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patrob
Goldthwaite, TX
(Zone 8a)
December 01, 2006
10:21 PM Post #2960857
| please look at this one and let me know if you would be interested in painting it for me as a gift for my mother. My DDIL took the photo in New York a couple of weeks ago, and my mother loves it. Oils or acrylics, 36' in width, and I would take care of the framing. If you are interested, let's talk. Thanks, Patricia 
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ginger749
Gold Coast
Australia
December 01, 2006
11:44 PM Post #2961074
| Hi, patrob,
I have spent about 10 mins on your project.
What do you think ?
If you like it just take it to your local Photography shop
and get them to blow it up.
I know it wont be a painting.
I`ll work more on it later.
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ginger749
Gold Coast
Australia
December 02, 2006
05:51 AM Post #2961286
| Here in Aus. We can take a digital Picture
to the picture framer and he can project it directly onto canvas.
He also has canvases with different textures on it,
so it looks like real brush strokes.
Might be worth looking into.
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patrob
Goldthwaite, TX
(Zone 8a)
December 02, 2006
09:36 AM Post #2961516
| Thanks, Ginger, I love what you did with the photo. I live in a tiny town in the middle of Texas. I will ask my sister, who lives in a large city, to see if she can find someone to do what you suggested. Mom would love it either as a photo or painting. A few years ago her eyesight was good, and she would have already painted it herself! |
ginger749
Gold Coast
Australia
December 02, 2006
02:09 PM Post #2962118
| #2 A slight variation. 
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ginger749
Gold Coast
Australia
December 02, 2006
02:14 PM Post #2962123
| #3 Yet more options. 
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ginger749
Gold Coast
Australia
December 02, 2006
02:22 PM Post #2962147
| patrob
If and when you decide to use this option .
Tell me which Number you like best .
Then I will hotmail it to you direct.
As you will notice DG quite rightfully so
puts a Water mark in top left corner to protect copy right. [yours & mine]
When I Email it to you that won`t be there.
Or I could Hyperlink you directly to my Page.
Whatever you like. |
oladyhoo
Brunswick, GA
December 11, 2006
07:00 AM Post #2989389
| The two large limbs look like male and female figures leaning toward one another, but held apart by the many small branches. |
pepper23
KC Metro area, MO
(Zone 5b)
December 11, 2006
07:36 PM Post #2991209
| Good eye!! I never noticed that til you said something. That is really neat. |
ginger749
Gold Coast
Australia
December 17, 2006
06:47 PM Post #3007161
| How are you going patrob?
Got the PICTURE done yet?
Your mum should be very surprised.
Xmas is not long away now!!!
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patrob
Goldthwaite, TX
(Zone 8a)
December 17, 2006
07:59 PM Post #3007299
| Good and bad news! Mom told me when I double checked that the photo she liked was horizontal and had gold leaves in it. From her first description I just knew I had posted the right one because it is her style. We can't find the one she prefers in my daughter-in-laws's photos, at least not the way she remembers it. There is one with hazy NYC buildings in the background, but the buildings don't appeal to her. She is nearly 80 but amazingly sharp. I love the one you fixed up for me and am going to have it done for my own home a little later on. She'll see it and wish she had it! lol |
JaxFlaGardener
Jacksonville, FL
(Zone 8b)
February 08, 2007
09:12 AM Post #3168967
| I almost always paint from photos and prefer a photo-realist approach (with a somewhat noticeable influence by Impressionism).
If you happen to find the photo that you want converted to a painting, please feel free to get in touch with me and we'll see what we can work out.
Jeremy
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JaxFlaGardener
Jacksonville, FL
(Zone 8b)
February 08, 2007
09:20 AM Post #3168991
| And here's one that is more purely photo-realist. It was created using a photo by DGer Gardenwife (with her permission) of Castor Oil Plant (Ricinus communis) that really inspired me when I saw it in the Plant Files. The 4' x 6' painting was donated to a local charity and raised $1500 in an annual fund-raising art auction. As it turned out, my psychiatrist bought the painting! so now I get to visit the painting every 3 months when I go in for prescription renewals. It reminds me that I do occasionally have a few moments of lucid sanity. LOL
I'm willing to consider creating oil paintings from any photos (especially plants, flowers, and landscapes -- no human portrait work, though - I leave that to the professional portrait artists) that anyone may have.
