Girl in white

Every time I use Painter I discover new tools and options. With this painting I came across a lighting tool that made the sky so much more dynamic. I hadn't done a digital painting for quite some time so it was good to fall in love with it again.

Color Match

This painting I did not use the clone tool in Painter. However Creating paintings from other digital pictures is great because you can match exact color with the dropper tool, similar to the same tool in Photoshop. So this image was hand painted from scratch on my Wacom Tablet. I think I am going to decorate my new bedroom with this color scheme, I love the fresh green color with the dark dark navy blue. Kids are back in school today so hopefully I can do some more pieces, I'm also upgrading the ram on my computer to process files better, I've been having issues. 

Swans

This painting started as a photograph my father took. He watches the swans all winter in Jackson Hole Wyoming and Southern Idaho. 

Poppies

This is one of my favorites. The piece originated from a picture I took from the side of the road on Vancouver Island BC. For this painting I used the Van Gogh brush.  The original photo is available for use on istockphoto

Front Porch

Last summer I had the opportunity to work with one of my photo clients to create a digital painting of her children. After a couple photo shoots and some major swapping of heads, feet, plants, and children (in photoshop) I came up with the following composition. When you make as many swaps as I did in you have a lot of seams but when creating a painting in Painter you manipulate every pixel in the image, your seams are gone.  In Photoshop there are filters you can apply over the whole image that gives it a painterly effect but you have very limited control. Some day I'll do a quick video presentation on the process and post it on the blog. This painting is 30x40, very big, the biggest piece I have ever done. I think it turned out nice, I was very pleased. Another bonus with digital paintings is that you can print as many as you want and the size can change too. I did however work on a file 30x40, this takes up a lot of space on the hard drive.

Lavender Farm

This image I used the water color tools on Corel Painter. This building is the gift shop for a lavender farm on the San Juan Island. If we would have been there a couple weeks later the fields would have been in full bloom.  I am always on the hunt for poppy fields and lavender farms. There is a lavender farm here in Northern Virginia but when I approached the owners about doing some photography there they said no. The hunt continues. 

Magnolia