Javanese Dancer Woman in Watercolor Painting Effect

 

Javanese dance is a form of dance and art created from the influence of Javanese culture. Javanese dance movements are usually regular, calm, and smooth. Usually, Javanese dances are associated with Javanese court culture which is elegant, refined, and advanced.

However, Javanese dance also includes dances of the Javanese laypeople and villagers. Javanese dance has different styles and philosophies compared to other Indonesian dance traditions. The movements in Javanese dance are smoother and slower.

In addition, Javanese dances have a meditative quality and tend to be more self-reflective, introspective, and more oriented towards self-understanding. Meanwhile, Javanese dance is associated with wayang orang as well as customs from the Yogyakarta and Surakarta palaces. Javanese dance is a sacred legacy from the ancestors of the palace rulers. Through Javanese dances, they provide moral education, emotional expression, and the spread of Javanese culture.

Inspired by the brief explanation above, in this post I present a digital painting of a Javanese dancer woman with a watercolor effect from photoshop. The combination of the soft Javanese dance movements and the soft touch of watercolors is the right harmonization. Based on this inspiration, in this post, I will present a digital painting of the watercolor effect of Javanese dancers.

Well, here are the steps and methods I use in making this digital painting:

1. The painting is a combination of 2 different images, i.e. dancer and wildflowers. The original image of the dancer can be found here, and the original image of wildflowers can be found here
2. The image size I'm using is 1380 px X 1380 px, with an image resolution of 300 ppi
3. Create the background with a watercolor effect using watercolor brush tools according to your imagination
4. Duplicate the background image that has been made, change the blend mode to overlay (opacity 64%);
5. Place the image of the Javanese dancing girl on top of the background layer, use the layer mask technique to display the dancer's image without a background
6. Place the image of the wildflowers on the left side, then duplicate it and move to the right side
7. For each image (background, the dancer, and wildflowers use the filter - noise - greyCstoration, after that use the filter - artistic - watercolor
8. Duplicate the dancer image that has been made, change the blend mode to overlay (opacity 73%);
9. Use the watercolor effect brush tools for layer masks on the dancer.
10. Then sharpen each image using the filter - sharpen - smart sharpen
11. To create a painting effect on canvas using filter - filter gallery - texture- texturizer (canvas)
12. Lighting effects using brightness and contrast (with contrast -14, and brightness 20)
13. Color effects using vibrance (with vibrance 0, and saturation -18)
14. Give the finishing touch according to your own imagination and creativity

What do you think, the combination of the softness of Javanese dancers with the softness of color paints, and if you are more interested in the softness of Javanese dances, please visit Indonesia ... enjoy