05/30/2008 12:20:17

You know, I just went in to pick up a large painting from the photographer, and lo and behold, they were using a nikon 35mm camera to make giclees...hmm, I guess for about the price of 10 or 12 photos there I could have my own set-up to make prints.  Turns out I could probably make easily make fairly good 22x30 giclee prints with a 10 megapixel.  Anyway your new image look as good as the others!

As far as that show goes, you should mark your calendar for a trip to Rutland Vt on Feb 13, 2009.  You might start walking now and save the air fair!

 Thats the day scheduled for an opening at the chaffee art center, you might google them, or try to cut and paste the link, it doesn't seem lik links off site work on the Butt:

http://www.chaffeeartcenter.org/ 

Give it a try!  Perhaps I will get to see your art up close sometime too.  It isn't really doing any of us justice, no matter how good the photos and tweeking.

 

g 

05/18/2008 12:18:51

Hi Jane, Thank you for your encouraging words!  I soooooooooo want to be a full time artist...I feel it will prolong my life and the quality of my life.  So thank you for being my role model!  I love your spirit!  Keep Painting!  Best, Sandy  PS, I used to knit and loved loved loved it...I learned to knit on circular needles, I will eventually get back to it ...i'm making earrings and necklaces now too...so many things to create~!  Life is GOOD!

05/16/2008 14:15:47

Hi Jane - let me know if you decide to purchase some of those frames.. I usually paint large and dont like dark wood frames (and maybe there were some lighter colors). I quickly looked a them on the Cheap Joes website. I have a wonderful framer who just had a to close because of a fire in the building she leases but she hopes to reopen soon, in the mean time I am discovering how wonderful her prices were and how expensive it is everywhere else!

05/16/2008 07:21:18

Watch out for the flash, it might work with a matt watercolor, but it will create a reflection if there are any glossy spots, and it seems to skew the contrasts and emphasize the whites and yellows.  I can't get pictures under glass with out seeing me in the mirror there, but some day I might afford a polarizing filter which can eliminate the reflections.

I painted four images, a pastel and experimented with the "magic eye" phenomena; I have only posted 3 so far.  And those crazy videos from the VSC are from a late night in my studio.  Truly we had had very little to drink, I think we were giddy on so much painting, it being probably 2:00 am, and the rush of friendship bonding so rare in the day to day.

hi ho!

G 

PS, the Magic Eye is easy to google 

05/14/2008 14:07:25

I do believe your photographer has lost a customer! I think your new postings look great although on the right side of one of them you may need to crop in a little more, I can see the edge. I always use the highest resolution setting with my digital camera, and I almost always use a flash, but when the sunlight is direct, its probably more color correct to not use the flash. Its easy to photograph paintings before they are under glass. I guess the only time I focus on details with jpg's is when I need to resize them to 4x6 300dpi for juried show submissions. 

05/13/2008 20:26:41

You might try a "serious" caran d'ache painting/drawing.  I have sometimes used them to understand whats behind a painting's pallette, I did some redrawing of Klee and discovered he used a primary triad for all of the works, but in order to get the right colors on one, I found I needed to substitute sienna for red and turquoise for blue.  The yellow was a lemon + white.

I have a bunch of tiny nudes drawn from a book I have of figure paintings, like 1.5x2.5 inches.  I use the crayons straight, draw on scraps and transfer with a brush to paper.  You might try a sketch next time with a few and see if you like them as much as I do.  They can be printed, too, by putting wet paper on top and running 'em through a press.

Glad to read your posts.  Congrats on the camera!  It seems easier to move back from the art to get the edges straight.  Are you up to speed on some sort of sizing program?

Cheers 

05/13/2008 16:47:34

Bingo! you got it, let the masking tape have some space for paint to bleed through.. the most important part of these paintings is getting a composition set with masking tape before adding any paint. I always do glazes ontop of glazes, but you have to dry each color before adding more or it turns to mud.

05/13/2008 08:38:38

just stopped by to see if you posted more new work, anything in the works?