More Paintings

I've been taking photos of some of my latest paintings as I have to come up with a business card very soon and thought it would be more interesting to use a full bleed of a painting rather than an existing art  template of something like a palette and a handful of brushes and a logo: Holly's House of Paint.

It's hard to get the color right when I start snapping at 4pm or so - what happened to the daylight? I have to turn the flash off to avoid glare but the natural light produces reflection and if I have used a reflective paint like silver or stainless steel - the light bounces badly.

So instead, having little patience, I use the technically difficult method of holding the painting under a light bulb and clicking away at arms length. With alot of  cropping and color correction (you know you've underlit when the white mat reads brown) I can approximate the feeling of the painting although so far, the photos do little to show the texture and values and generally have a slightly unreal feeling to them.

I chose the above photo for my business card - I had to crop it a little to get the proportions right and who knows how it will turn out - the days of going to the local print shop, waiting forever and then having to confront them when the color is wacky are long since gone for me. I like shopping at night.

This is one of many paintings I've done which clearly has its genesis in the airport.

I'll have to wait for better lighting before I take any more photographs.

Tomorrow is a  Saturday with Cindy - we paint, we critique, we eat. I'm thinking grilled pork tenderloin, advocado, asian slaw and jalapeno hot sauce wrapped up in a tomato basil  tortilla. Maybe I'll take a photo of that.