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Painting - Sullivan Park, Mexico City, Mexico

Vivien, This is a photograph of a real painting - slide, to glossy, to scanner. My question to you is this: Is there a way to tell if the artist has painted over a photograph to make it look like a real painting? Or, I guess they could "look" at a painting and copy it, yes? I was so crazy about this pix. I think it was oil, but it's difficult to remember. The asking price was $450. I really should have bought it; I wouldn't have starved! Every Sunday morning there's a big "art show" in Sullivan Park, Mexico City. I've traveled there there many, many times and lived there for two years in the '80's while I taught school. I was working on my dissertation and had to support myself.

Have hundreds of pix from there - and elsewhere. I was just looking at another one to put up, but will crop it, etc., in a photo program first. There are a number of programs in residence here. My favorite is Picture Publisher - "8". The new one is "10." But "8" does just fine for now.

I've tried a number of times to put this pix "HERE" - ["IMG"] like the "pyramid pix," but for some reason it won't "take." Does anyone know why?[/color]

Yeah, Charli ... you're trying to use the URL of the page containing the image. That won't work. What ya gotta do is go to the image you want to display, right-click on it, select "Properties", and copy the entire "Property" tag of the image ... on MSN, BTW, the Prperty Tag is very long. Click-and-drag to make sure you've highlighted all the text in the tag before you right-click again and select "copy". Now, just to be safe, paste the copied tag into Notepad (just in case ... ya never know), and navigate back here. Open a reply box, select IMG, and paste the copied image tag into the box and hit OK.

Here is the Image Properties tag of the picture you tried to post: http://groups.msn.com/_Secure/0SgCqAowVDg2Sh5K!zZq78a*J2jJuyPVaMI0*NSqGtcUp2!tUdQtdKUVY!Lv9NDV1QfapZEnL5Z7OoW!2Cn!wKKcIXE9bS3dAC*FuPx464JtEspze1MCxJw/2-FILE4-MEX.jpg?dc=4675412837610948680 (see? Like I said, MSN Groups tags are quite long)

and here is the picture you wanted:

THANKS A MILLION, TIMBERLANDKO
Thanks a million, Timberlandko!!! I HAD put the "pyramid" pix O.K. onto this site - although I should have loaded a smaller version into MSN. Guess I forgot how I did it. Maybe I should write this stuff down! No! - I can always come back here anytime via "my posts" and read what you said.

Thank you, thank you!!![/color]

IS THIS "THE WAY"? (To San José?)
Now, lemme see if I can do it ...
Another photo from slide to glossy to scanner to Picture Publisher "8" to MSN to here ...
It's the Bursátil (stock exchange) in Mexico City! [/color]

charli - thanks


about the painting - it looks really good and i wouldn't think it was painted over a photo.

I can't work from photos - they don't show the colours i can see when i am there and also the warmth/cold/wind/hot sun/whatever seem to creep into the painting if I am there.

I had a friend who did the most amazing portraits from photos, taking a snapshot and taking it up to fill a 6 foot canvas - she would somehow add a lot about the character of the person in addition to what was shown in the photo.

My studio paintings are done with reference to my paintings done plein air and also my visual memories - sitting painting fixes the memories in a way that just walking and looking or taking a photographs doesn't - different bits of the brain being used maybe? as well as the length of time looking.

Your photos are wonderful - the shiny reflective building is fascinating. The patience to create your drawings dot by dot !!!! they are great.



ci lovely photo - shame there isn't a green for envy face to put here ....

Charli - I am working on putting the titles, sizes, medium etc as hidden text that pops up when you hover the cursor over the painting - i wanted to keep the page simple and just have the images. (I'm learning web design and have a looooong way to go!)

I don't put the prices on because I don't really expect to sell over the web - i show in galleries and the web is just a vehicle to show the galleries my work - and friends and anyone interested.

Most of my work is in oils - i find it easier to push-pull an image plein air in oil. if i use watercolour it is usually in the studio although i do sometimes use it outdoors.

Page 1 on geocities, the images are about 10inches square - they are all plein air paintings, mediums are in the pop ups but most are oil.

Page 2 are larger canvasses, studio paintings - they are 4ft and 3ft 6in tall and vary from about 12in to 6in wide - i am working on a series of them for an exhibition in September. I wanted to show them in groups of 3/5/7 to show the passage of time - the tide coming in and going out, evening, clear bright mornings. stormy days. sunny days, misty .....

