Creative Art
Adobe Photoshop Painting: “Ramshackle Farmhouse”
Digital Art Creation
When I was working as a graphic designer, I was a grad-school trained Photoshop expert. I’ve always enjoyed working in Adobe Photoshop — on a Mac, naturally. Illustrator is great too. But, even when I create something in Illustrator, I still turn to Photoshop to finesse the final product. For that matter, I use the software to finesse all my images before sharing them, even images with treatments from other software applications.
One of my skills in the Adobe software is creating whole, original works of art. They might be stylized artwork, like “Boy In Shades” or drawings of my own, enhanced in Photoshop or other image editing software, such as “Monsters… Monsters Everywhere.” Or, as with my digital painting of “Ramshackle Farmhouse” (featured in this post), the work may be recreating a photograph.
The project took several days and over a hundred hours to complete. This is why even original digital artwork is expensive. If I were paid minimum wage for the hours I put into this piece, it would easily exceed $800. Imagine the time and materials that go into an oil or acrylic painting, or a watercolor. But, artists’ time and material outlay is not factored into whatever price at which we may be able to sell our work.
