Member Janet Petty donated this one (thanks, JP).

Ride 'em cowboy -- or cowgirl!

~Danny~

turned to sketch
made frame and merged layers
turned frame to sketch
adjusted h/s

I live in Oklahoma and we love our rodeo... this is my contribution.

Git along lil doggie, (and all that cowboy stuff.)

Steve

Rodeo'n is too much fun! Time to go back to work, boys...

Ride 'em cowboy! Lightened in Photoshop, then did background in Painter with smeary camel cloner. Painted detail with the soft cloner. Then applied image luminance and paper texture. Framed with an action from Adobe Studio.
MargaretM

Nice Margarette.

some very nice pieces here.

froggy,
loved the barbed wire framing.

klassy,
loved the frame on this one too. interesting style. would have loved a bit more definition on the figures.

steve,
straight out of a marlboro commercial. nice :)

dee dee,
excellent extraction!

margaret,
nice frame. good soft tones. could have been 1906 instead of 2006. very nice :)

craig

OK..NOW they'll get back to work!

Steve

Rodeo'n is too much fun! Time to go back to work, boys...

lol. Palladin! boy, that brings back memories.

craig

Extracting cows.. I'm good at that... LOL

Steve.. funny... :-)

some very nice pieces here.
I agree Craig. Great background Swampy and we all know extracting cows is not that easy. Sometimes I need a gun trained on me to get back to work instead of playing with RetouchPRO images. Good work everyone.
MargaretM

I'm enjoying the fun ya'll are having with this thread. YeeHaw, bring 'em on ya'll.

Thank you for enjoying yourselves and for sharing with us.

Janet

Lot's of things. I will say, for the strokes, I added noise before running Photoshop's angled stroke filter. Since my steps seem to go everywhere, I can only list the filters used: Toadies Metalwork, Impressionist with Cezanne preset, Eye Candy with Jiggle preset, Paint Engine with @Wetter2 preset, DCSpecial's 1969 filter set to Value (in GIMP of course). :)

Thought some of you out there would appreciate Paladin coming on the scene. One of my all-time favorites.

B.T.W. Craig, the complete first three seasons of that show are now out on DVD.

Steve

Couldn't resist the realistic horse one. :D

hehe, steve. thanks :)

very nice, familytreephoto (the first one ;) )

craig

Simplified, added impressionist layer, and sharpened

Palms

I done this here paintin' in Photoshop CS2 with that there pattern stamp and that newfangled Impressionist thang and some other stuff. Yeehah.

dc

I like it DC!

I love it dk. I've been practicing with this style and having hard time with the backgrounds. You did a great job and re-inspired me at the same time.

Janet

Thanks, guys.

Janet - actually the background in this pic--and pretty much every other thing I've done along this line--is just filter>render>clouds, as you can probably tell. And as you know there are some artists over at that other place who've taken this style to heights I can only aspire to.

dc

dk,

love that. really puts them on the range. nicely done!

craig

I've really liked the entries so far and thought it was about time I added my own.

Keep 'em comin'. Yee Haw.

Janet

Janet, I was struck with how you took hard working cowboys and rendered them so well in such a soft manner. I do like it.

dkcoats, its great !
I am really impressed :happy:

Waht a fun image - thanks Janet.

Learned a lot doing this - mostly what not to do.
Maybe someday I'll have another try.

- Cropped in Photoshop.
- Bristle cloner in Painter.
- Finishing up in Photoshop.

(next time I'll separate the background in Photoshop, before going to Painter)

Rô

Digging back in the photo art archives again.

Steve

I never in a million years thought I've be exercising my braggin' rights on this painted photo. I actually sold copies. YeeHaw!!! Now I only have 599,998 more copies to sell before I can retire. :rolleyes: :dizzy: :rolleyes:

Janet

Congratulations Janet you deserve it

PAlms

Well done Janet...Its a lovely painting!

Patricia... :happy:

"Now that's what i'm talking about!" excellent, janet :)

craig

One in watercolor

Thank you all. I'm blushing. :nod: :nod:

Janet

Congrats, Janet! Lovers of western art are a rare breed, but they know what they like. :-)

Thought I'd join in this one.
A belated well done Janet.

Peter

Nice works everyone
PSCS, Watercolor style

Grew up around the rodeo --- the clowns fascinated me - thought I'd try this one using the sketch method. Wanted just a single rider so here's what I came up with. We really got a lot of different styles on this one didn't we?

bcarll

There are so many nice interpretations here. I used CS3 art history brushes and then added texture, and edge.

Cathy :)

Peter,
Love the cartoon like style, how did you get this?

Bcarll
Love the sketch look

Guess I will have to give this a try.