It may come as a unusual thought that you can produce art with a scanner, or scanner art, since this is not quite the reason that scanners were initially released. The truth is, the flatbed scanner was developed for scanning text and imagery for digital output as opposed to paper output (like a photocopier). But the scanner is also practical for scanning 3-D objects to render what is known as a hyper-real picture. (more…)
For water colour painters, it makes no difference if you’re thinking of tackling a landscape or pet portrait, you’ll be faced with having to show areas of dark shadow. Many leisure painters, when first faced with dark areas in their picture, will quite often use a tube of black or produce muddy looking colours. Regrettably, it can be quite hard to see the different tones within dark areas, it’s much easier to gauge colour tone in the lighter shades. (more…)
Whether you would like to paint a still life or a pet portrait, painting a three dimensional object on a two dimensional canvas has always been a challenge. To do it convincingly whilst keeping your picture fresh and clean is even harder. Beginners frequently grab the tube of black to show shadow effects on an object, but here lies disaster. (more…)
Water colour’s a medium that allows for many tricks to produce the required effects. One of the more difficult effects to overcome effectively is snow. Not merely useful for landscape painters but can also bring a little something to pet portraits as well. (more…)