Shadowness - BlueSolitaire

Lab Pups Will Try to Eat ANYTHING...

Wed, 15 May 2013 13:55:18 -0400

Had fun doing the Christmas lights...I hope the swallowed bulb's glow is evident enough. Corel Painter X and WACOM tablet. 1/2 hour to do, no line art.

Beautiful Red

Mon, 13 May 2013 13:56:46 -0400

Not the sharpest but I like it. The "sheen" on the petal facing you is camera flash. Why the camera took it into its computer brain to use flash, I dunno. I'm a tulip freak.

palm warbler

Mon, 15 Apr 2013 21:58:28 -0400

Bird Safari today. Looking for kinglets, getting surrounded by them and poses from this guy. I won the Bird Lottery.

coming in for a landing

Sun, 14 Apr 2013 22:21:11 -0400

Taken at Ipswitch Wildlife sanctuary in Ipswitch Massachusetts. I'm not happy that it didn't come out clear (the camera was on "sport", and a long zoom lens with a slow-speed auto-focus) but I like the scene. I hope you will enjoy it too for what it is: one shot in a thousand. We had chickadees, titmice and these nuthatches landing on us. I hope to go back again in the summer when more birds have migrated there.

red angry bird

Sun, 14 Apr 2013 22:15:04 -0400

He may be the same species as the Red Bird of the game but he's anything BUT "angry". He posed for me quite a while when I was out with family, hiking trails in Ipswitch River Wildlife Sanctuary in Ipswitch Massachusetts. We had a ball. Birds would eat from our hands. Wild but "tame". Cardinals are usually quite "flighty" and won't come near. I lucked out. He was my Holy Grail of bird photography. (Next Grail: a bald eagle.)

Abstract Color Wave Riot

Wed, 10 Apr 2013 19:03:29 -0400

I am in the process of painting this on a canvas with acrylic paints...ran out of paints! Not the greatest quality of paint...some are SO transparent I have to paint layer after layer. Ergo, the end of the paint. This is the Painter digital "painting" of it. I hope it doesn't hurt anyone's eyes TOO much. I'm trying Abstracts...more for color than form. This was a lot of fun. On DeviantART I'm bracing for the "You suck! learn how to make ART!" and "this isn't art!" comments. I do art for fun. I have another like this in the works, but not all the flaring colors. Just the curls. Please be gentle.

jellyfish shadows

Wed, 13 Mar 2013 09:37:33 -0400

Well DON'T they look like jellyfish? Dried sedum (stonecrop) in new snow. I didn't really notice how the shadows looked until after I uploaded the pics. Pretty cool.

Possessed

Sat, 23 Feb 2013 10:31:59 -0500

This was done in Corel Painter X "acrylics". This concept came to me as a vision suddenly. It's been about 1-2 months since I did this, so if you see anything like this on the net, I didn't copy it. This is just as I "saw" it in my head. I was going for values and tones, no lines except the colored whatever-they-are tendrills. Sometimes we do art from thoughts/visions we have no idea what the heck they are or mean. This isn't the greatest but I hope to get better. I stink at human anatomy since I find animals to be more graceful and interesting in some ways. Planning on redoing this in traditional acrylic if or when I actually get my art studio set up. Right now, with money very tight and real life getting in my way, it doesn't seem to be "in the cards".

pink lily

Sat, 23 Feb 2013 10:11:46 -0500

The only ref work was to see how many petals and sepals an Oriental Lily has. Otherwise, it's from memory. We have these guys growing in our front lawn garden. This is the first attempt at making a colored pencil lily art. Prismacolor Premier with colorless blender pencil. It's been reworked a little. Hoping to get better with practice. it was fun to do, and isn't that part of the reason we do art?

conch shell pastel redeux

Sat, 26 Jan 2013 19:04:07 -0500

The original, done in pastels and pastel pencils, came out quite light. I didn't have the guts to darken it. I thought I'd ruin it. So...Corel Painter X to the rescue. I used one layer of "Pastels" atop the original art to darken it up a little. It's still mostly traditional art. I didn't copy the shell exactly, but close enough. It wasn't on the beach at water's edge, for example. XD The original work, which needs a fixative, is in my DeviantART gallery. El Cheapo (no name brand) pastels I got at Michaels, Cretacolor pastel pencils, Corel Painter X for darkening and a few blender smudges.