Getting around to it

I started this digital painting near the end of October 2020. I fiddled with it some more in 2021 and thought I was finished with it in 2021 and signed it. I had forgotten about it then rediscovered it in 2022 and decided to add some more detail to it. I decided to leave the signed date as 2021. I was poking around in some folders on my tablet recently and here it is.

Spooner’s Cove No. 01
Infinite Painter 7 | Galaxy Tab S7 tablet | 3000 x 3000 pixels
Spooner’s Cove is located in the Montana de Oro State Park on the California central coast, San Luis Obispo County.

Cayucos Coastal 07 in Progress

I came upon this interesting rock formation on one of my beach walks at Cayucos and thought it might make an interesting painting. I need to do some more work on the sky and a little more work on the left of the rock formation.

I did this one in a 16 x 20 inch format instead of my usual square.

Central coastal no. 15: progress

I'm trying something with a bit more detail in the foreground. The colors are still abstracted. I need to work with the foam and bubbles on the beach.

Central Coastal No. 15 in progress | 3000 x 3000 pixels | Infinite Painter 7 | Galaxy Tab S7 tablet

The reference image I used for the painting above.

Cayucos Coastal No. 7: progress

Beach scene at low tide. Trying something different with some colors and the sky.

Cayucos Coastal No. 07 in progress | 3000 x 3000 px | Infinite Painter 7 | GalaxyTab S7 tablet

Reworking Spooner's Cove No. 02

I recently took another look at the Spooner's Cove No. 02 picture I created last year and decided to make some changes to it. I wanted to add some more detail while keeping the abstract theme and retaining the flat colors.

I didn't want to add texture to the colors like I have been doing by brushing over colors with the “Old Oil” brush using the same color which creates slightly darker and lighter streaks then filling it with a darker shade of the color. See the picture below for an example.

The original painting. It didn’t seem as finished as I thought it was and I wasn’t happy with the foreground.

I began by changing the foreground by adding some more shapes and modifying a few colors.

I added some more colors to the foreground and made some changes to the sky, the beach and the small section of waves and rock at the left of the picture.

Using the “Old Oil” brush this texture was created by brushing random strokes over a block filled with yellow using the same yellow color. This created some very light marks. Using the Fill tool with a tolerance setting of 2 or 1, the yellow block was filled with a darker color bringing out the lighter marks.

How I start a picture

I thought I would show a picture of how I start a digital painting.

I start out by drawing black outlines of objects and shapes in the picture then quickly add flat colors to the shapes. These colors are starting points that I will add textures to and change colors by painting over them or refilling them with other colors.