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Uploaded: 12/15/10 7:03 AM GMT
Tree Hunters
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This particular image is a combination of traditional painting and computer painting techniques. The snowmen (and women) figures were painted the old fashioned way. The background started out as a photograph that morphed into an illustration mouse stroke by mouse stroke with the occasional bucket fill thrown in for good measure. Well more accurately pen-strokes on the drawing tablet. I did what I could to get the it to match the painting style of the snowpeople. It could probably use a few more trees in the background or maybe some gently falling snow, or....

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::Flmngseabass
12/15/10 7:24 AM GMT
A truly creative and delightful piece Wendell!! Maybe a few snowflakes like you said for a cool and frosty touch. Just wonderful buddy.........and I love morphing photo's into something else. Cool design for sure:)
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.mesmerized
12/15/10 7:53 AM GMT
Once again you have combined your talents to create a cute and delightful holiday image...great work, Wendell.
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::luckyshot
12/15/10 12:31 AM GMT
Wendell - An enjoyable sight when opening this post. You have blended the traditional and digital beautifully. Reading the narrative, I am reminded of a recent read of a photo book in which the author wrote, at the start of a chapter on a PhotoShop process, plan on when to stop as this can be a time vacuum if you let it. Good work. Thad
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If I could tell the story in words, I wouldn't need to lug around a camera. ~Lewis Hine
::trixxie17
12/15/10 3:27 PM GMT
Wow - you are really talented both traditionally and digitally - no wonder you can always spot my clones!
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. . . "What a desolate place would be a world without a flower! It would be a face without a smile, a feast without a welcome." A.J. Balfour
.Susiesun
12/15/10 3:58 PM GMT
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...or Santa Claus passing with his sled trough the sky :-) After so a lot of laboratories and experiments (ufa!) you got a cute, fluffy and fun result Wendell, very well done my friend!
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Susie Sun
.gizmo1
12/15/10 4:18 PM GMT
Wow this is great very comical looking and as the girls would say cute my friend.You sure do have a talent at this type of work.Love the colours and darker blue sky, and lovely colourful cloths they are wearing.
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::casechaser
12/15/10 7:38 PM GMT
There are always more "ors" than "whew it's dones" in life. I think this one is done cus it looks qreat! Merry Christmas, Wendell. ~~ John
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.quickshot
12/15/10 9:03 PM GMT
Beautiful work, Wendell, Once again I'm here too late to say anything that hasn't already been said more eloquently than what I could have said. My only criticism of your shot is the motion blur.

Dorothy
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I'm not afraid of dying. I just don't want to be there when it happens.
.Joanie
12/16/10 2:34 AM GMT
Adorable, full of color, and outstanding! At least in my opinion...lol...Lovely work and faved Wendell!
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::sharonva
12/16/10 3:26 AM GMT
Unique, attractive, seasonal... it is just fine just as it is! Well done!
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"The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne, Thassay so hard, so sharp the conquering..." Chaucer
.Starglow
12/16/10 4:12 AM GMT
Lovely little Holiday group here. Some splendid painting to these figures. I like your work on the background also.
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::busybottle
12/16/10 9:08 PM GMT
Wendell
I think you did a bang up job on this! Every picture seem like it could use this, that or the other but in the end this is just fine and looks great! Makes for a great Christmas card!
Paul
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Last night I lay in bed looking up at the stars in the sky and I thought to myself, where the heck is the ceiling.
Logun7
12/16/10 9:34 PM GMT
Great job Wendell!
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The most precious jewel you'll ever have around your neck are the arms of your children♥
.Fergus
12/18/10 9:18 PM GMT
Excellent work
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"What doesn't kill us makes us stronger" - Friedrich Nietzsche

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