A simple post for a busy day. This floral watercolor image began as a photograph from our local greenhouse, "WoJo's." I took about 48 photographs the other day during our buying for our vegetable garden. Plenty of colorful flowers to paint.
I used a similar workflow on this image as I did for yesterdays with the exception I painted with watercolors in Painter 8. I used light opacity and a diffuse brush of varying sizes. I added back in some details with the soft cloner and used a Digital watercolor brush for the background.
It looked a bit sloppy so I took the original photograph and in Paint.NET I applied a painterly filter to it. In PhotoPaint I opened both the image and the filtered photograph. I copied the photograph to the clipboard and pasted it as an object into the painted image.
I adjusted it with the object property Multiply and lightened the opacity. I merged the results together. Applying Filter Forge's Freepack 3 - Frames Watercolor frame I finished with my signature and the 10 pixel black line frame.
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Listening to: Eric Clapton - Let it Rain
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I love your bright colors in this new painting Kirk. And always enjoy hearing how you paint as some of the programs you use I have never tried. Makes me want to take a look at them. This is beautifully done. Love the edge effect you gave it too. Really makes it pop with the bright colors of the flowers.
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Judith,
ReplyDeleteThank you! I was shooting for an image that popped with color! I'm glad to know I succeeded!
Kirk