Posted in Digital Painting, Digital Painting Tutorials, Sacred Nature, Stillness, Beauty and Grace, tagged blue, color wash, day, Digital Painting, light, night, photoshop, torii, torii gate, transparency, water, watercolor on May 1, 2008 | 9 Comments »
Torii Gate in the Daylight
Torii Gate at Night
I’ve been playing with soft watercolor washes with the goal of capturing simplicity as an image of beauty. After painting a torii gate in the water during daylight, I decided to invert the file and add a moon above the gate and light dancing off the night waters. [...]
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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 | 8 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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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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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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In yesterday’s post, I offered to create a short tutorial on how to use the Liquify Filter in Adobe Photoshop or Elements in order to “push color” into defined shapes. Although this image is the final result, if you would like to use the tutorial to create your own visit http://atelierdigital.wordpress.com/2008/03/31/pushing-color-digital-painting-tutorial/
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Posted in Digital Painting, Digital Painting Tutorials, Haiku, Poetry, Sacred Floral, tagged Adobe Photoshop, contemporary art, contemporary artist, corel painter x, Corel PaintShop, Digital Painting, Genece Hamby, Haiku, magnolia, Poetry on January 31, 2008 | 7 Comments »
at the gold center
petals of cream, soft on soft
colors the palette
I’ve been playing with a new painting technique that can be done in Adobe Photoshop or Corel Painter X and Corel PhotoPaint.
First, sketch a simple flower on a black background. I chose a magnolia for this painting. Next, using watercolor brush and white, paint the [...]
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Whew! My fingers have been typing, typing, typing and my brain has been thinking, thinking, thinking! I wanted to have the first day of the 30 day tutorial up by this morning. Ha! It’s taken me until 4 pm CDT to get Day One completed. I tried making the document as clear to read as [...]
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Posted in Digital Painting, Digital Painting Tutorials, Haiku, Poetry, tagged chameleon, contemporar artist, Digital Painting, digital painting instruction, fine art, Genece Hamby, haiku poetry on October 22, 2007 | 5 Comments »
To see an enlarged view and to read the poem, http://www.shibuistudio.com/paintingspace.html
I had a successful art show! On Saturday, I did a live demonstation and even allowed others to sit at my laptop and Wacom tablet to paint a few brush strokes here and there. Per the request of a guest, I sketched a chameleon and a couple [...]
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This is the final work of Tuscany Vineyard. I’ve uploaded it as a larger size than other posts so you hopefully can see more details. You’ll have to click on the painting to see it full size. If you really want to see it close up, right click the image and save it. Then open [...]
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Now we’re painting! Today’s work is the beginning of details. It’s still very raw and the details are still too early in development to completely know the finished painting. However, it’s the brushes and paint (oils) that are now adding depth and richer color. The touch of light is usually added at this stage — [...]
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