Surreal Portrait Tutorial

Found an interesting website that teaches you to create surreal portraits using multiple photos. Rob Shields (writer of the page) makes use of a slide show to teach.  It says it takes 10 hours, but I don't think that it seems like that much work.

http://www.digitalartsonline.co.uk/tutorials/photoshop/paint-multilayered-surreal-portrait/

Maggie Taylor

Maggie Taylor is truly a talented digital artist.  The first thing that drew me to this photo was the completely normal idea, that was then incorporated with something completely abstract (floating trees).  This picture really paints the scene of this setting in an area that seems to look like a prairie.  It also insinuates the rabbit hole / home in which they live.  It's hiding right "under the noses" of the trees.  Cropping, masking, brushing, editing, were all techniques used to create this wonderful piece of art.  It truly takes each and every technique in order to obtain something of this stature.  The one aspect of this picture that really attracts me is the floating trees centered in the middle.  They become the main figures in the mid-ground, focusing the viewers attention to there.  There is a bit of Classical movement in her designs and they definitely center around a form of realism.  All in all, Maggie Taylor is a very talented digital artist.