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California Poppies

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.

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Bill M 10 Sep 2008

I like this a lot, nice lighting and movement.

Artist Reply: Thank you Bill! I try to find lighting values like this, I perfer them in art & photos. I take a lot of reference shots when I can with various lighting and angles so that I can paint with better results. I'm learning to take photos better now when the lighting is good. I find studying light values helps me paint better.

Blue Doll 19 May 2008

your poppies are very beautyfull girl!!! :o)

Artist Reply: Thank you Blue Doll! I wanted a painting for my family room of the poppies and did this one for it. I'mthinking of doing wildflowers that I have painted as a collage type grouping.

Anonymous Guest 18 May 2008

Poppies are beautiful....great shot Terry.

Artist Reply: Thank you! I always try to frame my art like I do my photos. I find it it easier to image my photos as a painting, so get really great reference shots ti use for the paintings. If I've flowers that are torn, old, or imperfect shots, I still can use them for reference, so not a loose. I sort my photos into themes so when I'm in the mood or stuck for a subject to paint, I can browse them until something gets my interests.

Emily Reed 18 May 2008

So lovely and perfect!

Artist Reply: Thank you Emily! Poppies are easy , the background and lighting are hard! LOL! Will try to get some more done this week. I spent the day cleaning out my old home, and cutting frog stencils for my girl scout troop project for tomorrow. I'll have some time to paint tomorrow night, might be able to finish one of the poppies then.

jamie winter 18 May 2008

simply beautiful Terry wow

Artist Reply: Thank you Jamie! I love wildflowers and often go off to hunt for them. To me they are little unexpected treasures. They never fail to bring a smile to my lips, eyes, and heart.