Elena with double swords graffiti

Another Photoshop graffiti, this time with Elena soloing with double katanas.
The "inspiration" is a drawing of Psylocke by Jim Lee from an X-men graphic novel, which I modified to reflect Elena's face and body.

Photoshop digital painting
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As always when copying a master this was a good learning experience, I really saw how complex and sofisticated is the graphic work contained in these comic books.

I applied almost completely the instructions of Melissa Clifton's tutorial on Colouring Line Art. I am quite happy with the final drawing, although I think that for the purpose of making digital graffiti I'd better use a less refined picture to provide a more spraycan-like feeling.

Col Roisetta

Good excursion today, we followed the trail #23 to the Roisetta Col, just below the top of mount Roisetta. Here the kids are standing at about 2,900 mts, in front of the southern face of Matterhorn, freshly covered from snow - the first snow of the season.



The heat wave this year was quite serious, with the thermal zero moving up to 4,500 mts. Two weeks ago the classic way to climb the Matterhorn from the Lion's Head was closed because of the danger of rock falls.

Now the weather is back to normality (although the Lion's crest will stay closed for a few more days, the TV news said), a perfect Feast of Assumption.

The forecast for the next 2 days is rainy, therefore I am planning to complete some drawing before going back to Milano. I took with me pencils, Indian ink and watercolors but so far I have been little productive, I fancied more walking or reading books on my balcony.

Edelweiss

Yesterday we were walking on the trail 107, the Great Balcony, a long trekking ring that goes around the valley of the Matterhorn.
We started from Cheneil, just above Valtournenche and took the direction to Salette, looking for the "Baracon dou Tene" where we often eat when we go skiing in winter.

On the way back we took a shortcut across the meadows, and quite unexpectedly we found a large patch of edelweiss.



This beautiful flower is not uncommon in these mountains, still finding a nice group like this one is always an experience.
I will probably try to paint them soon or later, this is a picture I took with my Nokia.