by Andy Dolphin | Aug 14, 2012 | limited palette, oil painting, seascape, step-by-step
This is part three in a series of designing a seascape painting in oils. Click the link for part two.Here’s where we got up to. It’s a fairly basic seascape design, painted roughly in Photoshop, plus a small oil sketch created using the digital painting as...
by Andy Dolphin | Aug 13, 2012 | limited palette, oil painting, seascape, step-by-step
This is part two in a series of designing a seascape painting in oils. Click the link for part one.Here’s where we got up to. It’s a fairly basic seascape design, painted digitally, and roughly, in Photoshop with no reference. There’s about half an...
by Andy Dolphin | Aug 10, 2012 | about, digital art, oil painting, seascape, sketch, step-by-step, tips
For the last couple of weeks I’ve been working on producing a seascape. I’ve done my share of seascapes in the past, usually from photographic references, but this one is different. And I’m going to take my readers along for the ride… so I hope...
by Andy Dolphin | Jul 21, 2012 | available, oil painting, step-by-step
Here’s Rudy, my daughter’s cross-bred, feather footed bantam rooster, now immortalised in oils. Rudy.25x35cm oil on board. © Andy DolphinSOLD We’ve had chooks since our “tree change” almost nine years ago but this is the...
by Andy Dolphin | Apr 28, 2012 | building, landscape, limited palette, monochrome, oil painting, step-by-step
Back in February, I entered a challenge set by US artist Terry Miura to paint a simplified version of a streetscape from a photo he supplied.I chose to enter a digital painting, done in Photoshop, but it did whet my appetite for doing a streetscape of my own, in...
by Andy Dolphin | Mar 11, 2012 | issues, landscape, oil painting, seascape, step-by-step
A week ago, after visiting William Bay National Park in Denmark, I was looking at photos of the region on the internet. This is a great way to discover new and interesting places that you might have driven by over the years.One such place is Lights Beach. While it is...