This week I tried something new. I took a scan of a canvas painting I did a couple of years ago and recreated it using Photoshop. A fellow blogger, can't remember who, did it with her painting so I thought I would try it. I found it very, very difficult. I felt like I was "desecrating" my work. It felt a bit like someone coming up and drawing all over the top of my work and "ruining"it. I forced myself to go on and I ended up liking the results. I see now it has opened up all sorts of possibilities for new artworks - new canvas paintings. New ORANGE paintings!
The original painting is based on photographs I took while on a camping holiday at Green Patch. Green Patch is the most beautiful place, on the south coast of NSW. It is native bushland near a bay with pristine white sand and the bluest of blue water. You can see dolphins and there are wallabies and many colourful birds. Along the beach are beautiful white weathered rocks and the occasional fallen white (petrified) tree branches. It is so popular in the holidays that the National Parks people have to run a ballot to decide who can camp there. We were there in the off- season - much better I would think.
And here are the processed, reworked digital versions. I did take notes as I processed and played, but I am afraid I got lost in what I was doing. I can, however, describe some techniques. With all of them I changed colour by using Selective Colour and Saturation.
Selective Colour, Accented Edges filter
Poster edges filter and Linear Burn
HDR toning (Surrealistic High Contrast)
HDR toning (Saturated)
The last two are sections which I isolated and reworked.
There such an interesting variety of artworks shared last week. We now have all sorts of artists contributing - photographers, photo-artists, painters. Media & technques included digital art, oil painting, water colour, mixed media and collage.
Show me what orange photo art or other art you have been doing this week!
Photograph of painting (top image) linked to Weekly Top Shot and Your Sunday Best. Our World Tuesday and Tina's Picture Story. Last image linked to Mellow Yellow. The whole series is linked to NF Inspiring Photography, a new creative meme. Also linked later to Paint Party Friday, Photo Art Friday.
48 comments:
Really love your painting. Have never considered altering digitally an art piece, but I can see the advantages. Nice to see the different versions and the final one is great.
Wonderful art!
Beautiful transformation...thanks so much for sharing at Nancy's Your Sunday Best.
Beautiful work!
Beautiful artwork! You are very talented....Christine
amazing!
I love the original and also the first edit, and yes digital painting can be difficult. Cheers
Gorgeous..radiant..truly beautiful..lots of energy vibing from this gorgeous piece!! Stunning!
Victoria
That's gorgeous!
Beautiful artwork... your editing changes so much.. Thank you for sharing on Weekly Top Shot #49!
I love your original painting and love the final editing shot shne here!
I admire your painting talent!
Carletta's Captures
I really like your original and your last edit, both pretty and bright.
So nice the transformation... beautiful work!
ps:Thanks for asking me, Lorik...I have linked it up :)
This is simply awesome I love all the beautiful changes and how your art piece just glided through till you achieved this final outcome...beautiful!
Got inspiration from you to link my 'Smile Dose'here!
Some great effects there!
Thanks for hosting.
I´e, glad you continued. You did come up with some interesting tekniques. Hr to pick a favourite really. :)
And you are right, it was a lot of orange in my shot as well. So here I am. :)
Thanks for a great linky party...wonderful art!
Laurie @ pride in photos
Great painting! And your transformations are very interesting. My favorite is the last picture.
Wonderful paintings. All are beautiful. My favourites are your first and your last picture. Great !
I also love to play around and see what surprises come out !
Gorgeous, wonderful HDR!
lovely art this week! Great you are experimenting with photoshop and such, I'm still doing things the old fashioned way!
Very inspiring with some exquisite colors. I love those sinuous. Greetings.
I love coming here to view all these brilliant orangey pieces of artwork. I think it's cool that you are experimenting with PS and your paintings.
Calling by from NF Inspiring Photography, what fascinating results.
Beautiful orange Art!
Thanks for Hosting!
Love your painting!
Nice experiments!
I really like your painting and the reworks! :)
I can imagine it was difficult to alter your own piece of art but at least it was only digitally!
I am in love with these forms.
Lorik, this painting is beautiful... the photoshop effects are cool too, but your painting is fabulous!! Thank you for leaving a comment on my blog. i'll be following yours too. You paint beautifully. xox
It's drastically transformed!
Thanks for sharing. I found your post really interesting. A technique I have never used but one to try in the future.
What lovely artwork.
Enjoyed the post..will add my link
Very beautiful paintings, I wish I could paint. Thanks for visiting my blog.
Very interesting post about your original work, and to see all the different digital versions. You did a very good job here!
Ps. You asked about my "Black and Decker DRODDEL" It's only a long exposure shot of my eletric drill when moving the camera, and then increased the color and contrast!
Thank you for hosting, and have a nice evening:)
What you started with was amazing and the many ways you altered it, each time created a new expression of your art. I agree ... you opened doors and I, for one, love the results. May have to try something like that myself :)
Andrea @ From The Sol
A beautiful experiment that paid off, I love the first and last variations the best :)
This is beautiful! I've added my post to your challenge, too. Thanks for your comment.
Fabulous piece. I like your original work very much but so enjoyed seeing how your transformed it again into totally different pieces of art. The last one is very dramatic.
Fantastic piece of art, Lori :) I love orange colors.
I love what you've done here, Lori. Rally. So brave to "bridge" and such a rich experience, clearly.
It used to scare me and frankly overwhelmed me to try to bridge painting, and in my case painting with paper, into scanning, and then into digital fiddling. So... I DO understand and applaud your courage to go outside what you know.
The results of your experiment are so deep and delicious. It is good to keep notes and make a visual part of the process "fixed" in some way. And, more than that, it's essential to lose yourself in the experience.
I am gob-smacked, really, at your boldness first in pursuit and then in discovery.
Glad you've shared this on PAF. Very apropos for this week's "encouragement" from Bonnie!!
YAY YOU!!
xoxo
Thanks everyone for your comments. It was interesting to see the different reactions - some preferred the original - others different edited versions. And many understood the difficulty in "messing with" your own precious original artwork. And as Candy said - at least it was only digitally!
Monica thanks for explaining your image - how imaginative and how skilled you must be to achieve that with a moving camera and an electric drill! I wonder how many of us will be trying to take moving camera shots now!
Thanks Currie for being "gob-smacked" :)) And you are so right about being able to lose yourself in the experience.
Thanks again, to everyone, for your comments and your wonderful art.
Wow!! Love seeing what you were able to do digitally and how different you were able to make the feel of the piece (though you had a good base!! :)).
Very inspiring.
I like it all!!! The edits are so fun and creative and bring a whole new dimension to the piece! It's about letting go and pushing forward!! I think they all have different appeal, makes life interesting!! Thanks for sharing...Great work!
Hugs Giggles
Lovely to see all the things you can do with it. But still: my favorite is your original painting! The sublety of colours is somehow wiped out in the digital versions.
Your original piece is stunning and your edits are very creative!
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