MORE SUMMER INSPIRATIONS

Came to Photoshop very late in my career. It took forever to learn. Since then, I dont remember the last time I actually complete an illustration. By not fuzzing over one single painting which could take up to a month to finish, I can dream up many variations working with a few images.

It always starts with a sketch. This seaside cottage sketch came from Noank, CT.

The sky & water is from my archive. I've been painting forever, so there are tons of painting I can use.

I started this with watercolor, but the ethereal watercolor just can not express the colorful garden. An impressionist painting can come together pretty fast.

I then pulled some sailboats from another painting, just need to seperate it from the original.

Layer on a flag...

Viola! A new design for my Summer Collection. For someone who cant seem to stay focus on finishing a painting, the magic of photoshop is a real blessing.

New Design for License

Much has been written about the process of creativity. For me, it's time on my bike that's the most creative. Ideas kind of flow together. Putting different elements together is a big part of creating an illustration. This design is a perfect example: my rep always sends over a wish list on what's trending. 

Cloud was on the list recently. I have tons of cloudscape in my archive. They are all fine art paintings, not exactly commercial art.

There's also this dreamscape, it's too muted to be license for anything. It has been in the closet for years. For whatever reason, combining these 2 paintings just came to me while I was biking.

With the magic of photoshop, I created a new design for license, by combining 3 paintings.

ANGEL COLLECTION

Got angels in my head over the holiday, nice to have the time this week to start working on an angel collection. 

Combination of old fashion painting and photoshop magic

from sketch to B&W drawing

digital creation

ORCHID & GREEN

Kind of like this oil sketch of apple blossom from Spring. I layer on a yellow butterfly from my archive…the yellow layer on green layer turn this into a purple butterfly, by clicking on  the "difference" layer on photoshop. Since orchid is the color of the year, I'm saving this as a new design.

APPLE BLOSSOM SKETCH

Apple blossom oil turpentine sketch from Spring, finally getting to do a little editing on photoshop… it might or might not be a new design.

ORCHID BUTTERFLIES

This new butterfly design is created on photoshop, with just 2 layers.

 

I layer this butterfly design onto this green meadow sketch. By clicking on "difference", it gives me this wonderful orchid color.