Petal Play

Little pink dancers by De Gaz, with a touch of poppy petal power. Below the steps I had to take to the endresult.

As soon as I opened this picture, it struck me that the dropped poppy petals had left a ballerina's tutu and wanted to do something to make that obvious.

I cut out the skirt, made it into a transparent layer and put it in place on a Degas sketch.

It didn't really look like what I had in mind: the contrast between the sketch and the poppy petals was too great. Therefor I decided to go for one of his oils rather than a pen drawing, and voila: perfect. As you can see in the mouse-over at the top of the post, the colouring in the painting has some of that very pink in, so I didn't have to do anything at all to the poppy petals to make them fit in.

For Nick at the Floral Friday

Also linked with app-happy-wednesday