Gale franey biography

Shiva Nataraja Cosmic Dance

Lord Shiva performing the dance of creation, preservation and dissolution.

My most recent digital art painting, using a combo of Photoshop CC and CS6 with a medium sized Wacom tablet Pro with Pro Pen 2 on a Mac Pro (2013 “trashcan model”) running MacOS High Sierra.

Gale franey biography

I began the project using Photoshop CS6 but finally gave in and subscribed to Adobe Creative Cloud Photography package that included just Photoshop CC and Lightroom. I would have liked to subscribe to the entire software bundle but am on a tight budget at the moment so had to settle for only Photoshop CC.

I painted this in Photoshop using a variety of brush settings.

Some of the peripheral aspects have been composited, then afterwards, morphed, warped, re-coloured, re-painted, etc. I’ve been trying to paint most portions from scratch and rely less on compositing which takes me more time but is much more enjoyable and challenging.