Byron's ArtRage Explorations

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STEPS 6 THROUGH 10: The images are in order below. They are best viewed blown up full screen.

Image 6: On a layer on top of the glitter, with the INK PEN, fill in with a color that will act as a base for the forms (I chose a deep red). Then work the glitter on its layer with the palette knife to shape into forms. The blur setting works wonders here.

Image 7: Create a new top layer and get creative with color and light. Here I’ve used the ink pen, gloop pen and airbrush to develop design, color, shadow and highlights.

Image 8: Continue to work the forms and color refinements, continuing to use the select area (or stencil) as a mask.

Image 9: Continue to refine. Here I changed the background to a near solid bright yellow. I felt it made the forms pop better (and my wife made me do it).

Image 10: Merge the layers and clean up the painting. I used the palette knife blur feature to help with some bad pixels around the edges of some forms, and continue with color, shadow and highlight refinements. But this is about it.