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INSPIRED BY NATURE

Painterly Perspectives

Student-created digital seascape painting completed in Adobe Photoshop using a Wacom tablet, custom brushes, layers, and digital painting and blending techniques. The painting is a tropical bay scene showing gentle waves washing onto a sandy beach with faint footprints, backed by lush green coastal mountains under a cloudy sky.

Using photographic references as inspiration, students transformed a landscape into an original digital painting that captures the beauty and atmosphere of traditional artwork. Through layers, selections, custom brushes, color sampling, blending techniques, and texture painting, they developed advanced digital illustration skills while producing gallery-worthy landscapes that celebrate both craftsmanship and creativity.

Dearest Creature in Creation | Original Student Animation
00:48
Goetze's Treats Since 1895 | Original Student Animation
00:41
You Are My Sunshine | Original Student Animation
01:24
In the Desert | Original Student Animation
00:53
Behind the Door: A Medieval Character Animation | Original Student Animation
00:38
The Princess and the Frog | Original Student Animation
00:52

Digital Painting • Wacom Cintiq • Custom Brushes • Brush Settings • Color Sampling • Highlights & Shadows • Texture Painting • Layer Organization • Blending • Atmospheric Perspective • Digital Illustration

SKILL FOCUS:

SOFTWARE:

Adobe Photoshop

COURSE:

Level 1

PROJECT #:

200

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CTE Wicomico County Interactive Media Productions

Wicomico High School

201 Long Avenue

Salisbury, MD 21804

(410) 677-5146

Instructor: Maria Cook, B.A., M.A.T.
mcook@mywcps.org

 

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