Expressionism or Impressionism?

Hey Friends, Got a new painting to show you. Actually this is only the top half (it's 24x8) cuz I don't yet know enough about Photoshop to correct the color difference where the two scans meet! I know, I shouldn't tell the world what a Dolt I am but as Popeye says " I yam what I yam." My newer ones are even more colorful. Going through a stage, which I've done before. I've been reading William Herring's book " A Horse of a different Color" for about the 12th time. Maybe that is why I'm going nuts with the color. He is an artist from Texas and this book is illustrated in black & white drawings so I'm not sure where the color fits in.
Happy Trails.

TREASURY REVISITED

Hey Friends, Thought I would come back and show you what I learned today! My daughter, the computer master, was here today and showed me how to get this partial screen shot from Word into Photoshop, etc,etc. I believe to get a full screen shot I would have to do this twice-top&bottom and then do a photomerge. She is REALLY good with computers and understands what the artsy-fartsy types want or need. Check out her work at my website - http://www.suefurrow.com/. She did it all - you should see all that code behind each page, each photo.
PS: NO it is not clickable-maybe in time. My work is the lady bent over cutting flowers.

Happy Trails

PAINTED PHOTO COLLAGES

I'm showing you additional Painted Photo Collages so you can get a bigger view of what you can do with this technique/application. The photo above is what I used to make the painting below.

Isn't he the cutest dog ever! I used real sand dollars and star fish and shells. I ladled on the garnet gel (golden) and the shells will adhere to this gel. The sand castles were made from sandpaper (I bought them). The heart was a stamp. I painted and enhanced the photo.

This is one of my favorites. It was a lot of enjoyment too. Hunting for the right ingredients, then laying them all out and moving them around, like a puzzle, before making them permanent.

Here is a close up of the dragonfly in the bottom left corner. Found him in a magazine. Some of the lillys are photos, some are painted. All of the background and foliage are painted.


Here is a close up of the paper lantern. Found in a magazine also.

Here is a close up of the hair. I over did it a bit, maybe. But I love her hair. It is totally natural, too! Very curly. And you can see the dragonflies across the top. They are plastic and come in a lot of colors , in little cellophane bags at craft stores. You just paint over them w/ your acrylics.

This little girl was a great joy to paint. This was my first version, but the entire time I worked on it, I was thinking about a version where she would be looking out of the door. Here she is looking into the door or into the house.

This version she is inside and looking out into the world (a fairytale world) Maybe she is already

dreaming of her prince charming! Same photo used in both versions.


Here is another favorite. This is Brady. He is now 4 1/2 years old and very burly. But his trip to the ocean really produced some great collages. I painted this frame to go with his painting.

Here you can see the little beach buckets I cut from rice paper and stained with Thalo Blue.

See his baggy swim trunks? A closeup where I added a thick gob of acrylic matte gel and then impressed the long swirly shells. Using the shells like a stamp. I enjoy that.

If you just found my blog, look down at the last post and you will find the explanation of this Painted Photo Collage Technique. It , of course, will take time for you to get the hang of it. But I enjoyed the learning and experimenting part of it. Since you work from photos that other people have taken, it can be a learning experience everytime! Sometimes not much fun. So if you want it to be all fun take your own photos.

Happy Trails.

WORKING IN PHOTOSHOP/Matanza media

Hey big world, Just a note to see for myself how this image looks on the web. Its a tall, vertical piece that I scanned in two sections because it's to long for my scanner. I did it in Photoshop with photomerge!

OK! It didn't work and I think its because I've got to change psd to jpg! That will probably take longer than the photomerge. So it won't be tonight. Sleep well , my friends.

OK! It worked this time! I changed the psd to jpg. A tidbit to you but cool for me.