Postings of my various and sundry attempts at something like art
I was watching another tutorial video by James Julier on sea sunsets . I was inspired to make my own, based on an old photo — I can’t place exactly where the original was, but it was a rocky beach, somewhere on the west coast near Santa Cruz. The project post gives more info and intermediate steps.
Follow along on the working page at https://www.notion.so/tamouse/Apostle-Islands-Lighthouse-758eb3afaf264485b3e3188ffef095cf
Using a photo from a friend’s trip to Hawaii as the source, follow along with the work in progress on https://www.notion.so/tamouse/Sunset-at-Princeville-HI-4a681f1606b740a683ede8a658a2c0e3 .
This week, March 24, 2021, we started a new project in class. The source photo is from our teacher’s own collection, taken on a beach around Manitowoc of Lake Michigan.
Follow along at the entry at https://www.notion.so/tamouse/Manitowoc-Beach-in-June-34dc565aab2d4bac83e76e1ee2d1f14b.
Many macOS users will likely recognize the source for this painting as one or the background images provided in the recent past. Every time it would pop onto my background or go by in a screen saver, I’d just give a sigh and stare at it.
Jokingly naming the painting “Ellie Font” for no typographical reason, just the way my brain works.
Again, the blog is over on Notion.so:
https://www.notion.so/tamouse/Ellie-Font-eb4f71d018b5434f817cb08d9e0b1d0c
We started a new painting class project in February. It’s a picture our teacher took while touring around near La Crescent / La Cross.
The actual blog post is at https://www.notion.so/Woodcarver-s-Barn-ef644546068e41c5887a0256908c1a18
Doing things a little differently this time. Instead of writing my blog post here, I wrote it using Notion.so.
Early December 2020 project, from a photograph taken by our instructor.
Continue reading “Seal Beach, California”
Painting a maritime scene from a photo taken in Nova Scotia. In this class project, we learned how to take a photograph and arrange and compose it to make a better painting.
Continue reading “Nova Scotia Maritime”
Some of the other students were working on this photo earlier, and I wanted to give it a go, since the lighting is so unusual.