{"id":1363,"date":"2015-06-24T17:55:17","date_gmt":"2015-06-24T21:55:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.darrenbrant.com\/?p=1363"},"modified":"2025-06-27T14:02:51","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T18:02:51","slug":"cloud-study-digital-painting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.darrenbrant.com\/?p=1363","title":{"rendered":"Cloud Study &#8211; Digital Painting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trying my hand again with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artrage.com\">Artrage<\/a>.\u00a0Cool natural media digital painting program. Here is a quick &#8220;oil&#8221; painting\u00a0I did using my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.darrenbrant.com\/art_blog\/drawing\/cloud-studies-south-east-of-otterville\/\">reference sketch<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1364\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1364\" style=\"width: 1009px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.darrenbrant.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/cloud-study-1-Darren-Brant.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1364\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.darrenbrant.com\/?attachment_id=1364\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.darrenbrant.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/cloud-study-1-Darren-Brant.jpg?fit=1009%2C991&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1009,991\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Picasa&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1435101197&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Cloud Study done with Artrage\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Cloud Study done with artrage&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Cloud Study painting. Done with Artrage&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.darrenbrant.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/cloud-study-1-Darren-Brant.jpg?fit=300%2C295&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.darrenbrant.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/cloud-study-1-Darren-Brant.jpg?fit=640%2C629&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1364\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.darrenbrant.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/cloud-study-1-Darren-Brant.jpg?resize=640%2C629\" alt=\"Cloud Study\" width=\"640\" height=\"629\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.darrenbrant.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/cloud-study-1-Darren-Brant.jpg?w=1009&amp;ssl=1 1009w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.darrenbrant.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/cloud-study-1-Darren-Brant.jpg?resize=300%2C295&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.darrenbrant.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/cloud-study-1-Darren-Brant.jpg?resize=768%2C754&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.darrenbrant.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/cloud-study-1-Darren-Brant.jpg?resize=500%2C491&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.darrenbrant.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/cloud-study-1-Darren-Brant.jpg?resize=600%2C589&amp;ssl=1 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1364\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cloud Study painting. 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