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Some of you might recall the little landscapes I started painting in photoshop back last summer...well this is my first attempt at one with a real brush in my hand and no photoshop tools to fall back on...I knew it would be a learning experience and I knew it would tough for me to pull off...well both of those things proved to be true...maybe I should have tried something a little smaller for my first time...these 2 are 30"x52"...probably not a big challenge for you wall dogs and mural painters but I've never done anything like this before...I struggled with it and having a dead line meant at a point I had to just let it go...though my lack of experience left me often frustrated...in the end I liked the way it turned out.
They wanted a landscape idea from me so this is the pic I sent them back...they already had the raised planter built so I used photoshop to throw in some bushes and flowers...I also photoshopped out a telephone pole that clutered up the sky to the left.
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Great painting Rusty, now you should feel comfortable to do more. Forget photoshop, you do not need it. Bill
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I like it. It is a very classy and serene sign.
-grampa dan
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Beautiful Rusty.....can't wait to see lots of close up pictures!
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It was not until painting the 3rd tree that I happened on a style or technique that I felt comfortable with...and this technique is something I think I can improve on with some tweeking ...I probably could learn much more about rendering leaf textures if I actually practiced on a real tree rather than something from my imagination.
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are you sure you didn't just cut a hole in the sign and let Nature have It's Way?? Beautiful sign and Painting...you can't help but get more work from this Beauty, Rusty!!
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I keep coming back to this one because of it's classic look.
Rusty, at any moment I expect to here the horns and barking, seeing Dan's fox hunters emerge from among the trees jumping the low stone wall beyond. Tally-Ho, Boys, Tally-Ho!
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Rusty - you are a very humble man in regards to your artistic skills. This is not only good - but in my opinion; the sign structure, the painting, the colors, the implementation - are EXCELLENT.
I'd love to watch you paint landscapes like this - landscapes have never been my forte... although I haven't tried many.
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