Digital Art - Photography Based Digital Painting

I love original photography, but I also have a passion for creating digital art from my photographs. I'm not talking about using an app to get a quick result, (although I confess to doing that sometimes) but about actually creating something new from my work using software like Corel® Painter.

Image © Diane Macdonald. All Rights Reserved.
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Camera	Canon EOS D30
Lens	50mm
Exposure	1/30 sec; f/6.7; ISO 400
Post-processing	Adobe Photoshop®, Adobe Camera Raw, and Corel® Painter IX

I have a story to tell about this digital painting, entitled “Consider the Lilies.” I won a national award for it through Professional Photographers Of America a few years back, but the award did not come easily! The five professional judges were tough, and four of them, although they liked it, blew it away as something anyone could do with a few clicks of a mouse in Adobe® Photoshop!

Luckily for me though, the fifth judge was an internationally known expert in the use of Corel® Painter, Jane Conner-Ziser, and I listened in awe as she explained to the other judges the work that had been involved in the creation of the work. (It took me a couple of days to get the desired finished look.)She fought so hard for my work that she managed to convince the other four judges to vote for my print at the award-winning level. How humbling that was, and what an honor to have someone who didn't know me fight for my recognition!

So I am rekindling my digital painting passion, by offering up a new challenge using the tag #photodigitalpainting. Please don't use it for just some brightly colored photography though. This tag should be reserved for paintings that are made on the computer, using an original photograph as the base, and preferably using a Wacom pen as your paintbrush. Let us know what software you used. The finished product should not look like a photograph, but should be your interpretation of a photograph! If you have the original, let us see that too.

Here is my original image.

Image © Diane Macdonald. All Rights Reserved.

My image is available for licensing as a stock image through Getty Images here, and you may have seen it on a book cover, like this one.

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