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It’s my Mums birthday today. Here’s some recent digital painting I’ve been working on. I downloaded the trial of Photoshop CS5 to give it a go… it’s nice to have a change from GIMP… I still like GIMP very much and it does have advantages over Photoshop

This started as a study from Posemanics… I studied the figure twice. First ones on the left and 2nd on the right. I feel it’s an improvement.

It then needed an environment and I was inspired by my recent oil paintings and copied them…. lots of experimenting with different brush types.

Here I’ve painted on top of a life drawing. I really want to take my life drawings further and the digital realm works well for this. Again it’s experimenting with brush types. I wanted to continue working in a opacity style.

Portrait of my mum. This photo was taken at my 21st birthday. Mums holding what she loves - wine! She dressed as superwoman for the party. I painted this for her today and emailed… she should love it!

Sargent painting. I want to take an area of this and produce a copy with digital painting. It will teach me alot… best to take an area over the whole piece, work my way out. I really want to lean how to layer works - in direct painting.