Monday, February 11, 2008

The making of a smudge painting

The top picture is the finished or nearly finished digital smudge painting.

The next four pictures are 4 photos I took to make the collage from
which I made the painting.

The last picture is a detail of my working. It takes me a long long time to these, which is why I cannot enter every challenge. Rarely can I do one in a week--it often takes a month to six weeks. I literally paint over every stroke (often more than once with many shades and hues). Some people are much faster at it. I am very slow. Click images to view larger.

(I also worked on the sky picture BEFORE you see it here. It was just grey.)

The lighthouse picture I used as a starter was from wall paper. (Top one for monthly challenge).

1 comment:

helen said...

Now I know what you mean by smudge painting I'm impressed. The finished work is really lovely.