Study of hills and water inlet

The new version above is improved over the original below. This might be close to finished.

The foreground and background still needs work in this study based on a photographic of Akaroa harbour by mollivan_jon on flickr. I have used Inkscape filters new to version 0.47 to paint the light and reflections to my satisfaction.

Akaroa on Wikipedia

If you refer to the original, you will see that I took gross liberties as far as composition of the paitning is concerned, but my intention was to focus on the shapes and the light and shadows on the hills as well as experiment with reflections on the water.

Light on a Pine Forest Floor

Experimenting with light . . . the original source for this painting is a photograph by bcostin available on flickr.

I used various Inkscape 0.47 filters on this adaptation of bcostin's great photo. I did sepearate scans of the photo for brightness cutoff, for colors, and for greys, and then deleted all but the basic colors, and then arranged the remaining scans to focus the eye on the light streaming into the trees and onto the forest floor, and, finally, applied several filters to a cropped image in order to blend the contrasts appropriately.

Translucent Button

Creating translucent and nicely shaded objects with Inkscape 0.47 has become easy with filters.

Inkscape 0.47 Filter Effects

Filter Effects have really improved in Inkscape 0.47.
This icon was composed by drawing a basic 2D shape using Inkscape. I then imported this SVG path into Blender, extruded it to achieve depth and rotated it for perspective, and saved the rendering as a JPEG.
I then imported and scanned the JPEG in Inkscape using potrace, and applied various filter effects to several of the scans. Finally, I positioned the scans on top of the Blender original.

Click on the image to see a larger version. I have saved the scans to which I applied the filter effects separately in the image below so that you can see them more clearly.