PainShop Pro Graphics - Grandma Moses -Christel

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Grandma Moses -Christel

Carl Frisk

2005-04-04, 12:23 pm

I like your color.

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"christel godlinski" <a6a2439@telus.net> wrote in message news:42465205_1@cnews...
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> Jo, Jeno and Angie, nice entries, but.....please some info. with your
> entries, how else are we going to learn from each other :-))
> Enclosed is my painting. Started out with combining 2 of Porter's photos,
> resized. Cloned out the lightpost, lamp and wires. Applied histogram, did
> not like it and started using my own color pallet. Added to canvas on top
> and bottom and, on new layers, painted in the sky and the grass. Cheated on
> the house and partly cloned it in, but painted the fence and trees, also
> the animals, all on different layers, to be able to move them around. Quite
> an interesting challenge, Porter, thank you.
> Christel.
>
>
>

Angie

2005-04-04, 12:23 pm

I really like your entry, Christel.

[snip]
Jo, Jeno and Angie, nice entries, but.....please some info. with your
entries, how else are we going to learn from each other :-))

As to how I did mine...well, I started out in much the same way that you did
by combining the photos that Porter posted and reducing the size. I then
used the collaged photo as a reference and worked over several layers. I
painted the landscape by using a grass tube in places, the smudge tool, the
warp tool, soften, motion blur and gaussian blur in places (basically just
played with effects until I got something I liked) to get different shapes
and textures. Oh, and I flood-filled with textured color in and applied
texture effects in some areas. When I had the background landscaped
finished, I started adding details. I had a hard time thinking about exactly
what made Grandma's houses so out of perspective yet recognizable and then I
just thought about how her paintings were so child-like and simple and went
back and thought about how I used to draw houses as a child. I really feel
like I didn't add enough detail-trees, houses, people-but I also felt like I
had expended way too much energy and time on this particular project so I
just merged, duplicated, applied some edge effects and blend modes,
texturized the entire image and posted it. I'm really going to have to try
to remember that PSP was created to make this kind of stuff easier and just
filter the heck out of everything until it resembles something close to what
I'm after. ; )

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"christel godlinski" <a6a2439@telus.net> wrote in message
news:42465205_1@cnews...
>
> Jo, Jeno and Angie, nice entries, but.....please some info. with your
> entries, how else are we going to learn from each other :-))
> Enclosed is my painting. Started out with combining 2 of Porter's photos,
> resized. Cloned out the lightpost, lamp and wires. Applied histogram, did
> not like it and started using my own color pallet. Added to canvas on top
> and bottom and, on new layers, painted in the sky and the grass. Cheated
> on the house and partly cloned it in, but painted the fence and trees,
> also the animals, all on different layers, to be able to move them around.
> Quite an interesting challenge, Porter, thank you.
> Christel.
>
>

bjeanneb

2005-04-04, 12:23 pm

Very well done, Christel. The out-of-perspective buildings in the
foreground and the simple animals and children are certainly like Moses!

Jeanne

jeno

2005-04-04, 12:23 pm

"christel godlinski" <a6a2439@telus.net> wrote in message
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Really nice, Christel!

Nightingail

2005-04-04, 12:23 pm

Wow, another super entry! I like your animals and people ;-)

Gail

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"christel godlinski" <a6a2439@telus.net> wrote in message
news:42465205_1@cnews...
>
> Jo, Jeno and Angie, nice entries, but.....please some info.
with your
> entries, how else are we going to learn from each other :-))
> Enclosed is my painting. Started out with combining 2 of
Porter's photos,
> resized. Cloned out the lightpost, lamp and wires. Applied
histogram, did
> not like it and started using my own color pallet. Added to
canvas on top
> and bottom and, on new layers, painted in the sky and the
grass. Cheated on
> the house and partly cloned it in, but painted the fence and
trees, also
> the animals, all on different layers, to be able to move them
around. Quite
> an interesting challenge, Porter, thank you.
> Christel.
>
>
>

Michelle

2005-04-04, 12:23 pm

"christel godlinski" <a6a2439@telus.net> wrote in message
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Great job, Christel!

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christel godlinski

2005-04-04, 12:23 pm

"Carl Frisk" <c.frisk@REMOVE.verizon.net> wrote in message
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> I like your color.
>
> --
> ....Carl Frisk
> Anger is a brief madness.
> - Horace, 20 B.C.
> http://www.carlfrisk.com
>
>
Thank you Carl, I am looking forward to seeing yours :-))
Christel.

christel godlinski

2005-04-04, 12:23 pm

> snip>
-but I also felt like I
> had expended way too much energy and time on this particular project so I
> just merged, duplicated, applied some edge effects and blend modes,
> texturized the entire image and posted it. I'm really going to have to
> try
> to remember that PSP was created to make this kind of stuff easier and
> just
> filter the heck out of everything until it resembles something close to
> what
> I'm after. ; )
> Angie : )
> http://www.utionline.net/~ut03897

Thanks, Angie. I too felt, that I should have spent less time on the
project, but then again, that's how one learns, I suppose :-))
Christel.

christel godlinski

2005-04-04, 12:23 pm

"bjeanneb" <bjeanneb@satx.rr.com> wrote in message
news:4246b05f$1_2@cnews...
>
> Very well done, Christel. The out-of-perspective buildings in the
> foreground and the simple animals and children are certainly like Moses!
>
> Jeanne

Thanks,Jeanne. Can you believe, I had to try my darndest to paint the
buildings that way, just went against the grain of everything I had been
taught.:-)
Christel.

christel godlinski

2005-04-04, 12:23 pm

> Great job, Christel!
>
>
> --
> Michelle ;-)
> Michelles Paint Shop Pro & More!

Thanks to Jeno, Gail and Michelle, for your kind comments on my painting.
Now, Gail and Michelle, get your artistic brain cells in gear and let us
see your creations :-)
Christel.

Carl Frisk

2005-04-04, 12:23 pm

Still working on it:) Tough challenge.

--
.....Carl Frisk
Anger is a brief madness.
- Horace, 20 B.C.
http://www.carlfrisk.com

"christel godlinski" <a6a2439@telus.net> wrote in message news:42471a0f$1_1@cnews...
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> "Carl Frisk" <c.frisk@REMOVE.verizon.net> wrote in message
> news:42467459_3@cnews...
> Thank you Carl, I am looking forward to seeing yours :-))
> Christel.
>
>
>

Porter

2005-04-04, 12:23 pm

"Carl Frisk"
> Still working on it:) Tough challenge.

Aren't those the sweetest victories of all?

P

Carl Frisk

2005-04-04, 12:23 pm

Indeed! And one learns so much from it.

--
.....Carl Frisk
Anger is a brief madness.
- Horace, 20 B.C.
http://www.carlfrisk.com

"Porter" <campratty@noratsnormice.comcast.net> wrote in message news:42484d36_1@cnews...
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> "Carl Frisk"
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> Aren't those the sweetest victories of all?
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