OK Lili, here's my creek with fall colors in Indiana. Painted alla prima in Sept. The Wild Cat Creek feeds into the Tippecanoe River. It was a beautiful day with perfect weather, painting with three friends.
Excellent! Everything about this works. The depth of color and layers of contrast are wonderfully dramatic. Then there's that rock formation in the stream, which ignites the whole thing.
Kathryn this is beautiful. At first I thought it was a watercolor because of the wonderful softness to it. Wish I was there painting with you.
Thanks Don and Lili. Wish we could all go painting together. The color in the image we see isn't quite accurate. It's not quite this high contrast; the greens aren't quite accurate, but you get the gist of it. I think you're right Lili that the color is a little better when we click on "Full View".
Kathryn, I'm curious as to how you get the black "frame" around your painting.
I take a digital photo of my painting out doors in bright shade with my Nikon SLR and the painting sitting on my plein air easel. I usually take the photo with the canvas slightly angled down so I don't get shine on the surface from the sky. Then I correct the distortion in Photoshop under "Edit" and then "Transform", then "Distort". Then, Photoshop also has a little feature called "Canvas Size" under "Image". You can add a frame in either black or white or probably any color. I always make my black frame 1/2". I do this so images with pale areas next to the edge can have definition and then do it with all the images so the images on my web site will be consistent.
Beautiful! I love it.
Thanks for sharing the photoshop info Kathryn. I don't think I'll use it myself because i feel its kind of your trademark.
wow this is great kathryn! I love your painterly style, I'm trying to loosen up a bit myself. I love your reflections. very very nice.
Excellent work.
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