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GUSMAN JOLY
Annie Gusman Joly
Transparency can be created with Blending Modes that interact with the layers
beneath, forming new colors based on the type of Blending Mode used. Artist Annie
Gusman Joly uses them here to create a complex pattern of shadows. In this tropical
forest, light filters through the leaves and flowers to fall on the ground beneath the
white bird's feet. To create the random and overlapping patterns, Joly first fills a large
object on one layer with a solid blue. After drawing the path for the shadows on the
layer above, she fills it with blue and sets the Blending Mode to Multiply. If the shadow
color is too dark, she reduces the layer Opacity to increase the shadow layer's
transparency. She uses the same technique for the shadow beneath her three-toed
sloth.
