{"id":526,"date":"2009-04-12T05:48:18","date_gmt":"2009-04-12T12:48:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/touchart.posterous.com\/texture-study-2-clouds"},"modified":"2009-04-12T05:48:18","modified_gmt":"2009-04-12T12:48:18","slug":"texture-study-2-clouds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jimblodget.com\/blog\/texture-study-2-clouds\/","title":{"rendered":"Texture Study 2 &#8211; Clouds"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='p_embed p_image_embed'><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/art.blodget.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/clouds-8001.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Clouds-800\" height=\"333\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/art.blodget.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/clouds-8001.jpg?resize=500%2C333\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>In this painting I applied what I learned in Texture Study 1 to a real scene. I worked from a photo that I took in our backyard looking northeast. I spent 3 or 4 hours on this one over the course of two days. As I painted on the Touch I looked at the reference photo on my MacBook. I started by painting the gradated blue of the sky. This was the most difficult part as there is no easy way to make a blended color in Brushes. I then used the #3 brush set to large to paint the clouds. I saved the image at that point and the next day I made a duplicate Brushes document and added the trees. I first did the birches in the middle and then the maple on the right. Finally I added in the three firs on the left. I used an acetate sheet overlay on the Touch and traced (with water soluble ink so I could easily wipe it off) the outline of the three firs from the reference photo on my Touch. Then I went back into Brushes and used the overlay to check the placement and size of the firs. I had started them too small and too far to the left so I had to paint over my original fir trees. I really like the way the trees turned out &#8211; especially the birches in the middle. <br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>Here&#8217;s the reference photo for comparison. I didn&#8217;t start with importing the reference photo into Brushes. I started with a blank canvas and just looked at reference <br \/>while I painted.<\/p>\n<p><div class='p_embed p_image_embed'><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/art.blodget.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/dsc003911.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Dsc00391\" height=\"333\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/art.blodget.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/dsc003911.jpg?resize=500%2C333\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this painting I applied what I learned in Texture Study 1 to a real scene. I worked from a photo that I took in our backyard looking northeast. I spent 3 or 4 hours on this one over the course of two days. As I painted on the Touch I looked at the reference [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-526","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-touchart","8":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3xTIN-8u","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jimblodget.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jimblodget.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jimblodget.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jimblodget.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jimblodget.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jimblodget.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jimblodget.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jimblodget.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jimblodget.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}