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I used this as my trial editing using my iPad as a graphics tablet using the (overpriced) pencil, and honestly it's great. Probably not worth the price as just a graphics tablet but if you have one already it's really does make life easier
A break from the animals photos today for a simple flat lay of a magazine I was flipping through and a crochet pattern I'm contemplating trying next.
Hope everyone is doing well and staying safe.
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ENG: So this is what home office would look like for me. But unfortunately, I don't have the luck or perhaps the misfortune. But now I have a few days off at a stretch and can follow my hobby and work a little on my JavaScript code project. Because it's too cold for taking pictures outside. ☻
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GER: So würde bei mir also Home Office aussehen. Aber das Glück oder vielleicht auch Pech habe ich leider nicht. Aber dafür hab ich jetzt ein paar Tage am Stück Entlastungsfrei und kann so meinem Hobby nach kommen und ein wenig an meinen JavaScript Code-Projekt arbeiten. Weil für das Fotografieren draußen ist es mir aktuell zu kalt. ☻
Explore Date: Jan. 16, 2021
Ranking: 410
mixed technique
iphone pollock phototropedelic
acrylic miniature on paper
ipadpro procreate glaze artrage
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!
Trying out some new shading, vertical lines only. I kind of like it, a bit controlled and graphical though maybe? Given my training in graphics I was trying to 'loosen up' a bit. Old habits...
An Idea from Instagram. I came across from this National Park Service Instagram posting earlier in 2019 (www.instagram.com/p/BzMOBsanD52/?igshid=1anq99ejfc8ql) and loved the view across the wildflowers and rolling hillsides. I normally visit national parks on my travels, but this one does look like a place to perhaps visit to take in a morning or late afternoon with sunset!
To the painting, I once again practiced using Adobe Fresco and painted with the Live brushes that app has on my iPad Pro. My thinking was to methodically paint across setting, first starting with the nearby wildflowers. I painted a little bit of the backdrop and then the petals and stems of the wildflowers. I figured having the background colors, would make it easier to then have a contrast of colors that stood out for the wildflowers. I then worked on the next challenge with the hillsides and having a broad paint stroke for a more distant view. That thinking also went into painting the grove of trees. Make it distinct but not a lot into details. The skies were the last part. I didn’t want a bland sky that I saw in the image on Instagram. A sunset with bold, vibrant colors would be needed. I decided that a blend of yellows, red, and even darker earth tones would work. The thing I love about Adobe Fresco is how Live brushes allow a blending of colors like one might do with actual painting. So much to practice learn, and love with this app!
In the bottom, center foreground of the digital painting, you'll find that stick figure image of me "hiking" with my Cubbies hat, imagining a time spent exploring this area!
A Walk in the Wood Along the Skyline Trail. This was a point along the Skyline Trail in Mount Rainier National Park when I turned around to take in this amazing view of Mount Adams and other peaks around the Paradise area. Okay, I'd been doing that most of that morning and hike, but this was one of those spots I really liked with the nearby trees and trail. The views along this hike and down to Reflection Lake were amazing and the temps were that perfect coolness for an Autumn day in Washington! That's the story behind this captured image that I posted here on Flickr back in 2015 (www.flickr.com/photos/14723335@N05/29743316664/in/album-7...).
As I started to digitally paint this, I had a few things I wanted to focus. One was figuring out how I wanted to paint the trees. I haven't really worked well with trees other than the typical evergreens I often see while hiking in the mountains. In some future paintings, I plan on working on more deciduous type trees...still a work in progress! On this trail with the image captured that was the case with evergreen type trees except for the nearby one on my left. In order to keep a consistency with the setting, I kept them all the same and used variations in tone with hues of greens and some yellows. That allowed for a feeling of depth with one tree seemingly in front of the other along this trail. I also tried different brushes and strokes to match the effect I wanted: an impressionist brush for rocks and the mountainsides, rake brush for evergreens and other trees, dry media brush for skies with a lowered opacity to add green or violet (at the upper and lower portion, respectively), and finally an oil brush for clouds and then to blend the mixtures of the shades from dark gray to white.
In the center left foreground of the painting, you'll find that stick figure image of me "hiking" with my Cubbies hat, loving my time exploring Mount Rainier once again :-)
All those Moth Ladies, shh on which ones are vigilantes, at long last face off with The Oiseaux. Can they agree on the Flowers? Time.
Except for Plaster texture from PhotoWizard all effects are from the brand new Sketchbook. All those lovely blending modes made for adding layers of prints and patterns.
In Singapore, with a hot weather, any cafe with good and cooling aircon would entice me. They need to serve good ice mocha too. Ice blended preferred.
Original Digital Abstract Painting with Procreate, ApplePencil, and iPad Pro.
