A Swedish Girl...

[patriciakay]

Had a request today for a photo of a Swedish girl....Sorry about the sunglasses....but its one of my stepdaughters taken in Spain in March...

Hope you have fun with it...

Patricia...

[oltenius]

Patricia, thanks for my request I'll try working on this photo after 11 AM romanian time, I'm going to sleep now. Bye bye...

[patriciakay]

Here is my attempt ....done in photoshop CS2 with a variety of art history brushes....

Patricia...

[lkroll]

My response to Pop art.

[oltenius]

She is a wonderful eternal song... Here is my try.

[patriciakay]

Like your pop art lkroll....funky...

Oltenius....lovely...like how you have painted it and the texture....

Patricia...

[oltenius]

Patricia, thanks! I like your attempt.
Ikroll, nice Pop art.

[lkroll]

Some more (higher res) samples can be found here.

[Steve Conway]

Sneil yenta.

Steve

[patriciakay]

Steve...pratta Svenska?????

your painting is really nice and the colors lovely and bright...

Oltenius...Thank you for your comment...

Patricia...

[palms]

Hope your stepdaughter likes pinks and purples Patricia

Palms

[Steve Conway]

No, I'm afraid that was about it. Used to live near a Swedish family and learned a few phrases. Just about enough to get myself in trouble.

Thanks for your nice comments again.

Steve

Originally Posted by patriciakay

Steve...pratta Svenska?????

your painting is really nice and the colors lovely and bright...

Oltenius...Thank you for your comment...

Patricia...

[goose443]

I went with the whole Swedish part and tried to highlight that.

[patriciakay]

Palms...Great rendition...I love the colors...her fave color is pink too...the reflection in the sunglasses is fun ....Good to see you are on top form after going to work!!!

Goose...well she certainly has changed...a very imaginative picture...

Steve....I know quite a lot of Swedish now...but its not quite correct with my Yorkshire accent!!! English is widely spoken here i am happy to say...

Patricia....

[barbara]

Steve, I like your rendition very much how did you do it ?

Pat, nice photo. Here my watercolor .
I used Gimp

[goose443]

(it's a Swedish Fish)

[Steve Conway]

Thanks...before getting started I did some tweaking to bring out the subject more. I then used Virtual Painter and played around with layers & blend modes.

Never remember all my steps because I tweak...probably too much...when I have the rendering and saturation the way I want it.

I like the way you mirrored the subject and brought out highlights. Nice over-all effect, very eye-catching.

Steve

Originally Posted by barbara

Steve, I like your rendition very much how did you do it ?

Pat, nice photo. Here my watercolor .
I used Gimp

[patriciakay]

Barbara...Lovely watercolor and mirrored effect...it looks so much nicer that way....

Goose....Knew it was a fish but i wouldnt have come up with your idea!!!!

Patricia...

[DannyRaphael]

Very unique and creative, Lyle. Well done...

I was inspired by Steve's great colors. The primary effects I used were my #djroil24 Impressionist preset and Alcar's variation of it and Photoshop's Dry Brush filter applied to different layers and combined using layer masks. I boosted the saturation a lot, too.

Thanks for sharing your pic, Patricia.

~Danny~

[patriciakay]

Love the bright vibrant colors you have done Danny...

Great job with Impressionist....

Patricia....

[Steve Conway]

Nice comments on my behalf Danny.

You got a nice pastel look. And you were able to bring the subject out. I struggled a bit with that before I was satisfied enough to start the actual manip.

Steve

Originally Posted by DannyRaphael

Very
I was inspired by Steve's great colors. The primary effects I used were my #djroil24 Impressionist preset and Alcar's variation of it and Photoshop's Dry Brush filter applied to different layers and combined using layer masks. I boosted the saturation a lot, too.

Thanks for sharing your pic, Patricia.

~Danny~

[sylvia1065]

Hi everybody,
Let's hope that young girl likes our efforts to paint her...
Here's mine, done mostly with Impressionist Old Master tweaked down.
Sylvia

[patriciakay]

Lovely Sylvia....I am sure she will like all the renditions of her...and i thank you all for doing them...

Patricia...

[Steve Conway]

Tell me about Impressionist Old Master. Is it a self-contained plugin, or a preset for the Impressionist plugin ?

Not familiar with it.

Steve

Originally Posted by sylvia1065

Hi everybody,
Let's hope that young girl likes our efforts to paint her...
Here's mine, done mostly with Impressionist Old Master tweaked down.
Sylvia

[sylvia1065]

Thanks, Patricia!

Steve, Old Masters is part of the Fluff Oil Paint set and it runs with the Impressionist plugin. If you can't get it, I can send you the set.

Have all a nice day,

Sylvia

[Steve Conway]

I can't locate it by doing a Google. Can you post it here? Maybe others would be interested in it also.

Steve

Originally Posted by sylvia1065

Thanks, Patricia!

Steve, Old Masters is part of the Fluff Oil Paint set and it runs with the Impressionist plugin. If you can't get it, I can send you the set.

Have all a nice day,

Sylvia

[Steve Conway]

Just found the Fluff presets.....Thanks again for your offer.

Steve

[sylvia1065]

You're welcome, Steve

[Steve Conway]

Just one more thing if I may. Where the flip is the .tif file char9d?
Didn't see it with my download. The preset keeps alerting me that it is missing.

Steve

Originally Posted by sylvia1065

You're welcome, Steve

[sylvia1065]

Which ones are you missing, Steve? Maybe I can email them to you?
Sylvia