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| This is a gallery to show some of my photo manipulations in natural art media styles and some of my digital paintings. I have recently had to rebuild the site and now show treated photos and the original photos on the same page. The pages may be a little slow to load if you are not on broadband but I have opted for larger sized images so that you can see some of the detail - there is little point in a website devoted to painting if you can't see the images. | |||
| To see the pictures, just click an 'Artwork' page link on the left and then any of the small pictures on the page that follows. This takes you to the full size image and original photograph. You can get back to any Artwork page by clicking one of the Artwork links on the top of a main image page. I found it interesting assembling the original photographs; some of the manipulations are more effective than others, and in some cases I prefer the original photograph! Though I would really like to use only photos I have taken myself, I can't get to all the places I'd like to visit and I'm very grateful to friends and family who let me use photos they have taken; I have acknowledged them in footnotes. | |||
| Watercolour has been my main interest and digital picture making is a relatively new adventure. I am trying to achieve naturalistic looking painterly images, through photo manipulation of a photograph using a digital tablet and pen tool with hand brushstrokes. My love for watercolour continues, and I am still keen to produce convincing, loose watercolour simulations through a mix of photo manipulation and digital hand-painting - though various media are represented in the images, including a few of my real watercolours. These are all shown in the Artwork pages; the content of these pages is broadly - | |||
New Artwork - - pictures I have made in the last month or so |
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Artwork 1 - - scenes of Venice |
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Artwork 2 - - pictures of flowers and other still lifes |
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| Artwork 3 - - people and portraits | |||
Artwork 4 - - places and some animals |
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Artwork 5 - - my first digital pictures |
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Artwork 6 - - in the style of comic book art |
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Artwork 7 - - specifically oils and acrylics |
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Artwork 8 - - pen, pencil and etching |
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Artwork on paper - - a few of my traditional watercolours on paper |
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| On each of these pages there are thumbnail versions of the manipulated images - just click on the thumbnail to see the larger image. On most image pages there is the manipulated image and the original photo below it. | |||
| On the technical side, I list the software and hardware I use in the 'Equipment' link. I use different techniques and experiment all the time. All the pictures I make now use a lot of hand brushing with a pen tool and digital tablet and with some use of filters and plugins. At the moment I use two main approaches to simulating watercolours: first is to simplify an image a bit with buZZ software, and then work on it in Photoshop with custom brushes. The second approach is broadly the technique, or a permutation of it, for converting photos into watercolours set out in the 'How to Wow, Photoshop for Photography' by Jack Davis and Ben Willmore, which is all, or nearly all, done in Photoshop again with custom brushes and pattern overlays. So far, I have found Painter 9 best for oil simulations using a range of my own customised brushes and the good canvas textures available in that program; decent watercolour simulations using Painter still elude me. Visitors interested in the sort of photo manipulation I am doing should have a look at some of the websites listed on my 'Links' page. Lots of ideas and inspiration there. Towards the bottom of this page are also the Tutorials and Demonstrations I am developing. | |||
| To leave your comments on my site for others to see, and to get in touch, please go to the 'Visitors Book and Email' link on the left. | |||
| Thanks for visiting. | |||
| David | |||
| All images are Copyright © David Cole 2006 except as otherwise indicated. | |||
| This site is optimised for a resolution of 1024x768. The site works in all the browsers I have tried and looks best in Internet Explorer 7. | |||
