Still Life Tomatoes - WDE

This painting was created using Painter Essentials.
I painted it for a recent WDE at WetCanvas.

Maccaw.

This painting was created using Painter for the bird and ArtRage for the background.

Thought I would give painter another try.

Still not very impressed with it but with some more practice I could get used to it.

This is a fun image to paint, I think i will do it again sometime!

WDE - Apples in ArtRage

This was painted in response to this Oct 13 WDE at Wetcanvas.

I didn't really do the great photo provided much justice but its not too bad.

This is painted using ArtRage, a digital painting program.

WDE Poppies.

This painting was created using a reference from a WDE a few months ago. I never finished it on the day and just now finished the painting. Painted using ArtRage.

WDE Magpie.

I have never seen a Magpie as beautiful as this one. The host of the weekly drawing event posted the photo as a green magpie but here in Australia, a magpie is a black and white bird, not this gorgeous blue.

Here is a picture of the Australian Magpie.

I would love to know more about this green magpie as it is a gorgeous bird.

Recent WDEs.

These paintings are from the last few Weekend Drawing Events at WetCanvas.
1. "Charlie the cat" and "the carousel horse"
Two ATCs done in acrylic on watercolour card.

2. "Pomegranite" This is a digital painting done using ArtRage.
3. This painting, the original refernce was pink and the challenge was to paint it a different colour.

I decided to go with yellow. I found it very difficult to drag the correct colours out of my imagination.

It was only later that I remebered I have numerous photos of yellow roses from my mothers garden and I could have used them to get the right tones!!

It was good for the excercise anyway.

Acrylic Pet ATCs.

I joined an ATC trade at WetCanvas of painted pets. This is what I have done so far.
I am enjoying painting these.

"Barbara" - Digital painting painted in ArtRage. "Kayser and Chelsea" - Digital painting painted in Artrage.

"Harriet" - Acrylic painting.

"Baron" - Acrylic Painting.

"Alex" - Acrylic Painting.

"Sammy Joe" - Acrylic Painting.

Digital Still life.

This one is in response to a challenge on "the digital art board" at msn.
I have used artrage to paint this image.

WDE - Lab.

This gorgeous lab was painted for this weeks WDE at WetCanvas.

Alpaccas in Artrage.

These are 2 Alpaccas that belong to a work friend.

I was given a photo of them to work from.

These are so cute!!

WDE Digital Iris.

This is a digital painting created in ArtRage.

I love the colours in this.

I painted it for the WetCanvas Drawing Event this weekend.

Penguin painting.

This one was painted in "Painter".

It's the first painting I've created in Painter and I think with practice I might be able to doing something worthy!

Digital Portrait practice - Jessica.

This is my second portrait so far in the digital medium.

Again I have used ArtRage for this.

I quite like how it came out.

Still need lots of practice on skin tone and hair.

Digital Cheetah.

This Cheetah ws from this weekend WDE as well.
Another ArtRage painting.

WDE Digital Painting.

Another painting done in ArtRage. This one was from the Weekly Drawing Event At WetCanvas this july 4th weekend.

Digital Paintings.

These paintings are painted usingreference images given to me by friends. I have painted both in ArtRage.

1: For this fish I used a reference image taken by Ssu Yuan while she was diving in Cairns.

2: This painting is done from a reference image photo taken by jack at the Buddah birthday celebrations at Federation Square recently. I can see I need alot of practice doing hair and skin tones.

Digital Heron.

I painted this Heron for the Wetcanvas Weekly Drawing Event this week and I see it fits the EDM Challenge #125- Draw a bird as well.

I have used Artrage to paint this one.

Digital painting With Wetcanvas References.

I have been doing a fair bit of ArtRage Art lately. Its been a little while since I have udated this blog but here i am!

These are all painted using ArtRage.

1. Dolphin: This one is from a photo I found online. I loved the way that its has only blues in it and had to try painting it. 2. Impala: This one is from a recent Weekend Drawing Event at WetCanvas.3. Lily: Another image from a recent Weekend Drawing Event at WetCanvas.4. Canteberry Bells: This image is from a WDE a while ago. I painted it for the White Flower Project I am participating in at WetCanvas.5. Conch Shell: This Shell is from The WetCanvas Image Library. It is a gorgeous image and I had to have a go at painting it.6. Fish: This is another image from a recent WetCanvas Drawing Event. 7. Father and Son: Another WDE Image. I have been doing quite a few of these in the past few weeks.8. Still Life: Yet anther WDE Image.

Dolphin and daisies - ATC Art.

This painting is a little watercolour pencil piece I painted in response to the Wet Canvas WDE this week. It didn't scan very well but it does show how much i am struggling with the watercolours. I think I prefer Acrylic and Digital!
This is a pair of "black eyed Susan's", I wonder if they are called the same thing in Australia. Our hostess this week is an American so it might be the American name? Well I've never heard of them, they look like daisies to me so that's what they are!
This is a digital painting using ArtRage. It came out alot better than I would have expected but It took twice as long as an Acrylic might have. I will have to see how it prints out. I think it will be a great Digital ATC

Experimenting with watercolour.

More ATCs for the WetCanvas Exchange but these are a little different.
1. Cardinal - I used watercolour pencils for the cardinal and black ink for his eyes. 2. Blue frog - watercolour pencil for the main part but acrylic for the eyes and white highlights.

3: Ostrich - In this one I have used watercolour pencils to add colour to the background and painted the focal point in acrylic. I like the way this one came out! It scanned a bit darker though.