Art Gallery

First: 231217 ---  Last: 231217    This was the reference.

First: 231217 ---  Last: 231217  This was the reference.  

First: 231216 ---  Last: 231216  As I go about my life, surfing the web as we do, if I see a picture that would be fun or interesting to paint I save it to my PC. Then when its time to choose the next painting I look at what I have downloaded and pick something. I really liked this picture and my version turned out okay. This was the reference.  

First: 231216 ---  Last: 231216  For a while I practiced making sky's. Then I tried to make water with waves. I didnt succeed with the water much. I needed something to be the subject of the painting. So of course I choose a galleon. Then I needed to learn where to put the ship and how big it should be. So I asked an artist friend of mine who had been helping to mentor me. He taught me about the rule of 3s. You can make a grid of lines like a tic tack toe grid. Then you want to put things on the cross of two lines. The lines also help show how big the subject could be. Its one third the height. This was the reference.

  First: 231216 ---  Last: 231216  The first thing I tried to do with the XP-PEN Tablet was make trees. I took some pictures and then tried to reproduce what I saw. I am still learning the tool / program here. This was the reference.

First: 231216 ---  Last: 231216  I mostly paint with water colors but most of my paintings have several different flavors of digital "Paints". This was the second drawing I started with my laptop but then finished on the drawing tablet. I am kind of proud of this. The bowl looks a bit round. Painted about 10/19 Here is the reference: