Terry Grogan

Here's the first layer image.  Both the circle and the triangle are done using a gradient fill with repeat of 5.  The triangle is two shades of blue, and the circle is red and yellow.  The circle has an opacity of 65. The background is a pattern called "gold foil" at a scale of 10. I saved as a jpg with a compression of 20%.

Ok, here's exercise 1. I decided to "come up with my own idea" for a tube painting.  This picture is 5 layers with 4 tubes.  The tubes are an eagle, Indian, teepee, and wolves.  Only the wolves was applied at a scales of 100%. The other three are at 50%.  The wolves are the layer right above the background, which is a blue-green gradient fill at an angle of 180 and 0 repeats.  I made the wolves an opacity of 70 so they were more like a "ghost" in the background.  I also gave the Indian an opacity of 85 because he was much too bright for the picture.  I saved this as a jpg with a compression of 20%. What do you think?

Here's exercise 2.  I never liked it at all, so finally stopped playing with it.  Mine uses 8 layers.  The 8th layer, I set the trees to 50% scale and the step to 30 and "painted" a small clump of trees at the front.. One thing, the tubes added a lot of "size" to the image, so I saved at a compression of 30%.

Here's the brush exercise (I'm glad I didn't have to post anything "free form"). I had fun with the custom brushes.  Except for the text, everything is done in purple and yellow. I started with the star at a size of 50, opacity 100, and step 100.  I used  the "click/shift" feature to create a straight line.  I discovered that if you didn't let go of the shift, you could click in all 4 corners and get the box! (4 straight lines).  I then used my background color and repeated with the background color of yellow. (I turned on the "show brush outline" to see that I placed it right on the same spot.). For the eye, I added a new layer, sized the eye brush to 200 and made it purple. I then sized it to 175 and added the yellow.  The text, also a custom brush, is done with the gold foil foreground set at 10% scale on a third layer.  I used the "build up to" and hit it a couple of times to get it thicker. I saved as a jpg at 10% compression.  I hope it's not too small to see! (I kinda got carried away with the resize!)

Here's the airbrush.  I found this feature definitely cool as well.  I love the effect and experimented with the spheres.  It was fun! This was saved as a jpg with compression of 10%.