Painting Without a Brush

A friend of mine once pointed out to me that I seem to get a real kick out of using the wrong tool for the job, or using a tool in the 'wrong' way, while painting.  I thought about it and decided he was absolutely right.  As a result this thing here happened (presented both with, and without monster).

This was painted almost exclusively using the stamp tool.  Also featured are the marquee, a couple masks, some adjustment layers, and a couple filters.  What I did not use in this painting, aside from refining a mask here or there, was the brush tool.

It started out as a photo collage:

Which I coerced into a (mostly) coherent image.  I'm not sure I'm entirely happy with the image, I might work on it more or something later, but the process was a blast and it'll be fun to try to mush it into a more controlled workflow.

Spaceman and Spacehorse: In the forest of mystery!

Today we find our heroes in great peril.  Deep in the spaceforest of spacemystery they find themselves surrounded...

And, as is becoming a habit here is an excessive number of excessively sized details:

P.S.  Can you find Spacehorse?  He's very happy to be in the picture.

The Robot Graveyard Revisited

A quiet moment on some journey or another that takes Spaceman and his equine companion Spacehorse through the Forest of Forgotten Robots, where old robots go to die.  There's more to this, but that's for later.

More experimenting.  Probably coming back to this one later.

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