Seashells painting

I was working on a new oil painting and decided to complete scanned image of it with help of Wacom tablet. I am new to this tool. Right now I’ve done only two seashells. I hope you like it.

looks great! but what exactly was made with traditional brushes and what's done on the computer?

All painting was done with traditional brushes. I started to repaint digitally only the seashells and I am going to continue to pain all over the painting. You can see how the seashells look different from rest of the painting.

wow ....Max ....very nice! love it!

very lovely as are all of your paintings on your site. I was looking through them the other day. You are a very talented artist!

Thank you all! Now I have to make it really nice after such comments.

great work Max! I really like this

That cool man, I love using wacom also.

I'd like to see more shadow behind the left side of the conch shell, like the shadows behind the other two, since it looks a little flat. But overall, it's very beautiful!

you have a wide range of talent--from innovative design to fine art! I love mixing tradional with technology--great job!

Thank you colordesign, infamouselife, prodigie and designedbyjulie for the kind words.
Unfortunately something bad happens to my painting. After I have saved my image and opened it again in Corel Painter all colors have changed absolutely. They became pale. So I’ve decided to take a break from drawing.

I really like your paintings, they are very impressive!

Your work AMAZING, I love the fine art as well as the graphic design. If I am half as good as you at some point in my career i will be lucky.

Looks nice. (critique coming.....)

My advice (as if you want it) is to pump up the contrast in the ridge within the shells. That should help the background feel farther away.

Your work AMAZING, I love the fine art as well as the graphic design. If I am half as good as you at some point in my career i will be lucky.

So I guess I am the luckiest person. Thank you all for the comments.

I love how the two mediums are coming together. Great job.

That is amazing! How long has it taken you to do the two shells with the tablet?

It took me few hours to draw with the tablet on top of my paint. When you are drawing you don`t really think about time. Thanks for the compliments.

Max, I love how you integrated your painting with using the Wacom board as a tool to create the shells, because you really created a very interesting, likeable illustration.

I like to paint myself, & have attempted to use the Wacom. However, I think it is faster just to paint. I think if I could my drawing centered right from the tablet to the screen I would like to use the Wacom drawing tablet more. I've gotton as far as drawing a simple image. But, for some reason I just can't figure out how to get the drawing from the board centered on the screen correctly, and it has driven me bonkers, so I developed an aversion to the thing. Every time I think of the board I think of off centered drawings on my computer screen.

I like the board because are so many amazing tools and transparancies you can use without having to use messy paint. Have any tips on how to remedy my problem with centering the image from board to screen?

Thank you for the comment. I think your problem could be in the Wacom settings. Try to go to Wacom Tablet Properties – Mapping and check the Screen area and Tablet area. By default the setting Full should be checked.
Let me if this helps.