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Post by Deleted on Feb 9, 2020 12:56:01 GMT
Although I don't think my friend Steve owns a tablet, he does often enhance his oil paintings after the fact by adding digital elements via Photoshop. In the pictures above, the translucent figure on the left was added later (by simply placing the figure on a layer and then adjusting the opacity). The rainbow halo around the woman in the center picture was added later and the pattern on the floor in the right-hand picture was added with Photoshop. I am sometimes asked if mixing and matching media is "permitted." Well, of course it is. There are no "rules" about how a picture is accomplished. All that matters is the final result. If it turns out well then you did it right. If the results suck then you did it wrong. Norman Rockwell, in his autobiography, told of a time when he had to do a Christmas cover for The Saturday Evening Post. It was to be of a father putting on a Santa Claus costume while his beard lay waiting, draped over the back of a chair. Typical of Rockwell, he worked directly from models, including the beard. After about an hour of painting it in hair by hair, he declared "Enough is enough!", pulled a fistful of hair from the beard and stuck it onto the painting. When the cover finally appeared on the news stands, it looked great. "It might not have been art," Rockwell said, "but it was fun." It was definitely art!
When I was in Toronto (doing my teaching bac.), with my then two-year-old, no car, middle of winter, and broke, we were assigned an art project. I had no materials, it was late at night, I had no one to leave my child with so I could take a million buses to find a store and lug around paper and supplies on public transportation. So I looked under the kitchen sink, took out a pot, and used that as my canvas. You can be sure the teacher was shocked the following day.
Oh, and when I saw the other projects that came in I was stunned. Boy they had a lot of free time and energy. I did well, though. Probably because I believe in miracles.
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Post by ronmiller on Feb 9, 2020 13:01:49 GMT
Although I don't think my friend Steve owns a tablet, he does often enhance his oil paintings after the fact by adding digital elements via Photoshop. In the pictures above, the translucent figure on the left was added later (by simply placing the figure on a layer and then adjusting the opacity). The rainbow halo around the woman in the center picture was added later and the pattern on the floor in the right-hand picture was added with Photoshop. I am sometimes asked if mixing and matching media is "permitted." Well, of course it is. There are no "rules" about how a picture is accomplished. All that matters is the final result. If it turns out well then you did it right. If the results suck then you did it wrong. Norman Rockwell, in his autobiography, told of a time when he had to do a Christmas cover for The Saturday Evening Post. It was to be of a father putting on a Santa Claus costume while his beard lay waiting, draped over the back of a chair. Typical of Rockwell, he worked directly from models, including the beard. After about an hour of painting it in hair by hair, he declared "Enough is enough!", pulled a fistful of hair from the beard and stuck it onto the painting. When the cover finally appeared on the news stands, it looked great. "It might not have been art," Rockwell said, "but it was fun." It was definitely art!
When I was in Toronto (doing my teaching bac.), with my then two-year-old, no car, middle of winter, and broke, we were assigned an art project. I had no materials, it was late at night, I had no one to leave my child with so I could take a million buses to find a store and lug around paper and supplies on public transportation. So I looked under the kitchen sink, took out a pot, and used that as my canvas. You can be sure the teacher was shocked the following day.
Oh, and when I saw the other projects that came in I was stunned. Boy they had a lot of free time and energy. I did well, though. Probably because I believe in miracles.
That's a great story! And a perfect example of a resourceful imagination at work!
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Post by ronmiller on Feb 9, 2020 13:17:04 GMT
Larika: You will find that your tablet is very versatile. For example, you can use it like a paintbrush. The left-hand picture was done freehand in Photoshop, using the various brushes and tools that come with Photoshop to let me use the stylus just as I would a paintbrush.* For instance, I could smudge and smear adjacent color areas to blend them. In the other two examples, I used the tablet just as I might have used pen and ink. The latter were also done in Photoshop. The only settings necessary were to make sure that the pen was making a pressure sensitive line (that is, the thickness and thinness are dependent on how hard I press) and that the brush setting was for maximum hardness and flow (to make sure that the line was sharp and black). The shading patterns were added later as a layer. In the middle picture, I added color to the black and white drawing after the fact, again with Photoshop (using a layer setting that let the line show through). ---- *Just for the sake of honesty, the planet in the background was added separately and was not done by hand.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 9, 2020 13:51:18 GMT
Ron, I lost photoshop, which my son had put on for me,when I upgraded Windows, but fortunately my Paint Shop Pro remained. The programme has similar features to photoshop and I'm really looking forward to trying the Wacom. Your examples show very skilful use of your tablet. It will take me a while to draw on it as you do.However I can see the painting of my scanned in drawings will be much easier.
PS I may even be able to do shading. It's all very exciting.
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Post by ronmiller on Feb 9, 2020 14:55:23 GMT
Ron, I lost photoshop, which my son had put on for me,when I upgraded Windows, but fortunately my Paint Shop Pro remained. The programme has similar features to photoshop and I'm really looking forward to trying the Wacom. Your examples show very skilful use of your tablet. It will take me a while to draw on it as you do.However I can see the painting of my scenned in drawings will be much easier. PS I may even be able to do shading. It's all very exciting. It does take some getting used to! Kind of like learning how to ride a bike. It takes a little practice to become accustomed to drawing on the tablet---which is sort of like a sketchbook lying in front of you---but seeing the drawing appear on the computer screen. So you have to get used to having your hands working one place and your eyes on something else. It also takes a little practice to get used to the "feel" of the stylus on the tablet. There are some alternatives to Photoshop. The one that seems to be both most popular and most highly rated is Gimp, which is free. I haven't used it myself (though I did try it out for a few minutes just to see what it was like) and it seems to be able to do pretty much everything Photoshop does and in pretty much the same way.
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Post by BlueAndGold on Feb 9, 2020 22:51:09 GMT
I had never heard of GIMP until Benziger mentioned it, and I am very thankful he did! Over the last couple of weeks I have knuckled down and used GIMP's great online help files to learn many basic things I wish I had known how to do years ago! Ron, imagine the limitations you might have not knowing how to make portions of an image transparent. Well, until about two weeks ago that was me! GIMP did that for me. That simple concept and tool opens up a universe of creative possibilities! (I have used the transparency feature in MSWord's drawing utility without really knowing what I was doing.) LView Pro is another powerful program but many of the features, like GIMP, are non-intuitive and for me the terminology was confusing. That's why I never used it to learn transparency; but many of its tools are much more straight forward than GIMP; such as contrast, colors, resizing, etc. GIMP's drawing tools are superior though! I still use MSPaint for a few operations too. The tool chest is an evolving item. I highly recommend GIMP! Thank you Benziger! (Of course, guess who has a bunch of book covers to re-design - as if I have time for that!)
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Post by Deleted on Feb 9, 2020 23:42:37 GMT
It was definitely art!
When I was in Toronto (doing my teaching bac.), with my then two-year-old, no car, middle of winter, and broke, we were assigned an art project. I had no materials, it was late at night, I had no one to leave my child with so I could take a million buses to find a store and lug around paper and supplies on public transportation. So I looked under the kitchen sink, took out a pot, and used that as my canvas. You can be sure the teacher was shocked the following day.
Oh, and when I saw the other projects that came in I was stunned. Boy they had a lot of free time and energy. I did well, though. Probably because I believe in miracles.
That's a great story! And a perfect example of a resourceful imagination at work! Thank you, Ron.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 10, 2020 5:41:19 GMT
Gimp aounds great I will download it. Thanks
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