2024 Version “Can You Find Me?”Locations
2024 Version “Can You Find Me?” Banner Contest Locations
It’s now time to reveal the locations of the 2024 “Can You Find Me?” banner contest. I’d asked you to drive/walk around the City of Manassas and find my banners.
As you know since 2015, Historic Manassas and the City of Manassas have held a contest for local artists to submit art. The winners have their art on banners attached to the light poles around the city streets. Since the beginning, I have been lucky enough to have at least one of my entries become a banner. As a result, each year, I have a contest to see who can find the banner.
In 2024, the City of Manassas selected three of my digital painting entries for this year’s banner contest.
The Location of this Year’s Manassas Banners
The three digital paintings accepted include “Waiting for His Master,” “Flower and Butterfly,” and “Portrait of Andy”
Of course, each has a story behind the digital painting:
“Portrait of Andy”
The location of “Portrait of Andy” is on Center Street in front of “The Things I Love.” The digital painting of my cat is an Adobe Photoshop digital painting experiment—a variation of my pastel (sometimes called Pen and Wash) painting technique, which I describe in my “Creating Digital Paintings” book, now available from me and Amazon.com.
“Waiting for his Master”
The location of “Waiting for His Master” is on Prince William Street in front of the public parking lot. The digital painting is based on an original photograph taken of Papi, my brother John’s Labrador Retriever, as he lay outside the front door in the sun, waiting for John to return home.
“Flower and Butterfly”
The location of “Flower and Butterfly” is on Church Street, on the side of M&T Bank. The digital painting is based on two different photographs. The butterfly is from a series of photographs I took behind our rented condo during vacation at Wintergreen Resort. It’s part of my series inspired by Laura Lavarnway for the Bee Festival. I first painted the purple flower and then added the colorful butterfly to contrast it.
Creating Digital Painting Update
Thank you to Prince William Living magazine for putting a review of “Creating Digital Paintings” on their website. Click to see the review “Create Digital Paintings” Book Review | Prince William Living.
PBS Studios
PBS Studios is a feature and content writer/photography/digital painting company that’s 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 textbook publications. As a digital photo painter, I’ve displayed my work in shops, libraries, galleries, restaurants, commercial buildings (including Manassas City Hall), and banners.
Check out the gallery section on my website, www.pbsstudios.com, to see digital photo paintings and other examples of my work. Please Note: All photographs and digital paintings are for sale, and you can purchase my digital paintings online through my Etsy Store.
My new book, “Creating Digital Paintings,” is also for sale. It’s a revised, updated, and expanded version of the 2019 publication of “Photo Painting using Adobe Photoshop.” It’s a hands-on, practical guide that shows you how to create a digital painting from a photograph or freehand.
For more information, Please send me an email at psmolens@pbsstudios.com.