Colorful Laughter

[Janet Petty]

Enjoy painting and playing with this portrait I took of a street performer.

So much fun. So much color.

Have at it.

Janet

[0lBaldy]

Nice shot Janet!

Thanks for the play!

Changed background and a fake smudge (compliments of Joeven and Palms)

[lkroll]

Why not another one of these.

[Janet Petty]

Nice job to OlBaldy and lkroll. Congrats on being the first to experiment.

Keep 'em comin' folks.

Janet

[MiningArt]

Great photo, wow colors. Simplified and ran through Photosketcher in watercolor mode. I used the strongest texture and bumped the color a bit.

[Janet Petty]

You said it Mining Art, "WOW colors." I agree. That's why it is so fun to paint.

Great job.

Janet

[alexmeta]

Colorful Sketch

[aartist]

Ol Baldy, nice!

[lkroll]

Just feeding my current binge.

[michphoto]

I couldn't resist the colours in this, thanks for sharing it!

A quick smudge in PS, blended in Painter, repainted the eyes in PS and added sandstone texture and paint daub filters at the end in PS.

Lots of fun!

[Janet Petty]

michphoto, I absolutely love what you did with the eyes. A great take on this colorful lady.

Janet

[michphoto]

Thanks Janet Eyes are my favourite thing to paint and draw.

[Steve Conway]

The laughing clown......

Steve C.

[Kraellin]

good pic. great colors!

oddly though, instead of enhancing the colors even more, which was my first intention, i ended up subdueing them a bit with this watercolor-like effect.

[Janet Petty]

Steve and Craig, you have both given this thread nice additions. I like both approaches a lot.

Craig, yours is the first colored pencil sketch, which tones down the bright colors somewhat. I wondered if that approach would work with this picture. You have proven that it does so nicely.

Steve, yours is grainy and abstracted almost like you used a palette knife. I like that you left a lot of the details to the imagination. IMHO, that just adds to the fun, free aspect of the whole picture.

Janet

[Steve Conway]

Originally Posted by Janet Petty

Steve and Craig, you have both given this thread nice additions. I like both approaches a lot.

Steve, yours is grainy and abstracted almost like you used a palette knife. I like that you left a lot of the details to the imagination. IMHO, that just adds to the fun, free aspect of the whole picture.

Janet

Wow! What a nice way to start my day!

I thank you, and I enjoyed working on it.

Steve C.

[Cupcake]

A very pretty picture to play with.
Here is mine.

[PaleoTube.com]

Here's mine...


Mario

[Kraellin]

thanks, janet

wonderful pic to work with!

[Photoartomation]

photo turned into Fauvism

[Janet Petty]

Cupcake, PaleoTube, and Photoartomation thanks for the play. I do so love seeing the individual interpretations.

Cupcake, I like the 3-d effect the "frame" gives.
PaleoTube, yours is very painterly. I like you darkened the colors somewhat. It certainly gives a different perspective to this bright picture.
Photoartomation, I like the extra enhancement with yellow. It really makes things POP. What is Fauvism? Whatever it is, it certainly is bright, happy colors.

Janet

[Peter S]

Very colourful indeed Janet, thanks for posting.

Peter