This week I showed off one of Painter's many magical tools: Quick Clone. Quick Clone allows anyone with a good (and sometime not so good) photo to use some of Painter's best brushes to simulate a painting done from "scratch" with real media. The process begs the question: Is it cheating? Well, I personally don't think so. There are many skills in painting that still come through in this process. I've always felt that art and drawing was about -seeing- and sometimes I feel people give up their "eyes" because they have that little voice in their head telling them they can't draw. I hate to see ideas fall silent in that way and never get their chance out in the light. As a person who has drawn, painted, created and invented - and for a living to boot - for 30 years now and I say NO, you are not cheating, you are seeing, thinking, experimenting, growing and becoming someone who looks to the edge of what they know to discover something new for them and the rest of us to enjoy.
Original Image
Chosen Sky Photo
Composite Photoshop Image
Finished Painter Piece
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