Keira Lavelle

[Jem Raid]

I took some pics of her years ago saw one of her recently on Ello which reminded me of the ones we made. I dug out the old HDD with them on, I'd quite forgoten how good she is at posing. One of those people who can fill a space either on her own or by me doing the pose and she repeating it.

I used some paper I'd distressed for the backgound, a drawing for the 'floor' and a curvy flower on her body, put a gradient under the whole thing to harmonise the colours. What I wanted in this was the angularity of the paper and Keira's and the flowers curves to compete with each other. I did try a boring plain background it looked rubbish.

There's more on the HDD if anyone is interested.

J

 

[Asher Kelman]

Jem,

Excellent design and execution and a sensitive and pleasing model to boot!

I would like to know how you achieved that distressed look on such a huge scale that you could use it as a background!

Asher

 

[Jem Raid]

Hello Asher,

Thanks for the nice comment, Keira now commands £300 per day for her modelling skills, the pics I took of her some years ago when I was teaching my self how to make montages were made in her parents conservatory one Sunday afternoon.

I got some A4 cartridge paper drew on it with a rule and freehand, wet it, held it over a flame, then put some watercolour paint on it and scratched at that with a scalpel. Scanned it at 300 DPI, opened it in Ps, made a copy layer used a blend mode for a partial inversion and then a reveal all mask to combine the two images. Pasted it into a 4000 x 3000px x 180 DPI new file and used the transform tool to fit it into the frame.

Cheers - J

 

[Asher Kelman]

Hello Asher,

Thanks for the nice comment, Keira now commands £300 per day for her modelling skills, the pics I took of her some years ago when I was teaching my self how to make montages were made in her parents conservatory one Sunday afternoon.

I got some A4 cartridge paper drew on it with a rule and freehand, wet it, held it over a flame, then put some watercolour paint on it and scratched at that with a scalpel. Scanned it at 300 DPI, opened it in Ps, made a copy layer used a blend mode for a partial inversion and then a reveal all mask to combine the two images. Pasted it into a 4000 x 3000px x 180 DPI new file and used the transform tool to fit it into the frame.

Cheers - J

How did you print it?

 

[Asher Kelman]

Hello Asher,

Thanks for the nice comment, Keira now commands £300 per day for her modelling skills, the pics I took of her some years ago when I was teaching my self how to make montages were made in her parents conservatory one Sunday afternoon.

I got some A4 cartridge paper drew on it with a rule and freehand, wet it, held it over a flame, then put some watercolour paint on it and scratched at that with a scalpel. Scanned it at 300 DPI, opened it in Ps, made a copy layer used a blend mode for a partial inversion and then a reveal all mask to combine the two images. Pasted it into a 4000 x 3000px x 180 DPI new file and used the transform tool to fit it into the frame.

Cheers - J

I am not sure whether this meant,

1. in the end adding as a print for the b.g. in your studio space, or

2. else your manipulation of the bg of Keira’s picture in PS?

Asher

 

[Jim Olson]

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I took some pics of her years ago saw one of her recently on Ello which reminded me of the ones we made. I dug out the old HDD with them on, I'd quite forgoten how good she is at posing. One of those people who can fill a space either on her own or by me doing the pose and she repeating it.

I used some paper I'd distressed for the backgound, a drawing for the 'floor' and a curvy flower on her body, put a gradient under the whole thing to harmonise the colours. What I wanted in this was the angularity of the paper and Keira's and the flowers curves to compete with each other. I did try a boring plain background it looked rubbish.

There's more on the HDD if anyone is interested.

J

WOW... I love it

 

[Asher Kelman]

View attachment 1517


I took some pics of her years ago saw one of her recently on Ello which reminded me of the ones we made. I dug out the old HDD with them on, I'd quite forgoten how good she is at posing. One of those people who can fill a space either on her own or by me doing the pose and she repeating it.

I used some paper I'd distressed for the backgound, a drawing for the 'floor' and a curvy flower on her body, put a gradient under the whole thing to harmonise the colours. What I wanted in this was the angularity of the paper and Keira's and the flowers curves to compete with each other. I did try a boring plain background it looked rubbish.

There's more on the HDD if anyone is interested.

Jim,

Yea she is a fabulous model! I would love you to share more from your hard drive!

That’s the best way of fighting the pandemic: harvest winners that we have neglected for years!

Asher

 

[Jem Raid]

Hello there,

K.Thorn doing the same

Cheers - J

 

[Asher Kelman]

Hello there,

K.Thorn doing the same

Cheers - J

Doing the same as what?

She’s lovely and the pose seems meditative.

Asher

 

[Jim Olson]

I LOVE those...
That is a great technique
WOW