I have been working on my painting skills. this is a combo of mypaint and gimp. the grass was first done in mypaint. then loaded in gimp. the sky is 100% gimp. i watched a guy do a painting on youtube and he was using photoshop and he used the dodge to make his highlights. i have never done this so i wanted to try it. the highlighted areas are done with the dodge in gimp. i was just really doing something to try and work with the dodge so i wasn't trying to make a finish painting. this is just a practice piece for me but wanted to share.



now i am off to work....have a good day....

Some nice practice.

Nice work. The dodge tool can be very useful. It provided the lighting in my Enchanted Wood painting.

Ugh grass...>.<!!
I feel your pain, I hate drawing grass too. xD

This looks pretty good, I think...A bit blurry or pixley I can't decide which, but still, nice job!

Very nice RD. If you take your smudge brush and make it very small like the size of blades of glass and drag some of the colors up, not too much and especially up close. I love your colors.

molly i do that sometimes with the smudge brush. but it always made my grass look blurry. and if your trying to paint grass near the foreground, the last thing you want is for that area to be blurry. and no matter what i did with the smudge brush, it always looked blurry to me. so i am trying to find other ways of doing it.

i kinda wonder that after i tried it here. i wasn't really sure how you did that. to tell you the truth, i never ever used it til now. guess i have been missing out for a while. i guess i am still learning gimp.

now i think about it i may have used a splatter brush in gimp to touch up the grass before i used the dodge tool and after i made the sky. and that splatter brush always looks blurry. so that may be why.

thank you. I'm really doing my best to get better with my painting skills. it is truly my hobby.

After smudging, maybe adding some shading/lighting to the individual blades, it could add depth. :3

You could also create your own animated grass brush.
This looks pretty good to me. If the intent was to create the beginning of a valley or gorge you hit it spot on in my opinion.

yes, the shading and lighting will make a difference too. When you try the smudging, set the hard Brush at #1 brush size and drag a few strands up and I don't think it will be blurry, I tried a bit of it at the top against the sky on your grass.
Anyway, your grass looks great to me.

wasn't gonna turn this into a finish painting. but now that i look at it, it has some promise. i used the smudge brush to make the grass blades at the horizon. more to come later. not sure yet where it will lead to . i also blended the brown dirt areas with the smudge brush and erased some of the bulk of it at the horizon line.

Love it, I think it is beautiful. You can also use the eraser the same way as the smudge tool to give some of your grass hi-lites, #1 size... don't forget, there is always that undo. best tool in the bunch...

EDIT: just one more thing. I think this is your best painting thus far. The more I look at it the more I wish I could paint grass like that.
BTW, some nice soft light grayish mauve mountains with very soft peaks in the background would be enough, I think.

thank you molly. i like it myself. and all i was doing was just doing a little practice. grass is hard for me. i work at painting with gimp a lot. there's a lot of things i do with gimp that i never post here, because i never save it. cause all i do is start up gimp and practice. when i get something that looks to have promise, i save it and work on it til i have a finish painting. but really i was just messing around with mypaint when i started this. every saturday i watch Bob Ross and another, painter jerry yarnell. i have been for a good long while. i watch and listen as much as i can. and i try and apply what they are doing into gimp. so far it's help me. i gotta run. hope i can post more of this one soon. molly, you are very good at painting. i have seen your work. you do a very good job.

i thought of adding a white picket fence to this piece of work. here is just a rough layout of how it would look. a very rough layout. and a potted flower or two. who knows maybe even a house later on in the background.

Nice, but too modern for that scene, just my opinion. I think it owuld better as an old fence like posts and wire etc.

That would look cool. The fence looks too clean but then it's only a rough layout. I'm sure you will do a good job with it.

Yes and also the fence is a stock item so you could probably only claim half as your own art. Anyway, it does look pretty.

started work on the detail of the fence. not sure if it's looking quite like i thought. but it's still not finished yet. got a ways to go on it. hope others like it. and i'm still not sure if i will keep the fence or this type of fence or not..i will wait and just see what it looks like once it is done first.