Each image in my pieces start life as a photograph taken on my faithful Canon. I then edit each image individually to suit the piece I am working on. It can take hours, days and sometimes weeks before I’m ready to pull each element in to the final piece. Here is a tiny snippet showing one of the stages, and possibly the most exciting stage, in pulling the elements together for 'Coastal Flowers'.
Each element is edited from a RAW image and then added to the final piece. Often only small parts of each image are used. See if you can see these in the final piece.