I’m trying to get looser in my work. Chaos does not come naturally to me. I did a series of three action paintings all in one sitting. I was happy with the first and last, they are presented here As Action Painting #3 and action Painting #5. They were all done in the same Photoshop file so I was also able to combine them as layers in different combinations. One of those is also presented here.
Photographie d’une carte de Noël, ensuite j’y ai inséré une de mes photos d’un mur de briques, inséré quatre photos de ma galerie sur le mur, coloré avec le Crayon Apple à divers endroits et fait des ajouts ici et là.... Passez de belles fêtes et je vous souhaites une excellente année 2021 🎈🎈🎈
Photography of a Christmas card, then I have inserted one of my photos of a brick wall, inserted four of my photos from my gallery, colored this and that with an Apple Pencil and added little details here and there... Wishing you all a wonderful end of year and a great year in 2021 🎈🎈🎈
Getting Face-to-Face Help from the Friendly Trees of Congaree. I captured this image while walking under tall Loblolly Pine trees while walking the Bluff Trail one Sunday morning in Congaree National Park. I uploaded the image here on Flickr (www.flickr.com/photos/14723335@N05/48450291857/in/album-7...). There was something magical about looking up with the tall trees all around and coming together likes spokes on a wheel that day. That’s the story behind this image and forest bathing, if you will.
As for painting this image, I tried to keep it simple using a thicker brush stroke for the trees to use as the basis for where I’d have the leaves. I then blended some other wood-like colors to give it what I get was a more natural look. I then used layers, on tope and below, to paint the leaves with varying shades and hues of yellow and green. The last part was painting the skies and adding a look to vary that blue with greens and darker blues with some clouds.
In the left center foreground of the painting, you'll find that stick figure image of me "hiking" with my Cubbies hat, loving my time exploring the bottomland hardwood forest of Congaree National Park in South Carolina :-)
Cathedral Rocks Vista. Now this was a way to start a morning in a national park! A friend and I had driven to Yosemite the day prior, experiencing overcast and even raining weather that day. This morning...let's just say morning and a sunrise have rarely looked as beautiful! By looking through Michael Frye's excellent photography ebook on Yosemite National Park, we'd identified this as a spot to start a day. The sunlight caught on the peaks and reflections off the nearby waters...they all had this magical look in the setting I'm sure John Muir had written about many a time. The original image captured with my Nikon D800E I posted here on Flickr (www.flickr.com/photos/14723335@N05/27992654880).
In painting this image with Adobe Sketch, I focused on a few techniques and ideas. My main focus was on using layers, along with variations of color and tone, to show depth and shapes. About midway through painting the upper portion, Kyle Webster released his Photoshop Brushes to use with any CC license. I tried that out, experimenting with different ones to have a more "analog" look as I used my Apple Pencil. The best area I felt this came out was in the skies. Before my attempts had not been quite what I'd wanted. I was able to find in his dry media collection, a brush that brought out a feel as if painted with real brush. I'll be experimenting more, needless to say...
In the right foreground of the digital painting, you'll find that stick figure image of me "hiking" with my Cubbies hat, loving my time exploring Yosemite National Park...and what a beautiful spring morning to take in the Sierra Nevada in California!
Barn with Wildflowers and Tall Evergreens. On the original image I posted here on Flickr (www.flickr.com/photos/14723335@N05/36382390583/in/album-7...) I mentioned one image in particular where I got the idea for this setting with the wildflowers and barn. While it was an overcast day on that drive through the Stanislaus National Forest on my way to the Hetch Hetchy part of Yosemite National Park. I definitely had to stop to see this...and yes, capture a few images!
As for the digital painting, I had a chance to practice on a few techniques i've been working on the past few weeks since watching some Bob Ross videos on YouTube. A few things I'd note here was the use of a rake brush for both the grass portion as well as with the trees. And even in that area, I had to change some settings like to use a Blend Mode with the grasses as I changed the hues with greens and yellows. With the trees, I didn't like the look that produced, so I continued with a Normal Blend. I also made adjustments to the brush tip and angle, using a Kyleâs Rakes - Zen Grind brush. Another things was to change the hues and shades from one group of trees to another to make the trees not look the same as well as hopefully adding a sense of depth. While the original image I captured didn't have as many wildflowers, I kind of got on a roll with one patch and liked that look. It was then just a matter of making a pattern that might look natural with patches here and there. I also added a differing set of colors with the wildflowers throughout the grassy field. The last area was my continuing work in painting clouds with a acrylic brush. I found with a Blend Mode it brought out a better look as I worked one color to another. Still some work needed but I felt a more natural look. The skies were definitely not blue that day so I practiced my use of adding a watercolor brush for a added feel to the skies: more purple hue to indicate a darkening look while the upper portion had more greens and yellows to show the sunlight still present.
In the left foreground of the painting, you'll find that stick figure image of me "hiking" with my Cubbies hat, loving my time exploring California and the beautiful forest in the Stanislaus National Forest and Yosemite area :-)
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!