Mom thought Ted’s bird photo looked like a museum painting. So zoom in below to see this painting!
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I declared Claire a “master shader” recently when she was working on a collection of objects in a drawing that ended up looking very three dimensional. She has always had a talent for capturing light and shade in drawings. I spotted this variation of the theme in her sketch book that blends shading and poetry…
Snellville 1952 – Painting
Kathy and I went shopping at Kroger today. There is large painting of Snellville in 1952 at the main intersection of 124 and 78. It is about 20 feet wide. I took three shots with my BlackBerry and stitched them together in Photoshop, correcting the perspective distortion.
The painting is by Dianna Love Snell (of the Snellville Snell’s.) Snellville used to be called New London.
There was no red-light camera at that time.
Stout and the Bee
Kelly told us all week how Stout was protecting her from bees. If bees came near her, she could call Stout and he would jump, bark, and snap at the bees to chase them away. Since I’ve never been able to get Stout interested in chasing away roaches, I wasn’t sure why he was deciding to chase bees, but Stout and Kelly have a special relationship.
Kelly sent me this amazing photo on Friday. I’m including two sizes. The left is screen size and the right is high resolution.
I asked her if she has used photoshop, and she said no, that it was a real shot. I later noticed how she had made all but Stout and the bee black and white. Kelly admitted she had used Photoshop to do that. I hadn’t even noticed it at first, but it really made the bee and Stout stand out. She then said she had made the bee a little bigger.
“Well that’s using Photoshop,” I told Kelly. She thought I meant had she taken two pictures and merged them. She meant the photo was real. Enhancing photos is just something she does with almost every photo she takes. That’s normal.
I showed this photo to some of our designers at work. They were impressed. The whole idea that kids have grown up enhancing photos on the fly is something new. It used to take chemicals and dark rooms to do what Kelly did with this photo… and forget making the bee bigger.
I think it was a great shot, enhancements and all. I hope there is some money in her future with this kind of creativity.
Orange Hair
I liked these so much, I sent them to Sam’s Club to have them printed.
Slammed Nose
I slammed my nose in the door….
— Nicole
And drawn on same day….
Pig On Pewter
When I went to MacWorld in Boston, Don Voshall saw a lot of drawing programs that he had John Watson buy.
I installed Painter at home, and we’ve all had some fun with it. Kelly asks about the pig drawing almost every day. She watched me draw it from her Mother Goose picture/music book that she got for her birthday.
I think she feels some ownership of the pig. “Drawing of pig on pewter?” she’ll ask, wanting to see my and her pig.
Matt the Rat
There once was a rat named Matt
Who was quite fat until
He stepped into the street
without looking this way and that
And now Matt the Rat is flat.
Fashion Show
[Nicole writes:]
In school we’re going to have a Fith grade fashion show. We’re assigned to a subject and we have to pick something out of that categorie and and draw it, color it, or paint the subject we picked. I want fine arts so I can do a pitcher throwing a ball at the batter on the front and on the back I would like to have a batter swinging at the ball. I think the judges might like that.
Mrs. Broughton, the art teacher, siad I was a great artist. Maybe I’ll be an artist or a cartoonist someday. (Hmmmmm.)
General Sherman Pays
Uncle Edward sent the check for $500 for the drawings and layout of the his book. He wants to discuss another at the reunion in August.