Thought this might be fun to paint.

Color corrected. Art History Brush and very light (10% opacity) History Brush. Texture map. An overlay (soft light blend mode) of a layer filled with "Confetti" texture (Soft Light Mode).

Nice one Swampy,
what else to do when in the kitchen but to throw everything including the kitchen sink into it !

Palms

LOL, Palms. A pinch of this, a smidgen of that. Nice painting.

The kitchen is not normally my domain. I burn water.
Well had a go anyway.
Oh and before you ask - no texture mapping this time:grin:

Peter

Nice one Peter.

Swampy - give me some time to have a drink before you reply. Wow that was quick you must have been sitting waiting for the posts.
BTW thanks.:grin: :blush:

Peter

Inside or outside?

Inside or outside?

I think it's outside.

Nice image.

Going for a Cezanne like look. :)

I used a little of this and a little of that. In other words I just experimented until I saw something I liked.

Peter, LOL... Have another drink! :-)

Lonnie, Wonderful tile effect! Amazing!

Chillin, I like the texture of yours.

Alison, Soft and pretty

LK, You nailed the Cezanne look. How did you do your sketch lines?

Gerry, Teriffic "experiment". Great embossed look.

Not so Ancient Chinese Secret; used GIMP's Neon Edge detect filter (using this for a lot of things lately) along with Layer property settings unique to GIMP (i.e., Grain Extract and Grain Merge for instance) for the sketch like feel. Again thanks for the comments Dee Dee. :)

Thanks for the nice picture, Swampy!!
Sylvia

Gerry, Teriffic "experiment". Great embossed look.

Thanks, Swampy. I got the "embossed look" with a texture map layer. I increased the contrast of the original and saved it. When I finished fiddling around with the history and art history brushes, I added a layer and filled it with 50% gray. I used the texturizer to load the high contrast image and fiddled with the relief until I was happy, then set the blending mode to hard light and adjusted the opacity. Thanks for the tutorial! It helped a lot.

BTW, this picture seemed to call to me for an oilcloth texture. I tried to get a texture for the map but I was unsuccessful in finding one and wasn't sure how to make one. I'll have to do some experimenting when I have a little time. One never knows when it might come in handy.

another try with Redfields fratcalius (demo hence the watermarks )

Palms

Gerry, Thanks for the work flow on your texture mapping. :-)

There goes, Palms, stepping out of the box again! LOL.. fun image, P.

Great pic to play with, went for something a bit rustic

Cass, Rustic is good!

Ok, I'm guessing here, but this looks like the makings for ginger bread. But with strawberries?

Steve C.

Here is my recipe for a successful painting: Art History brushes in Photoshop.

Very nice, PM!

Inside or outside?

Neat....neat...neat!

Steve C.

Less colour... curves, inverted highpass and a tad of Xero's radiance.