Sunset of Hope by Ave Hurley AH-001-002

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Thanks for all that information. It's certainly a colourful image. What attracted me was the vibrant orange as I've tried to get that in my recent posting using acrylics. Will certainly look at your website. Keep up the good work.

Thankyou for your comments.I had moved shortly after posting this and left my computer at my daughter's in Minnesota, expecting to return but have remained in Pennsylvania. I am gradually finding the sites I had joined prior to moving and trying to update my galleries and information. I just found this site again yesterday :) Glad to be back :) Ave from ArtRave

I have painted with acrylics for the last 30 years. Before that I worked with oils. Over the last few years I have been experimenting with digital painting using PhotoImpression on either jpeg files of my paintings or using a blank canvas to start out with. I manually painted this one pixel by pixel and blending with digital tools such as the paint tool, drawing tool & smudging tool to create this ocean sunset scene. The actual digital painting time exceeded 100 computer hours over the course of 1 month. During the creation of this piece it was set to a resolution of 1200% in order to paint each inch enlarged to full monitor view and then reducing it to connect and blend each section to complete the painting like a giant puzzle. Whether or not this is how other digital artists work, I am uncertain as I am self taught and found that by enlarging portions of my pallette I could achieve more details and clarity when reduced back to printable size. I have also found that details I could not attain with a brush I can now sometimes achieve with the digital editing tools. I also like the wider variety of colors I can use and the control over their intensity within the adjustments in the programming. I have set this painting to be able to print it in detailed sizes up to 13 x 19 inches and have also been able to reduce it with clarity to the size of an Artist Trading Card or ACEO. I do my own printing and no two are ever exactly alike, so each one becomes a unique collectors item. The details are fine enough that I can also have this printed larger through commercial printing services when requested. To see more of my art visit me here as I am a new arrive. My own website is www.ArtRave.com which I built and share with other artists showing their art online as well. Thanks for looking. Have a great day :) Ave Hurley