Taron's little gallery

[Taron]

It's time again that I at least post some doodles of mine, just so you know that I'm still doing it and I'm still loving it. I have been focusing on music for a while and may still continue to do so for a bit longer, but I can feel my Verve urges surge through me all the time, but increasingly so lately.

Here are just a few random doodles...
A hue-dancer experiment...

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just a wild doodle, also using hue-dancer...

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Guess what I've used here?! Though, this one was cheeky. I first just painted the hand like experiment without hue-dancer, but then I added two layers, one multiply, the other additive, and then used hue-dancer to just make strokes along the flow of the painting as I saw it...

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All those are really just brief relaxation doodles. I have a ton of these, but I just recently backed the up... they quickly get heavy for my main drive!
Anyway...I'm here!

OH, I've just made this one right now for one of my OSC songs "Sparkly Rainbowjuice Pipeline"

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nice artworks from you - and I love especially the sharkimage and the rainbow image (nice colors)

[Taron]

Thanks, Zero! They all showcase spontaneity more than anything else, but that is a wonderful power of Verve. I mean, I love getting in there and work with great care and thought, but just as much I love letting go and just have at it!

Yes, that is wonderful power of Verve! I totally agree.

I am glad you post some doodles. We missed them! BTW nice scene with a fish!

Relaxing times!

[Taron]

Thanks guys! Yeah, I'm glad I posted something again... I miss posting, too. Sometimes, though, I rather want you guys to show new stuff, rather than drowning you all with mine.

You are very talented and man can you manipulate Verve Fantastico!

Slightly hue dancing is something I always forget.
Bravo! This is maybe a beginning of some new taron stuff??
Very promising!!!

[Taron]

Thanks, Doz & Knacki!
Yeah, hue-dancer gets pretty addictive for sure. It's such a simple way to give life into any color. I can't wait to get totally into the mode again to take Verve again to the next level! It's coming closer for sure!

[Taron]

Here's a fun method to enjoy happy doodling:

• though canvas texture isn't important, I prefer the old one for this... hit [ctrl]+[p] twice to get to it!
• fluidity doesn't have to be high for most of this, it's not the point of this technique either... I had it on about 20% for most of the time. Only for some extra fun swirling I put it on high and warped around happily.

...here comes the real point:

• using brush#9, put the Hue dial of it up, even 100% is fun, but could be less. Use as many or as few bristles as you like, but it should best be above 30%.
• bring up the color swatches [shift]+[c] and for convenience the color wheel [c]. Now make a series of gradients to your liking. One in cold tones, then make a new set (little round buttons on top), one in warm tones, one in whites.
• you could dial up the hue-dancer, too, but it won't do much, yet.
• now pick which gradient you want to use and hold [n] while painting. Then you can switch to the next gradient and do the same and so on...
• I like to reduce the mouse speed to about 30% or less for that. It makes very soft strokes then.
• you can have pressure on opacity on, but also without it on you can use the alpha amount to control how opaque your strokes get.

It's such a relaxing technique and instantly looks fascinating to me.
The attached example is a bit of a "compositing", using 3 layers, while the top layer is just there twice. Once with reduced blending, the other with reduced opacity. The bottom layer is some random watercolor looking doodle.