Painted Skies
Lesson 2: Seamless Tiles

Original painting, cira 1974, Anchorage Alaska

I used four colors and evened them out by adding the same color
at each end. I added a border to this photo.

This is the gradient tile I used for the inside border.

This tile which made a busier border is what I used for the second edge.

First I made a tile using the smoke effect in Eye Candy 3.1
(thanks for the fun plugin!),
then I used the swirl effect to make it lacier, and finally,
used the smoke effect again to smooth it out.

I followed a pattern of moving from a busy
outside print to a busy gradient border,
to a less busy print and a less busy gradient border
to a plain center framing the photo of my painting.