Painted Hummer

[Kerry Perkins]

Ok, just one more... There is a very cute little Allen's Hummingbird living at my house right now, and I found him relaxing on a branch in a pine tree. Painted in Photoshop using the mixer brush and a couple of textures, then enhanced with Nik CEP using a recipe I made that uses the glamour glow, blur vignette, and dark vignette filters.

Several of you have asked about how to learn this technique, but since I am learning it in a workshop I can't really mention it in the forum. However, if you send me a PM I will direct you to the workshop if you are interested.

[Dennis Bishop]

Dynamite colors and composition. I'm guessing that the canvas texture is from, well, a texture. It's nice that it's fairly subtle and variable. I also like that the brownish color in the background surrounds the hummingbird. Very nicely done.

[Randall Farhy]

Exceptional colors, pose and brush work. I especially like how the sky has what looks like bird feather repeats throughout. My only critique would be that the branch beyond the little bird looks thick and heavy-pulling the eye out of the area of interest. Kerry, another nicely done piece.

[Nancy Bell]

This is great! Love the glow on the hummer, maybe a bit more light up by the eye. The mix of bkgd textures and brush strokes looks great. I like that you used the orange in the hummer also in the bkgd.

[Jackie Schuknecht]

Really nicely done Kerry. Love the colours on the bird and the BG is very complimentary with the rusts and oranges.

[Cheryl Slechta]

She's beautiful and so is the painting.

[Judy Howle]

Beautiful painting effect Kerry. I love how the canvas shows up. I think in Jack Davis' Painting in Photoshop class at creativelive.com he showed how to add texture to a brush when painting via the brushes panel. Is that what you did? I never tried it because I really haven't done any "creative painting" yet.

[Anita Bower]

Beautiful image and editing. Love it! I agree with all the positive comments above. Beautiful colors and brushstrokes and textures. I agree about the branch being a bit too heavy at the end. Please keep posting these paintings.

[Kerry Perkins]

Thanks everyone! Judy, I just realized I didn't answer your question about the texture. While texture can be added to any brush, that is not what I did here - it's just a texture applied over the base image.