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Hi Folks
Captured this Gila Woodpecker in our garden yesterday winging its way from the suet feeder on the Arizona Ash against quite a strong wind. Painting created using Free Fotosketch and a lot of pre-editing in CS4 to get rid of the tree background.
CC's warmly invited.
Keep smiling
Uncle Gus
What a great pose you got Uncle Gus, you should try a re-create the whole wings.
Gus, I love the right in your face pose and would love to see you re-create the wing, you certainly have the talent for it.:)
Hi Ladies
Thanks for your encouragement. After the work I put into it so far, if I can find the time I may just try to re-create the whole wing.
Here's the full original
Best
Gus
Pretty cool what you did with this Gus!:cool:
Stunning pose, Gus! Having the whole wings would make it perfect. :) Very well done.
Great job on the original, Gus. Lovely paint work. The whole wings would look superb:) Kora
Hi Folks
Took your suggestion and created wing. If you like it, I can turn it into a painting?
CC's warmly invited.
Best Regards
Uncle Gus aka The Mad Painter
Hi Folks
Back to square one. Gila Woodpecker in our garden. Painting created in Free Fotosketcher.
CC's warmly invited.
Keep smiling
Gus
Gus, You are so talented! I need to know what you are doing to get the brush marks that look almost like swirls in the BG.
Nice image and application, Gus.
Lot of work to that one, but nicely done.
Hi Denise
Thanks, your kind words have always inspired me.
Sitting having my coffee while checking my mail on my Net Book, and without Fotosketcher to give exact step by step,
This controls the BG.
Use default Oil Painting #6, then using Texture down arrows try the 3 one by one.
After I get the texture I think I want I play with the sliders.
Then I tweak it in CS4, usually the eye. (Don't always use it, however, in a drawing, I will QM the eye and give it a shot of Filter>other>High Pass and see what it looks like as it slightly embosses a slight line around the eye. Doesn't always work, but once in awhile, like doing Racoon's eye, it gave it a bit of luminousity)
A tip that works for me, especially if I do a redo of something I posted. To regain a bit of the slight degradation from doing it again, I always give it a pass of Curves>default Linear Contrast, maybe 2. One of my faults is a heavy hand of sharpening, and I try to keep away from that. Maybe it won't be a problem when my eye is completely healed from my surgery. My Surgeon says it will take a year.
There I am getting windy again
Hope this helps
Gus
Gus, Thank you so much for the instruction. You have always been so helpful. Much appreciated.:)
The repost is great Gus. Really good PS skills.
