Besides pushing the shutter down, a photographer must have other skills. While doing his/her job, a photographer needs to make their client feel comfortable. That’s where one’s people skills come in handy.
It may come as a unusual thought that you can produce art with a scanner, or scanner art, seeing as this is not exactly the reason that scanners were initially introduced. The flatbed scanner was in fact produced simply to reproduce text documents and photographs, a little bit like a photocopier does. But a scanner will do more than just copy flat text documents, it can as well capture images of three-dimensional items.
Whether you need to produce a still life or a pet portrait, painting a three dimensional object on a two dimensional canvas has invariably been a challenge. To do it convincingly whilst retaining the freshness in the picture is even harder. Beginners frequently grab the tube of black to show shadow effects on an object, but here lies disaster.
For water colourists, it doesn’t matter if you’re considering a landscape or pet portrait, you’ll be probably be required to show areas of dark shadow. Many leisure painters, when first faced with dark areas in their picture, will quite often use a tube of black or produce muddy looking colours. Unfortunately, it can be quite difficult to see the different tones within dark areas, it’s far easier to judge colour tone in lighter shades.
When you think of portraits, you normally think of oil painting. Nevertheless, many superb portraits have been done using water colour. Water colours offer a way of capturing quick informal studies that where they lack on detail, more than make up for it in character.
