John's Brushes User: David Muldoon

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Artist David Muldoon, living and working in Dubai, created this image from a photograph of a row of WWII-era RCAF Harvard trainers using both John's Artists' Brushes and John's Dry Media for Adobe Photoshop CS5.

David writes:

"All work was done on my Wacom Cintiq 12 with your Cloning Action, I used ONLY a combination of your Artist Brushes, as well as the Dry Media Brushes and a final contrast adjustment in CS5. I really enjoy working with these brushes so much so that I haven't worked in Painter even though I had a new computer system built specifically for digital painting within Painter!!!"

John's Artists' Brushes and Dry Media for Photoshop CS are each available for $19.95. If you have Photoshop CS5 and are into painting, this will be the best investment you can make!

John's Artists' Brushes for Adobe Photoshop CS5

John's Dry Media for Adobe Photoshop CS5

If you have an image created with my brushes, send me a JPEG and I'll feature it here on the PixlBlog!

Swiss Artist's Knife

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I was going through some of the boxes we've dragged with us over the years and uncovered my Swiss Artist's Knife.I did this back in my Cranbrook days while pursuing a MFA degree. It required locating a suitable existing knife, disassembling it, and adding the new knife elements.

I particularly like how I retained the existing corkscrew—obviously a key component of an artist's tool set!

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Zhangjiajie in Snow—Awesome

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China's Wulingyuan Scenic and Historic Interest Area comprises the Zhangjiajie National Forest Park, the Tianzishan (天子山) mountain ranges, BaoFengHu (宝峰湖) and the Suoxi Valley (索溪峪), and is a very popular filming and tourist destination. This area is purportedly the source of inspiration for the floating mountains in the motion picture, Avatar.

I've seen photography of this area before, but never in snow...jaw-droppingly beautiful.