Painting with the mixer brush, or any digital painting, has one disadvantage if you are going for a photo-realistic effect; the painting smudges and softens the pixels. The entire process is counter intuitive to keeping things sharp. I think this is one of the reason why many of the current…
In this blog I’m going to provide a step by step review of my latest digital painting in Photoshop. I’ve been exploring different techniques lately and combine both Photoshop techniques with curves and adjustment with mixer brush painting to get the final photo realistic yet painterly effect that I’m looking…
One of the days in Cape Town at the beginning of our adventure, we had some time on our own to explore the area. We decide to purchase one of the hop on and off bus passes and head off on a trip around the Cape Town area. We headed…
After leaving Victoria Falls, we boarded a train, the Rovos Rail, and headed south to Pretoria South Africa. We would spend three nights on the train and follow this route south. We’ll..not exactly.. this is a car route from Google maps… we were on a train… but you get the…
Our Africa tour included a visit to Victoria Falls in Zimbabwe. We flew from Cape Town to Johannesburg and up to Victoria Falls and then drove to the beautiful Victoria Falls hotel where we stayed for three nights. The first evening I was there, I took a helicopter ride over…
When you go on a safari, your goal is to see the “Big Five” (lions, leopards, rhinos, elephants and buffalos) which includes the rhinoceros. The Thornybush game reserve works with Kruger National Park with open range capability for the animals, so they can roam freely between the national park and…
We were provided a wake-up call at 5:00am and the jeeps pulled out of the parking area promptly at 5:30! Not hardly time for a cup of coffee – which is probably ok as there are no facilities in the bush!! This particular morning, as we headed out of the…
Our game drives included late afternoon adventures that began about 3:30pm and went well after dark. One evening as we were cruising down the riverbed, our tracker spotted this little guy on the bank resting peacefully. Interestingly, the lights and our presents really didn’t seem to bother him too much. …
I’m back from my trip to South Africa and I can only say that it was everything I had hoped it would be and more! We started the journey in Cape Town, traveled to Victoria Falls, road a train back to Johannesburg and then flew to Thornybush Game Reserve ,…
Back in 2011 we took a cruise out of Venice Italy down the coast of Croatia and around the boot and back to Rome. We stopped at Split, Dubrovnik, Malta, Taormina Sicily, then to Florence, Monaco, Nice and a small medieval village called Eze in France. This image is a…