Digital Paintings December 30 2019

Here are some digital paintings I created in Fall 2019. One of them was of a Sunset, and done from Photos I took in 2018, while the Other one was a Green Heron from this year. These 2 Paintings were created in Krita, and I find this software very good. It is amazing the variations you can get with paint brushes in Krita.

Here are the 2 photos I started from for the Sunset painting. I took these photos in June 2018, and was very interested in the light in the sky and bright colours.

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    Woodlands Sunset 4, Reference Photo, June 2018
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    Woodlands Sunset 3, Reference Photo, June 2018

Here is the first version of the painting. In this stage. I just blotted in the colour, the software was a bit slow recording my marks so I did not get as far as I had hoped.

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    Woodlands Sunset Proof 1

In this version, I darkened the foreground, and added variation to the vegetation and water. I also touched up the white spots and tried to sharpen my edges.

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    Woodlands Sunset, Proof 2

In this version I added more detail to the vegetation in the foreground, and worked on the clouds. I also blended together the weeds in the water better.

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    Woodlands Sunset, Proof 3

Here is the finished version of the painting, you can see I darkened the foreground even further, as well as added branches to the trees, and worked on the outlines of the clouds.

Overall I am very satisfied how this painting turned out, and think did a good job creating the mood of dusk.

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    Woodlands Sunset Painting, Finished

Here is the photo I used for the second painting. This bird is a Green Heron, and I saw several of them in June 2019. I feel this is one of my strongest pictures of Green Herons, which is why I used it.

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Since this was my first digital painting, I did not spend much time on the drawing, and traced over the original photo in Krita, I dont usually do this, but for me this exercise was about blending colours in the new software.

I lost a few of the early proofs of this painting, so this one is at least halfway into the painting, but you can still see how it is progressing.

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Here is the final version of the painting, you can see I added more dimension to the bird, and tree stump as well as added more highlights to the weeds in the water. Since this bird was my very first digital painting, I did not know exactly how it would turn out. I do think it is good for a first painting.

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I hope you enjoyed this post, and how I created these paintings.

Please feel free to leave a comment!!

6 thoughts on “Digital Paintings December 30 2019”

  5. Interesting approach, Shawn. I had a dabble with this a few years ago, but haven’t progressed it. A number of people I know have done life sessions on their i-pad and I like the way you can paint and incorporate that into a digital image and develop it further digitally. It’s finding time for it all. Happy New Year.

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