I do love wildflowers and California poppies are such bright bursts of colors to enjoy. I love seeing the various shades of bright yellows and oranges all over the area around where I live. This is a digital painting done using an electronic drawing tablet, a Wacom tablet w/wireless stylus pen. It hooks up to my computer and I use the pen to draw, not the normal mouse control. Using art software, in this case, Corel's Painter X, I chose the brushes, colors, medium to mimic the texture, and more so that I get realistic brush strokes as I digitally paint. This is not a photo manipulation or an automatic converted photo to artistic effect painting. I had to paint it all, stroke by stroke, mix & blend colors, highlight areas, etc. It took me many hours to complete, just not the drying time. I plan a series of poppy paintings and will also add photos that I took at a later time.
7 Comments
Bill M 10 Sep 2008
I like this a lot, nice lighting and movement.Blue Doll 19 May 2008
your poppies are very beautyfull girl!!! :o)Anonymous Guest 18 May 2008
Poppies are beautiful....great shot Terry.Emily Reed 18 May 2008
So lovely and perfect!jamie winter 18 May 2008
simply beautiful Terry wowZura Potskhishvili 18 May 2008
Very beautiful job!!annette steens 18 May 2008
very lovely shots TerrY.