Valentine’s Day
Although it was last Monday, sorry it’s been a busy week. I wanted to share my latest digital painting called Valentine’s Day. It’s a Mixed-Media combining a photograph and digital painting, which I turned into a greeting card for my wife.
Last weekend, I worked on the painting after seeing an old National Geographic magazine Linda had saved about space and space travel. It had a beautiful picture on the cover taken with the Hubble telescope of outer space. I thought that’s a fantastic background for a silhouette. While researching outer space images on the internet, I found several impressive Northern Lights images. One was perfect for my idea of a silhouette. I downloaded the image, which became the base layer of the digital painting.
The rest of the painting is my creation. Years ago, I took a photograph of a couple walking away from the camera on a path. I’d created an outline layer for another digital painting, and I copied that layer and put it on a mountain I painted by hand. Using the “rule of thirds,” I positioned the couple on the hill into a proper position.
Making the Valentine’s Day Greeting Card
I copied the finished image to greeting card stock format. Thank you, Avery Paper Co.., for suppling the greeting card designs – a shameless plug for Avery Greeting Card Paper. I added my signature and Valentine’s Day greeting, selecting Vladimir Script, and I found 48 pt size looked best. What do you think?
P.B.S. Studios
To see this and other digital paintings and photographs, go to the Gallery Section of my website, www.pbsstudios.com. You can purchase this and many digital paintings and photographic prints through my Etsy store or by contacting P.B.S. Studios. If you want a different saying, use the Contact form to contact P.B.S. Studios. I’m available to customize any digital painting or photograph into a greeting card.
P.B.S. Studios is a feature and content writer/photography/digital painting company that has written and published over a hundred articles for newspapers, magazines, and online publications. I’ve also had many other photographs published as illustrations in commercial and textbooks publications. As a digital photo-painter, I’ve had my work displayed in shops, libraries, galleries, restaurants, commercial buildings (including Manassas City Hall) in addition to banners.
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