Creative Interpretations - Women at Work

[Swampy]

Well, this confirms my theory that women work, while the men just stand around. LOL

Enjoy.

[Swampy]

I took a slightly different approach in doing the sketching details for this. I used Poster Edges then desaturated and ran heavy levels adjustment, dropping out a lot of the whites and light midtones. Also ran a Ano. Diffusion on it. Set this layer to Overlay blend mode above a history brush painted layer.

For the history brush I used a heavy textured dark chalk brush.

I added a White layer above everything and set a Styles > Pattern overlay > Screen Pattern with low scaling for the texture. Set this to Soft Light Blend mode. I like the way it seems the make the "paint" just color the top of the "paper texture".

[oltenius]

Oh! Some women at work!!!
Swampy, I liked your version!
Regards,
Dan

[palms]

Good subject choice Swampy women at work men talking ! !

Palms

[Swampy]

Nice, Dan. Bright and colorful.

Ooo, Palms. I like it. Wonderful painterly look.

[lkroll]

Do like the Mosaic filter preview (didn't have one with the previous version of GIMP). Used this instead of GIMPressionist Ballpark preset (modified) before the GIMPressionist Fury preset step (again modified). So far, other then trying to find where the various filters and such are located, I do like what I see, but this one took way too long to do (due to orientation issues).

Here's the complete rendering (click and expand); attached is a crop.

[sylvia1065]

Beautiful paintings, Swampy, Dan and Palms!!
Here's mine...
Sylvia

[Swampy]

LK, nice painting and a great crop.

Sylvia, marvelous! Love the "washy" background.

[sylvia1065]

Oops, sorry Kyle, you must have been posting at the same time!!
Thank you, Swampy!!!
Sylvia

[lkroll]

None taken Sylvia; like your interpretation too. Thanks for the comments as well Dee Dee.

[Peter S]

No prove there Swampy.
The lady in the centre is obviously having her lunch, I hope it's not just the starters.
The lady to the left is wondering if she can possibly it it all by herself.
The older lady behind her is on the phone to the local TV station to get the down to film this momentous event.
The men at the back are standing there because the sign says "Chap Stand" so where else could they be. Besides they don't want to get in the way of a woman and her food, it only leads to disaster.


Peter

[Swampy]

I'll assume that the men were already fed and now the women can eat. LOL

[Peter S]

Originally Posted by Swampy

I'll assume that the men were already fed and now the women can eat. LOL

That's a fair assumption. Another would be that they are all waiters, loaded with the 2nd course of the meal. Though I could be mistaken.

Peter

[lkroll]

Another one. Xero's Abstractor with Abstract setting to maximum and Simplication setting to minimum. Dup screen and then flattened. Then dupped and ran DCSpecial ICE4 filter for the reticulation. Then I ran GIMP's Erode (would have been GIMP Dilate in 2.2x, but GIMP changed the definitions to match that of PS) to bloom the dots. Did a few other things and voila. A magic marker like rendering.