Titles? i hate trying to think up titles! I tend to use a time or season - Early morning:Gore Point or something like that! very unimaginative I know

Re: THANKS A MILLION, TIMBERLANDKO


Yer weccum, Charli. The FAQ page and The Help Forum (see the colored links in my sigline at the bottom of my posts) have lots of tips-and-tricks and "How-To"s ... check 'em out. Oh, and no need to be formal ... just call me timber.

Ive seen some neat pix of oblects in which the entire subject was shot in a sepia tone, but with a central focus of color. In one case I saw a bunch of kids sitting on a fence holding a flag ,the only thing in color was the flag.

I think this was done by shooting the entire shot in color and then redacting the color from all over except the flag. I guess something like photoshop could do this. I gotta know. Anybody have an idea?

AN IDEA, FARMERMAN . . . MAYBE . . .
Yes, farmerman, I've seen the "treatment" about which you are speaking. Both in still pix and in advertising video clips. My guess would be that it's a composite of the color part of the photo superimposed on the sepia "background." Sound plausible? Maybe I'll try that in one of the photo programs. When there's nothing else to do . . . ahem! [/color] :wink:

My "pièce de résistance"
This "copy" does not do justice to the "drawing." I don't know how to get a better facsimile onto the net when it's the original that's scanned. Maybe it's in the scanner? This was done one small black dot at a time - each dot probably between 1/64" to 1/32". No such church exists except in my mind.

Thank you, Vivien, for your kind words! I am in awe of your paintings and this small effort pales by comparison! Again, thank you!!! [/color]

THANK YOU AGAIN . . .
Thank you again, timber, for all your help. I will peruse your links SOON. Much appreciated!

The cloud reflection pix was just "dumb luck" probably. Don't think I realized what was there until the film was developed. And it wasn't even taken with the good FT-2 Nikkormat! Which IS better than this Konica. Maybe I'll put the slide on the scanner (for my own amusement) and see if I think it comes up brighter than the glossy that was made from the slide.

Vivien - I like your title: Early morning: Gore Point!!! Much, much better than something like "Guess what I mean . . . 'Quiet Interlude' or 'Marking Time' or 'Restive Moment'" . . . Now what DO they mean by that??? Bookmarking your sites for now. Thanks for sharing your paintings with us!

I have somehow missed some links and need to go back and catch them. But I am preoccupied with another question, which is how to have a catalog of our links. This thread will grow and grow and well it should, but we need after months it will be hard to find stuff, we need an a2k art directory. I would be glad to start compiling links, well, how glad..it is work, but only one person can do it on a one post space. But maybe Craven has something in the works. Much easier over time if each person add his/her own.

Anyway, thinking here that we need links by a2k members' names in alphabetical order, possibly but not necessarily divided to content re sculpture, painting, photo, digital. I'd rather not, as many of us blur borders. Just alphabetical I think, screen name and list of links.

What do you think?

farmerman - yes you could do the sepia/colour thing in Photoshop quite easily. It is a brilliant programme - there are several ways of tackling it - one is to duplicate the image, turn it to greyscale and then add magenta, yellow, red and a touch of cyan/blue to stop it going too warm and yukky, until the required sepia is reached (having turned it back to rgb colour and using adjustments). You can then cut and paste the colour bit you want, feathering the edge s or whatever if you want. A bit more push pull and thought is needed but that is the basic way.

osso - I think your idea is great. I would love to keep up with other members work.

charli - I'm pleased for the reassurance about the titles! i too hate twee titles I hate having to title pictures!

Osso-I like that idea. I have a number of fotos of my art, as well as some fotos you all may be interested in using from mining and derelict sites from the various points of the planet.
I find that scanning my work has never been satisfactory because of the "knitting together" problem

ALGIS.KEMEZYS' LINK
Vivien et al., have y'all seen this link (to his own work) on Algis.Kemezys' thread here? Beautiful! Give a look and enjoy!

[quote]Posted: Fri Jun 27, 2003 9:45 am Post subject: Amid Summer's Wildflowers Amid Summer's Wildflowers @ http://www.pbase.com/alkeme8/amid_summers_wildflowers
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Craven answered me and said something is in the works. I m'self plan to throw my images, egads, at it, when e'er it comes. For me, the good news is the the beaver (me) doesn't need to go about alphabetizing all our entries...

whatever happens, we'll all do it together.

um, I just posted a whole paragraph, what is this blank?

osso got abducted!!!

I just had a look at Algis's work - the summer flowers thread - thanks for pointing it out Charli. They are amazing - everyone look!

I am a photographer, I mostly take landscape/travel night photography.

You can check me out at http://www.delayed.org (reposted by request).

hope you enjoy it!
-s