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Cezanne Challenge ~ Farron

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farron Junior Member Registered: August 2001 Location: Nashville. TN Posts: 15 users gallery	Hey, This was fun! Especially since Cezanne never paid attention to perspective. In some of the info I was reading on his work I discovered that he often painted from more than one angle totally ignoring perspective and proper sizing. Those who have watched me try to "paint" know that perspective is NOT my strong point. [grin] In this exercise I tried using the program Deep Paint for the first time. I have only scratched the surface of what it will do and have not yet learned many of its tricks, but I am already certain it will be purchased before the trial period ends. I really like it. Here I used a combination of PSP7 and Deep Paint. In PSP7: Opened original photo and duplicated. Made selections of the pear and the peach. Saved selections to alpha. Duplicated the image, saved and closed. Worked from duplicate. Found photos of a skull, a pomegranate and a pitcher as those are all recurring images in Cezanne's still life works. Added each of these to its own layer as well as the original fruit and started arranging and resizing/reshaping with the deform tool. Created duplicates of some of the fruit and shaped roughly and positioned. Each of these elements received Sharpen More twice, Edges/Erode, Edge Preserve & Texture Preserve Smooth. This gave me the basic shapes with shadings and dark edges. Created a rough table with vector shapes on another layer and moved it below the fruit, etc. Ran through the Artistic Filter/Brush/Small Thin Oil and Large Dry Brush to get blotches of color. Created a layer just above the table layer and used the paint brush to rough in shapes and colors for the table cloth. Was having a bit of trouble with this so I cloned a corner out of a Cezanne and used push, clone and eyedropper to duplicate the feel across the cloth. Blended colors a bit with smudge brush. Closed all layers except the background. Opened them again randomly to select colors from the fruits with the eyedropper. Painted large globs of these colors over the background. When I had enough colors ran the background through Artistic Filter/Brush/Large Dry Brush. This gave me assorted smaller blotches of color. At this point I had my basic shapes and a lot of colors to work with. Saved layered file. Duplicated. Merged layers of duplicate and opened in Deep Paint. In Deep Paint: Please bear in mind that I am BRAND NEW at Deep Paint so I was totally winging it. If someone has a good source of tutorials on the tools, I would LOVE to see them. Made the picture I had just created the source layer. Lowered opacity to about 45%. Added a trace/clone layer over the image. Picked assorted brushes (all with bristle effect) and started painting in texture. Tried to go in random directions and the broadest strokes the element would allow as that seemed to be what I was seeing in Cezanne's works. Used a slight canvas texture in the brushes. This gave me a version of the image created in PSP7 with a stroked look. Merged these two layers. Brought opacity to 100% Created a new layer and painted in some highlights and a few additional strokes. Washed a pale yellow tone over the upper right of the image at low opacity. Merged layers. Went back to PSP7. Adjusted color/RGB a bit to add more blue as it felt a bit warm. Sharpened to bring out a bit more texture. Resized. Saved jpg. To anyone who wants to do digital painting, you have to give Deep Paint a try....I know oh so little about all it's features at this point, but I have to tell you it's a GREAT toy!!! _^..^_ Farron
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Doug Nelson

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Registered: August 2001
Posts: 6,301

8/1/2002 1:37am

So, "Shallow Paint"?

(sorry, couldn't resist)

I very much like how you got into the spirit of this Challenge. You took the research very seriously, and that will always get on my good side. Vase, cloth, and skull were excellent additions.

Very authentic looking. My stupid math-brain keeps saying it's off-center.

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farron
Junior Member

Registered: August 2001
Location: Nashville. TN
Posts: 15

8/1/2002 1:53am

Shallow person [me]=shallow painting. [wink]

It is wayyyy off center. I was looking one of those coffee table books of Cezanne and it seems a large number of his still life paintings are way off center with a corner of a table stuck out like that. So that's the route I took.

Thanks for peeking!

_^..^_
Farron

angue

Senior Member

Registered: July 2002
Location: New York
Posts: 176

8/1/2002 6:45am

Lovely.
If I had not read the description, I could swear it looks like a traditional (non digital) painting.

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Lorraine

Senior Member

Registered: September 2001
Location: Flemington, NJ
Posts: 219

8/1/2002 9:17am

Hi there Farron --

Wow, your painting is excellent.

However, I've got to wonder what Martha Stewart would say about your choice of table items

Seriously, the outlines, texture and colors all look great.

Lorraine

farron
Junior Member

Registered: August 2001
Location: Nashville. TN
Posts: 15

8/1/2002 10:56am

LOL@Martha Stewart, Lorraine!

I could tell her it's one of my odd relatives who came to dinner. [wink]

Farron

Sharon

Junior Member

Registered: August 2001
Location: Everett, WA

8/1/2002 12:16pm

Wow! I really like this. Deep Paint sounds like a neat program.

Sharon

Wanda Schwind
Junior Member

Registered: January 2002
Location: Ohio

8/1/2002 1:29pm

Farron, absolutely excetional

Love the composition, how creative!

Now I know I'm not sending anything in

Beautiful!

wanda

DJ Dubovsky

Senior Member

Registered: August 2001
Location: Upper Penninsula of Michigan
Posts: 1,659

8/1/2002 9:00pm

Farron, that is absolutely fantastic. You really did your homework well on this one. I think even Ce'zanne wouldn't mind signing his name to this effort. Love the skull. That's my favorite part. You realize now that no one will ever believe you can't paint after this.

farron
Junior Member

Registered: August 2001
Location: Nashville. TN
Posts: 15

8/2/2002 12:04pm

Hi Ya'll,

Thanks for the comments! Deep Paint is REALLY cool. I can't wait to get a bit more proficient in its use. Nothing like rookie gone wild with cyber paintbrushes...haha

Check it out if interested at:

http://www.righthemisphere.com/produ...aint/index.htm

There is a 60 day/40 hour free demo. Retail price is a bit steep, BUT if you are signed up for any kind of class anywhere that qualifies you for student software discounts, the price drops dramatically. Geez I love that part of being an eternal student! LOL

_^..^_
Farron

Lorraine

Senior Member

Registered: September 2001
Location: Flemington, NJ
Posts: 219

8/3/2002 5:27am

Thanks, Farron

I had forgotten about those student discounts. I'm still on the trial version myself, but would like to buy Deep Paint. A discount would be very nice.

Lorraine

tom c

Member

Registered: October 2001
Location: florida
Posts: 64

8/4/2002 12:07am

hey ..Cezanne never did understand perspective...a few others of his time could'nt either...Van Gough...Matisse.
yours is a great approximation
tom c

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Howard Leigh
Junior Member

Registered: February 2005
Location: Ottawa, Canada

2/12/2005 8:00pm

FARRON

Thanks for the detallied description! Not even being a PS whiz, I have be bashing my head against the wall in PS .. layer by layer .. filter by filter ! I love the sketchy, watercolor look to this image. Now about that skull ............

TY

HOWIE

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