Latest Digital Photo-Painting -The Old Sailing Ship

It’s been a while since I posted any of my digital photo-painting work. It’s not like I have not been painting. Granted, I’ve had some false starts – everyone has them. After starting on a project, you know you get to a point where something doesn’t feel right. You don’t know what’s wrong. So you put it away and start on something new.

The latest digital photo-painting – Old Sailing Ship was that something new to paint. Looking in my filing cabinet for something else, I found a folder with background research for a future travel article about the Home – USS Constitution Museum. While searching the Internet for additional information, I found the image I used as a reference photo.

To create the latest digital photo-painting – Old Sailing Ship, I used a favorite process of mine. Because I’m terrible at drawing, I used the reference photo and created a trace layer. After drawing the trace layer, I turn off the reference photo layer. All I see is a trace outline on a white background. Everything else (including color selection) is painted freehand.

*** Big News coming soon. ***

Yesterday, I received an email telling me something special, but I’m not allowed to say anything about it yet. Watch this space for an announcement soon.

I’ll post some more digital photo-paintings soon