Winter's Candy by auntietk

2D • Still Life • posted on Dec 25, 2008

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Description

About a month ago I posted a photograph of satsumas in a pottery bowl entitled Satsuma Season This morning I was looking for an image to use as a reference for a painting, and that one caught my eye. I used the photograph to trace the outline of the oranges and the edge of the bowl, but other than that, this is a straight painting. Created in ArtRage with a little bit of Irfanview. Edit note: For those of you who want to know how this works ... ArtRage is a painting program. It works just like painting on canvas, except it's all digital. (For my photog friends ... this is not a filter program!) You can download a free version here if you're interested in playing around with it. As with any painting program, it helps if you have a tablet! It doesn't have to be fancy - I've got a little WACOM - just something with a mouse pen.

Comments (25)

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MrsRatbag

7:24PM | Thu, 25 December 2008

Great painting! I must ask you sometime about how this works, I'm intrigued!

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npauling

7:41PM | Thu, 25 December 2008

These really do look delicious, beautifully painted.

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bmac62

7:52PM | Thu, 25 December 2008

I'm with denise...don't know how this is done but the end result is very good. Bill

M2A

8:33PM | Thu, 25 December 2008

Beautiful painting work, sober and colorful.

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Kaartijer

9:09PM | Thu, 25 December 2008

Sweet! It looks great! Been on that site, but there's no free edition... only "free" for 25 bux...

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jocko500

9:35PM | Thu, 25 December 2008

did super good. I used artrage a few times and I like it. Merry Christmas

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Faemike55

10:08PM | Thu, 25 December 2008

Very nice painting

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beachzz

11:31PM | Thu, 25 December 2008

Oh, this is just wonderful~~I am SO gonna have to learn this new artform

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Kelena

2:39AM | Fri, 26 December 2008

nice

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flora-crassella

2:48AM | Fri, 26 December 2008

very nice work!!!!!

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durleybeachbum

2:56AM | Fri, 26 December 2008

Superb! My Dabbler prog wouldn't work on the new PC, but we got the tablet going(after 2 hours of fiddling). I tried Artrage, thanks to your kind advice, but for some reason I didn't get on with the workspace. BUT Corel Painter 9 is so heavily discounted because of Corel Painter 10 that I bought it!! WOW! Now I just need the time to explore.

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helanker

3:16AM | Fri, 26 December 2008

A really lovely painting, Tara and I am so delighted to see, that you are doing such beautiful things. :))))))))

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cannonn

3:27AM | Fri, 26 December 2008

so much sweeet,fantastic

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fredster66

4:43AM | Fri, 26 December 2008

Awesome work on this!

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anahata.c

5:10AM | Fri, 26 December 2008

I've used artrage, and it's genuinely intuitive and painterly. Your treatment of the fruit is soft & sensuous, and the whole work flows with a kind of fur-like diagonal, like it's washed over in a plush flow; and you've highlighted the oranges with really subtle oil-like impasto and very nice shadow and outlining too. Subtle and yet very present. I agree with the above, it's so nice to see this. Hope your holiday was sweet.

PD154

6:55AM | Fri, 26 December 2008

SKILLS!!!!!, Nice one auntie, I had a tablet back a few ago, It had a wireless pen and the tablet was great, and do you know for the life of me, I can't get a bettery for the pen anywhere now, so it's lying dormant in the drawer, and I miss it too :)...I must get that sorted out, you jogged my memory :)

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