Here’s my latest creation, “Gateway to the Underworld.” I took the photo of the entryway itself at the nearby Cultural Park, an exhibit of traditional Lao houses. One of the houses was built on a rocky mound and it had a couple of lower floor doorways to an area that could serve as a basement or storage cellar. As soon as I saw these entries, I knew exactly what I wanted to do with them. Here’s the original photo.

Lower entrance to the basement or cellar.

So, I then desaturated the original, added some images I found on Pixabay, applied some textured layers that came with the Photoshop Artistry course, and experimented with adding light and color gradients in Photoshop. Voila! Gateway to the Underworld.

Enter, if you dare.

My latest, somewhat gruesome, creation — ‘Til Death Do Us Part? The photo I based this on was taken in Nong Khai, Thailand, at the Sala Keoku (approximately pronounced sala kaw que) sculpture park, a fascinating place to visit just outside of Nong Khai.

Below is the original photo, followed by the new creation.

In Sala Keoku sculpture park near Nong Khai, Thailand.

The new creation. Added some grunge layers, colors and text.

Ok, back to work. Not only working on some more photo artistry (though it’s more like play), but also back to work at school, after a five-week break. Breaks are nice, but they’re unpaid, so gotta make some more money. More later.

My latest offering is of a photo I took in Boca Chica in the Dominican Republic about ten years ago of a few of my baseball academy students with some of their friends. I threw in a few textures and some other things, played around with the lighting and blend modes, and, voila.

These guys and their friends are going for a cruise around the area in a car that one of them rented for the afternoon.

The school has been on break for about a month now, but we start up again next week. My time is going to be limited, so I’d better try to put out a few more pieces of art before then, so, as always, more later.