I've been playing with the new "Waxed" Overlay Collection, which is a group of textures designed to be used as layers on top of your photos to give them a misty, ethereal, encaustic, waxy look.  Below are a couple of recent landscapes I've created using Waxed, as well as some other textures, to take my landscape snapshots taken from the car and turn them into works of fine art.  I've done an overview video of the second image in an effort to show you how I've worked with these textures {and a few others} to give these images their new looks.  I hope you enjoy the video and will love experimenting with the Waxed Textures as much as I do! :) 

Part of the fun of doing what I do is being able to take my subjects to different places, different environments, and use different styles.  In the video below, I take you through a little bit of my process on how I create multiple pieces of art by masking away my subject's background and placing different backgrounds and textures underneath her, to create a host of unique looks.

"Today's Recipe" is a new project I've started sharing on The Daily Texture Facebook page.  Please follow the page and make sure to comment on the recipes so Facebook will continue to show you the new posts!

Today, however, this image was one I felt I needed to explain a bit more than could be shared on my recipe sheet.  So I've created a video for you, going over in detail what I've done on "Christmas Chickadee".  I hope you enjoy it!

P.S.  If you're working in Photoshop, and wish to learn how to do masking, color changes, and SO MUCH MORE in that software, I highly recommend the Photoshop Artistry course.  You will become a master at using that software in no time with this amazing course!

In this short video, I give you a quick way on how to bring dynamic light into your final art, and get your viewer to focus more on your subject.  This is the final art I completed by using this little trick in the video:

Enjoy this video showing the creation of this art, Winter Wonderland Fawn, using the new Winter Wonderland Collection of backgrounds.

Impresso Pro by Jixipix is a fun program I found to create paintings out of photos.  You can get Impresso Pro here.   This program is an automatic painting program, and has a variety of presets included to give you different looks for your finished art.  I usually use the program to get a beginning simple painting effect, and then I take the painted image over to Procreate on my ipad to further refine it, or even totally repaint it in some cases, to create my paintings.

In the video below, I show you how to set up the exact preset I use to start my portrait style paintings in this software.  I've included 3 screenshots of the 3 different layers, which you may wish to print out or refer back to when setting up your own preset to match mine.  Note:  Make sure to save the preset after you set it up, so you'll have it for the future!  I show you how to do this in the video. :) 

The preset settings I give you in the video work well for a portrait style painting such as this one of my eagle.  I had already blended my eagle photo with a background from the new Art Journal Series 3 Collection before starting my painting.

The Canvas Layer settings:

The Alla Prima Layer Settings:

The Background Paint Layer Settings:

In today's video, I take you through the creation of this winter snow leopard art as I test out a new texture which will be released in a set this month.  Be sure you've signed up for the mailing list, so you can be notified when the new set is released! :) This is the image I am creating in the video below:

In this video, I demonstrate how I did a simple head swap on the bird, and then I take you through the creation of the artistic image using textures and resources from the collections at the bottom of this post.

In today's video, I take you through the creation of this eagle art.  I used a Sweetest Dream Spring Field texture as the background and then three layers of Island Dreams textures were added on top:  One to adjust overall color tone, one to add a bit of darkness where I wanted, and one more to add some brighter light in an area.  I hope you enjoy the video!