Merry-Christmas postcard
That is my latest digital darkroom creation, using free stock photos from the net.
With this Christmas Postcard I would like to thank you all for visiting my page and also I’d like to wish you best.
I wish you a Merry Christmas;
I wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

Bad European Water Shrew photo
Here I’ll show how I tunned up this bad photo of European Water Shrew (Neomys fodiens)
First I cutted out the shrew from the background and calibrated the color balance.

Next, I pasted the new background.

There is the photo after correction. :)
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Common buzzard Drawing
I made this pencil drawing after a photo. I liked the juvenile common buzzard (Buteo buteo) very light feathers color and I decided to illustrate in black and white.
A4 size – pencil drawing

Here is the head detail:
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My back works
My early painting was made with Photoshop due to my designer job I use this software all day and night :)
My first paint was this Kingfisher (Alcedo athis). All my digital paints I start whit a new document with white background. I use an 50% brown brush to finish a sketch of the bird. Next I begin to add some colour to the picture using a large brush. I’m not concerned with the details too much, just trying to pick the right colours. After I set the colours I begin to add details with a smaller hard brush with different opacity. Well, I keep doing this until I’m happy with the result of the detail and harmony of colors and forms. In the end I do a small adjusting of the three-dimensional aspect of the kingfisher with the Burn and Dodge tools.

Unfortunately the original digital file of this kingfisher I lost. Only this print what I have but due to the early inkjet technology (1999) the resolution is not as good as today inkjet prints. :(
Here are some details from the print:

This Dipper (Cinclus cinclus) I painted in 2006. Here I painted a dark background to emphasize the brownish colors of the dipper.
The size of the work is 15,74×8,48 inch at 400DPI.

Here are some details from the paint:



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