Cave painting

Another one of my more complex images -- and of course one of the larger files I've worked with -- this began primarily with the old nude study. A woman is reclining on a chaise lounge or some sort of casual furniture, with her back to the viewer. After tweaking the image itself -- and adding the special effects using the stained glass filter in Photoshop -- I started the search for the background textures. As those fell into place -- several bits of texture in fact -- I then started toying with the idea of integrating the human figure into the inanimate background, and came up with the idea of juxtaposing the two as part of the same whole, rather than trying to keep them distinct from one another.