My Travel Paintings - Country Road
The digital painting is really about two ideas, or rather books I'm going through, to help with my artistic hobbies. One is a book I found at Michael's while looking for some art supplies. I found myself drawn to the sketching section and was looking and mulling over thoughts on using that to complement the digital painting I'd been doing the past few years on my iPad. That book is Complete Book of Drawing: Essential Skills for Every Artist by Barrington Barber. Going through a few early lessons along with a holding of a pencil, I found myself wanting to practice sketching. That's the sketching part of the story for this image. The digital painting part is in this eBook I'm also going through (The Photoshop and Painter Artist Tablet Book by Cher Threinen-Pendarvis). One of the latest lessons was using a sketch to then digitally paint. One idea was using watercolors to paint out small sections to complement the sketch. Another was using an oil brush to paint on top of the sketch. So I started sketching out this image I found on Flickr (www.flickr.com/photos/101420795@N03/33682008828/in/pool-1...). I used the Adobe Capture app on my iPhone to help sketch out proportions for the landscape setting. Mostly that was the general layout of the hillside, trees and road. I could then add hatching to bring out a sense of relief in the terrain. I could then start the digital painting. I mulled over using a watercolor but then decided to use what I'd done on my last digital painting with one of Kyle's oil brushes. I could then adjust the opacity, hues and "scatter size" in different areas. Eventually what started out as a little bit here and there became the whole image. Then came the skies and clouds...an area I really knew I had to work on. I tried many attempts at painting the blues in the image and eventually settled on an idea I'd seen with this article (www.creativebloq.com/advice/5-simple-tips-for-painting-be...). Next up...the clouds! I'd used this video to practice painting clouds and found reviewing it helpful as I digitally painted them here. The image really seemed to come together then. Definitely not a copy but not fully abstract either. And all done in about 45 minutes...when it was time to head off to nappy-nap land.
In the center foreground of the painting, you'll find that stick figure image of me "hiking" with my Cubbies hat, imagining a new adventure to head out and explore!
My Travel Paintings - Country Road
The digital painting is really about two ideas, or rather books I'm going through, to help with my artistic hobbies. One is a book I found at Michael's while looking for some art supplies. I found myself drawn to the sketching section and was looking and mulling over thoughts on using that to complement the digital painting I'd been doing the past few years on my iPad. That book is Complete Book of Drawing: Essential Skills for Every Artist by Barrington Barber. Going through a few early lessons along with a holding of a pencil, I found myself wanting to practice sketching. That's the sketching part of the story for this image. The digital painting part is in this eBook I'm also going through (The Photoshop and Painter Artist Tablet Book by Cher Threinen-Pendarvis). One of the latest lessons was using a sketch to then digitally paint. One idea was using watercolors to paint out small sections to complement the sketch. Another was using an oil brush to paint on top of the sketch. So I started sketching out this image I found on Flickr (www.flickr.com/photos/101420795@N03/33682008828/in/pool-1...). I used the Adobe Capture app on my iPhone to help sketch out proportions for the landscape setting. Mostly that was the general layout of the hillside, trees and road. I could then add hatching to bring out a sense of relief in the terrain. I could then start the digital painting. I mulled over using a watercolor but then decided to use what I'd done on my last digital painting with one of Kyle's oil brushes. I could then adjust the opacity, hues and "scatter size" in different areas. Eventually what started out as a little bit here and there became the whole image. Then came the skies and clouds...an area I really knew I had to work on. I tried many attempts at painting the blues in the image and eventually settled on an idea I'd seen with this article (www.creativebloq.com/advice/5-simple-tips-for-painting-be...). Next up...the clouds! I'd used this video to practice painting clouds and found reviewing it helpful as I digitally painted them here. The image really seemed to come together then. Definitely not a copy but not fully abstract either. And all done in about 45 minutes...when it was time to head off to nappy-nap land.
In the center foreground of the painting, you'll find that stick figure image of me "hiking" with my Cubbies hat, imagining a new adventure to head out and explore!