Dreams can be strange. Sometimes things make no sense but amaze you none the less. Animals talk, you walk on the sky, and even light may not cast any shadow! (Added for those who may notice no shadows in this entry! :D) Anything goes in a creative dream.

This took pretty much all weekend. A LOT of hours, but the further I got into it the more I was liking it, so I just kept going and going! Finding new places that I thought there needed to be feathers and so on. It was a ton of fun to make, hope you all enjoy it :)

The background, vase and flower arrangement are all created from the source photo, The foreground wrinkled fabric I found on cgtextures.com (thanks to Nasirkan's winning 'dock' entry.) Thanks Nasir! Please see my SBS for all the details.

I used the Replace color to change the color of the leaf a bit to more match a feather color. I then Clipped a peacock from a picture I took at Silver Springs and put it over the leaf, then clipped an eye off the tail feathers and duplicated it and resized and rotated it randomly. Grouped the eyes together and made a vector mask and added a gausean blur to them to help blend them. I then duplicated the body of the peacock painted it black and distorted it to appear as a shadow then masked it and added a gausean blur to blend it.