My family and I spent a few weeks in Italy last summer. There's so much art there - it's impossible not to be inspired. Of course I shot tons of pictures! Here's a painting based on one of them.br /br /Once again, I painted this using Corel Painter. Though I do most of my work in Photoshop, for getting the look of oil paint, Painter still can't be beat.br /br /span style="font-size:85%;"(No, I didn't paint the entire thing this morning. Most of it, /spanspan style="font-size:85%;"I painted /spanspan style="font-size:85%;"the other night...but I finished it today.)/spanbr /br /a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_pYhtd5F751g/SaBrsYwQcwI/AAAAAAAABCg/CKFTaTCNZws/s1600-h/Venice.jpg"img style="cursor: pointer; width: 214px; height: 320px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_pYhtd5F751g/SaBrsYwQcwI/AAAAAAAABCg/CKFTaTCNZws/s320/Venice.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5305358771345715970" border="0" //abr /br /Here's my lay in...after about an hour of work. One of the nice things about digital painting, is you can keep the early versions of paintings. Often, the under painting is just as interesting as the final product.br /br /a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_pYhtd5F751g/SaBv3eT5SGI/AAAAAAAABCo/xhp0j4pvkiQ/s1600-h/Venice+-+Lay+In.jpg"img style="cursor: pointer; width: 214px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_pYhtd5F751g/SaBv3eT5SGI/AAAAAAAABCo/xhp0j4pvkiQ/s320/Venice+-+Lay+In.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5305363359862442082" border="0" //a

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