Happy Christmas Eve everyone! It’s been a minute since I posted because 1. I have been slammed at work and 2. I haven’t really been inspired. The first is just life and will probably continue until at least February. However, the second is on me. I am fully aware that when you are creating art, […]
I really like this one! It goes away from my usual depressing or at least dark pieces I usually produce. This one stemmed from the piece I did called “Its Just Rain” showing the Adamski Effect. I was intrigued with some of the tools that I used to do that one because some were not
This is my first attempt at the “Adamski Effect” technique. The Adamski Effect was created by Josh Adamski. It uses blur techniques to create the illusion of movement, while normally keeping the subject in sharp focus. I have to admit that I cheated a little with this one. Normally, the subject is part of the original
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Hi Folks! Let me introduce you to my Grandfather, Seth. You may recall a couple of posts back I created a painting from one of his old photographs. Even though we only met once, that I can remember, he seems to have influenced me in my art. You see, Seth was quite the avid photographer,
I took some of my still-life efforts from last week and created a Triptych. For those of you not familiar with a triptych, you take 3 pictures that are related in some way and display them together as one piece. If you only use two, it is called a Diptych. I used to do diptychs
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This one was interesting. It’s a bit simpler than I normally do but I still think it came out well for what I was going for. I started with an old picture that my grandfather took, I believe in the 1950s. Since he was the chief forester of the state of Virginia, I am assuming
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Hi folks, and welcome back! This weekend I decided to try my hand at something I haven’t really done in probably 15 years: The Still-Life. Now when I tried still life many years ago I didn’t have access to the lighting setups I have now, but I have forgotten so much about flash photography that
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What a day I’ve had! I was scrolling around on YouTube watching stuff on photographic lighting for Still Life pictures. Now you know when you ask YouTube for something, it gives it to you, but every 4-5 vids, there is something that’s not really what you searched for. That’s what happened. There was a video
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Today I have another in the Animal Portrait series. The original picture was taken at the Y-O Ranch in TX, probably 12 years ago. The Y-O Rach was a great experience, where I even had a giraffe eat cookies from my mouth in an open field. No pens or cages. Anyway, this piece was fairly
I’m back with more simple texture work and another in the animal series called “The Giraffe”. I really like how this one turned out and I only used one texture! I’m adding the original giraffe pic and the texture below so you can see the “ingredients”.
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