Sheila Mather's Friends

Gifts Received (2)

Red Ribbon From Patrick Dennis Red Ribbon From Peter F Noble

Which medium do you prefer? eg. oils, acrylics, etc.: mostly pastels but now trying oils and acrylics

Who are your favourite 2 artists?: Susan Ogilvie - pastel painter
The Group of Seven - Canadian impressionists, early 1900s
Kevin McPherson - plein air

Do you have any goals for your painting?: become more competent at handling paint
to loosen up - become more painterly

At 5:05 on December 25, 2013, Anna Stenier-Karadjova said…: MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR!
Wish you lots of love, joy and happiness.
May you have a wonderful and productive New Years! :-)) Anna

At 6:27 on September 6, 2013, Stuart J. Gourlay said…: Shiela, welcome to the workshops. You haven't posted any paintings for awhile. Your posted paintings here are delightful. Ask for any help you need navigating the workshop in the comments for the workshop and someone will help you. Stu

At 22:31 on January 22, 2012, Alyson Walters said…: Your paintings are fantastic! It's good to see such bright colours, we need some of this in the Uk right now as our weather is truly awful at the moment!
Looking forward to seeing more!

At 6:59am on June 05, 2011, Patrick Dennis gave Sheila Mather a gift…: Red Ribbon
Red Ribbon
From the Gift Store

At 5:16 on February 8, 2011, Maria S Cabrero said…: I liked your vibrant colours! =)

At 14:16 on November 8, 2010, Roena King said…: yes, when I first found emptyeasel I read for weeks. You can search too. At the bottom of that page you can sign up for their weekly news letter. It is actually an on line magazine (I believe). /// Boo Hoo.....I printed out the instructions and my version will not do it as per the instructions. I dont have quick mask! Shoot, shoot, shoot.

At 13:21 on November 8, 2010, Roena King said…: http://emptyeasel.com/2008/04/29/how-to-add-color-to-black-and-white-photos-in-photoshop/ Whooooo Hoooooo........check it out! Just what I have been wanting......I think?? he he Ro

At 4:59 on November 4, 2010, Roena King said…: Sheila. Thanks. I played with my photo last night until 2:30 AM. LOL I found a thing called EDIT COLOR SETTINGS and changed it to FULL COLOR MANAGEMENT. That helped a lot. I was able to make it - the more all over the photo - a lot more colorful. I have even messed with POSTERIZE to level 5 first. I never decided if that helped or not, but I was thinking it might remove some of the tiny detail into groups of colors. I think at this point it might be the photo I picked out as not being colorful enough. Let me show it to you and you give your opinion. Be sure to click on the photo and it will get bigger for you to see better. THANK YOU so much for trying to help me figure out this new skill. At least I am having fun (love to play on the computer!).
I also removed the small sucker branches on the left to improve the composition. Oh, and I went back to the pond yesterday to look more and try to notice the small stuff. I would be totally in the way for people to come to the birding site, so trying to paint here would not work. Ro

At 15:32 on November 3, 2010, Roena King said…: Sheila, I have a quick question. I have version 6 of Photoshop Elements. I have been playing with your suggestion for experimenting with possible colors for a photo I want to paint. So far I have not gotten anywhere close to the pretty and strong colors you have achieved. Do you have a newer version than verson 6 and so your version does better than mine? or is there a particular order you make your adjustments? That last question my be beyond the scope of typing back an forth and I would understand if you said so. I am just looking for an easy way out of all the work to figure all this color out by myself! LOL I have played with it for about 6 or so hours with out great success. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, Ro