Jeremy
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zenpotter
Minneapolis, MN
(Zone 4b)
February 08, 2007
09:23 AM Post #3168998
| Jeremy, beautiful work. |
UniQueTreasures
Beaumont, TX
(Zone 8b)
February 08, 2007
09:23 AM Post #3169002
| WOW Jeremy! You have really brought that Castor Bean to life! Awesome job!
I like the one above it too. Looks like something from a dream.
Janet
edited to say: I just re-read your post on the Castor Oil plant. Is it the same as Castor Beans?
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JaxFlaGardener
Jacksonville, FL
(Zone 8b)
February 08, 2007
09:43 AM Post #3169071
| Yep, Janet -- Castor Oil plant is the source for the Castor Beans -- also known as "Tick Seed" because they do exactly resemble a plump tick! The plant is the actual source for Castor Oil -- all parts of the plant, however, are poisonous, so be careful in brewing any home remedies! Local folklore that I've heard is that the leaves can be used with a warm, moist, steamy cloth to create a compress over the chest to help relieve cold and flu symptoms, but I would check with a medical professional before trying it. The plant is also the source of Racine poison -- made famous not too long after the 9/11 attacks because someone, somewhere threatened to use Racine in a terrorist plot, claiming that they had ready access to the poison. My take on that was that any somewhat knowledgeable gardener with 89 cents and a nearby K-Mart (or other garden center) has ready access to Racine poison. You can buy the Castor Bean seeds wherever garden seeds are sold!
I grew the plants here at one time by my doorstep, but they got so high, they began to dwarf my 2-story house! They didn't survive a transplant to move them to the backyard, but I still have their babies popping up from self-seeding.
Jeremy |
UniQueTreasures
Beaumont, TX
(Zone 8b)
February 08, 2007
10:56 AM Post #3169253
| My sister Connie, maidentheshade, grows them at her house. They are pretty big plants.
I love the way you've captured the sunlight on those leaves. So very realistic.
We're glad you've joined us here and hope you will share more of your work.
Janet |
jasmerr
Merrimac, WI
(Zone 4b)
February 08, 2007
11:02 AM Post #3169273
| Jeremy,
The painting is absolutely beautiful! |
pepper23
KC Metro area, MO
(Zone 5b)
February 08, 2007
08:37 PM Post #3170712
| Love your paintings Jeremy!! |
bedouin
Fort Lauderdale, FL
(Zone 10b)
August 10, 2007
07:40 PM Post #3842288
| Exquisite Jeremy!
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JaxFlaGardener
Jacksonville, FL
(Zone 8b)
August 11, 2007
08:16 AM Post #3843761
| Thanks for your kind comments on my paintings.
PS - Patrob, the photo transfer by high resolution scan and printing to artists' canvas method that ginger refers to above is called gicle' (pronounced "gee - clay") or also known as "Iris print" based on the name of the printing machine used for the process. The method does produce an absolutely exact copy of the image onto canvas. I've had some of my paintings photographed and printed in this way (the castor oil image above being one of them -- printed in a 2 ft x 3 ft format instead of the original painting size of 4 ft x 6 ft). The process is not inexpensive -- depending on the studio that does the work. I can have the process done here in Podunkaville for about $125 for the photo and high resolution scan to CD, then about $25 per square inch (including unprinted edges to allow white canvas to stretch around the stretcher bars). I can't make much profit when I sell my paintings as gicle' prints because most of the cost goes to the photographer/printer, but for established artists that sell a lot of work, the gicle' process does make it possible to reproduce and sell an image at a much lower cost than a painting would cost.
Jeremy |
msrobin
Caneyville, KY
(Zone 6b)
August 12, 2007
12:13 AM Post #3846799
| Jeremy, cool paintings! Thanks for the info on gicle'. I have seen that offered, but had no idea what it cost.
Robin |
Pagancat
(Sheryl) Gainesboro, TN
(Zone 6b)
August 13, 2007
01:12 PM Post #3852146
| Pat, did you ever have the painting completed? |
