The Abyss
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The Inspiration For This
This is an abstract experiment in Corel Painter 18.
I was experimenting with using the sponge and speckle brushes to build up more organic, natural looking textures. The thing I found is that it is very difficult to recreate natural looking textures of the sort that you see in classic abstract works.
It makes sense that the chaos of nature textures is actual difficult to simulate in a digital manner - it is hard to make it look right.
In the end I had to build up the layers and it took a very long time to get it looking this way.
I'm not sure how successful it is. In the end I estimate this was made up of about 50 or so layers (some of which I had to collapse to save memory). It took significantly longer than some of the other pieces because of this.
I think doing this in actual real life would have been a lot easier (although it may have involved more waiting around due to paint having to dry).
In the end I think it looks somewhat reminiscent of a blood vessel when magnified. Make sure to enlarge it to see the textures properly (right click the image to open it in a new tab)
I hope you like it.
Also (as I usually say) feel free to use it in your own posts if you can find a use for it.
