How To Turn a Digital Photo Print into a Beautiful Painting (using water!)

Step 2 Some Basic Techniques

Here are some basic "reverse painting" techniques; they show different things you can do with the digital photo print and water. Every technique involves applying water - the difference is all in how it's done.

The basic techniques are: The Eraser, The Smudge, and Sanding.

The images in this step demonstrate these basics. The next step covers applying to entire photos to make them look like paintings.

You can experiment to find your own techniques, too!

Comments

[theprojectmaker]

Those are just names for the different techniques I demonstrated. The Eraser primarily removes ink from the photo in a specific, focused area. The Smudge primarily smears/blends the color (i.e. "smudges"). Sanding removes ink in a more gradual, wholesale way (compared to the Eraser).

[Cazza]

Hi, I love the idea that you have presented here. I am not sure what you mean by eraser, smudge and sanding though, can you explain what these actually mean. Many thanks, very creative!!