Here is Rays Boat for you all to work your magic on....

He built it himself in Cornwall,England in the 1980 s it took him 8 long years and its still going strong...

Patricia ... :)

Cool! The little people look so realistic :)

Cool! The little people look so realistic :)
...I think the 'little people' are real ;) I think its a real boat....

Yes Nancy...you are correct....two of my friends who live in Cornwall...cant see Ray though!!!!

Patricia... :happy:

Patricia, I want to buy this boat! ;)

Oltenius....Your moonlight painting is beautiful...I really like it...

Sorry but the boat is not for sale...After all Rays hard work over the years i think he will keep it forever!!!!! :nod:

Gotta say though I would like to have it too....

Patricia...

Patricia, has Ray mentioned anything lately about a slight leak he may have noticed in the boat?

Steve

Patricia, thanks for appreciations! It was just a joke, I don't have lots of money to buy this wonderful boat :)

No Steve...Ray hasnt said anything to me....what have you heard?????? :lol:

Lovely painting Steve, really bright and the boat looks as if its really moving with the brush stokes you gave it....

Oltenius....Know you were joking....we all should have a dream of what we would like...keeps us going.... :pleased:

Patricia....

Just couldn't leave Ray in that condition. So here is another go.

Seriously, that's a nice looking vessel. To look as sleek and seaworthy as she looks today, she had to have been built with loving care. Some people have all the talent!

Steve

Oh Steve thats great...Ray will be happy to see the lovely renditions of his boat.... He is indeed fantastic at all woodwork, at the moment he is replacing certain parts of his boat, as you know the wood rots...Certainly a labour of love...

Patricia.... :happy:

Boats are not my strong point mainly cause they go on water !! i prefer dry land, but i would say that it is a labour of love takes me 8 years to get hubby to hammer a nail in :lol: :lol: :lol:
used impressionist and played with lighting effects to get the second

Palms...I like both of them...Impressionist looks good on the boat and i like how the lighting effect makes the sky sort of stormy...

I like boats when i am in and going...dont like the getting in and getting off bit though!!!!

Patricia..... :pleased:

Working a various techniques for simulating daubing. Finally found a good way that uses whatever noise adding method that you like (I chose Cybia's Edgeworks>Glitter preset and Eye Candy's Jiggle preset). The noise diameter has to be of sufficient size for the effect to be acceptible (in my book anyway). You won't appreciate it unless you click on the link below and expand. I attached a resized version to keep Danny happy. :)


http://img337.imageshack.us/img337/1194/raysboat5mk.jpg

Just what i did expect from you lkroll..... :nod: Really nice rendition...love the sketchy look on Rays boat and the lovely metalic effect sky...well thats what i see anyway....Great....

Patricia.... :dizzy:

Studio Artist 3.0 paint stroke 2 and Photoshop layers.

Love it Kiska....i will say again...I love your style of painting... :nod:

Patricia... :pleased:

Wow Kiska, I really like that! :bow:

one done in filter forge.

craig

Lovely Craig...I like how the boat is highlighted with the darkness of the sea around it...have now got filter forge...so when i have a bit of time i will try my luck..... :lmao:

Patricia... :happy:

Thanks guys!

thanks patricia :)

it reminds me of something i've seen before but cant quite place when and where.

and watch out, patricia; that thing will cause you to miss work, lose sleep and become an annoying, inadvertant salesmen for filter forge ;)

craig

here a small watercolor again :happy:

I used Gimp :happy:

very nice barbara. i like the texture.

craig

No Filter Forge just a paint by number kit.

Craig...getting addicted already...its fun.... :lol:

Barbara....Lovely watercolor...I also like the texture... :nod:

Swampy....yours is great...really like the colors and texture..... :nod:


Patricia.... :wink:

Thank you, Patricia. It was a fun project. I arrived at the colors by using the pencil in the Curves dialog box. Some of the coulds went to gray so I selected the grays with the magic wand and did a Hue Saturation to move the colors over to pinks.

