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.

Even More ATCs.

These are acrylic ATCs for the Exchange at WetCanvas. They seem to be the only thing I'm painting at the moment.

Even though I enjoy painting them, perhaps I have over commited myself a little!

1. Rose.

This one has lost a bit of colour in scanning. There are more lights in the actual bud that haven't shown up. 2. Strawberries.

Same thing happened to this one in scanning where it lost alot of the highlights. In fact, they have all lost a little or changed colour during scanning! Perhaps I need a new scanner? 3. Lily.4. Kangaroo.5.Dolphin.6. Cheetah.

More ATCs.

1. This is an acrylic painting of a treefrog sitting on a leaf.

2. This is an oil painting of a pelican standing up on the mooring post at the caravan park we stay at in Mallacoota. The park is right by the lake and the campers can moor thier boats right out front of thier Caravans.

3: This is a digital painting created using both Artrage and Photoshop. I found the image in the WetCanvas Image Library and thought it would be fun to try and recreate using many layers, it was definitely a challenge for both me and my computer!

Fruity ATCs in Oil.

Here are some ATCs for the WetCanvas Exchange I've painted using Oils. These have a very luxurious feel about them.

1. Kiwi Fruit:

2. Cherries:3: Passionfruit:

WetCanvas ATCs and WDEs! A world of art!

Here are some more ATCs for the Exchange at Wetcanvas.

This one is a digital painting done using Artrage.This one is an oil painting on canvas type paper.This one was drawn in response to one of the daily drawing prompts, using Artrage.
I like it alot so I decided to use it for one of these cards.

Another oil painting on canvas paper, I played around with this image for weeks and I am still not happy with it. It is Lara Croft, the Tomb Raider!
One of my all time favourite characters in game or movie form!This is another digital painting done in Artrage.
I love using this program as it is very close to painting with any other medium.
I use a stylus and tablet so its like using a brush or pen. WDEs.

This is from this weeks WetCanvas Weekend Drawing Event (WDE) I chose this image because I love the colour of the paint on her face and thought it might be cool to try to recreate that colour!I made the little girl in the image look a little older than she is is the reference.

This is a digital painting too, again done using the Artrage program.

If you've never used it, you can download a free trial version. It is really great!

This adorable image is from last weeks WDE.
I painted this one using acrylics on water colour paper. All of these are ATCs for the Wetcanvs ATC Exchange happening at the moment.

Pelicans Finished.

Finally I have finished this painting.
I'm happy with the way it came out.
Ths is Oil on board, 26" X 19".

Miniature Oil Paintings.

These are some Oil painted ATCs I created.

I love working in this medium, Its so luxurious!

The first two were painted using reference images from the WetCanvas Image Reference Library

and the Whale painting was created using a reference image I found online.

Alpaca ATC

Inspired by an image of Maree's Alpaca that she gave me yesterday to use, I couldn't help but paint the big hairy cutie straight away! This is an acrylic ATC. I am really getting into the Acrylics.

Digital Drawing for fun.

This baby Alpaca was painted using ArtRage.
I used a reference from WetCanvas Image Reference Library.
Great place to find images to use for painting!

Acrylic Rosella ATC.

Another ATC for the Exchange.

This one was painted using an reference image from the Wetcanvas Image Reference Library.

"Lookin' at you"

More Cards for the WetCanvas ATC Exchange.

I spent the long weekend playing around with acrylics.

I bought some drying retarder and I am in love!! The blendability of oils with the quick drying properties of the acrylics...so cool!

Here are some cards I created.

I had a pretty productive weekend. I also made a few Oil ATCs too and will post them when they are dry.

Elijah: Colour pencil on canvas paper.

Tropical Paradise: Acrylic on Gessoed card. Freedom: Acrylic on canvas paper.Nostalgia: Colour Pencil on card.Magnolias: Digital.Einie the Macaw: Acrylic on canvas paper.Green Rose: Acrylic on canvas paper. Self Portrait: Acrylic on Gessoed Card.

WetCanvas - ATC Project 2007.

I joined a project happening at WetCanvas in which each player has to create an ATC for each of the other 25 players. There is a 6 month time frame but here are my first five cards. I think this is going to be quite a bit of fun and gives me the opportunity to experiment with lots of different mediums and subjects!

1: "Jaffa" - Colour Pencil on Water colour paper.
" Cute Puppy" - Digital painting.

"Still life 1" - Acrylic painting on gessoed card..

"Sedona" - Coloured pencil on gessoed card.

"Buffy" - Acrylic on gessoed card.