Background Image for Page 4 -- Setting Sun

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This is a potential background image for page four, The kids will be looking down on a crowd of animals who are also going to the circus. I say potential background because I may come up with something else tomorrow. I hope that I’ll be satisfied with this one. I’m trying to spend less time painting background images for this book — they’re hard to do and they take up a lot of my time. To get to this painting, which I like, there were 20 that I didn’t like.

I painted this with Clip Studio Paint’s default Round Watercolor brush. To get the texture to look right for a 300dpi image, it’s necessary to scale up the texture in the brush settings.

Al Fresco Art Club, Feb 20 -- Still Life

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Today’s Alfresco Art Club challenge was to do a digital painting. I started my project with the iPad and Artrage, but eventually became frustrated. I moved to my desktop computer and used Clip Studio Paint. To paint this lemon. I used the default watercolor and gouache brushes.

Faux Watercolor

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More experimentation with brushes and texture… This is supposed to look like watercolor.

My part-time job starts next week. It’s been pushed back a week to begin on March 30. Instead of working 8 weeks, I’ll be working 6 1/2. I’m happy to have the work — and the salary — but I’m going to miss working full-time on my book. I’ll be working from 9 to 12 mornings at my square job and from 1 to 5 on my book. I’ll be a busy guy.