Creatures of a Winter Sunset
by Lois Bryan
Title
Creatures of a Winter Sunset
Artist
Lois Bryan
Medium
Digital Art - Photography / Digital Art / Photography Based Digital Painting
Description
One December evening several years ago I was standing at the window in our family room, enjoying the scene in front of our home. The flaming orange colors from the setting sun showed up the bare trees of the snowy woods across the way beautifully. But the closer I looked, the more I realized, this was no ordinary winter scene. We had visitors!! Fortunately, the camera wasn't too far away. Though I wished it had been fixed with a longer lens, the 200mm that I used seemed to do the trick. The deer were frequent guests at what we laughingly called "The Bryan Buffet" ... our front-yard landscaping. Seeing the deer across the road near the woods on this particular evening made a nice change of pace. Plus I'm pretty sure our poor azalea bushes enjoyed the reprieve, too!!
Original photo taken by myself with the Nikon D300 and the 18-200mm vr Nikkor lens December 23, 2009 in Montgomery County, Maryland. I've held onto this image all these years ... hoping someday that inspiration would strike and I'd find a way to edit it that I thought did the magic of that particular moment justice. I finally decided to work this image with a fully hand-painted treatment in Corel Painter 2015, using the Wacom tablet and stylus.
Loosely based on my own photo and digitally hand painted in Corel Painter 2023 using the Wacom tablet and art pen stylus. No artificial intelligence programs used.
Fine art as well as product purchases of this image will not include a watermark, and if I may make a recommendation ... your wall art will look its very best on the fine art paper choice of "picture rag."
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January 15th, 2016
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Lori Pittenger
Congratulations, your outstanding artwork has been featured on the leading page of Impressionism group 5/1/2025! Please visit the group to view it in our online gallery and to add it to the features log and new catalogs in the group’s discussions. Excellent work!
CAROLE SPANDAU
Your artwork has been featured on the homepage of FAA Gallery Home For All Artists Who Create. Please post your amazing artwork in our` Archive your April Features` discussion.
Carlin Blahnik CarlinArtWatercolor
I love the wonderful colors and texture in this image! Beautiful :)
David Neace CPX
Congratulations, your work is featured on the homepage of "Created by Southern Artists
Robyn King
Congratulations your amazing artwork is being featured in Over 5000 Views:-) Please take a moment to add your beautiful art to our archives in the message area and have a wonderful day!
Deborah Strategier
Beautiful artwork Lois! Love the autumn color scheme and the positioning of the deer. It takes you into a clearing surrounded by woods on an georgeous fall day. L/F
Laurel Adams
Lois, this reminds me of our days in both upstate NY and across the street from Vorhees state park, NJ. Our deer were pampered and feasted on the various nuts from our trees and the corn we fed them in winter off the cut stumps…our babies! Such wonderful memories…magnificent!..LF
Roeselien Raimond
This looks so 'familiar', which is meant as a huge compliment.... It feels so much like moments I've experienced in nature....on cold winter days, with a warm sunset en some calm deer....
Lois Bryan replied:
Roeselien .. I'm honored!! Your nature images always go right to my heart. I'm thrilled that you enjoyed this one!!! As much of a nuisance as these guys were at our old house, I do miss seeing them cavort and romp around!!! They are so beautiful ... and how I loved seeing the baby fawns, too!!! Thank you again!!!
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