Category Digital painting

Red and Green

The felty finish of this digital illustration is the result of many layers with a custom-designed brush using ProCreate and an iPad. I enjoyed working on the plaid weaving layer over layer of color. The center vessel reminds me of…

Beach Body

A buff penguin

Beach Body is my version of a buff penguin on the shores of Antarctica. It is a relief print made from three carved plates a blue, orange, and black on Mohawk superfine. The plates are carved on Sinatra plastic plates.…

Sad Fish

This sad fish is a digital image referencing relief printing. The following shows the process one layer at a time. Relief printing is a reductive process and so the image was created with the eraser tool instead of the paintbrush.

Light Restored

Light & Truth Restored

As a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, I recognize one of the greatest events in modern history as the appearance of the Father and the Son to Joseph Smith Jr. in a Grove of trees…

Life in Lyman: Reruns

Life in Lyman is a series of stamps about my family when the kids were young. The files are on the recovered hard drive. This one is about my daughter Charlotte who likes to cut her hair.

Moo

Moo from Cowbird (unpublished) | digital 18 × 12 inches | I have been sick about losing this project. It is my first complete children’s book that I did for my MFA project. I was happy to discover a black…

Peaches Preserved

Peaches Preserved | 5 × 7 digital image, printed on 8 × 10 paper | I just revived a hard drive that I thought was gone-for-good. So now is a good time to share all that has been preserved or…

Lonely

(Reposted on 11/28/2020) I am feeling this lonely kind of isolation today. In sitting in my small studio looking out my window. I am done with COVID-19, I wish C-19 was done with us.

Digital Painting experiment

Aboriginal Pointillism | I don’t know where this will go but it is really fun to do. Let me know if you like it.

Diamond Point Triad

This is my submission for the Brigham Young University-Idaho Art Faculty Show (summer of 2013). 3 Inkjet prints, each print is 24 x 34 inches detail Diamond Point 1 Diamond Point 2 Diamond Point 3

Digital Painting No.090313

Skoughtee Texture No.001 Skoughtee Texture No.001 (repeating) Painting created using Skoughtee Texture No.001. Download

SkillShare class

I just finished taking a micro class from Brad Woodard on skillshare.com. I learned a few really cool tricks and had a good time. The project was to illustrate the word quiet or loud. I picked quiet. There was a…

Digital Painting | Dandelion

Perennial by Scott E Franson | size: 5×7 | media: digital Submitted to illustrationfriday.com

Digital painting | Safari

Safari by Scott E Franson | size: 5×7 | media: digital Submitted to illustrationfriday.com

Digital painting | Floating Pear

Floating Pear by Scott E Franson | size: 5×7 | media: digital I have begun the last few paintings with an overall pattern (see and Crayzan). Then I paint on top selecting the colors with the eye dropper tool. I…

Digital Painting | CaveGirl

Cave Girl by Scott E Franson | size: 5×7 | media: digital Never out of fashion, CaveGirl wears her new dress with bold poppy print on her first hunt.

Digital painting | Crazan

Crazan: our family cat by Scott E Franson | size: 5×7 | media: digital Crayzan, our family cat, is named after a previous family cat named Razan.

Digital Painting | Icarus

Icarus: a tragic lesson by Scott E Franson | size: 5×7 | media: digital

Digital Painting | Bare Pare

Bare Pare by Scott E Franson | size: 5×7 | media: digital

Digital Painting | Peaches

Peaches by Scott E Franson | size: 5×7 | media: digital

Digital Painting | Three Suns

Three Suns by Scott E Franson | size: 5×7 | media: digital

Digital Painting | Bicycle

As a child, my bicycle was the ultimate feeling of freedom. It was pre-helmet days and I loved the wind in my hair while riding down the sidewalk feeling the bump of each new section. Bump-bump, Bump-bump, Bump-bump. Because it…

Digital Painting | Potted Square

Potted Square by Scott E Franson | size: 5×7 | media: digital

Digital Painting 041811 | Neapolitan Sunday

Neapolitan Sunday by Scott E Franson | size: 5×7 | media: digital The soft diffused light of strawberry, vanilla, and chocolate. The image was created using four different textures. One made from single sided corrugated cardboard, two traditionally gessoed panels,…

Painting No.012811

Coming up with an idea is always a challenge and this was no exception. I knew that I wanted to use the technique of painting a series of acrylic paintings in black, scanning them with backlight, and then coloring them…

Painting No.012711

Painting No.012711 by Scott E Franson | size: 5×7 | media: digital In my quest to discover new options and possibilities in digital art creation, I am always exploring the question of, “What if?” The exploration today has led me…

Attic Bottles

There is always a box of glass bottles left as an inheritance for posterity. They are kind of cool and seem to have some value and so the very dusty bottles are passed on from one attic to the next…and…

Silkscreen attempt No.111610

I have been working on a process to simulate a printed silkscreen image. This image was experimenting with overprinting and various levels of ink transparency.