7 Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone $974,733,550 + 9 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix $938,212,738 + 10 Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince $933,959,197 + 15 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire $895,921,036 + 18 Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets $878,643,482 = shu! All rights are the artist’s.
All rights are the artist’s. Watercolor on paper. If interested in purchasing contact avantorb@gmail.com
Seats in an empty agora: the future was too bright, and we didn’t have shades! Print available here.
“He who does not grasp the inner principles of created beings fails to feast his intellect on the manifold wisdom of God.” ~ St Maximos the Confessor (Available as a print here.)
Downtown Memphis, Tennessee, where the fountains come out of the sidewalk. Print available here (larger image). Alien autopsy: 1st layer, square crop from larger image, shot in RAW, increased saturation in RAW converter to leave more “room” to work in with regard to color channel mixer, 100% red, set to monochrome, mixed down with Hard Light blending mode, then selectively brushed out in a few areas color balance, set to “preserve luminosity”: shadows +15 Cyan/Red, -20 Yellow/Blue; midtones +13 Cyan/Red, +3 Magenta/Green, -37 Yellow/Blue; highlights +44 Yellow/Blue; mixed down using Linear Light blending mode, set layer mask to “hide all” then only selectively brushed back on in order increase contrast and saturation in “heads” of fountains color gradient, gunmetal blue at bottom to tan at top, brushed out in select areas, blended down with Pin Light (it’s the pin light mixing mode with this layer which gives the image it’s almost polaroidish feel in places; the same is generally true of a carefully-chosen solid color or gradient fill layer with almost any image) another color gradient, light tan to brown, then punched a hole in the center with a 250 pixel feather in order to create a vignette effect, set
