Well we have reached another peak of over 4,000 visitors to gatzkART! We want to thank all of you who regularly follow this blog, and welcome any new visitors as well. As usual we try to provide you with interesting visual digital art and explanation of techniques, with a little music talk along with it.
Today's image is another spring floral. This photograph was taken in our own gardens from a previous spring. Out blossoms are not out in full bloom yet here in our part of Southeast Michigan. But we are looking forward to more perennial flowers this year.
I opened this photograph in Painter 8 and cloned the image then cleared it and used the tracing paper function. I first used a Sumi-e brush to add line like strokes to the flowers. I then used the Soft Cloner brush to fill back in some details like the water droplets on the flowers.
I used some Painter 8 Wow! Book oil brushes to create the background, adding the yellows to help the flowers to stand out. Saving this file I reopened it in PhotoPaint and lassoed the flowers, used the Tone Curve on them to heighten the shadows and then increased the Saturation by 7. I inverted the mask and applied the Effects> Custom> Alchemy> filter to add a light texture flavor to the background.
Again I used Filter Forge's Frame applying a Grunge frame to the over all painting.
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Listening to: Southwest Statistic - Tri State Area
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