>> Special Challenge - a Tribute to Julia <<

[DannyRaphael]

The subject of this (now closed) challenge, Julia, died unexpectedly in March 2007. She was survived by her children, 3-year-old Andrew and 9-month-old Aurora.

The creations in this thread were submitted at the request of RetouchPRO member Janet Petty, a close friend of Julia's family. Janet wanted to create a memorial of Julia for the children.

[lkroll]

Very sorry for the family and their loss Danny. May do a few later, but thought I would start things off with a wc b/w sketch.

Edit:

Revamped everything after a better read of Danny's request. Hard to reproduce in the large what I did in the small, so I'm keeping close to the original motif with a pencil. Here's the full hires version.

[lkroll]

OK; one more before going to the store.

Edit:

A little easier to reproduce, but I still preplaced the smaller version. Here's the big version.

[Peter S]

Very sad news.

Thought a sketch type as well.

Peter

[Peter S]

And here's one with AHB.

Peter

[Swampy]

I'm having a problem downloading the files. I'm not getting a downloaded .TIF file, I'm getting a QuickTime movie file. ?

[Peter S]

Swampy do a right click and "save link as" that should get you going.

Peter

[Swampy]

My prayers are with the family. Especailly these beautiful children

[lkroll]

Impasto this time. Some mods to the Impressionist Vegetable Paint preset. Some smudging and such too.

[T Paul]

Originally Posted by dmrdm

I got the quick time movie also...a right click didn't give me a tiff option...only gave me a PRO Save As Source, PRO Save as quick time... which I said I didn't want to buy quick time. Must be doing something wrong.

On the page with the image links, RIGHT-CLICK the image link and you should get the option to SAVE TARGET AS. This will let you save the image and bypass the Quick-Time movie.

[chad00769]

Sorry for the loss....my prayers are with them. I meant to put the little boy in the picture but i ran out of time...sorry. Hope you like it..Comments are welcome!!

Chad

[dmrdm]

Softened the babies highlites. Attempted to make the bubbles more pronounced, cropped, blurred, whitened eyes a little, put a little smile on the baby. A cutie.

Thoughtful project.

[Janet Petty]

I'm sorry some of you are having trouble downloading the pictures. I was hoping that by posting them on this site at a higher resolution that it would actually be easier. Those who have mentioned right clicking on the image name and selecting save target as or save as shouldn't have any trouble. I used this site for my students. They didn't have any problem saving their pictures by the right click method.

Thanks to all who have participated so far. This is special for me as well as for the family.

Janet

[lkroll]

Just a watercolor this time.

http://img245.imageshack.us/img245/7...icalzx9.th.jpg

[Kraellin]

image and poem by myself.

[jannetie]

Very sorry for the family's loss, Danny. Please send my condolences. I've downloaded the images and will try my hand at them early in the week. It's very sad for such young children to lose their mother - and not so young children also. They are a beautiful family.

[Gilbert]

A sad occasion

[pavel123]

My condolences.

Pavel

[pavel123]

Sepia toned B&W. Pavel

[pjb]

My heart goes out to this family. May God grant the father the wisdom and strength to make it though the loss of his wife and kids Mother.

Larger Version
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...rew-larger.jpg

[LQQKER]

Family and friends have my sympathy.

[lkroll]

Poem is very much a nice touch Craig.

[lkroll]

Didn't flip to page two; I really like your collage and poem version too Paula.

[MargaretM]

So sorry. Such lovely children. MargaretM

[Kraellin]

thank you, lk.

i liked your submissions too, especially the watercolor.

[jud]

Sorry to hear my Best to the Fam.

This it my firts post in the forum, Since i'v register I can't stop reading / looking @ work I learn so much....Thank you all.

I worked with Photoshop & painter I wished all to be together the mom & kids.

I hope that is ok


Regards
Judit

I hope that the uploads of the thumbnail works ok.


This is the link for the actual size

Big Picture

[lkroll]

Well here's the final one. Still on my Impasto binge. Lot's of good stuff shown so far. Again, my condolences to the family.

http://img140.imageshack.us/img140/7...lia1rq1.th.jpg

[Peter S]

Here's another one done with AHB and another B&W and the youngster and Julia.

Peter

[Gilbert]

Aurora....Godess of the dawn

[Frank Lopes]

For Julia...

A higher resolution image is on my website:
http://www.franklopes.com/public_images/julia.jpg