1. Desert station
2. Landscape of limbs
3. Dream in monochrome
I’ve been continue to play with making images on Photoshop, using elements cut from old photographs and diagrams. I often invert and tint the colours. I am drawn to the mysterious and ghostly atmosphere in many of these old images. Stains and blemishes are welcome. It’s a pleasure to add a fortress to a lakeside, make an inverted head float in mid air or fuse two disparate landscapes.
As always please zoom to explore details.
John Macormac 
Great! I like them.
This reminds me of an exhibition I have seen in 2007 in,m Max-Ernst-Museum in Brühl, the city where Max Ernst was born. The exhibition showed the originals of the collage cycle “Une semaine de bonté.” Some of them are a little bit similar.
Thanks very much Nannus! I will look for these collages online.
If you want to deliberately add stains/blemishes, you can put a photo of a texture, bread is a really good one, on top of your collage, then set it to overlay, multiply or screen. Using a colour image in this way on a black/white image is very effective. You can adjust opacity to make things more subtle. Experimentation is the key.
Thanks very much for the tip Orijinalchris. Sounds like something that could really add a great deal of depth and mystery to a piece. I will try it!
i’am MD anaesthesist…I like this….”landscape of limbs” is anatomical dream…
Thanks very much Rabuccia. I find anatomical diagrams fascinating, they also remind me of human fragility.
visual poetry!