Shadowed Silhouette Sunset Painting
The Request
Curious, if you can create the ultimate Mother’s Day image
Please help me create the ultimate Mother’s Day gift for my wife: a framed photo of her with our three kids.
I’ll keep the prompt somewhat open-ended because I LOVE the creativity I see here.
Budget: $5-25 for whichever submission I end up printing, based on quality/effort required.
I love the outline of the people. I like the shadow too.
I don’t like the distractions: the yellow square on the sidewalk, the cars, trash can, manhole and noticeable road cracks.
I could see the best submission being a simple, cropped, cleaned up and slightly more print-friendly version of this. Or, it could be something COMPLETELY different and very creative that draws from elements of this photo. In case helpful, my wife’s favorite color is coral.
Looking forward to seeing what you can do!
The Results
The requester’s lovely elongated shadow image immediately made me envision a picturesque mountain sunset particularly since a sunset features plenty of the wife’s favorite coral shades. Initially I tried to create a photorealistic background to realize my vision. But because I cannot run a local AI setup, I have to rely on the online services, and I have yet to find one that makes convincing photographs with any reliability.
So, because I am slightly addicted to Corel’s amazingly realistic Painter program, I decided to turn it into a painting. This is by far my favorite painting so far. The brilliant sunset and the variety of textures of the trees, flowers and natural elements allowed me to really feature the deep, texture capabilities of the program.
Other Versions
Since childhood I have been obsessed with paintings that have a lot of touchable texture. My grandmother had a beautiful painting above her fireplace depicting a lovely and isolated scene in the Amazon Rainforest. It was a gift from my grandfather from one of his many trips to the Amazon during the 60’s, when he worked with the US government as a topographer, mapping the uncharted reaches of the jungles in South and Central America. That painting used thick, expressive brush strokes, and I used to sit for hours daydreaming as I stared at it, and often running my fingers over the surface in wonder. I still own that painting today, and it is a huge influence on my own painting style in my digital artwork.
If you are visiting this website on a phone or other small screen, I highly recommend coming back to view this on a full-sized PC screen, to really see the amazing capabilities of this program! Now if I could only master the watercolor brushes, which are completely opposite of the thick paint brushes, but I’m learning!
