Thursday, December 23, 2010

More shape tool and environment study

Some kinda mountain snow lake thingy.  Just went where the shapes took me... quite fun i must say!

The shape tool

Just a painting mimicking the shape tool technique started by sparth, an industrial conceptual artist I admire.

For those of you with any kind of photoshop vocabulary I basically turned chunks of pictures off the internet into custom shapes, and then drop the chunks out onto the canvas to build the environment. Then with different layer styles and brushes I add a bit of color and value to the whole thing.  A painting like this could be done in 10 min if I was on the ball and going as fast as possible.  But im still learning the technique.