Experiments with digital art

So recently I have been doing some photography and playing around in GIMP (the image manipulation program).

I’m having a LOT of fun with it so I decided, as an experiment, to open an etsy shop for digital art.

You can check it out here: https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/WhiteDogDigital

Here’s my favorite piece so far:

‘Big Mama’

This is ‘Big Mama’ one of the chickens we had growing up, she was an absolute queen and you did not mess with her.

I used an old photo (briefly did photography club at school). I can still remember the smell of the lovely chemicals in that room. After playing around with the image in gimp and using a textured gold background (because, don’t forget she is royalty) I gave her a funky hue and a golden glint in her eye.