Creative interpretations: Flowers - Legacy's Rose

[Legacy~Art]

not a rose? when members of this forum use their imaginations!

Pic found here

[raniday]

Maybe not terribly imaginative but more practice in Painter for me.
Thanks, Legacy~Art.
http://www.pbase.com/image/39647276

[Janet Petty]

Gorgeous and very peaceful Cat. Wonderful painting.

Janet

[Legacy~Art]

Raniday WOW WOW WOW WOW that is gorgeous!!!

(guessing your a female here)

I think you need to write us all a tutorial on how you achieved that as that is very pretty indeed!

[Neve]

Soft, delicate and well done Raniday.

[Neve]

Thanks Legacy for the photo....

I resized the image to 140%
Buzzed it to get rid of artefacts.
Duped bottom layer - Mode Soft Light
and Merged both layers.
Impressionist: Crayon: Lino Chatter
Added canvas texture and mask edging.

[Legacy~Art]

Neve that also is very pretty, you two ladies are doing us proud!

***Girl Power***

Any men out there up for the challenge?

[raniday]

Very nice, Neve; looks like an acrylic on canvas.

Thank you all for the nice comments. Yes, Legacy I am a female
I don't have much of a tutorial on this one. I just painted it in Painter w/ cloning and splashy watercolor brushes and outlined a bit w/ the 2B pencil, adding the solid background w/ paint, added a gaussian blur layer over it in PhotoShop to soften, used an edge mask/frame and added sandstone texture. Thanks again for the pretty photo.
catherine

[Duv]

Notice your quotes are from great men! Ha! OK. You cats win. So here's a submission from an old, tired dog..zzzzzzz...oh ya, I like the way the flower appeared so much higher from the ground..as if it was streaking skyward. I selected the flower and pumped the contrast up in Levels. Inverted and did a Radial Blur spin. Ran a cartoon action and slightly darkened the edges with a Darken Edges and Corners action...............i feel so emasculated.....

COME ON GUYS...HELP ME OUT HERE!! SO WHAT IF IT'S A ROSE!!

Dave

[SWEngineer]

I like roses too. Here's my attempt:

Made a 'wreath' out of the existing leaves and added a blured leaf background to hide the dirt. Isolated the rose on its own layer and 'subtracted' a high pass 3 copy (inverted, linearlight, 40%) to get a nice, soft focus look. Merged this all together. Cropped & resized. Copied this layer and applied the WaterColor filter. Lowered opacity and added a layer mask to make the rose less filtered. Played around with some vignette stacks to finish.

-Mark

[raniday]

Dave & Mark, very creative renditions.

Dave, I'm glad it didn't e_________ you to paint a rose, and yes, my current quote is from a great man, but the previous one was by Lily Tomlin. I'm an equal opportunity borrower.

[jaykita]

To All My RTP Friends. Have a wonderful day filled with love and happiness!

[Legacy~Art]

Haha Dave our great men quotes are to keep you guys on your toes lol!

Very nice picture Dave, very manish for a girlie rose! (does that make sense?)

Nice work Mark...Glad you like roses too...

Jaykita thats a very nice thing to say i do hope you also have a lovely day its 9pm ish here, and my friend as the flu so its a night in tonight, but tomorrow i am going out with my boyfriend, something to do with valentines weekend...

[Con Looymans]

Hi Legacy Art,

Here's my (Male) attempt for you. Hope you like it.

I cut the rose out of the gackground and converted it into a Brush.

I then created two Layers below this and Painted in the rose "Brush strokes".
The bottom at 100% the other at 30% to create some depth. To make it more interesting I applied some Filter>Distort Twirl to the bottom Layer and some Outer Glow Layer Style To the actual Rose.

Regards

Con Looymans

[Neve]

You'll please the ladies with this one Con. Clever use of the rose on the bg which looks delicate. Beautifully done and ready for your Valentine!