More Weekend Photos

I took these into Photoshop and tweaked the curves a bit, but that's about it.
I can't really say why I was so fascinated by the new pine needles. I just liked how they looked when the sun hit the new growth. :)

We spent part of the weekend with our "extended family" playing, oddly enough, Rock Band and taking turns adoring the dog.

Photographic Evidence

Last Friday I inherited a very nice camera, completely out of the blue. It has multiple lenses, many memory disks, and a steep learning curve. So I'll post a few of the okay shots from the dozens and dozens of blurry or dark or somehow skewed ones.
I'll try and chronicle my learning process with this lovely instrument.

I was playing over the weekend with fast sketches in Painter. I just picked a couple of colours at random and went with whatever came out the end of my pen.

Sometimes my subconscious worries me a little...

... but mostly it just keeps me entertained.

I really like having an obvious story to my drawings, but keeping the story itself completely open to the viewer's interpretation.

Normally in Painter I use the round camelhair brush with oils, but for all three of these I ended up trying some of the coloured pencil brushes. Pretty fun, actually!

On this piece in particular I did the red figure, the green sketchy side and the red sketchy side, but cheated in Photoshop with the green guy; he's really the red guy + Ctrl I and some fun with Free Transform.

I think I'm going to have to re-visit Jerome here at some point. I'm quite curious as to what his story is.

Time

This is the very first piece of digital art I ever made. It was all done in Photoshop 2 or 3, I can't remember which at this point, and pre-dates my Wacom Tablet.
At that time, I was using a mouse and boyhowdy was it ever time consuming! It's embarrassing to me now, but my husband still loves it and refuses to let me delete it from the website. *shrugs* So I figure my only option is to try and re-do the painting with 10 years more experience under my belt.
I guess this post is mainly a reminder/kick-in-the-butt for myself because I've been meaning to do this for a couple of years now.
Now I just need to find a model to sit for me.