04.18.08
Primitive Subject Meets Digital Medium
A tribute to the primitive backwoodsmen of the Carolinas and Georgia that often made up contingents of colonial militia in the southern revolutionary campaigns. A favorite artistic subject of mine.
I am training myself to use Corel Painter IX, this being a trial run on a full illustration. I did this mostly with digital watercolor brushes, adding highlights on a separate layer with digital oil pastels. I haven’t used Painter since version 5 years ago. At that time it seemed slow and clumsy. It is much improved and a more honest artist’s tool now with smoother more manageable brushes that accurately mimic natural media and paper grain. Closer integration with Photoshop style layers and the ability to save those layer in .psd format is huge.
James said,
04.19.08 at 5:58 am
Stunning image! I must try painter out, I keep meaning too….
Roberta Baird said,
04.19.08 at 8:01 pm
That is really awesome!
alison ashwell said,
04.23.08 at 9:28 am
wow=that is a fabulous painting
Steve Mitchell said,
04.23.08 at 10:30 am
Thanks guys for the kind comments!
neil said,
04.24.08 at 7:20 am
Hi Steve
What can one say? I would love to be able to see all the detail in a larger version but from what I can see this really does rock! You are sickeningly talented, very, very good.