Monday, July 21, 2008

Gardenview

















Near my home is one man's dream of a nature sanctuary. The man is Henry Ross and the sanctuary is called Gardenview. Early last winter, I snapped some pictures of the winter cabbage he had growing next to the side of the road. Here's a digital painting (just want to mix things up here a little) created in Painter, using the Wacom art pen and the palette knife tool.

I'll have more posts about Gardenview with some watercolor sketches soon.

2 comments:

tabulyogang said...

wow simply beautiful! how did you do that? do you have tutorials over here or something? :P

Jeff Suntala said...

tabulyogang-

Using the Painter program, just lay the colors and shapes down with hard edges using a simple gouache type brush, then scrape it with the palette knife tool. The Art Marker pen is shaped like a flat magic marker, and so is the palette knife tool. It recognizes what orientation it's in.

Nothing more to it.