Paintings by Stacey

I photographed this magnolia today in various angles and positions. I plan to decorate my living room in magnolias and will be printing these large on canvas.

Corel Painter using Den's oil brushes, Lucis Art and a crackle texture to give it some antique feel.

Stacey Rosenbaum

www.paintingsbystacey.com

A new scenic oil painting on linen canvas. I got this image from my new apartment complex, Villas at Huffmeister. It is the little gardens by the unit doors. I thought it would make a beautiful scenic painting.

Painted in Corel Painter using Den's Funky Chunky and Oil Luscious, and blended with the oily blender.

I also added a touch of Lucis Art sculpture to make the brushwork pop, then added an irish linen texture to it.

Stacey Rosenbaum
www.paintingsbystacey.com

I just finished up two painter blends to add to my services. One is of my daughter Katelynne, the other is an image I created of myself and Katelynne for our home that I played with using this technique.

It was first painted in Corel Painter, then finished off in Photoshop tweaking colors and blending with textures found on the web.

This is a painting I did of a recent portrait of my daughter.

This first version had a vignette around it, and I was really up in the air about that. I got some great feedback from friends on Paint Outside the Frame about that.....it distracted more than drew the eye due to certain elements of the portrait, like the plain wall at top with little detail to bring the vignette out to the bottom of the image being more detailed which made the painting look "unfinished".  So, I nixed the vignette. Although a friend on Pro4um liked it.

The updated version is without the vignette, more visually appealing now.

For this painting I used Den's brushes, funky chunky throughout, skin blended with oily blender from the Corel Painter IX software. Her hair was painted using Den's bristle brush. I added touches of color in her shirt using Den's oil luscious brush, then blended the colors and rough spots of the shirt with the grainy blender from the Corel Painter IX software.

I always tweak my paintings in Photoshop giving it a better color balance (I love the more tungsten look of the old masters) giving it more reds and yellows in the shadows and midtones, and a touch of yellow in the highlights. Then I adjust the shadow/highlight and the contrast. Then I love to give it more tweak using Lucis Art, using the exposure feature and the sculpture feature, but using them on layers to adjust the intensity.

And that's it!  I really love the final result.  I think I will print it large for my home.  :)

 

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Love, love, LOVED these two images to paint.  I'm a sucker for good beach portraits to paint. These were so colorfully rich that accenting those colors was so much fun!

Paintings by Stacey has a new look!

I felt like it needed a facelift, and I definitely like it a LOT better! I also gave the blog a new look to match the site.  :)

 

Leave me some feedback on it.  :)

I'll try to get updated pics of the new kitchen in the next couple of days. I decided to go ahead and re-finish the hardwood flooring, and may do the cabinets as well. The floor is the same color, it just looks so much better and richer than before. I think the wood was faded from age. But, I'm still working on it so when I'm finished I'll update pics.  :)

I'm starting on the remodeling of my kitchen and camera room now. I still need to get baseboards and doorframes painted and put back in place, but wanted to start on removing wallpaper from the kitchen to get it ready for painting.

I'm toying with the idea of restaining the cabinets and floor (floor is same color wood as cabinets) a darker color. I'll update here when painting is complete and have a vote on stain color for cabinets and floor.  :)

Here are some before pictures so you can see the transformation.  :)

Recent painting commission of two beautiful children on the beach.

The sky lacked any detail, so I added an image of clouds that I had and proceeded from there.

This image is oil, but I let the client know that it would print beautifully on either canvas or fine art watercolor due to the key. My opinion is it would be a gorgeous gallery wrap!  :)