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I was playing with the watercolors and the salt eraser in Painter, and then decided to paste the negative of an image traced from one of this past autumn’s raven photos, and came up with this. I though he was kind of fun!

-She Wolf(c)2008

Click on the link below to download lessons fourteen & fifteen that finishes the tools lesson. The other 15 days of the 30 days are practice sessions using the brushes in a daily drawing to be painted.  I’ve been learning a great deal from everyone who has used the tutorial. I think I’ll eventually reorganize all the material to make it a 30 day practice vs. full tutorial–providing lots of practice opportunities with cheat sheets and guides. For every step I wrote in the lessons, it took me several hours of thinking and writing. Plus, all the images used in the tutorial (which makes it a large file).

 I love the progress of everyone and what you’ve painted so far. It’s thrilling to see your artistic expression and how you’ve grasped the medium of using a computer program to paint.

Don’t forget when you download the file for this tutorial, password is ‘intro’. And, you have to download the image file below by right clicking and saving on your computer.

http://www.shibuistudio.com/FourteenFifteen.pdf

 Genece

Another practice, Fran

Well, here is my tiger, my first digital painting. Not nearly as good as shewolfy’s. Her’s is so more true to life.

I had difficulty controlling the mouse, especially in the smaller spaces.  There has to be a Wacom tablet in my future. I am so pleased though that I have, thanks to Genece’s tutorial, learned so much.

Vi

I’m getting there — think I should be caught up with everything by tomorrow night. Hopefully, we’ll stay on track once I get caught up with all the typing, thinking, typing, thinking….

In this lesson, the tiger is getting more color and his green eyes. Have fun experimenting!

http://www.shibuistudio.com/DigitalPaintingforBeginners.pdf

FYI — every time I finish a day’s lesson, I upload the file to Adobe’s online service and they convert it into a pdf. I hope it doesn’t confuse you that the file name never changes. The file changes and that is why you need to download it every time I post on this blog. Make sense? I hope so.

Aghhh, I’m frustrated! It’s all in my brain and pulling it out to type and prepare is taking longer than I want. Yes, yes — patience, patience. I just keep diligently working at it and hope the ‘flow’ of putting it all on paper arrives soon. What else can I do?

I apologize that I’m off on the days I committed to having it all to you. Even if you’ve downloaded the program, I promise you’ll have more than enough time to work through all the days during your free trial.

Here’s the link of Day Three added (didn’t realize the formatting is a little off when transferring to Adobe pdf — I’ll have to check into that). http://www.shibuistudio.com/DigitalPaintingforBeginners.pdf and password ‘intro’.

According to the Last Supper Theory website, an amateur researcher called Slavisa Pesci has discovered new figures in the painting by superimposing a reverse image over the original. The figures are supposed to be a knight and a person holding a baby. You can find the story, and the images here.

These Da Vinci code theories get more and more delightful - who would have thought that Da Vinci had access to such sophisticated image manipulation? But wait, there’s more. I decided to have a go myself and layered a flipped image over the original. Here it is:

I must admit I haven’t examined it too closely - hard on the aging eyes, you understand - but I do think I found something significant in the area highlighted below.

Here’s a close up:

See? It’s the Devil!

Well, I’m sure if you did this long enough you’d find all sorts of conspiracies lurking in this painting - or any painting come to that. Don’t know how Pesci did it - the video is in Italian and I can’t be bothered downloading it, but he seemed to have used an image printed on film over the original. I did my images in Paint Shop Pro, but you can use any graphics program that uses layers.

First make a duplicate (shift D in PSP) of the original. Then do what you like with the duplicate - flip it, mirror, whatever. Go back to the original and make a new raster layer over it. Go to the duplicate and copy it. Now paste the duplicate over the original so that it fits exactly.

The new layer will have its own control in ther Layers box at the right of your screen (or wherever that is in other programs). Change the opacity of the superimposed layer to 50 per cent and voila! You can see through to the bottom layer, merged with whatever the top layer superimposes on that image. Have fun.

                                                                                                                Jan

Walking this morning
I found the leaves
had captured the sun
against my aging