London National History Museum MattePainting

I also painted some shadows to give it more volume. At this stage I had the main elements blocked in, but on a second thought I started to make some changes

on the buildings on the back and also I refined some parts of the left side of the museum. A fog layer was added between background buildings and the left side of the museum by painting with a white soft rounded brush with 10% opacity. Next

I used hue/saturation adjustment layer to desaturate the image and bring more blues into the image. Now it’s time to make the foreground elements.

I cut out some branches from another images and painted over some leafes and chains –from barontieri brushes- you can find the set on his site under goodies section – he is an outstanding artist! (http://www.barontieri.com/atelier.htm)

but the brushes were modified a little with color dynamics “on” and the slider for the saturation and hue set between 5-10% to achieve some highlighted/shadowed leafes and also to have a little color variation.