Painting of Tica by Dru Blair (Not A Real Photograph of a Woman)

The Art of Technology ^ | 2/27/2009 | Dru Blair

[FroggyTheGremlim]

Hey, this is a family site. Let’s have none of those dirty pictures.

[Dallas59]

I can’t with my computer. Ram deficiency.

[Starboard]

The farther away from reality it is, the more liberals like it.

[LADY J]

Beautiful work. What art mediums does your wife use?

[Skenderbej]

The black man is oil, the ballerina is acrylic on sandpaper, and the boy is pencil. She likes oil the best, but does a lot of nupastel because it takes the least amount of time.

[cripplecreek]

I think it would be very interesting to see how the great painters of the past would react to photoshop. I suspect they would be astounded by the ability to create limitless colors, alter colors and shadows, remove or replace shades of colors etc.

Photoshop, it’s not all funny political pictures.

[blackminorca]

no way - amazing

[IronJack]

Far too representational and meaningful to merit any attention by the fine arts community.

On the other hand, for us commoners, they're beautiful.

[AFreeBird]

I have this for a desktop image.

[LADY J]

"The black man is oil, the ballerina is acrylic on sandpaper, and the boy is pencil. She likes oil the best, but does a lot of nupastel because it takes the least amount of time."

My compliments to her!!! She is very gifted. Impressive that she works in many different mediums.

[Dallas59]

I can't do much with PS CS3 except jack with my photos and do Scifi stuff and wallpapers....It si fun though.

[cripplecreek]

I was alittle surprised at how hard it is to create a halfway realistic starfield for sci fi type art. I eventually stumbled across this tutorial (tutorials are great) for creating one of the best starfields i've seen.

Creating a realistic starfield in photoshop



There are some really interesting texuring effects that you can do with photographs as well. This is one of the first I did with a stone texture effect so it's got plenty of flaws but I like it anyway. Art is in the eye of the beholder.

[grey_whiskers]

NOT GUILTY!

...oops, wrong thread.

Cheers!

[martin_fierro]

I'm more a fan of the Old Masters:

[ansel12]

“Very impressive! Now, if you could draw/paint a woman like that, make her real, and then send her to me, I would be even more impressed.”

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Start polishing the credit card, your day will be here soon.

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article2023392.ece

[Skenderbej]

I’ll pass on the compliment. Artists never like her work. We tried getting her in a couple of galleries, but were met with underwhelming, “oh, that’s nice” comments.

[mikrofon]

Personally, I prefer the mix-Masters:

[Skenderbej]

Thank you! I should also mention that she sculpts just as well too, but it’s a lot more expensive to cast. We have been married three years now, and I’m convinced that she has a gift to “see” how to represent things. Her portraits from middle school are better than a lot of professionals. Unfortunately we haven’t found a way for her to make money with art!

The best thing is that she is conservative and can make fun of garbage art with me. She never tells people that she’s an artist, especially not other artists, because people associate artists with liberal blowhards who will paint a blue square on a canvas and call it the Sistine Chapel.

[BenLurkin]

“everything looked like it was painted (and sometimes fingerpainted) by an angry monkey.”

Probably the same monkey that wrote the “stimulus” bill.

[Skooz]

bfl