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Experiment with the layers. For example, the main green shade of the grass is on 1 layer, above it is a layer with a brush, which has texture, so that it could recreate the slight chaos and grainy look and on top I draw separate blades of grass, which shape up the basic mass. Hold the different thing separate, so that you would be able to take them away at every moment in case you decide you don’t like them anymore.
The other important setting to me is Color Dodge. I choose a round brush with white colour. From Mode I set it to Color Dodge and turn down the Opacity. I paint with it the places, which I want to make lighter or strongly light contours. This is the light-making brush, but you have to be very careful about her strength, because it is possible to spoil the colour and turn it into pure white.
The third important “brush” is Smudge Tool. When you go through its settings Shape Dynamics and Scattering, you can get a result pretty close to the mixing of paint in the classing painting. Choosing a brush with an interesting shape is something I very much prefer.
IF YOU DON’T LIKE ANYTHING... DON’T HESITATE, DELETE IT
Take a look at your work from a distance. There is something you don’t quite like? DO not hesitate, delete it and try something else in its place. After all you have layers. If your try isn’t successful, you can always show the old layer.
In my case the balloon in the left part of the picture has been constantly was rather irritating to me…so I took it off, waiting to see what I’ll replace it with. Then it occurred to me that as a child I used to flow little paper boats in a bucket of water. And there they are…the painted pieces of paper, flowing towards the fairytale world. And after that I didn’t want to change anything. Take the old away, so that the new could come in its place…And do not hesitate, when you don’t like something in that corner at the bottom…Change it!
The same has happened with the town. It seemed to me rather fragmented and scattered. I’ve tried to make it up, but it wouldn’t’t work out. Then I remembered – the best inspiration is the reality! My home town…with its thousands winding narrow streets, little houses situated on rocks, one above another as if perching on the hill. In order to concentrate on it only, I chose Crop and drew it as a separate picture. So that the feeling of my town could be full blooded, I decided to add some little lights like layer with “Lighter Color“.
And so I could have missed many things which I would like to tell you or such, which you would have wanted to, ask me. But the most important thing I would repeat is that a picture is painted with heart and soul, not with brain!
Do train your logic before you start painting. Have a look at the works of many artists, not just one, so that you won’t turn into someone’s imitator!!!....Be yourself….find yourself! While looking at an artist’s works, ask yourself how exactly has this happened, how has he done it? Learn him or her, draw a lot of sketches until the moment comes when your brain would have remembered the main principles of the construction of objects. Just then he or she would stop interfering with you and your heart and only by the stroke of the brush your hand would place the spot exactly where its place is. And your picture will be sealed with the magic of your soul. Every one of you can do it only if you have faith in yourself!
Here it is the “Daydreamer“…
What I am going to tell you about is part of my life.
It took place a long time ago…
There was a girl in a red dress, sitting on a rock.
Each of her thoughts materialized and flew away into space,
Creating a dream world… piece by piece…just like a jigsaw puzzle…
It was a dream…
Ten years later I was sitting on the same rock,
writing about and painting enchanted far-away places…
My dream had come true, and I had turned into Creator of worlds…
As have you all… daydreamers...
I dedicate this picture to all creative artists.
Perhaps there is a place somewhere, beyond the limit of this world,
Where they call you the CREATOR… looking at the sky…
as the girl in the red dress is…
Keep on creating!
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