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, 2009 in fact, 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 my trusty 18-200mm vr Nikkor lens December 23, 2009. 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. My thanks to Flypaper Textures for the added color and mood which I think added to the impressionistic-y look.
1279
Uploaded
January 15th, 2016
Statistics
Viewed 5,474 Times - Last Visitor from New York, NY on 03/18/2024 at 6:51 AM
Embed
Share
Sales Sheet
Comments (89)
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!!!
Gary F Richards
Spectacular deer composition, lighting, shading, colors and artwork! F/L …voted for this piece in the contest OH DEER
Nancy Griswold
Lois, this is so beautiful I love it, you are a highly skilled artist with a magnificent sense of color and design too. F/L
Maria Faria Rodrigues
Congratulations, on your Feature, in "Positive Energy", "Over 2000 Views", & "Paintography", groups!
Anthony Jones
Beautiful work, Lois! Thank you for submitting your artwork to the Paintography Group where the image is now featured on the home page. L/F