Another favorite artist post for today. One of my current favorite artist is a guy named Robert McClintock who is a photographer out of Baltimore. He takes his photos into Photoshop and works it into a painted image. He does a lot of cityscape's and dog and cat portraits. His images are very interesting to look at. I love the realistic painted effect mixed with hints of color and strokes added in. He does these by hand on the computer in Photoshop adding in color and strokes.
I am currently learning some new painting techniques in Photoshop CS5 using the new color mixer brush. In Photoshop CS5, which came out in May 2010, they have added color mixing. So it takes pixels and mixes them together, not like in the past when it would just move the same color pixel around. So, it is just like painting and taking two colors and mixing them together on a canvas. Pretty neat! I bought a Bamboo Pen & Touch tablet and have been learning how to draw and paint with all the new brushes with the Mixer Brush. I'm hoping to master these techniques a bit more and start doing painted photo images similar to Roberts work.
Shaw's Shout Out: Robert McClintock
