CREATING FLORAL IMAGE VARIATIONS WITH LIGHTROOM-Workshop Prep!

I've continued photographing floral still lives and decided on one image I really liked:

By the way, the fronds that reach up to the top are not real-they're silk!  The real flowers are the ones that are wilting.  I always let them go too long….

Then I discovered that just by playing around with the image in Lightroom I could create SO many different variations-all begging to be painted.  The following is a slideshow I prepared with the variations  I obtained from this one image:

(P.S. These have NOT been edited in Photoshop.  They're straight out of the box from Lightroom.  I'm using Lightroom 3 for those of you who are interested.)

http://paintedtextures.com/section721787.html

PUTTING DIGITAL BRUSH TO CANVAS WITH COREL'S PAINTER SOFTWARE

Now I decided to paint one of the original flower images that I had textured last week.  This time I was working in Painter, a sophisticated software for digital painting.

PINK AND WHITE CARNATIONS

CREATING A PAINTING FROM OUR FLOWER ARRANGEMENT

Remember the 2nd flower arrangement I put together a few days ago?  Here is the digital oil painting I created from that image which is another oil painting we will learn how to construct in the workshop:

WHITE AND PINK FLORAL

Here are some close-ups.  If you click on them they will enlarge: