One of my Pastel paintings; a view from the Porcupine Rim looking across and down into Castle Valley, Utah the picture was taken in the late morning at the top of the trail head, a very tough climb on a Mt. Bike, but oh so worth it. Most my paintings are from photographs. There’s this age old argument about painting from photos; that you don’t get the right perspective, colors are not true and blah this and blah that and if you don’t paint out doors your not a real painter, WHAT!!! Garbage, Degas used photographs for some of his paintings but then again he didn’t paint out doors either, so there…..anyway I don’t care how anyone paints just paint the damm thing and feel good about it that’s all that matters. This photo of my painting has a Photoshop made frame the painting and matting where photographed using a Canon 60mm f/2.8 macro lens (this is my favorite working lens) it has very little lens distortion if any. The frame is actually the spruce top of my B.C. Rich guitar photographed then in Photoshop I make selections out of the photo, it doesn’t matter what dimensions you use; I usually go the length of the photo by 1 inch makes a nice digital piece of lumber I also make several selections of the photo so each piece is unique and then store it in my digital lumber yard for other projects down the road, yes you could probably build a digital house with my digital lumber yard in Photoshop, that’s something Bert Monroy might do, if you have never seen any of Mr. Monroy’s work you owe it to yourself to take a look, you’ll swear it is a photograph but it is a Photoshop built picture; here take a look for your self……..http://www.bertmonroy.com/ be prepared for a realty check, it’s that good. “It is not the destination that is important—it is the journey. The incredible challenge of recreating reality is my motivation”. —Bert Monroy: Thank you, Bert that pretty much sums it up for me too!!
ENJOY, Bill B.
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