Painting with brushes, paper, canvas and colours.

I'm a regular viewer and occasional contributor to the gallery and have not spotted any digital art being described by the submitter as 'Oil on canvas'. Can you give an example? I like to understand what medium is used so find it a little frustrating when the fact it is digitally created is omitted, but I haven't seen anyone actually lying and calling it a painting when it is digitally created. What could they possibly gain from misrepresenting themselves?

Yes Jim, there are effects like that. My ancient version of Photoshop Elements has some (I showed a few examples in another thread), they don't fool anyone and don't really look like the media they are supposed to represent (pastel, oil, etc, etc). But they can produce some interesting effects, and I like playing around with them. I'm pro digital...but I know many people don't like it. Surfing the net recently I came across an American woman who produces 'portraits' from photos. She uses the latest software (I think it was 'Painter', but I can't remember for sure). She chooses an 'oil brush' in the application, and makes 'strokes' with it that give the effect of brush strokes. It's quite effective, she prints the result on canvass...it offers some degree of illusion of oil paint. Her customers like it and she's quite open about it. To me, it's just another form of photography, and of small interest. I'm more interested in 'real' digital art, which can be just as creative as paint and brush. These days I don't do much digital, it requires a steady hand to select the bits you want to work on...at my age my hands aren't steady enough. I still like fiddling with my pictures in photoshop, mostly putting text on them. I see digital as just another medium...and a wonderful one. Lew.