Feeding Hummingbird

by Angela Stanton

Title

Feeding Hummingbird

Artist

Angela Stanton

Medium

Painting - Oil On Canvas (after A Photograph)

Description

Feeding Hummingbird by Angela Stanton

I have several hummingbird families in my yard and more even come from my neighbors' yard since I grow that kind of plant they love. The one on the painting is a male Anna's hummingbird in flight while feedings. They are very quick and hard to capture of course, so a photograph was used for inspiration and color accuracy. The painting is done entirely with a pallet knife equivalent--no brush. I applied several textures on top for colorful cloud effects to make it different from "just" clouds being painted.
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This is digitally painted by hand on my computer. I use the Wacom Intuos 4 tablet and pen and several different kinds of software to get the painting look like the "real" painted version on canvas. Since I was a painter in oil and other medium canvas for 30 years, I understand what an oil paint should look like and I those skills to my digital paintings.

Digital paintings have many advantages over paintings on canvas or paper. The most important of these advantages of digital over "real" is that since digital was created digitally, it will look on canvas or paper once printed exactly as you see it on the monitor and not flat! It is a frequent complaint of buyers after purchasing a print of an oil or acrylic paint on canvas, since on your monitor you see the digitally photographed version of that oil or acrylic paint.

Digital photography of highly textured items like oil or acrylic paint removes all textures and makes them appear flat. You don't get this problem with digital art. You get exactly what you see! It is also green art--meaning it uses nontoxic materials and doesn't kill trees in the making!

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July 8th, 2013

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