I’m working on my final project for a digital painting course.
I shot the first image in street market in Xian China in 08. I always thought it would be a good subject for a painting; High iso noise left it a little lacking as a digital image. It’s a work in progress, I’m slowly adding resolution with oils and palette knife. I’ve found it’s easy to overwork the images if I’m not careful.
The second is a scan from a 2 ¼ slide I shot with a Yashica Mat 124 G (I really miss some aspects of shooting film) My tripod was knee deep in muck on the banks of lake Powel. The sunset was shopped in from a sunset I shot in Sedona.
I’m going to be printing one of them on canvas and I want to add brush stroke texture to the printed canvas with an acrylic gel. I’m talking with my prof. about technique. I’m also researching the intertubes a bit.