Welcome back…I hope you had a good time playing around with creating gesso textures after last week’s post. Today I’m going to show you how to create your own unique paper using a variety of methods; including some of the textures from last week. When I was still a paper scrapbooker, I could spend hours figuring out different ways to add interest to my layouts. I would print on vellum and lay it over photos. Paint, gesso, “Stickles”, alcohol ink…
Exactly what the heck Is Gesso? Gesso is one of those words that seems to stop beginner digital artists in their tracks. It leaves many people wondering how to use it, or if there’s even a need to use it at all. Historically, gesso (pronounced ‘jesso‘) was made for oil painting and was traditionally used to prepare or prime a surface so oil paint would adhere to it. It is made from a combination of paint pigment, chalk and binder….
I took a bit of a break from all the filter talk in last week’s post. I hope you had some fun playing with the Pop Art effect. I only used one Photoshop Elements (PSE) filter last week…an Adjustment filter. This week I’m going back to some of the same concepts I used last month with paper. Only today I’m going to be showing you how to use filters on elements. Back in April I posted about Blending Elements and…
If you were born after the 70s you may not be at all familiar with Andy Warhol’s art. Andy Warhol is probably the most famous figure in Pop Art. In fact, one art critic once called Warhol “the nearest thing to a philosophical genius the history of art has produced”. Warhol was a leading figure in the Pop Art movement and is considered one of the most important American artists of the second half of the 20th century. In the…