Creative Interpretations: Tall Ship Argentina

[Neve]

Photo from http://www.sxc.hu/browse.phtml

[jaykita]

Thank you Neve...this pic should make a great painting!! I'm off now to try my hand at it.

[Legacy~Art]

I really wish i was painting with oils.

Thanks for these brilliant pictures Neve!

[Neve]

No probs - going off for a couple of days, grandson No. 2 (we have 4...!) turns 10 this weekend so I'll look forward to seeing all your 'sure-to-be' rare results when I get back! Happy painting.

Very nice LA...textures are perfect as always!

[palms]

Had a go although not a painting as such gives the effect of one i think,
thanks for nice photo

[Kraellin]

this would make an excellent challenge pic where you had to pull just the ship from the original and put it in another image.

great rendition, palms! sort of reminds me of those paint by number paintings you used to be able to buy....only better

K.

[philbach]

Well I just received Illustrator CS2 and placed this picture in it and used auto trace at a low resolution. I then exported it and used the cutout filter plus the texterizer.

[Legacy~Art]

Neve you have a wonderful time on your jolly holidays! And thank you for being so kind!

Hi Palms very nice picture be lovely on a wall that would!

Phil that would be excellent printed on canvas and then for you to paint over it like the paint by numbers theme, lovely!!!

[palms]

Thanks all for your kind remarks, so i thought i would have another go, this time as a old photo

[Neve]

Very nice results folks, I prefer the cropping too!

Enjoyed my break with the family, watched my grandson playing soccer early Sunday (...standing in defence yawning....!!!). Too much hilarity celebrating his birthday and not enough energy left for sport.

[jaykita]

Hi Neve, steered the ship to the centre and used Painter 8 plus ps7.

[cazubi]

Awsome use of color Judy.

Cathy

[Neve]

What a transformation Judy, it's marvellous!

[cazubi]

Crop>hue&sat adjustment. Copy layer.Go to filter>distort>glass. Adjust until you like the effect. I think I added paint dabs (filter>artistic>paint dabs) and you can always see if it looks more painterly with them. Copy layer, filter>stylize>emboss (adjust to liking) then use overlay mode. This will make the layer under it look like thick paint. I went to hue&sat again and saturated the red and yellow in flags. For the border you need a black & white graphic. I used an antique drawing from an old map an put it on a layer above the painted layer. You emboss it, (filter, stylize>emboss), and then use overlay mode to drop it over the layer under it.

Cathy

[Neve]

A terrific effort, well done!

[Manjumena]

Nice work everyone!
My version in PS with art history/history brushes and layer blends
Manju

[cazubi]

Nice effect Manju. It sure gives it a ghostly feel.

Cathy

[Peter S]

Done with AHB plus tweaks

Peter

[Steve Conway]

"Sunset in The Harbor"

Steve C.

[LonK]

I really liked what GerryB did in the "village car ! ! !" thread the other day: Making the photo look old and faded.

This photo seemed like a good candidate to do something similar -- and it was a lot of fun abusing a photo rather than artifying or trying to restore it for a change.

The ship in the original seemed to be listing considerably, so the first thing I did was skew the image to make the masts vertical. Don't know why. It just bugged me. After that I just started scratching, fading, toning, rubber stamping, tire marking, coffee cup staining, etc., etc. Then I went to Google images and found a shot of some yellowed paper with burnt edges. I adapted this to fit.

By the time I was done, this poor print was ready for the trash can. I surely would hate to be on the other end of this -- getting this from a client, requesting a restoration -- if you get my drift. Anyway, lots of fun, and a definite stress reliever.

[GerryB]

Verry nice, Lon! Where did you find the background?