Sunday, June 14, 2020

"Painting" Vases of Flowers

I used to sketch with a pen and ink when I lived overseas.  Clearly self-taught.  I sketched seashells because I loved the shape and symmetry and because I lived in the South Pacific and had little to do when I was not a work.  Natures beauty has always captured me.  This was before children, of course. 

Now I sit at home and read or watch TV or cook. The cooking part is really something I should avoid. So, instead, I then turn to working on my photographs. With spring and early summer blooms there is plenty of stuff to digitize. 

I always admired the flourishing of art and science under the Medici family in Florence, Italy in the 1500-1600s. I even have a cookbook with Florentine recipes collected by Lorenza de Medici and accompanied by paintings by Giovanna Garzoni, a famed female miniaturist of that time. The cookbook was a gift and published in 1994.  While perusing that cookbook for recipes it stimulated my still early attempts at still-life art below from my photographs. Each takes 3 to four hours from beginning to end if I do not count all the sorting and deleting!  I also sometimes go back days later and "fiddle."

I admit that these are still broadly stylized and derivative with no consistent style, but I do like doing them. I have not moved into the areas of bugs, fruit, and animals...yet.  Do you have a preferred one?









11 comments:

  1. Oh my, you have such talent! Beautiful...

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    1. Tried to come=ment, but it requried a subscription and the link only took me to an HTML code page which was not interactive. Sorry.

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  2. You put a lot of effort into this and are well rewarded as a result. It requires patience that I may not possess. I think my favourite is the second one for its brightness.

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  3. Interesting. I like the first one because the light makes it look like an old master painting.
    What program do you use?

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    1. I use Adobe photoshop Elements which is the lighter version of Adobe PS. I also use filters that are free, one or two purchases and severalthat i have made myself.

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  4. Awesome! You definitely have talent and I have appreciation.

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  5. Lovley photos. They all have a different personality. The first looks like after sipping a glass of perfect wine. The 2nd is sun happy energy. The 3rd has energy in a determine way. The 4th has mood waiting to share. And the 5th is the most interesting of all with the shells in the water partnered with the flower also in water. Number one is my favorite.

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  6. these are lovely, in fact I thought the first was perhaps one of the paintings from your cookbook, but third from the top, I think, is my favorite.

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  7. Beautiful! The second to last is my favorite.

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