I am a developing artist working on improving my abilities to create beautiful digital landscape compositions. Without the help and suggestions of the many fellow artists in this community, it would be a long time before I reach the next level.
BIO
I am a retired procurement professional who has long had an interest in photography and painting; and, lately in computers and photorealistic natural landscapes. I hope to become more proficient and perfect my abilities to produce acceptable work. My experience in art started at a very early age when I would spend many hours sketching and painting. I had instruction at The Art Institute in Chicago, Illinois. I did some freelance work for Flying Models, Model Airplane News and Top Flite Models creating plans and illustrative construction sequences for magazines and kit models. I had spent more than 20 years designing, building and flying radio controlled model airplanes...a very rewarding hobby for me. During the 1970s, I spent 11 years in the hobby of "bonsai"; the Japanese art of miniature trees. In my first 7 tree entry in a contest, all 7 trees were awarded ribbons in various categories. Japanese landscaping became a passion for me where I completed a 3 year project creating a Japanese landscape around my home in Oak Forest, Illinois. I also did this work for several other people in our community. In 1987 I moved to Phoenix, Arizona where I currently make my home. The love of the American southwest and all its beauty is where I wanted to spend the rest of my life. Now that we have computers, digital cameras; and, Terragen; I'll have enough to do for a long, long time.
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Comments (25)
cv1
Very cool!
mgtcs
Excellent creation, amazing terrain, congratulations!
eekdog Online Now!
beautiful designed, great job with this program..
peedy
Nice scene. Corrie
azrabella
A most remarkable (and memorable) view. A new twist on Markal's influential baby, that's for sure.
Petra-S
sehr schön!
Dotthy
a wonderful wide view and landscape. I like a lot the ripples on the water. Excellent done my friend!!!!!!!!!!!!
carlx
Excellent composition with a bit dreamy mood, Bob!!! I like t a lot!!!
prutzworks
between Devil's Tower & Shiprock cool work Bob!
WeeLaddie
Nice one, Bob. That's excellent use of Matt's mackeral sky. I think the scene would benefit from you being a bit bolder with colours on the background volcanic mounds, and towers. Try applying a noisy texture image (something ochrey perhaps, he says with pouted lip and hand on hip) via Surface layer > Image map with either an X or cylindrical projection if you have the scaling large enough. You can then fade it out to taste with Coverage and Breakup. See Schmeerlap's input in the Layers of Colour thread in Planetside Forum Discussion section.
starfire777
Excellent landscape!!!
artgum
The majesty of the main formation against the mackerel sky somehow conveys a sense of change and power (don't know why, it just does). The still green forground land and water invite you to take a walk there. Excellent scale!
2121
that is great, wonderful "big" sky
Rich2
I knew that was Mark's terrain from the thumbnail. I think it could benefit from more color variation, but nicely presented nonetheless. Hope you had a great Thanksgiving, Bob!
Danny_G
Excellent image
sossy
such a different combination! impressive colors, terrain and a wonderful clouded sky! fantastic mood, a mix of fairy tail, surrealism and also realism! ;o)
JPSoft
(Splendid)³ ... for your clouds!
X-PaX
Very nice work. I like the clouds. Well done.
Ionel
Very beautiful work, Bob! :)
LindaMcC
What a cool and beautiful combination, Bob, and your work is so excellent!
Markal
Yup...you still got it...and no I won't call you "Hoover Man"...oops! :)
kasalin
The foreground is perfect and an idyll for me.... the background could in my opinion be optimized by some layers, sorry. I understand that it should be a volcanic area, but it looks so simple and trist for me !! Nevertheless an excellent work here !! You are not used to hear some kind of proposals by me.... but you know that I won't offend you, Bob... In the last years I really appreciated your fantastic works here !!!
PatGoltz
Wow! After having to reinstall Windoze, I just reinstalled Terragen 2. That's my next project: learning to use it. With clouds like those, I'm going to be haunting you for tips and stuff! :) The rest of the image is gorgeous, too. Now off to catch up on your gallery.
twistednoodle
Hey Bobarooney! Nice surfacing in this pal, colours are very realistic and the volcanic plug draws the eye to the horizon - GOOD STUFF!
shantay
Great terrain and very interesting sky! beautiful image!!