First ArtRage Work

[LDan101]

Hello All, I'm new here (and with ArtRage). I recently acquired an HP EliteBook 2760p, and after trying the ArtRage Demo on it, I purchased the full version.

Here is my first attempt at making a "painting" with it. It is from a photo I took the other day of a nice sunset. I used the photo as a reference, and as a Tracing Image. In the beginning I left the Tracing Image somewhat visible and used the Automatically Choose Colors from Tracing Image to gather many of the photo's colors. I then made the Tracing Image invisible, turned off the auto color option, and used just the Color Sampler, Oil Brush, Palette Knife, and Felt Pen (towards the end for twigs and such) to loosely replicate the photo.

I'm pretty amazed at how quickly I was able to develop this work, and using so few features in ArtRage (two layers and a just a few tools); looking forward to learning all the ins and outs of this very versatile program.

Any comments will be greatly appreciated.