I finished another of the paintings of my neighbors beautiful horses. I love the time period of the day, right before the sun starts to set for all the dramatic lights and shadows it casts. I played around with many brushes and mediums and finally really found a great combination for doing the grasses. It took forever to the grass to get painted, on blade at a time, but it has the exact look and color brush blending I've been working to find. This is a digitally painted work, not a photo manipulation, or auto convert art software effect. I painted it using my electronic graphics tablet, a Wacom, that comes with a wireless pen stylus. I used my favorite art program, Corel Painter X (see www.Corel.com for more info, also has Wacom bundles there.) I could not paint this on the computer with a regular mouse. The stylus pen is held like a real pen, or brush, marker, chalk, etc. You choice the colors, sizes of brushes, how translucent it is, how to blend it, the grain, the pull of the brush, the mix of the colors, and the mediums. It is as close as to using real materials as you can get. The software is constantly getting upgrades and each time, it is more amazing. The combinations I can create with mediums and brushes are often something I could not achieve with real mediums that you could not mix together. This gives me more freedom and often, in my works , more realistic or stunning effects of a work. I am self taught, I learned by experimenting and practice. There are books, and DVD tutorials available, so it can be learned. Even if not artistic, you can photoshop if that's what you are into. All I know is I am loving every minute I spend working with the Wacom. I've much to learn and much to try, here's hoping I can continue to entertain your eyes for many years to come. Enjoy!
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Kathryn Lewis 02 Jul 2008
This is very clever. Great picture.Blue Doll 09 Nov 2007
YOU'RE AMAZING.... THIS LOOKS SO REAL !!Tom Berry 09 Nov 2007
I dream of Wacom and I admire your skills very much.Michael Forbus 08 Nov 2007
This is just magnificent Terry. You are one of the best on the Wacom and I have been to many of their seminars. If you can get the book by Bert Monroy, he is magnificent. He usually gives the seminars for Adobe on a Cintiq....very Masterful in super realism as you are. Excellent work and I am so glad to see these images of yours. They are brilliant. MichaelJohn Swift 08 Nov 2007
Beautiful painting, Terry!