Thai Dawn (photorealistic attempt)

[AndyRage]

Grogeous, marcotronic. That's a fantastic rendition of a beautiful scene.

[alien23]

What a fantastic painting. I hope to be as good as that one day.
Please show the close ups, I would like to learn more from you and them.

[daprato-art]

Bravo for your clouds, you succeed
Beautiful piece

[Selby]

sheesh :shock: this is just practice? :shock: already looks perfect to me

Selby

[marcotronic]

Thank you very much for your kind words! Glad you like it.

Yes, I´ve tried almost everything for blending (new soft palette knife version, dry oil brush with every setting possible etc.) but I finally ended up with the standard palette knife (as in the old version) in a very small size - the new soft palette knife treats the color on the canvas like chewing gum, I don´t like that very much... :lol:

Here are some close-ups (100% crops from the original resolution). As I painted this picture in a zoomed out state most of the time the fine details aren´t very clean and nice but in zoomed out or downsized view (as posted originally) you see that everything becomes quite smoothed. :wink:

Thanks again for watching.

Marco

[marcotronic]

Hi again,

I just wanted to show you an example of the type of blending I´m after. I took my painting and blended the colours of the clouds very quickly (and a bit too much and too global maybe - just to show you what I mean) in Corel Painter. Here I have a blender brush which is called "Just add water". You can achieve very smooth blendings with that. It kind of blurs the colours but it doesn´t smear. If I get something like that in Artrage I´m the happiest man on the planet

Of course, I could postprocess all my paintings in Painter but Artrage is such a beautiful application and I like it much more than Painter. There are many features in Artrage which are really superior to those in Painter and the GUI is much much better in Artrage, too.

Thanks,
Marco

[FooManChu]

So stinking beautiful, tears came to my eyes.

[Netti]

Wow, amazing work Marco, just amazing!

[screenpainter]

What is amazing to me is how well each one of those sections of your picture stands on their own as a completely splendid piece of art. Wow.

[FooManChu]

I'm with thor88. How's about a 1600x(aspect) for those of us who want a wallpaper?

Or better yet, since you used such a high-resolution, how about a 2048x1536?

That is of course assuming you are allowing it to be used as such.