[pstewart]

This eagle came with PS7 in its "samples" folder. It's a nice close up that might lend itself to a lot of different art treatments.

Phyllis

[pstewart]

Here I used the painting technique I described in a recent tutorial called "Fake Painting with Photoshop," located in the photo art forum.

For the blotches in step 2 I used the cutout filter. Later, on the bottom layer (the one without the mask) I used a large multi-colored "confetti" brush set to color mode to add more colors to the feathers and background. (See the steps to make sense of this.)

Phyllis

[angue]

I'm having so much fun in Painter that I don't care that I have to put down every stroke.

Here I just used Painter as tracing paper and used a combination of pencil and marker and pastel drawing tools on a green gradient.

Phyllis, that's a great watercolor.
Steve, how did you manage to turn the eagles head?

Tony

[Blacknight]

Glowing edges, sharpen edges, desaturate to greyscale, flatten and apply a gradient map.