I've just created another one of my fantasy mugs. This dreamy ocean fantasy scene will send you to a happy, relaxing place as you sip your favorite beverage. The vivid, blue-green colors harmonize beautifully against splashes of vibrant reds and oranges. The soft, flowing, white swirls of sea water almost merge into the fine layers of the priestess's robe, providing a peaceful background rhythm, like a healing song in 3-D. Here's how to access it. This will take you to my Zazzle store which is not on this website. Before you click below, open a new browser window or a new tab in your current window, and copy this current URL into it to save your place here. http://www.artbyjoycejackson.com/1/post/2012/09/sea-priestess-mug.html In all, there are 3 large panels, all identical reproductions of "Sea Priestess", my watercolor painting on illustration board. Makes for easy viewing from any angle. Customize options are available if you want to personalize the mug.
0 Comments
I get to a scary stage with my paintings in progress. Sometimes this causes the stall factor. You procrastinate because you're afraid that if you touch what you've created so far, you'll ruin it. Maybe it comes with fascination over what you achieve if you've surprised yourself by how well things are coming along. Whatever the reason, if you want to get things done, you need to find a way to overcome this. One solution to this that I find is very helpful is to use Photoshop, aka PS. Once I have a photo of the painting at whatever stage it's at, I can add and remove elements easily in PS using layers. That way, I try them out but they're not a permanent part of them and they can easily be left omitted. My paintings are usually too large to scan into my computer before working on them in PS. I just take a digital photo of them and fix up the dimensions and color levels in PS. After I decide what I like and want to keep, I go back to the painting and paint it in. I may do this several times before I decided that the painting is finished. Here's my first pencil sketch of my most current work in progress: Here's how it looked after I added a few colors to try them out. I didn't add these colors in Photoshop. I added them directly to the painting. I was feeling pretty focused and didn't think I needed to try out anything in PS before making it permanent. After I did this much, I used PS to see how the dragon fairy at left of center dragon would look in a blue green blouse instead of the red color I gave her with colored pencil in my prelim sketch. Unfortunately, I didn't want to keep it, didn't save it and don't have it to show you. But now you get the idea. The picture has progressed further since I took these 2 pics. More may follow as soon as I get pictures to show you. |
Joyce JacksonMultimedia artist in clay, paint, and jewelry. Part-time online bookseller. Archives
November 2018
Categories
All
|