One Finished and One Not-So-Much

by lara on April 14, 2008

Work on the bal­loon seller pic­ture is com­plete. You can see a full-size dig­i­tal ver­sion here.

(no small ver­sion today — can’t get it to resize cor­rectly — maybe tomor­row)

The image in the gallery is a dig­i­tal ver­sion that I made for Jim to use on his desk­top. It mim­ics the effect of being printed on Arches 140 CP water­color paper by using a col­ored back­ground and an applied tex­ture. It’s much closer to the actual printed ver­sion that I can get with a camera.

Another of the Oax­aca pic­tures that I’ve been work­ing with is not so complete.

I started with this pic­ture of the old power house in Vista Her­mosa that is now the Taller de Arte Papel Oax­aca. (Art paper work­shop — mak­ers of very cool hand­made papers.)

jim’s original photo of the power house

The block­ing for the piece isn’t great on screen:

murky art work

It prints as an even murkier mess. I think the prob­lem is los­ing the detail in the shad­ows in the foliage. I’m going to leave well enough alone for a while and work on some other images. I like this one too much to just aban­don it but I’m not mak­ing any progress for the moment.

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