Anne & Edgar Painted Portrait

Well, Anne (with Edgar) will take center stage again, even though the wedding was four months ago.  I decided to take one of their more ‘stylish’ images and turn it into a little bit different style digitally painted portrait.  This time I didn’t want the oil painting look, but something that looked like a hand-colored delicate image.  A soft ‘wedding’ look if you will.  So, here’s the image that I started with.

Now, I worked with that image and first painted in a new almost charcoal look background, then worked on the clothes, skin and then finally the facial areas.  Once I had painted things the way I wanted them, I then added in just a hint of color to the entire image.  Once I was finished, I took the image back into Photoshop and did some minor changes to it.  Here’s how the final image looked:

It’s always difficult, in images posted to the Internet in this size, to really see the detail of the bruch strokes. So, I cut out an area around Edgar’s tie to show the detail.  Here’s a look at that section close up:

As you may have noticed, I have launched the new web site which wraps around the blog.  Looks like I’m back into the portraits and weddings.  The weddings tend to be a staple for many professional photographers.  One way in which to distance yourself from all the others in the pack, is to offer a painted version of selected wedding portraits.  But, you still want it to have that soft ‘wedding look’ and I think that this approach accomplishes that.  You can find the image in the Portfolio/Other/Painted Portraits section of the main site, which allows you to see a larger version of the image.  Just click on the square icon on the right side of the navigation at the bottom – it has an arrow pointing at about two-o’clock inside the square.

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