2011 Photo of the Week : Week Five

 Frosty Afternoon

(photo taken in our backyard on February 5th and digitally painted in Photoshop)

For those of you new to my blog, each week, i take photos, then choose one to digitally paint in Photoshop or Corel Painter.  Im hoping to improve my skills in these programs by participating in this challenge i have created for myself :)

and speaking of challenges, here is another sketch i completed for the sketchbook challenge.  There are a lot of uploaded photos for this over on flickr, so check it out when you have some time ;)

I hope everyone is keeping warm...believe it or not, it has actually warmed up a bit here, albeit snowing...its no longer in the negative numbers (we had a low of -24 this week).
p.s. this is my 400th post, and i wanted to have a give-away...alas, i have nothing to give-away at the moment...guess i better get busy :)