If you have ever watched the TV show, "Northern Exposure," you will recognize this place, "Home of the world famous Cherry Pies!"

For the record I have never seen this show, but I now live in this town (North Bend, Washington, U.S.A). I am amazed at all the tourists who visit just to see this place. They literally arrive by the busload. Go figure.

Anyway, happy artifying!

~Danny~

Looks like a nice little community there Danny. Not familiar with the location as I am not a "Northern Exposure" watcher either.

Steve

Same here not a "Northern Exposure" watcher or any t.v. really, but nice photo of what looks like a nice town pity my home town isnt as picteresque
but it does have its appeal (somewhere)

Palms

'northern exposure' was supposely set in alaska. interesting that they used a town in washington. the show was about a young, jewish doctor who had become indentured to the town to pay off his college loan bills...or something like that. he basically hated it but had to do it. lots of quirky characters and had an almost cult following that probably still exists.

craig

'northern exposure' was supposely set in alaska. interesting that they used a town in washington. the show was about a young, jewish doctor who had become indentured to the town to pay off his college loan bills...or something like that. he basically hated it but had to do it. lots of quirky characters and had an almost cult following that probably still exists.

craigThanks for the little bit of history, Craig. That put a few pieces in the puzzle.

re: almost cult following that probably still exists
I understand the show is still extremely popular outside the U.S., especially in Japan, the source of many tourists whose generous spending helps our local economy considerably.

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Steve... It is a nice, folksy little town. North Bend is about 30 miles East of Seattle, home of the 2nd place Seahawks. :(

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Steve and Palms: Do tell a little about "how" you did your very unique interpretations.

I did some initial pre-simplication using Flaming Pear's Pixel Trash. I then used Impressionist with Danny's djroil24 and my own Van Gogh presets synergistically mixed (hopfully) and then flattened and duplicated the layer and ran Plastic Wrap on the top layer. I duplicated this layer and ran angled strokes and merged the two to get the oily texture I wanted. I did some additional bumpmapping in GIMP and added a subtle canvas and also adjusted the saturation/lightness of the piece a bit and got the result that you see (yes, still variations of my usual technique). Attached is a crop. The full rendering can be found here (http://img115.imageshack.us/img115/3899/dsc0009twedescafe0zl.jpg). :)

Northern Exposure was one of the best TV shows ever. But Twede's Cafe and cherry pie were featured in Twin Peaks, which was even better.

http://www.buzznet.com/buzzwords/twin%20peaks/?id=1322905

dc

I didn't THINK I recognized Twede's from Northern Exposure. That town was VERY rustic I believe....but who trusts the old brain anymore?

Several SA paints and lots of Photoshop layers and blends.

Danny. It is sounding to me as if you are going to have to do some research into cherry pie but please don't drool to much . :lol:

My interpretaion was done using the ahb ( on three layers ) using a oval brush, then a little sharpening,

Palms

Ohhh.. Danny... I love a project like this... :-)

How 'bout a wood burned rendition?

Nice Swampy. Love the whole effect.
MargaretM

Here's a watercolor interpretation using the Caravaggio filter (4,2,0,0).
Alan

dee dee,

i like that one also. nice job :)

ok, wasnt twin peaks that sort of murder mystery show that was so popular?

craig

Thanks, Margaret M and Craig. :-) Just the "cowgirl" comin' out in me... LOL

Never thought about doing this before. Care to share your technique? Have some ideas about how you did it, but I'd rather hear it from you. :)

Ikroll....

Thank you for the bravos...

I used PhotoShop, but you can do it in most of the other programs...

1. Duplicae the background and use your favorite pencil sketch, or sketch method. Levels Adjust to make the blacks pretty dark and lights pretty white.
2. I used a Googled image of old weathered board (lightened slightly with a curves adjusment) under the sketch. Added a subtile "Bark" texture to the wood.
3. Set the sketch blend mode to multiply.
4. Added a dark brown color fill layer above the sketch with blend mode set to Color Dodge and clipped this to the sketch layer (in PhotoShop, ALT/OPTION click on the line between the two layers. The color fill layer becomes "indented" indicating that it is only affecting the layer directly below). The color layer brings in the golden brown colors that make portions of the sketch look only singed and not totally "burned"
5. Added a Alien Skin's Xenofex Burned Wood effect for the edges.

Here's my layer palette...
Swampy

Forgot to add... I lowered the opacity on the sketch layer to 90% so it would better "settle" into the wood.

Swampy,

Your work on this is excellent.

Lorraine

Gertrudis Pro, (several paint styles), then played with various blends and opacities to get the final look.

Steve

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Steve... It is a nice, folksy little town. North Bend is about 30 miles East of Seattle, home of the 2nd place Seahawks. :(

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Steve and Palms: Do tell a little about "how" you did your very unique interpretations.

Wow lots of good work here.

For mine, I firstly removed the annoying power lines and jpg artifacts.

Made a selection of the cafe & sign, and inverted.

Used a rather heavy Carrivagio setting, inverted again, and used a lighter touch.

-Jeff

For mine, I firstly removed the annoying power lines and jpg artifacts.

Jeff... Power lines are a distraction in most cases. If you're gonna do a nice painterly effect I'd remove them too. In this case, I found they added to the "tackiness" of the old cafe. It's so typical of small town rural "truckstop" scenes. ;-)

Nice job on your rendering

Jeff... Power lines are a distraction in most cases. If you're gonna do a nice painterly effect I'd remove them too. In this case, I found they added to the "tackiness" of the old cafe. It's so typical of small town rural "truckstop" scenes. ;-)

Nice job on your rendering


Thanks!

For your more linear interpretation, I agree with the choice to leave 'em.

But, as it has been said, variety is the spice of life.

-Jeff

Painted cafe.

Steve

Nice job, Steve. Care to share how you made it?

Thanks,
Jeff

A combination of Lucis Art and Gertrudis Pro layered.

As for exact settings, since I tried several I can't remember the ones I ended up with.

Thanks for your comments and interest.

Steve

Nice job, Steve. Care to share how you made it?

Thanks,
Jeff

Ohhh.. Danny... I love a project like this... :-)

How 'bout a wood burned rendition?

Beautiful!!! thanx for the tutorial I am trying it out on different photos. :classic:

You're welcome, Dude. :-)