HEY! I like that! two thumbs up for style and over-all look.

Best paint by numbers I ever saw :cool:


No Filter Forge just a paint by number kit.

Thank you so much, Steve. I'm a great admirer of your work so coming from you It's extra special! :-)

dee dee,

i like that also. when i first looked i saw so much texture i thought you were doing a weave, a' la lkroll. very nice :)

craig

dee dee,

i like that also. when i first looked i saw so much texture i thought you were doing a weave, a' la lkroll. very nice :)

craig

I think it is "all that texture" that made me think of a paint by number kit. They never gave you enough paint to really cover the canvas. LOL

Not a really easy one to do, despite the appearances!
Here's mine, done mostly with smudging and an outline on soft light on top.
Sylvia

umm, syliva....missing something?

here's another metallic from filter forge.

craig

Hi Craig,
The Internet died on me yesterday while I was uploading the file, and then I forgot all about it! :wink:
Sylvia

Sylvia...Love the painting of Rays boat you have done so delicate with lovely colors...

Craig....Love this metallic effect on the boat...looks all dark and mysterious...

Patricia... :pleased:

sylvia,

thought maybe you were getting as senile as me :) looks good :)

thanks patricia :) (am still having fun with filter forge)

craig

Not yet, Craig, but getting there... lol

By the way, I use that Alphaworks filter almost every day, thanks again for telling me about it!

Thanks for the nice comments, Patricia.

Have a nice day,

Sylvia

Not yet, Craig, but getting there... lol

By the way, I use that Alphaworks filter almost every day, thanks again for telling me about it! well, good :) i'm just passing on what was passed on to me. and, you're welcome :)

craig

May I ask which part you're passing on? :devil:
Sylvia

well, thankfully, the senility can not be passed on, so, i guess i'm talking about the plugins :)

craig

just wondering... lol
Have a nice day!
Sylvia

Doesn't look like there was much wind that day.


Peter

Peter...

Love what you have done to Rays boat....great colors and details....Yes the sea around Cornwall can be calm and peaceful...my favorite place in England!!

Patricia.... :pleased:

Peter, my first reaction when I saw the thumbnail was WOW. When I opened it to the full size, it remained the same. WOW! Wonderful color and vibrancy.

Janet

Wow what a picture and what a response! Some great ones here! Just a quick rendition from me...

Peter, my first reaction when I saw the thumbnail was WOW. When I opened it to the full size, it remained the same. WOW! Wonderful color and vibrancy.

Janet

What can I say to that, but Wow myself Thank you Janet & Ziaphra.
I think I did this the night before my eye op, so I was doing anything but think about that. Sorry I can't remember the workflow, but would have been similar to other thing I've done. Thank you Palms for putting me onto Art history.
Some of the colouring would possibly come from Flaming Pears Zephyr plugin, I don't know exactly what it does, but it appears to look at existing colours in a pic and diffuse them out a bit, sometimes very pleasing sometimes over the top. This time it worked for me.

Peter

A combination of Watercolor, Dry Brush, Smudge. I also used curves to lower the contrast and lighten the highlights a bit.

Gerry...

I love the simplicity of your painting...nice colors too...

Patricia... :pleased:

Thanks for the compliment, Patricia. I really enjoy these challenges. I started doing this with PE 2.0 four years ago when my Mother turned 100. It was a way to save some really old and precious pictures of my Grandparents and parents.

I'm not into people that much. I really love landscapes, flowers, beaches, Mountains, etc.

Nothing Arty, just thought I'd change the atmosphere by altering the sea and the lighting a touch.

Gerry...

What a great age...100 and a really good reason to enhance all the old family photos...I am also not into people photography...Flowers are my faves,followed by landscapes etc....Last summer i started with Macro and love the butterfly,dragon fly,bees wasps and anythig else that moves photos...I am really happy with the results...taken with my canon powershot...upgraded in September to a Rebel...so am looking forward to what i can produce with that...

Gary...Great enhancement...love how the sea shimmers!!!!

Patricia.... :dizzy: