Okay, time to admit an ugly truth: when it comes to painting anything other than people I haven't the foggiest clue what to do with myself. This travel poster commemorating our recent trip to Istanbul went through so many iterations that I couldn't conceivably list all the things I tried to make it work.
There was something about trying to be impressionistic with all these geometric shapes that did not come naturally to me--at all. Maybe because it's something I never even attempted with conventional media.
This final primitive image is a detail of a larger image that I could not tame and gave up on. I had to cut my losses and move on before I grew too discouraged.
There was something about trying to be impressionistic with all these geometric shapes that did not come naturally to me--at all. Maybe because it's something I never even attempted with conventional media.
This final primitive image is a detail of a larger image that I could not tame and gave up on. I had to cut my losses and move on before I grew too discouraged.
Source: A host of photos of the Blue Mosque as reference and landscape paintings for inspiration on technique.
Time: Weren't no speed painting, I can tell you that.
Using: Painter X, Photoshop.
Painter X brushes used: grainy blenders, oils, loaded palette knife, dry palette knife
Photoshop brushes used: watercolors
Photoshop filters used: multiplied the painting over an old paper texture.
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