Creative interpretations: Boat at Marbury Park

[DavidC]

Duv
Thank you. I posted the picture in the early hours last night after 2 or 3 hours work and didn't have the energy to record procedure. I have also just now lost a fairly full account of the remembered process when I tried to preview my post and got an error message. Grrrr!! So this second attempt is going to be shorter.

I don't work to a plan so I can't offer a template approach; but this is what I did, though not necessarily in exactly this order -

1. Looked hard at the photo and decided what do on composition. Lovely scene but too much foliage and distracting background. Needs simplyifying and focus. A lot of Wacom hand painting will be needed.
2. Duplicated background layer
3. Lifted brightness with Curves
4. Buzzed to simplify
5. Blurred and rebuzzed selected background
6. Painted into picture to lose some river detail and left hand foliage - simplifying to suggest shallow water and a hint of a sandy bank on the left.
7. Applied Impressionist Sumi-E Translucent strokes on White, low opacity.
8. Sharpened
9. Applied Watercolor filter at low opacity
10. Duplicated original photo on new layer and buzzed to create a line drawing. Reduced opacity and Levelled to get to about 2B pencil and erased some to reduce uniformity of the line.
11. Decided I wanted to get the picture to sit better on the paper so I'd create a new colored ground for the painting. After trial and error with various colors (using a new layer, filled, and Muliply) I arrived at the combat green color now predominating.
12. Added some painted in detail like reeds and trailing rope and clear rollock on the far boat.

That's about it. Hope this is of interest.

David

[DavidC]

Sorry. Me again. This one's better I think.

[palms1]

I am really not sure on this one perhaps you could give me your verdict

Hit / miss / work on it ! ! ! !

Palms

P.S. super work David C

[dkcoats]

This can't hold a candle to some of the earlier contributions - most notably (the other) David C's superb effort.

And Palms, yours is a hit.

I tweaked, sharpened and buzzed it in CS2, applied some more simplification with the AAA simplifier, then ran Impressionist/DJR muckup on a dupe layer which I pasted into Twisted Brush as a base layer. Then painted over top of that with loose oil brushes and added some canvas texture. Then back to CS2 for a light emboss.

[dkcoats]

I took another stab at it - this one's a little less...something...and a little more...something else. I think I like this one better.

[glikster]

I like this earthy palette....

Improved contrast.
Replaced the blue on the boat with red.
Loaded red channel.
Impressionist-> Sumi-e->Dry strokes on Pitted Stone
Loaded green channel
Impressionist-> Sumi-e->Dry strokes on Pitted Stone
Fade to lower opacity
Keep green channel loaded
Impressionist-> Natural->Gauze Underlay
Fade to Overlay
Added a contour layer with find edges and darkened (messed about with this layer somewhat)
added some texture

[Alcar]

Great photo. Had to try ahb on this one.
Alan

[alexmeta]

Palms - is a hit, dc - the second one is a hit.
Alan, very nice!

How about this one?

[GeoffB]

Hi iv had a quick play with this photo,
see what you think.....


its a nice pick buy the way



Geoff.

[alexmeta]

Another one - AHB

[pavel123]

I finally decided to try AHB.

[palms1]

Dc i think both of them look fine
Glikster very nice with a interesting workflow
Alcar your ahb gives a nice soft feel
Alex i like both of them
Geoff very subtley done
Pavel welcome to the club you took your time getting to the ahb did you enjoy using it ?

Palms

[Steve Conway]

Nice shot. Like the lightning and reflections.

Steve C.

[pavel123]

Originally Posted by palms1

Pavel welcome to the club you took your time getting to the ahb did you enjoy using it ?
Palms

I've seen great work done with AHB. Me, I'm not sure if I have enough patience to use it...

[dkcoats]

Pavel, if that's your first try with the AHB, you should be proud. Nice work.