Landscape Paintings

AKVIS unveils ArtWork photo to oil painting converter — AKVIS has unveiled ArtWork 1.0, a program that applies oil painting techniques to digital images. The program allows pictures to be transformed into oil portraits, landscape paintings, or still life creations. Users can work in an assisted mode, or let the software work automatically. A "virtual artist" visually lays the brush strokes onto the reference image. The Stroke Direction tool gives full ...... [Tags: artwork, brush strokes, digital images, landscape paintings, oil painting techniques]

The Colors Of Dust: Paul Chisholm — For 25 years Paul Chisholm has been traveling the world to see all the great historic and ecological landmarks that make this world beautiful and taking dust from them. "What society perceives to be unclean and to be swept away, I preserve and present as tender and beautiful." With a collection of 350 samples, Paul uses them to create his works of landscapes and specimen paintings of the dust itself. "By using a hi-tech microscope Paul uncovers the hidden intricacies of his collected samples. He then paints the abstracted, enlarged forms and exhibits his work either as paintings or... [Tags: bbc, colors, images, inspiration, intricacies]