Not really getting into the painting tonight, I guess because I’m not trying to do anything in particular, just messing around with some fresh tubes of paint, trying a little blending and a little amateurish decoration. This may be a self-limiting experiment. However, I’ve confirmed that in fact blue and yellow still do make green, just like they did when I was in kindergarten.
El perico
El perico – crop
Palette 2-11-16
The face in the paint
Since I’m also taking Spanish, I decided to use Spanish for the title of my little class painting today. The parakeet needs more work, but is, I think, at least identifiable as some kind of bird. But I’m feeling very excited about doing the close-ups. I needed something like this just now to get back to taking photographs. Can’t always be on a road trip. And I can do this no matter how cold or nasty it gets outside!
The clouds turned glorious tonight for just a brief spell. I was in the strip-mall hell of east Carbondale, but I found a place to pull over and get some unobstructed shots. The top two I only color-corrected. The bottom one I exaggerated for a painterly effect. There’s way too much color noise in this photo, but I’m not yet proficient enough in Photoshop to have improved it much. I should have chosen a lower ISO. Fuji X10.
Light fixture no. 1, SIH Cancer Institute
Light fixture no. 2, SIH Cancer Institute
iPhone photos.
iPhone photo, cropped, color-balanced.
Auto body study no. 1
Pentax K-50, 100 mm lens. Cropped and significantly color-manipulated.
Pentax K-50, 100 mm macro lens. Cropped, background altered, color intensified.
Pentax K-50, 100 mm macro lens. Rotated but otherwise unaltered.
Pentax K-50, 100 mm macro lens. Cropped, slightly color manipulated.
Pentax K-50. Tight crop, slightly color intensified.
VAPOR AND FLOW 