Banff National Park Agnes Tea House
Taking in a Wintry Landscape at the Lake Agnes Teahouse. The original image I captured with my D800E Nikon SLR camera was a place in Banff National Park that I’d wanted to hike to see for many a year. All the hikes in the Lake Louise area that I’d been to the Plain of the Six Glaciers and teahouse, which is definitely amazing! That trip though, a friend and I hiked in the snow up to the Lake Agnes Teahouse and experienced a magical wintry but turning into Spring wonderland. That image can be found online here on Flickr (www.flickr.com/photos/markcstevens/23767483344/in/album-7...).
For the digital painting, this was done as a sketch, and then I added colors later in pencil, using Adobe Fresco app on my iPad Pro. I started out sketching how I wanted to lay this out, using the original image as a "scaffolding" to help me along. I considered doing the live brush oil painting brush in the Adobe Fresco app, but something drew me to try out pencils and seeing what I might be able to do with that, especially as the sketching was done with a pencil brush. I practiced many different styles and strokes in order to get that brush like look but not have it look like I was using a pencil.
A little right of center In the foreground of the digital painting, you'll find that stick figure image of me "hiking" with my Cubbies hat, truly loving my time exploring Alberta and Canada once again!
Banff National Park Agnes Tea House
Taking in a Wintry Landscape at the Lake Agnes Teahouse. The original image I captured with my D800E Nikon SLR camera was a place in Banff National Park that I’d wanted to hike to see for many a year. All the hikes in the Lake Louise area that I’d been to the Plain of the Six Glaciers and teahouse, which is definitely amazing! That trip though, a friend and I hiked in the snow up to the Lake Agnes Teahouse and experienced a magical wintry but turning into Spring wonderland. That image can be found online here on Flickr (www.flickr.com/photos/markcstevens/23767483344/in/album-7...).
For the digital painting, this was done as a sketch, and then I added colors later in pencil, using Adobe Fresco app on my iPad Pro. I started out sketching how I wanted to lay this out, using the original image as a "scaffolding" to help me along. I considered doing the live brush oil painting brush in the Adobe Fresco app, but something drew me to try out pencils and seeing what I might be able to do with that, especially as the sketching was done with a pencil brush. I practiced many different styles and strokes in order to get that brush like look but not have it look like I was using a pencil.
A little right of center In the foreground of the digital painting, you'll find that stick figure image of me "hiking" with my Cubbies hat, truly loving my time exploring Alberta and Canada once again!