Studio Time

I decided I needed a break from the street yesterday. I spent a few hours cutting panels in the reflective air fryer that is my driveway, and did a bit of work on the painting you see here. This actually has a sort of deadline. It does have a bit of time and it’s pretty far along anyway. I figured it might be a good time to spend some time with it though.

( 🙂 I actually have a version of this photo with even lighting by the way. For some reason, I decided I like this one better. The painting’s got a ways to go anyway. This does show the texture of Arches oil paper pretty nicely.)

This is a version of a painting I did a while back called “Three Aging Musicians”. The title of that one is sort of self explanatory.

This is printed in greyscale on Arches oil paper and reworked in oil. I did have to make a few changes to things to get it to work the way I wanted. I’m sure it will go through quite a few changes before it goes to the gallery.

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A couple of the things that I really like about gimp (aside from the fact that the developers make every effort imaginable to provide as many options as possible for carrying out a given task: the gradient tool offers a choice of eleven shapes, a choice of color spaces, etc…) are the warp tool, the cartoon filter and the “Little Planet” filter. There are a lot of other things that are great about the program but those are some of my favorite toys. I used them all on a photo of the original to come up with this.

I’m not a big fan of filters that distort things in general but The Little Planet filter, in particular, seems to work with my style of painting. I’m not sure what other uses it might have (aside from making little planets) seeing that it does some pretty severe stuff to an image, but it works nicely for me. I went through a few hundred photos of my paintings recently and came up with a fair number of “re-mixes”: