My painting today is a composite and painting. The cactus image was captured last year at the botanical gardens. It was shoot with a very narrow depth of field so only the orange flower was in focus. The warbler is also from the gardens at the bird blind but on…
Today I worked on a composite and painting. I was trying to paint the bear with several layers and test different techniques to get more texture in the fur when painting. It wasn’t that successful. But.. that is why we try new things.. some work.. some don’t. This guy is…
I’ve started a new project; building backgrounds for portraits. There are hundreds of commercial backgrounds available for your kids photos and several photographers sell backgrounds for senior portraits as well. But there aren’t a lot of themed backgrounds for military or first responders if they want to have their studio…
Today’s post is a composite and digital painting I captured the image of the cows a couple years ago south of San Antonio near Poteet Texas while out on one of my spring wildflower shoots. I always loved the expression on the little cow’s face like he was going to…
This painting is of an image I captured at the Texas Photo Festival a couple years ago. I painted it with a couple different brushes. The primary brushes was an oil brush which I used on the flag and all the wood. I used a different brush on the rope…
Today’s post is about the making of this artwork, the “American Pride.” This art was created using two images of an eagle from our local zoo, one for the bird and the other for the branches and the a third image from a mountain range out in Nevada in Red…
Here is today’s painting. This one is a little different; sort of an abstract flower painting. I made this piece of art, including the background, with JUST ONE IMAGE. Here is the photo from the botanical gardens that I started with – right out of camera, no adjustments. To start…
Someone asked me a question on Facebook about my technique for blending my cutouts into the background, so I thought I would write a little article about it. I actually use two different technique, one during my compositing and one final step to blend all the elements seamlessly into the…
I was getting ready to paint one of the leopard images that I captured on my safari to South Africa. The leopard was sitting up in the tree in the the original image, but I didn’t want the details of the original background to be a distraction to the painting,…
A few days ago I was out browsing on my Deviantart account and I ran across this link from Sirius-sdz and his collection of textures. As a digital painter and producer of fine art works, I generally build my own backgrounds, but I’m always looking for great inspiration or materials…