Posted on 03/31/2020 11:54:11 AM PDT by mairdie
Millais will always be my favorite. My favorite painting of all time is “The Blind Girl”.
Thanks, windsorknot. My earliest memories of seeing art was a book of academic nudes from late 19th c that belonged to mother and grandmother. It was part of the heartbeat of my childhood.
artrenewal.org
I use that, too. I search out images then use google to identify all variations of an image online and search for the largest so that I can push in should I choose. I sort by writing the name with date first, so that I can organize chronologically. The time gets used because I’ll frequently remove white dust dots from the painting. I truly hope the originals aren’t in as bad condition as many of the images.
The series is also a study of how his red-haired model aged.
The series is also a study of how his red-haired model aged.
Masterful color palette, and that steam rising up is almost subliminal with the shapes, figures and faces.
And all these years I thought I was the only FReeper who likes Waterhouse. I currently have his painting “The Magic Circle” as my laptop screensaver. Thanks for posting!
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All these years I thought I was the only FReeper who liked Waterhouse, too! :D
Agreed. 1886, so he knows all about the Impressionists.
I’m a disaster at recognizing faces, so I have trouble identifying the same person recurring. I interpret it as generic rather than portrait.
With a membership you can get high-resolution images. I don’t currently, but I’ve thought about it lately.
I have to pick and choose memberships. Since I’m so big into genealogy, all my money goes into genealogical society and newspaper archive subscriptions. US only. We don’t even have TV cable subscriptions.
So far, I’ve found enough large images that I’m okay for the videos I do. When I do Chinese art, I spend my time on Chinese sites using Google translate to get me to the right artists. That’s where the big images are! Another issue is color. Any image is one of a range of colors of that image and I like having a wide range to choose among.
I do massive photoshopping on these images. Maybe 70 percent end up as psds rather than jpgs. I color adjust and light level a lot, besides removing dust and scratches.
>> I color adjust
It’s frequently the case that a photographer’s image has a yellow cast to it. Also many paintings haven’t been cleaned, and varnish yellows over the years. So color adjusting off yellow is the most common thing I do.
I had to take a peek to see if you did Caravaggio....surprise! Wonderful!
Caravaggio - Early Work (1591-1598) - Anthony Holborne
https://youtu.be/vdeyS2O2g88
Caravaggio - Later work (1598-1610) - Anthony Holborne
https://youtu.be/dMfgPVkKgR8
Thank you, PistolPaknMama. Much appreciated.
This is the Fine Arts Playlist - 78 videos currently
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLYTtL1FB2XCq0H0Lat5EHhguwg2tnp4rR
Lovely! Thank you!
So very glad you liked it.
Wonderful, as always ! The music was first rate and fit the subject perfectly, your images are always so nicely massaged in Photoshop. I quite enjoyed the piece and, thank you for introducing me to an artist, who, I’m sorry to say, I have been unfamiliar with ‘till now.
My friend, who is a volunteer at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, told me that she hadn’t heard of him either. I’m not sure if it’s because of his low volume of works compared to some other artists. He worked in larger and larger canvases over the years, which must have really slowed him down.
I was always so impressed with the lectures on art restoration, and it’s really fun to go into an image with a tiny brush and replicate strokes over dust spots and scratches. As for the yellows, well taking off the yellowed varnish is one of the common art restoration techniques, so I figure photoshop color correction is right on.
My favorite memory was of being told that there was a famous modern artist who worked on such yuck canvases that the first thing museums would do on buying one was to remove the paint en masse and replace it on a properly primed canvas. I suppose that still cost less than the original cost of the painting, but wow!
So very glad you liked the video!
I was just wandering the image sites trying to decide who is next. Love Botticelli, but too many religious paintings and not enough mythological. Tempted toward going back to Roman and Greek wall paintings, but then I’ve always been meaning to do cave paintings. Lascaux just blows me away.
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