Tuesday, August 10, 2010

Flamenco Dancer In Red

$175.00 plus shipping
Flamenco Dancer In Red  14.5 x 24  Oils on panel

This is the best photo so far and I've taken MANY. Amazing, isn't it? :-)

I can't seem to get the focus in focus and the glare unglared in the same photo. This photo has been tweaked very much with Corel PaintShop Photo Pro X3 and it still isn't a good representation of the painting.  Enough whining, right?

I did some flamenco dancers a few months ago then this weekend I was browsing my photo files for an idea for a painting and came upon this figure who in the reference photo is one of several dancers on a stage. I think that the painting looks fine and I'll try to make a better photo from time to time. Until then I've started on one of two paintings of grain silos. Yup, grain silos. Go figure!  :-)

BTW, I make my "panels" using a Masonite panel on a wooden frame which is then covered with cotton canvas. This panel and one other were left over from cutting "standard" panel sizes from a sheet of masonite thus the wierd width of fourteen and a half inches.
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7 comments:

  1. irinapicturesAugust 11, 2010 at 2:04 AM

    She IS dancing!
    Diagonals add so much movement, I have to remember it.

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  2. AvocakenAugust 11, 2010 at 10:11 AM

    Thank you, Irina. I'm still working on the "clear" photo. Any suggestions? :-) I have the automatic camera which doesn't allow for much latitude in settings. :-(

    I really enjoyed making this painting from picking the subject out of the group photo then painting it.

    Ken B.

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  3. irinapicturesAugust 14, 2010 at 2:24 PM

    Do you have any graph.programme in your computer? Photoshop? GIMP? I usually push "auto contrast" button and am sutisfied with the digital result.
    If the camera has "macro" mode, it also helps. And shooting in daylight, with no shadows

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  4. AvocakenAugust 14, 2010 at 3:37 PM

    Thank you, Irina for the camera suggestions. For some reason, my camera focuses on the background even though I use the "macro" setting. It has "auto focus" that has a mind of it's own. Melissa's automatic camera does the same thing sometimes. :-( We've talked about buying a fully manual camera just to take pictures for my paintings and her gourds and etc.

    Ken B.

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  5. irinapicturesAugust 15, 2010 at 11:20 AM

    But if you chose "macro", and then zoom to the max. size, when painting occupies the whole screen, then your camera with strong character will be forced to focus on the only subject it sees, right?

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  6. AvocakenAugust 16, 2010 at 8:30 AM

    I'll give that a try! :-) Thanks.

    Ken B.

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  7. CarolinaAugust 18, 2010 at 10:28 AM

    Wonderful painting! I love it! I agree with Irina about diagonals. I love the sort of abstract look the background adds to it.
    Un abrazo,
    Carolina

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