And here is the final image (slightly modified).

I made a few alterations after all was completed. From the overhead angle from which we are viewing the image, the ellipses on the handle of the chisel were too wide. I modified them making them more closed and recreated the handle to make the handle appear as though we were looking almost straight down on it. I extended the bottom of the stone so the chisel does not obscure the wood. And finally I added a bit of a solar flare on the blade.

This flare effect is really quite simple to create. Make a circle about the height of the handle. Apply a pale yellow fill. Change the fill type to Circular and change the Fill Effect to Alt Rainbow (from the drop down list that normally says Fade). Now apply a Circular transparency and you have a very convincing sun flare.

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Gary W. Priester
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