posted
Bruce...no step by step possible...sometimes I'll use a portion of one of my prior paintings to begin with for raw material to build a new composition...I usually start off with no idea of where I'm going...I grab a brush and just start making random strokes of light and dark color...eventually something begins to suggest a sky...a hill...a river...so I follow that lead until something else is suggested...I'm working fast and following a feeling...pulling images out of my memory at random until something feels right...I really enjoy the freedom I experience...it's so different from the preciseness of sign making.
Here's another...this one evolved from the one above...you will notice the same palette and a bit of the same sky.
posted
The one above evolved into the one below...using the same raw material I simply moved it around til something tiggered off in my head..and voila'...a new waterfall composition.
posted
Theses are just magical, incredible and truly fine works Rusty! I'm totally Photoshop illiterate…so; this is all done on a computer? ………There is no hand to brush, brush to paint, and that physical feel of brush to canvas? These are like 18th century paintings, that intense lighting, rich tones of earthy color………….just wonderful to see !
The key to getting your clients to order a sign with this type of wonderful illustration is to do a sample of such a sign for your own showroom. Show it in your portfolio and on your website too.
Build it and they will come!
-grampa dan
-------------------- Dan Sawatzky Imagination Corporation Yarrow, British Columbia dan@imaginationcorporation.com http://www.imaginationcorporation.com
Being a grampa is one of the the most wonderful things in the world!!! Posts: 8738 | From: Yarrow, B.C. Canada | Registered: Nov 1998
| IP: Logged |
posted
I'd love to sit and watch you do one of these....they have a depth, a real spiritual tone to them.
-------------------- “Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again?” -Winnie the Pooh & A.A. Milne
Kelly Thorson Kel-T-Grafix 801 Main St. Holdfast, SK S0G 2H0 ktg@sasktel.net Posts: 5496 | From: Penzance, Saskatchewan | Registered: May 2002
| IP: Logged |
posted
Those are damn fine paintings.I had no idea a person cd do that sort of thing with photoshop. Do you actually "mix" your colors, like adding a little red to the ocher you've got on the "brush", or is a matter of picking specific single colors from a palette chart?
-------------------- dennis kiernan independent artist san francisco, calif, usa Posts: 907 | From: san francisco, ca usa | Registered: Feb 2010
| IP: Logged |
posted
Have you got any of your paintings -- the kind done with "vintage" brushes -- online?
-------------------- dennis kiernan independent artist san francisco, calif, usa Posts: 907 | From: san francisco, ca usa | Registered: Feb 2010
| IP: Logged |
posted
I can see no room for improvement.Great work, let us see more. Bill
-------------------- Bill Riedel Riedel Sign Co., Inc. 15 Warren Street Little Ferry, N.J. 07643 billsr@riedelsignco.com Posts: 2953 | From: Little Ferry, New Jersey, USA | Registered: Feb 1999
| IP: Logged |
posted
Amazing work. I really admire you expressing the process and what is happening inside you. Whatever it is that "speaks" to you is a gift and I'm glad that you have it.
Looking forward to seeing much more. You are inspiring others to let loose of what may be hidden inside them.
Rather than trying to analyze, you simply allow the passion inside you to be released. How fortunate you are.
-------------------- Chapman Sign Studio Temple, Texas chapmanstudio@sbcglobal.net Posts: 6306 | From: Temple, Texas, USA | Registered: Nov 1998
| IP: Logged |
posted
Hi Rusty, Thanks for sharing your beautiful work. They are very pleasing to the eye and have a comforting/ soothing effect even in this small format. You are extremely talented.
-------------------- John Browning JBG John Browning Graphics 439 East St Hebron CT Posts: 75 | From: Hebron Ct | Registered: May 2008
| IP: Logged |
posted
I'm proficient with only a few of the Photoshop tools...but I have used them enough that they now have become second nature...I'm just beginner in digital landscape painting but my brain has been recording images all my life...the fun is getting in a zone to access those images and then convey them with some emotion...I appreciate the kind remarks you folks have made...I've not attempted an actual "paint on canvas" painting as of yet...other than some related things associated with sign work...but nothing really serious...I have a friend who is a landscape painter...he thinks I can make the transition from digital to actual paint on canvas without a great deal of difficulty...I know there will be dues to pay...just as there was a learning curve with the tools in Photoshop...but like my friend says...you can learn those things with a little practice...but the most important thing you bring to the canvas is how you see and feel about the world...and can you convey that feeling to the viewer...starting this month I will be semi-retired..."semi" because my SS check is so little...but still that will afford me some extra time to pursue my new found interest in landscape painting...which is less than a year old
posted
Rusty, those are beautiful. It's hard to believe they are done on a computer. Your colors are fantastic. This is the first time I've heard of someone going from digital to paintbrush. It's usually the other way around. Looking forward to seeing more of your landscapes.
