Painted Portrait – Ava
We had the family Christmas Party at the beginning of December last year, and I took some casual portraits of family members while everyone was together. A few turned out really well, so I decided to turn a couple of them into painted portraits. This is Ava, and she is my nephew’s daughter. Her mother [...]
Bridal Meeting
Last weekend, Deborah and I met up with Brandon Smith and Melissa Stefanec, who are getting married in Little Falls in September. The idea was just to do a meet and great, get an idea of what their expectations where, and then get the details of the wedding – time, place, etc. When I talked [...]
Painted Portrait – Deborah
Seems like I’ve been trying to finish this one for the LONGEST time! I did the portrait session with Deborah when we were in Elgin. Then, I worked on the image when we got up here, but I didn’t do the painted portion because I had a very particular style in mind for this. Over [...]
Painted Portrait of the Mother-in-Law
Well, my wife wanted to make sure that I did a painted portrait of my mother-in-law JUST like the one I had done of her father-in-law last year. So, we did the portrait session last weekend, and then this week I worked on the painted version of it. Finished yesterday – JUST in time for [...]
Ahhh… the Holidays!
The Holidays are a great time, but very different up here than what Deborah and I were used to in Austin. Down there, it was usually just my son and two grandsons that we could visit. And then, it was shared time with ex’s and other families who wanted their own time with them. So, [...]
Have I been taking ANY pictures?
Since I haven’t had an entry here in awhile, you would think I haven’t been taking any pictures! Well, truth of the matter is I have been VERY busy with the LensFlare35 podcasts with some of the top Canon photographers from around the world. It takes up a LOT of my time, as does the [...]
Being the Spouse
Well, being the spouse of a photographer is probably not the greatest deal in the world. The thing is, I’m always telling Deborah we need to go here or there so that I can check the lighting, or try a pose, or I need yet another image of her to test some theory or new [...]
Painted Portrait – Butch
Let’s face it, most of us really don’t like to have our picture taken. I know that I’m one of those people who is never pleased with pictures of myself. And, as a photographer who has taken pictures of a LOT of people over the decades (I know, I’m old as dirt), I’ve heard it [...]
Kinneil – Glamour Shot
Kinneil is a friend of mine from Galveston who was interested in trying out for the Houston Texans cheerleading squad. Of course, they needed a headshot and a couple of other poses with the application, so she gave me a call. This is the headshot that we decided to use. Of course, you are always [...]
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 [...]
Melissa’s Painted Portrait
Well, there is one really good thing about snow days – you get to just barricade yourself in and work on projects that you haven’t finished (on the computer at least). I was working on this digitally painted portrait of a picture of Melissa that I had taken in Elgin’s Western Days Parade. I thought she [...]
Baxter’s Portrait
For all of you pet lovers, and especially you ‘Baxter’ lovers back in Elgin, I wanted to share the latest pose for ‘the boy’. I’ve given the picture a ‘painterly’ look, and may in fact even use it as one of my painted portrait examples in the future. I’ll certainly put him on the list, [...]
ScarArt and a Portrait
A friend of mine, Angela Barrow has invented a product. Now this is a girl who is ALWAYS coming up with the latest, greatest, thing, and strange as it may seem, this one may actually have legs! Here’s the summary of the product and what it does: “ScarArt is a specially designed temporary tattoo to fit [...]
Dapremont Wedding
A couple of weeks ago (yes I’m slow on posting the blog updates) I had the great pleasure to finish out the Anne King & Edgar Dapremont ‘project’ by going to their wedding and taking photos of the event. In May, we had done the bridal portrait session, and they had come out fantastic! On [...]
Painted Portrait – Cynthia
One of the great aspects of the digitally painted portrait, is the ability to control the AMOUNT of painting that you do. It can be very heavy, impressionistic brush strokes, or it can be just a very light touch. You can combine the two, where one area is more painterly, and then you choose to [...]
Hidden Faces
We’ve known Anne for a number of years. Her bubbly personality and flashing eyes created a single image in our minds of who Anne is. So, when she called to say she wanted us to do her bridal portrait work, we were thrilled. Deborah, my wife and artistic assistant, began pulling poses that she thought [...]
Gallery Closed – On the Road Again!
Well, we closed the retail gallery on May 3, 2008. It’s a mixed blessing – something that you love and now miss, and yet, something that had you tied down so that you couldn’t do what you REALLY love! Getting out and taking the scenics, landscapes, and other kinds of photographic work that is truly [...]
Painted Portrait – Nancy Lou Webster
It’s just a lot of fun to have a portrait session with someone, and then find an image in that session that really deserves to be painted and then put on canvas or watercolor paper. I thought this one was just a great profile of Nancy Lou, and so started to work on it. It [...]
Nancy Lou Webster
What better person to do a portrait session on than a character like Nancy Lou Webster? She has been an icon in Elgin Texas since the 1970′s, when she arrived in her ‘hippie’ attire. These are the four images that I used with her piece interview. Click on the first one and it will expand the image and [...]
Music Anyone?
Well, a 7,000 acre ranch in the morning, work the gallery in the early afternoon and then a photo shoot for a couple of musicians in the late afternoon. All in a days work. Ron and Debbie have written a song for Elgin and it’s largest festival of the year – Hogeye. It brings 20,000 people [...]
Ranch Portrait Session
Mary Glover is an oil painter and her favorite subject is her daughter, her horses and their wonderful ranch just east of Elgin Texas. The idea was to get out extremely early and catch the morning sun with four different horses, the dogs, and Mom painting her daughter while she rode, walked, or just worked [...]
The ‘Retro’ Look
Sometimes it’s toughest to capture a person’s personality when you know them. And these days, it is much more difficult to get people to say they really like their portrait. This was just a test studio project, working with a different kind of tinting process and edge, as well as a soft glow, or as [...]
