While I was away I found that I felt digital art was getting me down. We might have things like Wacom tablets to help us create in a digital space, but it's just not the same as working with traditional materials. Drawing everything a thousand times over in Photoshop was starting to get humiliating. I know I can draw beautiful lines with a pencil or pen, but a stylus just can't seem to capture the fluidity of those strokes. For that reason what I've got to share this evening is an actual painting, I used acrylics and everything! Check it out!
I absolutely love this painting! Not only do I like the finished product, I really enjoyed making it. The proof may be in the pudding, as the saying goes, but the fun is in the creating! Now this might look a little abstract, but it's actually based on a picture I took today. You'll find that picture below.
Can you tell what it is? It's a close-up of a palm tree, right up at the very top, just before where the fronds come out. It was in my front yard and looked cool, so I thought it deserved a photo. I just love the texture in tree bark, it's so beautiful. For that reason I wanted to try and capture it in a painting. Now the color is off a bit between the two, the reason being that my printer is horrible. I tried to print the image so I could use it as a color reference, but no matter what I did my printer made the colors appear cooler than they actually were. That meant I had to do my best to remember what they really looked like! I'd say that in that respect I'd score maybe a 6 out of 10, haha!
I took a few more photos out in the yard this afternoon, and since I have some paint and canvases left over you might be seeing another painting from me soon.
I'll leave you all with a gif; first showing the reference image, then the painting. Thanks for stopping by, and I'll see you next painting!
