Art Challenge 4 - 1st-14th March - "Colour"

I finished a traditional version of this yesterday (I know, a day early! Weird!) and then decided that actually, I'd rather do a digital version as it'd be "cleaner" (and "much better"). So, this time my art challenge submission is a digital piece, which I don't think has happened before. I don't think I've put a digital piece on my blog for ages, either. The label must be covered in dust.

I used the traditional painting to get the rainbow colours: cadmium red, cadmium orange, cadmium yellow, emerald, ultramarine, dioxazine violet and mauve. I used Photoshop to paint over everything except the umbrella and the blending in the sky, where I switched to a very temperamental Corel Painter. I used to utterly adore using that program and now it seems to be a million miles away from what I need it to be, which makes me feel a bit sad.

I have a HUGE draft post in progress with EVERYTHING that I haven't bothered to post over the last two years or so. It's going to be a monster, so don't hold your breath on me finishing it soon. There's a lot of things to scan and photograph!

Next art challenge is "vicious" - at the moment I'm thinking "deathclaw fanart"...

Tulip

Program: Corel Painter X
Brushes: Detail oil brush (colour), Soft blender stump (blending)
Reference: My photograph

A year already! The last painting for my mother was the first digital painting I ever finished. A whole year has gone by and now ... this is the second digital painting I've ever finished. I really need to sort my tablet out. As with the last painting, this was made a print and sent to my mother for her birthday last month.

I painted it the same way as the previous one, but I worked a lot faster: this was started and finished in one night. I was annoyed at the lack of detail that it has - partly because I didn't have time and partly because my tablet just refuses to let me do things like that at the moment - but at the same time I can still see improvements from the previous piece. The blending is much better, for a start. Although the other painting is more detailed, it isn't blended as well. Tulips are more detailed to look at than daffodils anyway though, so I'm not sure if that's a fair comparison. My favourite part of the painting is the new signature, hah. I'm hoping to get more digital pieces finished this summer.

This was a scheduled post - I am busy with university. Back soon! :)