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Something to think about, Gardnerkett. I tend to be "old school" about how physical touch and texture inform painting. However, it is fun to play with images any way we can. The technology of the computer changes frequently and it is expensive to keep up. But the same can be said about the cost of good paper and other tools. Interesting to hear others ideas about this.
royb~thanks for joining in, it would be interesting to get some other thoughts on the subject.
I have been a photographer a lot longer than a painter, but I did find I was inspired by playing around with photo's on photoshop.
I see what you mean. I have painted much longer than I have been taking photographs. I have had a devil of a time trying to use my photos for paintings. Recently decided to try using black and white photos. But no examples or anything interesting to speak of yet. I have photoshop elements and will soon be taking a class to learn better how to use it. I am interested in photo collages. Right now I don't even know where my psd pictures are being saved to. Altho I do save them sometimes. What a mess!
I would love to take a class on photoshop, but have not found any close by yet. I just hack away, or google my question and go from there, it is time consuming, but fun.
Same subject (my dog Keli as a pup) in Black and White Drawing -Photoshop.
Thank you, she is very good about all the photo's I take of her and yes, the B&W is a photoshop.
I did try to paint my Keli, but the detail drove me crazy, probably not the best subject for a beginner painter!
Are you going to try and paint from a B&W, if my memory serves me, you are a water color artist, no?
I have tried acrylics in shades of Grey, good exercise, not as easy as I would have thought.
Yes, water color. But got slowed down over the winter. Distracted by photo stuff. You are a good painter; acrylics are fun. I wonder if the black and white would be easier to work from for you? I know it would for me. I am considering using a projector for my photos to get the line drawing on a painting. It seems kind of like cheating but I'm sure the finished painting would be quite different than the photo. And it would be my own photo, of course.
Gardnerkett, I think you were wanting folks' ideas concerning PhotoShop & the ecosystem? I am/was a painter in traditional media, till I got hooked on digital art. Now, instead of a room full of paints and brushes and canvases, etc., I have Adobe PhotoShop, Corel Painter, PaintShop Pro, etc, on my PC. I'm a better painter digitally than I was in traditional media, and one reason for that is I was stingy with my paper and paints. Ya know what I mean? Before you splash watercolor onto that $10 sheet of paper, you need to have a serious outcome in mind, but in digital painting, there's no waste. I can paint 20 paintings a day if I like, and storage is much, much easier because they all live inside my computer or on the external hard drive. :) Beware, though, this type of painting is every bit as addictive as traditional. Eventually, you'll want all the bells and whistles. I have a lighted keyboard, a 21" Cintiq as one monitor and a second LCD monitor, plus a Wacom tablet and several pens...the list goes on, and you have to upgrade the software every couple of years, so while digital art is might be better on the greening of the planet, it's harder on the pocketbook!
darci~interesting point's you make, boy I would love to have all your techie software and equip!
Much like you I am a bit of a stingy artist, which I do not think adds to the art experience, but we all have to deal with our idio's.lol I found playing with Adobe Photoshop, that I can take a photograph and look at it many different ways, which sometimes inspires me to paint a different way. Like I mentioned above, I have worked hard to loosen my style and try some funkier approaches to my subject.
Before I would always just try and paint the exact photo.
Good hearing from you.
Cheers
Cath
Here is another example of a piece I am working on from a photo of some Canna's from my garden, that I played with the orig photo in photoshop.
Love to see some of your work.
Cath, I don't know my way around the forum that well, and I sorta forgot where I had talked to you :) That's a real nice look you've got going there. Did you use PhotoShop brushes? I love the Art History brushes in PS. Here's one I just got through doing for a commission. It's pretty straight forward; when you're working for other people, you don't always have the freedom to push the envelope.
