I recently saw some "paintings" by Chauve Auckenthaler. The media listed was "hand embellished photograph". The gallery manager said they were done by printing photo on watercolor paper using high-end color printer and then painting with watercolor over the painting.
They were gorgeous and I would love to find resources to learn the details of how to do this.
Can anyone point the way????
pete in FL

Hi Pete:

Glad you found our little photo-art oasis. Your post triggered me to do a little research on Chauve Auckenthaler, a husband and wife team. For the benefit of others, here are a couple links of interest:

Art.com (http://www.art.com/asp/display_artist-asp/_/NV--235_F23_A4924/CRID--4924/posters.htm) - Example works

Art Select (1) (http://www.prints.artselect.com/perl/frMagnify?artID=10429&matID=1&frameID=306&customerID=24122919-1383910062) - Another example

Art Select (2) (http://www.prints.artselect.com/perl/frMagnify?artID=10430&matID=1&frameID=306) - One more example...

Michaels.com (http://www.michaels.com/cgi-bin/ncommerce3/ExecMacro/ArtPrints/artistbio.d2w/report?artistid=5074) - A little bio.

Regarding the specific end-to-end process details, the technique sounds facinating. Though I have no experience with watercolors nor watercolor paper personally, I wouldn't be surprised if some of folks who visit this forum have some comments/observations.

I'll be looking forward to seeing how this thread develops.

Thanks for checking us out and dipping your toe into the pool!

~DannyR~

Danny - thanks for your research. digitally creating watercolor art from photos is relatively easy us PS (even for this amatuer), but if you see original work by Auckenthaler, there is a striking difference.
Hope others will contribute. this seems like a great forum.
Pete