Essentials Cafe

Quoted from the General Discussion Forum:

Dianne Paine:

I hope you paint and post something on the forum soon.

To be honest I'm not one for posting my work online...out of 15,000 digital pictures over the past 7 years I may have posted 200 images (1.3%).  I also don't like to post early works as I'm not familiar with the product...I haven't even owned PE4 a month yet.  But I was playing around with one of my unusual photographs, and came up with something "different" that may interest those here.

I'm terrible at drawing and painting...my camera has been canvas, and light my paint.  While I did use tablets since the 80's for editing photos, I temporarily lost the use of my writing hand dur to an infection, and it's been a long time learning how to write again, never mind using a tablet...but I'm determined to get back into it again.

First is the original photo...it's 98% in the camera of a closeup of a plasma globe; other than some sharpening, a slight colour enhancement, and a little blurring inside the green "spaceship", there's no other post processing.  The "stars" are actually hot pixels due to a high ISO long exposure of a P&S camera:

Now for the Painter Essentials 4 version...I started with a "Classical Oil" autopainting, and then did some tweaking:

What a plasma globe typically looks like (for those who don't know what it is:

Hi Mikefellh,

Wow!  I'm so glad that you decided to post this.  Very creative firstly to think of taking a photo of a plasma globe, and then you have achieved interesting results painting it.

I hear your concerns about not being familiar with the programme to post work.  I wouldn't worry about that... this is a place where we learn from one another, and as you post your work, if you share any problems you are having we will try to help you with those also. 

Thanks for sharing this one with us.

 you had the vision to turn the mundane into a nice artwork - that is what art is all about

 As I said re another artwork, I'm not mad about futuristic art but I like this one.   Hope we see more from you....

I love your optimistic attitude and your fabulous creativity.  I didn't know what a plasma globe was.  It's interesting and unique.  Keep posting.  I am fairly new to EP4 and learn by what I see.