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Re: Anne Hathaway's Cottage - who became the old bard's wife

Dianne Paine — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 22:36:12 GMT

I've had another thought on this one.

Perhaps Tolouse because you were using sepia you could have darkened one of those areas to increase the contrast a little between them? I know that wouldn't work in colour but with not using colour maybe it might have? Just a thought.

Re: Anne Hathaway's Cottage - who became the old bard's wife

Tolouse Leplotte — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 22:26:42 GMT

I agree - as I was doing it the thatched roof looked just like the hedge, as they would in real life I suppose, so I blurred the thatch a little to try and differentiate, at the same time doing the same to the foliage, to make matters worse because the whole thing was in sepia tonally there was little difference either. One of these days I will redo the whole thing.

Re: Anne Hathaway's Cottage - who became the old bard's wife

Dianne Paine — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 22:14:42 GMT

I like the sepia tones that you have used here Tolouse. Unfortunately for my taste I feel that there is too much similiar detail between the hedge, the roof and the trees behind. Not sure that in this case there was all that much you could do about it.

Anne Hathaway's Cottage - who became the old bard's wife

Tolouse Leplotte — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 16:57:28 GMT

Anne Hathaway was the wife of William Shakespeare. They were married in 1582, and had a son together called Hamnet Shakespeare - sketch followed by detailed watercolour then also taken into psp to convert to sepia