-------------------- Jean Shimp Shimp Sign & Design Co. Jacksonville Beach, Fl Posts: 1266 | From: Jacksonville Beach, Fl. USA | Registered: Nov 1998
| IP: Logged |
posted
Dale...I've only worked in Photoshop 7.0 but I would think Corel would have comparable tools...if it helps I can give you the Photoshop tools I used to paint the above pics:
1.brush tool...here I can set my opacity level and brush size 2.eye dropper...for matching a color on screen. 3.color picker...pick any color under the rainbow for your brush. 4.dodge and burn...control lightness and darkness. 5. smudge...I draw with this the most 6. blur...for blending colors together 7.clone...for copying an area and blending 8. contrast 9. selection...I can work on only the area I have selected. 10. view...zooming in and out as I work...way out to get a good feel of composition balance...and of course zoomed in to work on detail.
I would think Corel would have tools that would do these functions.
posted
Raymond...I haven't even gotten into layers...so this is all one layer...I'm sure when I learn layers I'll be kicking myself for not having learned them earlier...I might have posted this one before...cant remember...I must have 20 or more of these little guys...this one is a different palette...more cool colors.
posted
Wonderful work Rusty. Thanks for sharing. This is the sort of thing we'd love to get back to here in Letterville. If you guys have anything new or cool, keep your camera or camcorder close by and record a step by step.
-------------------- Barb Shortreed 144 Hill St. E. Fergus, Ontario Posts: 2376 | From: Fergus, Ont. | Registered: Sep 2000
| IP: Logged |
posted
Rusty, can you get tight with the photoshop tools? Frinstance tightening up the foreground grasses in that last one, if you wanted to.
-------------------- dennis kiernan independent artist san francisco, calif, usa Posts: 907 | From: san francisco, ca usa | Registered: Feb 2010
| IP: Logged |
posted
Brilliant stuff Rusty. Presume you're using some sort of tablet with photoshop. If I can figure out where to start, I'm gonna have a go at this. I live in a quiet country area with some great scenery, stone cottages etc
-------------------- Kevin Gaffney Artistik Signs Kinnegad County Westmeath Ireland 044-75187 kevingaffney@eircom.net Posts: 628 | From: Ireland | Registered: Oct 2003
| IP: Logged |
posted
If you guys want some photoshop painting tutorials the guy to google is Bert Monroy. I took one of his seminars a couple of years ago and he's a great teacher.
posted
As some of you know, I have produced some 850 brush landscapes and this work is stunningly beautiful, Rusty. Selling digital work is virtually impossible, though any real art gallery, unless they are some specialty place. If you could do some of these printed on metal or wood panels and added some brush work over them, I bet you could sell a bunch of them, as long as no one understood the process that well. Art buyers like seeing the real brush efforts infinitely more. Santa Fe would go gaga for them.
There is a local woman here who does this sort of thing in printing on dibond or aluminum panel..She shows at various art meets and does quite well. I recall her name is Chris Dahlquist. Go run a Goog on her and I bet you can see her work. Still, you work is better! Albert Bierstadt or George Inness feel for sure. I have heard people refer to work like this as Luminist or Northern Hudson River School. Sunsetty, dark, rich in color and very inspiring... Keep at it!
-------------------- Preston McCall 112 Rim Road Santa Fe, New Mexico 87501 text: 5056607370 Posts: 1552 | From: Santa Fe, New Mexico | Registered: Nov 1998
| IP: Logged |
posted
Dennis...for all the good things I been able to do in Photoshop very fine detail has eluded me...if it's there I haven't found it yet...so everything I'm doing will have a slight impressionistic feel to it...which really is ok with me.
Kevin...I'm still using the old fashioned mouse...with the tablet and pen I understand you have much more control...more like actual drawing...however I have a theory about how the mouse might actually be better in landscape painting than the pen...it all has to do with less control being better...my brain wants to organize and fit things together too neatly...even though I am aware of this fact it's hard to over ride...with the mouse there is a certain randomness...like we find in nature...that I might not ever get if I was in total control of each stroke...and of course with the history and delete functions I can selectively choose which of these random strokes I want to keep...it might even be the accident I choose that points me in a new direction that was unintended.
Preston...thanks...I looked her up...she doing things with photos...a mixed media thing...pretty neat...I think I'm more interested in going the traditional oil on canvas...you mention the Hudson River School...although I have never painted...I have always been drawn to the Hudson River School for the reverence and awe of nature they portray in their paintings.
posted
Rusty, you're right about the random business, but I bet you'd do better with the traditional tools. You're obviously a real artist -- dont know how you cd have come this far without ever having a go at regular oil painting -- and with the brushes you've got the randomness and the control right in your hand all the time. Google up Bierstadt (he was the first one that came to my mind also) and take a look at his Surveyor's Wagon in the Rockies. It's in the St. Louis Museum.
-------------------- dennis kiernan independent artist san francisco, calif, usa Posts: 907 | From: san francisco, ca usa | Registered: Feb 2010
| IP: Logged |