Signature Series Portrait – Kevin
Once again, back to my painted portraits from the world of filmmaking. I really love doing these and enjoy the look on people’s faces when they get to see the final product. The first image to the left here is the original from a photo shoot for the website of all the people that work [...]
Caddo Lake Portrait
One of my favorite places to photograph in Texas is Caddo Lake up in the Northeast part of the state. This area makes you think you’re either in Louisiana or the swamps of Florida. This was taken a few years ago, but it’s an image I always wanted to digitally paint. The good thing about [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
