Rocambole's Forest Glade

I have been working on a new AOP for a long time and at last it is finished. It is heavily inspired by the palette knife strokes of the Belarussian painter Leonid Afremov and is therefore named Leonid AOP. I have made both a 32-bits and a 64-bits version. It works best on motives with few elements. So far I have had most success with trees. But most of Afremov’s paintings have lots of trees so that should be OK! A Swedish friend of mine whom I gave a pre-release version of this AOP a while ago has already sold a painting made with it at the Fine Art America site.

Today Oscar released the new version of  DAP which is native 64-bits and runs only on Vista and Windows 7 64-bits OS. This makes it possible to make 4 times bigger brushes (600 x 600 px instead of 300 x 300 px) and up to 32 Mpx large paintings. Close-up of new and sharper brush strokes:

This summer the Norwegian TV channel TV3 borrowed three of my digital paintings from the furniture shop where they are sold for use in a new TV series about redecoration of old flats, based on the Mad About the House series on BBC Three. Tonight one of these paintings was seen in the show.

Today I released my Deep Forest AOP at the DAP café. It was named so because it seemed only capable of doing a decent job with forest images. But after some testing I saw it could make some interesting portraits too. It was meant to paint with rough, broad, expressionistic(?) strokes but right before releasing it I also put in some palettes with thinner strokes to make it more versatile. An example of what it does:

I have just released another AOP at the DAP café. I named it Classics because it tries to copy a little handfull of older styles, like fresco and expressionism. In fact this AOP was made of unused palettes and brush strokes from my earlier AOPs. I am most happy with the fresco palette which makes some nice portraits.