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Today I would like to share with you one of my recent works. I was working with this wonderful model for my “Better Halves” project and as we were almost done, I thought it would be pity to let her go without trying other things. Tasha Drugakova was helping me with the makeup and hair and I decided to use some of her hand made accessories to create this medieval look. The work of Lucas Cranach, the German Renaissance painter has always inspired me with it’s colors, lightning and subjects. To recreate that mood I used a dark green velvet  background. Also some transparent golden fabric from a fabric store. The crowns were made by Tasha Drugakova and I had the thought to combine them together for the heart shaped look. The lightning was natural window light. To get this painting look I used one of my textures.The best textures for that are stone surface textures.The right image was made with a long exposure, so you can notice a small motion, that also adds a painting like look.