Deep Paint Water Color

Photomaster · #1 03-15-2006, 10:37 PM

If anyone cares to do a personal intrepretation of this photo, be my guest.

To view my Deep Paint watercolor painting of this photo click HERE

Still learning Deep Paint and continue to be amazed at the power of this free program. My original photo is posted below.

Kraellin · #2 03-15-2006, 10:47 PM

you're definitely getting the hang of deep paint. nice photo and great art!

craig

Kraellin · #3 03-16-2006, 12:19 AM

i was inspired on this by the weather a few days ago. we had some heavy rains over the last weekend. on monday things had mostly cleared up, but the sky was still a bit gray and overcast, yet the sun was out here and there. every once in a while there would be one of those rains where it's also sunny. i took my cue from that.

i hope this comes out. the compression had to be rather heavy...37%.

craig

NancyJ · #4 03-16-2006, 04:54 AM

Nice, bit thick for WC but still nice

Kraellin · #5 03-16-2006, 07:25 AM

nancy,

wc=water color... was that some humor there?

and thanks

craig

NancyJ · #6 03-16-2006, 07:41 AM

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Originally Posted by Kraellin

wc=water color... was that some humor there?

no humor, I was talking about Photomaster's

Looks more like guache(sp?) or acrylic than watercolour.
I think the compression on yours is a little heavy, maybe you could post a smaller size? or link to a high rez version elsewhere

Photomaster · #7 03-16-2006, 10:23 AM

Nancy is correct; the first attempt was a little light so I had to give it a second coat.

Craig,

I like your interpretation. The scene evoks the look and mood of an early-fall, dusting of snow.

NancyJ · #8 03-16-2006, 11:45 AM

A bright colourful watercolour

palms1 · #9 03-16-2006, 01:11 PM

Great photo, This is a mix of photoshop filters and impressionist ( not got to deep paint yet but possibly in the future)

Palms

Kraellin · #10 03-16-2006, 01:48 PM

nancy,

oh, ok. wasnt sure there wasnt a pun in there directed at mine. as for the compression, i just looked at the original again and the attachment and the posted one isnt really that different even with the heavy compression. so, being that i find i tend to agree with a lot of your critiques in the other forums and that i know you'll give an honest, upfront opinion, what else? likes and dislikes?

and photomaster (from now on you are PM... 'photomaster' is too long to type

),

snow? hmm, ok, i can see that. not what i was going for, however. i can see i'm going to have to re-work this one. this is the first time i've ever really attempted rain droplets as rain. i've done the 'streaky', sort of stormy rain, but i wanted the softer, droplet rain for this one, since that's the type of rain that inspired this. i can definitely see the 'snow'. seems to be mostly coming from the background i interposed. fair enough...back to the drawing board.

craig

Kraellin · #11 03-16-2006, 02:00 PM

nancy,

on your watercolor, i like the color parts. i also know you're testing and attempting to flex your art muscles a bit more from what you've said in your recent posts. so, if i may, i'm not real crazy about all that white space. there is a lot of it.

and before saying the next thing, i'll preface it with saying that my exposure to watercolors is quite limited, so take this with a big grain of salt. to me, watercolors bleed a lot. this consideration probably comes mostly from seeing watercolors primarily done on very absorbent, highly textured papers. the colors just ran or bled a great deal. now, i know that's a very limited idea of what a watercolor shld be or is, but i just cant help that every time i see someone do a watercolor, i look for that bleeding. if i dont see it, then it isnt a watercolor to me. so, that may just be me.

however, watercolors are almost always done on paper of some sort and i'd love to see you add some paper texture in there, especially on the white where it might show the most.

craig

Kraellin · #12 03-16-2006, 08:29 PM

alright, i changed some of the background to reduce the white 'snow'. i also changed some opacities and blends to allow more of the rain to show through. it was there all the time on the layers, but i had purposely reduced the effect.

and i would like some feedback on this... better, worse, indifferent?

craig

edit: probably help if i actually posted the image

lkroll · #13 03-16-2006, 08:59 PM

Before my computer crashed, I dabbled with Deep Paint a little myself, but it's really not designed to be used with a mouse, so when I rebuilt my machine, I decided not to re-install it.

Anyway, here's my cheating entry (used Vector simplication again; that's what I call cheating). Also blended in some Wash effects with Paint Engine.

NancyJ · #14 03-17-2006, 02:48 AM

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Originally Posted by Kraellin

on your watercolor, i like the color parts. i also know you're testing and attempting to flex your art muscles a bit more from what you've said in your recent posts. so, if i may, i'm not real crazy about all that white space. there is a lot of it.

White space is a common 'feature' of watercolours. At school my art teacher always nagged me about not leaving enough of the paper showing through.

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Originally Posted by Kraellin

and before saying the next thing, i'll preface it with saying that my exposure to watercolors is quite limited, so take this with a big grain of salt. to me, watercolors bleed a lot. this consideration probably comes mostly from seeing watercolors primarily done on very absorbent, highly textured papers. the colors just ran or bled a great deal. now, i know that's a very limited idea of what a watercolor shld be or is, but i just cant help that every time i see someone do a watercolor, i look for that bleeding. if i dont see it, then it isnt a watercolor to me. so, that may just be me.

That stuff is horrible, its like trying to paint on toilet paper

I'm very anal about what I paint on. I dislike canvas too, for oils and acrylics I find a nice smooth wood base is wonderful to paint on - if less practical. With watercolours I always prefer a tight fairly smooth, weighty paper - preferably card backed. I like to control every brush stroke. The rough stuff is like nasty recycled paper and you have to wet and stretch it so it doesnt crinkle.
Bleeding can also be a sign of impatience

If you dont let the surounding areas dry properly then your colours will bleed and can ruin your picture. Some people let it bleed intentionally because thats their style but it was never mine. I like to be precise - I know, I'm just anal

On a fine and more importantly, dry paper with controlled brush strokes you get a watery look with darkened edges where the water soaks into the paper but stops when it meets the dry barrier and more colour settles there than in the middle.

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Originally Posted by Kraellin

however, watercolors are almost always done on paper of some sort and i'd love to see you add some paper texture in there, especially on the white where it might show the most.

craig

I guess I got out of adding texture after working for print, you dont want to print an artificial paper texture on the finished piece.

NancyJ · #15 03-17-2006, 02:55 AM

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Originally Posted by Kraellin

nancy,

oh, ok. wasnt sure there wasnt a pun in there directed at mine. as for the compression, i just looked at the original again and the attachment and the posted one isnt really that different even with the heavy compression. so, being that i find i tend to agree with a lot of your critiques in the other forums and that i know you'll give an honest, upfront opinion, what else? likes and dislikes?

I'd be happy to give you a critique but it might help to know what effect you were going for - I had assumed that the 'scan lines' were due to the compression but that may not be the case. Whether I like or dislike it as a piece is not particularly useful, its just my opinion - which doesnt count for a lot

If I know more about what you're trying to do with it, I can give you a more objective and therefore useful critique.... hope that makes sense to you.