A.) I like to take digital pictures and eventually turn one of them into a real work of art. Not that digital photography is not an art form, but I jet prefer to try and emulate my photographs in paint, or color pencil. When I travel, I take my camera with me and I snap away the different things I see. I can take tons of photographs that have little differences, but I can see what they are. I use these pictures as mini-thumbnail models for a finished product.
B.) For this project, I chose to post some of my pictures I took of the lighthouse in Holland, MI. We went there on a weekend trip and, as the day was starting to wind down, we went to the beach. We walked all over the pier and sand as I waited for the sun to set closer to the horizon. I took some clear shots of “Big Red” and horsed around with the different settings my camera offers. Here are some of the pictures I took that day:
C.) I took all of those pictures and looked them over very carefully. I really liked this one:
So, I grabbed a canvas off the shelf and my painting tools and started to create some art. This is what I eventually came up with:
The original photograph looks great (self-opinion). The painting looks real good considering I do not paint very often (again...biased opinion). But, the picture of my painting does not do the artwork justice either. One thing I do not like about digital photography is that you lose a bit of originality with every generation and you are seeing the 5th version of this: my experience, my picture, my painting and my picture of my painting...computer version.
Great painting, Lial!
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