Artists
Related: About this forumI've been using photo editing software to create original images.
It's challenging but fun. Here's an example-
CaliforniaPeggy
(152,135 posts)Eyeball_Kid
(7,572 posts)I do similar things with photographs.
Dyedinthewoolliberal
(15,919 posts)and it's not a technically powerful as Photoshop, but much easier to understand and use.
KatyMan
(4,278 posts)For a photoshop replacement. Had an old version of CS, but my machine crashed and I don't have the license key anymore so can't install it. Will try this.
lunatica
(53,410 posts)Im old enough to remember when people started getting their first personal computers and Photoshop came along. I spent hundreds and hundreds of hours working on Photoshop and I loved it. It was a brand new medium for artists to use. Just another tool for an artist to create super exciting art, and I see youve done just that.
I love this! Everything about it wonderful. The first thing that you see is the riot of amazing colors and the strong shapes and lines of the flowers and petals set mostly on the bottom two thirds of the canvas. The strength of the flower shapes and the colors you used, including the surprising use of very strong black shapes are in perfect balance within the cluster of shapes but also with the very subtle gradation of the background colors.
Your piece is full of artistic surprises. Its as if you broke all the creepy and rusty rules and applied your own set. It definitely grabs your attention, but then you also have some very subtle elements in your tan and yellow background petal shapes and in the way you outline the strong shapes in a freehand style, and in the blending of colors, as if you had used an airbrush to apply some of them.
The petals in yellow and tan create a visually intricate cluster of subtle lines and shapes which unfold as the viewers eye travels through the shapes. And your strong solid black shapes make for an eye popping effect that I find daring and grand and appealing and inventive and it makes the painting extra strong and dynamic! It also makes your painting a work of art in which you make up your own rules. Its a wonderful piece. Your spot of soft blue is also a good touch, being the only cool color you used. Its like candy for the eyes.
Dyedinthewoolliberal
(15,919 posts)I am an artist when I'm not at work, but haven't been until the last few years or so. Before that it was just a 'someday' thing.
lunatica
(53,410 posts)Very long ones, for years at a time, but I learned that in some mysterious way I actually grew artistically anyway. Artists evidently keep maturing even when they dont actually do art. I think its in our way of looking at the world. Its one of those mysteries of life.
Im glad your someday has arrived! We get the benefit!