On December 19, I opened my travel photo in Painter and started editing on the computer My goal was to turn my snapshot into a as a reference photo for my painting. With a combinaton of cut-and-paste and digital pastel, I eliminated road signs, concrete barriers, vehicles, and other evidence of construction in the foreground. To replace what I had removed, I sketched in some additional trees and trails, using digital pastel. Then I cropped the photo to 8 x 10. (My paintings are 16 x 20, so printing the photo at half size helps when I am making grids on each.) At this point, for the most part I was happy with the composition, but thought the foreground needed work. But I printed it out so I could get to work.
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