Wallpaper Wednesday — No. 1

I neglect this thing way too much, so I am going to start a recur­ring project and hope­ful­ly that will keep me to task on putting stuff out there. I tried to come up with some­thing orig­i­nal like Typo Tuesday or Spare Sunday, but then that seemed to bog me down on what I would actu­al­ly do. Then I decid­ed, “Go with some­thing semi-easy just to get start­ed and work­ing,” — thus Wallpaper Wednesday.

I’m think­ing it will be every two weeks and prob­a­bly include two dif­fer­ent wall­pa­pers in var­i­ous sizes. They might be relat­ed some­how but we’ll see how things work out. For now, take a look at the two below and tell me what you think.

Copper Flourishes

I had a few floor­ing tiles lying around and one of them had a mix of the col­ors you see here. I increased a lit­tle bit of the bright­ness in the col­ors and made the green pati­na parts stand out a lit­tle more through a bit of Photoshop. Finally, I scanned this sheet of paper with the flour­ish­es and that had a bit of linen laid tex­ture. That got blend­ed in on top and you have the wall­pa­per below.

Copper Flourishes Wallpaper Preview - Dark red and burnt orange hues mixed with metal textures and black flourishes

Copper Flourishes Wallpaper Preview

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Bamboo Shells

Again, this came from just a cou­ple of things lying around. There was this lit­tle wick­er tray, some rock salt, and a cou­ple of sea shells. I posed them up and snapped a quick pic­ture. I got into Photoshop and added some depth with slight gra­di­ents at the top and bot­tom and blend­ed using a lin­ear burn. I real­ly like the lit­tle bit of vari­ety that shows up in the wick­er here and there.

Bamboo Shells Wallpaper Preview - Wicker, Sea Shells, and Rock Salt - Dark browns and some oranges

Bamboo Shells Wallpaper Preview

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