Butterflies

[ghealy]

Went on a watercolour binge the other day and created 10 images. Here are three originals for others to play with

[ghealy]

And here are the watercolours. Hope you like them.

Thanks for looking

[lkroll]

A MoP attempt. Thanks for the play Gene.

[skipatk]

Great job Gene. Can you give us a hint on your workflow?

[skipatk]

Here's another go at a watercolor.

[ghealy]

Hey, I know what MoP means! <Big Grin> Did you use the shells left by the Walrus, Lyle? <Bigger Grin>

Skip, I use Vitaly's fantastic Watercolor tutorial found here:
http://pike.jimdo.com/piker-watercolor-tutorial/

Like your take on a watercolour, too.

[geepee52]

You're getting really good at watercolours Gene. Here's my go at one of the butterflies.Thanks for the play.

Grant

[lkroll]

So I caught a little too much catch light when I tilted the shell before taking the virtual capture Gene. lol

[geepee52]

And another one. Thanks again Gene.

Grant

[skipatk]

Thanks Gene, I'll give it a try

Nice one Grant

And another go from me.

[FranS]

Gene, you're getting to be quite the expert at watercolors. Thanks for sharing the photos and your paintings.

Nice job everyone. Happy New Year to all.

Fran

[lkroll]

Yes; the butterflies in there somewhere. lol

[lkroll]

Why not some play with colored glass.

[skipatk]

Lyle - Your colored glass effect looks great!!

[skipatk]

And here's butterfly #3

[lkroll]

Thanks Skip. I've enjoyed your watercolors, really like the edge effect that you've done on the the one prior to your last entry. I really need to start doing these effects. Am dabbling with the concept but not serious yet.

[skipatk]

Lyle - The border you liked is a combination of the Natural Borders selection in DAP and a Photoshop plugin from onOne software called Photo Frame. I use Photo Frame quite a bit for watercolors and pencil drawings.

[ghealy]

Originally Posted by geepee52

You're getting really good at watercolours Gene. Here's my go at one of the butterflies.Thanks for the play.

Originally Posted by geepee52

And another one. Thanks again Gene.

Thanks, Grant. I'd be hard pressed to chose between the Clipper & the Tailed Jay. I may be improving, but with images like these, I know I still have a way to go.

Originally Posted by skipatk

. . .
And another go from me.

Wow, that's real nice, Skip.

Originally Posted by FranS

Gene, you're getting to be quite the expert at watercolors. Thanks for sharing the photos and your paintings.

Why take photos if they can't be shared and enjoyed by others. <Smile> Really like your rendition of the Clipper.

Originally Posted by lkroll

Yes; the butterflies in there somewhere. lol

Hey I see it!. LOL!

Originally Posted by lkroll

Why not some play with colored glass.

Now that is impressive! Nicely done, Lyle.

Originally Posted by skipatk

And here's butterfly #3

Very nice, Skip. And thank you for the heads-up of the free PhotoFrame 4.5.3.

[skipatk]

OK Gene, here's my first go at using Vitaly's watercolor tutorial. Quite a tutorial, but the results are worth the effort I think.

[ghealy]

Isn't that a fun tutorial? Really producing some outstanding images, imo. Just like the one you did!. <Smile>

[palms]

trying something different out, need to do some fine tuning though

Palms

[ghealy]

Oh I like that a lot, Palms. Hard part must be adding the stain glass effect to the butterflies themselves.

[palms]

Originally Posted by ghealy

Oh I like that a lot, Palms. Hard part must be adding the stain glass effect to the butterflies themselves.

All the actual butterflies had is the poster edge filter in photoshop ! glad you liked it

Palms

[pavel123]

Gene, thank you for the photo.

[ghealy]

Oh that is quite nice, Pavel. Thanks for playing

[lkroll]

Heavy on the oil this time.

[ghealy]

Ya feelin' okay Lyle? That's one of the most 'normal' plays I've seen you do in a while. <Big Grin>

[lynn55]

Dear Retouchpro members,

You are doing great job to editing pictures were beautiful.

I use G'MIC in Gimp.

G'MIC : GREYC's Magic Image Converter
http://registry.gimp.org/node/13469


Thank you for the nice playing.

This painting effect from G'MIC.

[ghealy]

Nice one again, Lynn.

[Veralisa]

Everyone's done such a beautiful job...your work is inspiring.
This is simply a small watercolor version: