Retirement Seaside Chairs – Latest Digital Painting
It’s been a while since I uploaded a digital painting. Since the Old Ship painting, I’ve been creating digital paintings using one of my favorite themes – emulating watercolors style paintings. That’s the style behind one of my latest digital paintings. It’s called Retirement Seaside Chairs.
As many know, I love Blue Mountain Art greeting cards. Over the years, I’ve purchased many of their cards. I used these cards as inspiration for creating my digital paintings. I’ve tried to paint, emulating the Mountain Art’s style in hopes of one day seeing one of my digital paintings as a Mountain Art greeting card. This digital painting would fit right into their card illustration style.
Retirement Seaside Chairs is the latest in a series of digital paintings revolved around the retirement theme. What are all the things people do when they retire? I look forward to completing more digital paintings soon.
No – Mess, Best Part of Digital Painting
If traditional painters were looking to switch to digital painting, this might be it!
One of the best parts of working in digital is there is no mess. In my demo classes, I’ve presented about digital photo-painting, I ask the traditional painters: How many painters have clothes ruined by splattering paint. There are always lots of smiles and a few hands raised. I talk about my mentor, Laura Lavarnway, and her “painting shirt.” She puts on one of her husband’s old dress shirts to protect her clothing before she begins to paint. Over time the “painting shirt” has several paint splotches in a multitude of colors.
I never worry about ruining my clothes. All my digital paintings are created on my laptop computer using a graphics tablet.
My wife loves British murder mysteries and Law and Order SVU. While watching those shows, I can create my digital photo-paintings while sitting in my Ikea Pong chair. As shown in the photo, Daisy, one of our cats, likes to sleep on my legs while I paint. I used this method to create this digital painting.