My Drawings - Canmore Three Sisters
Imagine Waking Up to This Every Morning! This was a day to wake up in the Canadian Rockies! What an amazing view to the Three Sisters with the light of the morning sun coming across the upper portion of the mountains...loved it! So while I was loading my stuff up to enjoy some time hiking in Yoho National Park, I had a chance to enjoy...no savor this view while capturing a few images on my Nikon SLR camera. The original image is located here on Flickr (www.flickr.com/photos/14723335@N05/33070043391/in/photoli...).
Now to the the image and what I did to paint it on my iPad using Adobe Draw...I decided to break this apart for painting strokes and styles. The upper portion with the mountain peaks I focused more on a sharper and more precise brush stroke but still using the contrasts of highlights, midtowns and shadows to bring out details that the mind could fill in. That also includes the snow that had recently fallen on the mountainside in the middle portion of the image. With the lower portion of the mountainside, I had a chance to practice more of a wider brush stroke using different hues greens and yellows to paint out those hillsides of trees. With the clouds above, I tried a different style to paint with the highlights to show a general outline of the clouds in brighter whites. The midtones I used had warmer colors to reflect the sunlight coming from the east to warm up the overall image. I used the shadows with some darker hues and shades to fill in the gaps remaining in the clouds.
In the right foreground of the painting, you'll find that stick figure image of me "hiking" with my Cubbies hat, loving my time exploring the Canadian Rockies once again :-)
My Drawings - Canmore Three Sisters
Imagine Waking Up to This Every Morning! This was a day to wake up in the Canadian Rockies! What an amazing view to the Three Sisters with the light of the morning sun coming across the upper portion of the mountains...loved it! So while I was loading my stuff up to enjoy some time hiking in Yoho National Park, I had a chance to enjoy...no savor this view while capturing a few images on my Nikon SLR camera. The original image is located here on Flickr (www.flickr.com/photos/14723335@N05/33070043391/in/photoli...).
Now to the the image and what I did to paint it on my iPad using Adobe Draw...I decided to break this apart for painting strokes and styles. The upper portion with the mountain peaks I focused more on a sharper and more precise brush stroke but still using the contrasts of highlights, midtowns and shadows to bring out details that the mind could fill in. That also includes the snow that had recently fallen on the mountainside in the middle portion of the image. With the lower portion of the mountainside, I had a chance to practice more of a wider brush stroke using different hues greens and yellows to paint out those hillsides of trees. With the clouds above, I tried a different style to paint with the highlights to show a general outline of the clouds in brighter whites. The midtones I used had warmer colors to reflect the sunlight coming from the east to warm up the overall image. I used the shadows with some darker hues and shades to fill in the gaps remaining in the clouds.
In the right foreground of the painting, you'll find that stick figure image of me "hiking" with my Cubbies hat, loving my time exploring the Canadian Rockies once again :-)