Stevemawmv's Gallery (Shared Reflections.....)

[Caesar]

Unbelievable! This last one is just picture-like perfect. I don't know if this is the jolly character You promised, but it's a fantastic outcome anyway.

[stevemawmv]

Hello ElectricWarrior,

Originally couldn't come up with a appropriate title, didn't want to stir or suggest anything on this one.
Thanks for jogging my memory and giving me a title , could have named it Ride of the Valkyries though, but
The End sums it up quite nicely.
As for obsessions with themes you mentioned in your thread, I know a little about that as well, been battling
'to do or not to do' on one of mine for awhile.....So I went ahead and started another one...Umm!
Glad you like it!
Take care,
Steve

Repost from previous
page, new title.

[stevemawmv]

Dear Caesar,

Thanks for your first word in the reply, I really appreciate it coming from you!
Interesting you said "picture-like", for some weird reason I wanted to get a photo
feel to it, you know...like a faded 35mm photo, shot with a old Nikon F...Umm, 'deja vu'
wrote this somewhere else. Oh well, as for the character, not jolly but interesting enough
to rate a painting!
Thank you friend,
Steve

[AndreaMG]

It's terrific Dear Steve

[D Akey]

Nice job.

Funny how this same actor can go from playing painfully shy Boo Radley in To Kill a Mockingbird to this character who is the embodiment of the fearless warrior who would never get a scratch.

Soft focus in interesting. Perhaps it's part of the mechanical process of transferring a photo to painting in this ArtRage way where it looses a little detail. Or it's a way to distance one's self from the direct photographic look. In either case it's iconic.

And I agree -- great movie.

A cinematographer's dream.

[stevemawmv]

Andrea.....
Well, thanks again for taking another look and commenting.
Like I said, just had to do this one...who knows why?

D Akey.....
Pretty much have enjoyed all the roles he's ever played, this was a bit of a quirky one,
but that's why it worked so well for me. Still trying to figure out where I want to go
with my paintings, changing my mind daily....but I'll figure it out.

Thank you both,
Steve

[Marilyn Anne]

You did a great job!

[stevemawmv]

Hello Marilyn,
Thank you for thinking so. Now it's back to my family and
the Runner family paintings....
Take care,
Steve

[stevemawmv]

I was curious to see what this would look like if it were a
black and white photograph....luminosity checked in blend mode.

[Caesar]

It's wonderful anyway You glaze, overlay, blend and manipulate it! Once You got the right composition and tones, and You really did, 90% of value is gotten I think. Bravo!