Digital Painting with Psykopaint

  I wanted to post a link to a web based painting site that I think is a lot of fun. You can get up and painting in seconds with a free program called Psykopaint that runs totally within your web browser. There is a stand alone program you can purchase to download and it comes complete with upgrades in the form of additional brushes, etc. The brushes are named after famous painters that may best reflect the style that brush creates - fun!

  You can paint from scratch or as in my example below I imported an image and created a digital painting by painting over the pixels which were my original photo import. Another very cool bonus feature is you can use a slider, with your mouse cursor, that will allow you to see the original image under your digital painting. Let's look at my example which was from a photo I took in Red Canyon, Utah. First I imported this photo;

Red Canyon, Utah ~ Photo Credit: Maxx

  It's an interesting subject as it looks very painterly already. It suffers somewhat from the scorching sun which bleached out the image color and overall it looks too hot. I took creative liberties and tweaked the colors and saturation in the final digital painting. I decided to use a very loose brush style and go for some vibrant colors. Here's the final Psykopaint digital painting;

Red Canyon, Utah ~ Psykopainting Digital Painting by: Maxx

  You can view the image on Psykopaint's web site here ---> Maxx's Psykopainting! The slider is on the right side of the image. I realize some older operating systems or incompatible browsers may have problems with the site's advanced use of HTML. Sorry, not much I can do to help there - it works fantastic on my Chromebook.

  The web site is fun and a quick way to get painting with little effort and no messy clean-up. Also a great program for kids to play with a fun paint program! Go to Psykopaint's main web page here ---> Psykopaint!