5th layer. So after just a couple of layers my photo looked just like it did at the start, not beautifully varied layers. Even when I had played around with blend modes.

Probably I just have to play more. But if you have any advice to share about this technique, I’d be grateful! I’ve always loved photo masks and use them frequently. Can’t believe it never occurred to me to layer them.
 

This was fun!
I've used six different masks with photo and six different layers of paints and stamps interspersed amongst the layers. I varied opacities on some of the masks, added a distortion layer to one, and a concrete texture layer to the top photo/mask combo.
 
michelepixels said:
Does anyone want to share more details on how you accomplished this? Did you resize each mask and place them in different locations under your photo? I didn’t think of that until my 5th layer. So after just a couple of layers my photo looked just like it did at the start, not beautifully varied layers. Even when I had played around with blend modes.

Probably I just have to play more. But if you have any advice to share about this technique, I’d be grateful! I’ve always loved photo masks and use them frequently. Can’t believe it never occurred to me to layer them.
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Hmmm..... So I bring paint in, then add the photo on top. resize, flip, etc - then clip it, and then try the blend modes. I pulled my layout open, and looked. I used blend modes on the paint. Then I brought in a new paint, copied the image (so they remain on top of one another, and then again played with the sizing and blend modes. I moved the paint around, but not the image. You could also try paint that has color. Some of mine in my images are yellow, pink. Most are painty masks thought.

I guess I tend to lean to earthy images rather than people. And I seem to pick a background that doesn't have a lot hoping on.

For me, it really is the playing around, scrolling through the blend modes. Maybe mix up the layers after you have them set - like put the first on the bottom, and vice versa.
 
michelepixels said:
Does anyone want to share more details on how you accomplished this? Did you resize each mask and place them in different locations under your photo? I didn’t think of that until my 5th layer. So after just a couple of layers my photo looked just like it did at the start, not beautifully varied layers. Even when I had played around with blend modes.

Probably I just have to play more. But if you have any advice to share about this technique, I’d be grateful! I’ve always loved photo masks and use them frequently. Can’t believe it never occurred to me to layer them.
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I resized my masks and placed them on different locations.
My resized my first mask to be smaller than the photo, then added other masks to make the borders different and the colours different through the blendmodes.
Also, when I used a (small) coloured paint, I tried blendingmodes on that as well as on the photo.
 
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