For this piece, I blended one of my recent owl photos with backgrounds and textures from the Stormscapes and Starry Skies collections. Watch the video below! It's been a while since I've done any new videos...so I thought you might enjoy seeing me work with the new Fragile Collection and just how easy it is! Also, I'm posting more of the art I create with my resources on my instagram account nowadays...I invite you to follow me on Instagram here. See the video below: 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! :) Collections Used:Hi everyone, I wanted to take a moment and introduce you to my very first Skillshare class. How To Paint Photos In Procreate: A Sweet Goldfinch is live on Skillshare now. If you haven't checked out Skillshare, and you're interested in learning a variety of creative and artistic things, come by and give it a try - there's THOUSANDS of classes covering a huge variety of creative techniques, from digital art to traditional art and so much more! My Sweet Goldfinch class is already becoming quite popular and a few students have put up amazing examples of their work. I plan on creating a wide variety of classes for this community, so please give me a follow when you visit.
What is Skillshare? It's an awesome learning community, with over 35,000 classes, including a wide variety in the creative arts. When you join the Skillshare community, you get access to all the learning your heart desires! 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. Here's a slideshow of all the images I created! "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!
One of my customers made the strangest statement last week...she said, after posting an incredible piece of work she completed with one of the backgrounds, "I'm not an artist". I've been thinking about that remark ever since I heard it, and to be honest, I have to say, I totally disagree! No, she may not be a trained "painter" or have experience with what people traditionally call "art", but to do what she did with her photo, to blend it with the background she chose, to create that wonderful final image from her vision she had - THAT IS ART, my friends! As soon as you have the initial vision of what you can do with that photo, you have started the artistic process. This is the point when you move from PHOTOGRAPHER to ARTIST. That is when the journey begins! When I took the above photo, I wasn't thinking about "getting the perfect shot". To be honest, I was firing off a ton of shots of the eagles in motion. The next shot after this was the second eagle, against a totally blown out sky, just like the above photo. Most excellent photographers would have trashed this shot because of the sky. Since "out of camera", it wasn't perfect. Well, I don't consider myself an "excellent" photographer. But I did have a VISION when I saw this photo, and that's when I went from photographer to artist in this process. My vision involved getting the next photo of the second bird into this photo, which was quickly accomplished with placing the second photo on top of this photo as a new layer, and masking the background from the second photo away, leaving only the bird in the sky. The next part of my vision involved taking a background from the Big Sky Collection and placing it on top, in multiply mode. Boom! I now had a dramatic sky. The bottom of the image over the trees became a bit too dark, so I simply masked some of that off the texture layer to reveal the original color of the trees better. And that's it, I was done. Below is the resulting final art: Because I had a vision, which propelled me into ART mode, I've now created a scene which tells a story in a moody way. No one else may know this story except me, but I know exactly what this image represents to me. And what it represents to me is unimportant, because the viewer of the image will form their own story as to what it might represent to them.
These otherwise "non-usable" photos have now become the integral part of the story. When before they may have simply taken up hard drive space, or been trashed altogether. I love being an artist...I love taking the unusable and turning it into something worthwhile. The fact I can do that makes me an ARTIST -- and it does you, too. Remember that when you transform your photos - YOU ARE AN ARTIST. Claim it! 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: The Video:Enjoy this video showing the creation of this art, Winter Wonderland Fawn, using the new Winter Wonderland Collection of backgrounds. The Video:New Backgrounds! |
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