wow..mam thirty years is a big time lag....
but your portrait is really good...it is not rustty at all...its superb...well done mam..keep making more paintings i love to see your work....
Yes Rupin I only have a limited time to draw and the painting takes longer since I am really not used to it yet. But I am going to do more now be checking back and I will try to have some nice pieces to show!!!
Wow Christine!! This portrait of Emmit Kelly is just REMARKABLE!! Very well done and I love it when you use color!! It's just wonderful!! Bravo my friend!!
Christine, My brother was supposed to fly to New York but they are having a big blizzard with freezing temps and flights have been cancelled. I love this portrait!
No this portrait is finished but not as good as I had wanted I am not finished trying to improve. Think of yourself as lucky it is 35 below zero here with the wind chill factor!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Sorry you ar ehaving such cold freezing temperatures up there! BRRRR... I know how lucky I am to live in Florida especially at this time of year. Please continue to paint with color because you are a GREAT ARTIST!!
It is showing almost garish here and it is much better in person. I must be practicing but this is the first in over thirty years so I thought I would try. Your reinicence painting is super thanks a million Shahin miles behind you on this technique but a challange and I love to be challanged!!!!!!
Yes he was a mornful clown and me and my husband have a photo taken with him in our local mall. Of course that was about twenty years ago but it is a great keep sake for us!!!
My good friend Christine wishes you a Merry Christmas that you pass it very well in your dear beings' company, I wishes of all heart, your friend and admirer. Roberto.
Thank you he was a hoho clown and a sad character. We did get to have our picture taken with this famous person I may try doing that triple portrait someday it would be a challenge to do another triple portrait.
He was a great clown and his character is sad. He never spoke a word was silent and a very sad hobo the humor was the dumb way he flopped around and the stupid things he managed to get himself into. His father did the character first as Emmit Kelly Sr. You should look him up on U-tube and see the clown in action. A very great man indeed!!!!!!!!
The colors on this clown are no where near the original how do you get your paintings to show so well they look so much better than this one I tried to scan.
I see nothing wrong they are very good. I'm lucky that I have a good scanner by pure chance when I bought a new printer the scanner was a good one and it had a profeshonal setting that has taken an age to set up but has a save button. I find the scanner removes colour and the watercolour also dry lighter so when I scan I give the scans a boost of a little contrast not to much or it will go to pot. Also if it comes out poor I scan in at a high resolution and reduce to the 2 KB size on a package after. Mind I alway do dark painting as the darker the better the scan. So paint large then scan then reduce for the website or photo with lots of light.
Yes I do much the same thing and I use photo shop2 to blend away the connecting scans. With my 11x14 portraits I can scan in two steps and with the 14x17 portraits I can do it in six steps that seems to work fine. I put them up to about contrast 10 to 15 and I do brighten them up to a few degreese. It is more or less a crap shoot. I try to look at the original piece and get pretty much the closest match to the original drawing the colored pencil seems to scan a little better. I am doing the scans at about 200 to 300 resolution it seems to be okay not perfect but better than it used to be.
Thanks Jessie the colors here are not close to the ones in the original I now have a new scanner and maybe it will record the color truer to the original. Thanks for your support and come back soon friend!!
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