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Secret Love

Posted in Digital Painting, Haiku, Sacred Floral, Stillness, Beauty and Grace, tagged corel painter, digital art, Digital Painting, florals, flower, gardenia, Haiku, photoshop, Poetry, secret love on April 29, 2008 | 1 Comment »

sultry hearts blossom
arouse the scent of passion
flames a secret love
Normally, I use a the liquify filter in Adobe Photoshop to move and push color into shapes. Recently, someone shared with me that the same effect can be done in Corel Painter X. In this floral painting of one of my favorite flowers, the gardenia, I [...]

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Desert Beauty

Posted in Digital Painting, Haiku, Poetry, Sacred Floral, tagged cactus, cactus flower, contemporary art, desert, desert flower, Digital Painting, floral, flowers, Genece Hamby, Haiku, Poetry, purple on April 23, 2008 | 5 Comments »

hot, scorching breath of
rugged land carries stillness
into soft beauty
Painting this desert flower, my thoughts think of Vi from Soul Food who doesn’t just live in the desert, she reflects the majestic qualities of the desert. I added a new brush stroke to create a raking effect for subtle grooves in the flower with the desire [...]

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At Dawn She Rises

Posted in Digital Painting, Digital Painting Tutorials, Haiku, Poetry, Sacred Floral, Stillness, Beauty and Grace, tagged Adobe Photoshop, corel painter x, Corel PhotoPaint, daily painting, florals, Haiku, lily pads, lotus, lotus flower, midnight blue, muddy swamp, Poetry, sage, sketch, tutorial, watercolor on April 21, 2008 | 9 Comments »

at dawn she rises
and emerges from the depth
of a muddy swamp
In this daily painting, using Corel Painter X, my first step was to do an acrylic wash of a deep midnight blue blended with soft dark green for the waters and background. Next, I sketched the lotus flower and lily pads using a soft white [...]

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Pink Persuasion

Posted in Digital Painting, Digital Painting Tutorials, Haiku, Poetry, Sacred Floral on April 19, 2008 | 1 Comment »

the trumpet of love
yields its beauty and essence
in pink persuasion
Start with a black background, paint green streams of color into shapes of leaves. I used a Watercolor brush to shape the green leaves. After putting leaves on the black background where you want, paint a pink circle ball where you want the main flower to be in [...]

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Misty Seas

Posted in Digital Painting, Haiku, Poetry, Sacred Nature, Stillness, Beauty and Grace, tagged beach, beauty, blue, contemporary art, Digital Painting, Genece Hamby, grace, Haiku, island, mountains, movement, nature, ocean, Poetry, sanctuary, seas, seascape, shore, shoreline, stillness on April 16, 2008 | 8 Comments »

on blue misty seas
beauty is hidden from view
movement happens here
I’ve been working on new techniques to create water. In this painting, I used Oil Pastels from Corel Painter X to paint a wavy, smeary sea. Then, I used watercolors and flat brush over the sea in a deeper blue. I saved the file and re-opened [...]

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Wet Kisses

Posted in Digital Painting, Haiku, Poetry, Sacred Floral, tagged "morning dew", "wet kisses", contemporary art, Digital Painting, floral, flowers, Genece Hamby, green, Haiku, kiss, Poetry, spring, white on April 11, 2008 | 4 Comments »

in serene array
morning dew touches the face
full cheeks, wet kisses
– genece hamby, contemporary artist & poet
http://www.shibuistudio.com

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On the Island

Posted in Digital Painting, Digital Painting Tutorials, Haiku, Poetry, Sacred Floral, Stillness, Beauty and Grace, tagged "exotic flower" island "digital painting" white "white, tropical "contemporary art" sea flowers floral genece h on April 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

noble white petals
yield the stillness of a dream
takes your breath away
a liquid blue soul
serene in beauty and breath
she waxes and wanes
I love the beauty of white, waxy flowers that can be found on many tropical islands. In this painting, the white flower began to blend with colors of the sea as I allowed my mind [...]

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