Green Leaves And A Red T-Shirt

Well, after several days of inactivity on the blog due to preparing the launch of my vintage paper texture packs, I'm back in action today. I have several completed works that have been waiting for the right moment to be revealed.

The other day, I was trimming some branches from a neighbor's tree that were hanging over the wall and blocking sunlight from reaching my patio. I was tossing them onto an old red t-shirt on the ground, and when I looked at them there, I liked how they looked—which is natural, since I was in front of a complementary color harmony. Once I finished cutting the branches, before discarding them, I selected a few and carefully arranged them on the spread-out t-shirt to take photos for future use.

Later that day, I didn't feel like waiting, and I started working on it. After loading the photos as layers in GIMP, I started exploring my texture folders, and it didn't take long to find the perfect ones for this project.

I chose several textures I had used in other works: one of OBS wood and two of rusted zinc sheets.

To play with the colors and tones of the composition, I also used two textures that I frequently rely on.

After some experimentation, I came up with several intriguing results, but these three stood out the most:

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