Some photo-based digital art I've been working on...

[lakemonster11]

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1. LOL! Your Perseus work reminded me of...

When I was growing up in LA, these Arabs moved into Beverly Hills, bought some mansion from somebody rich. Anyhow, they painted pubic hair and nipples on all the marble statues around the house. People can see it from the street, and the neighbors were all in a tizzy (I think Steve Allen wanted them thrown out of town. I always thought he had a sense of humor :shrug: ). It was on the local news for about a week.
:rofl:

BTW: Your version of Perseus looks fantastic. Nothing like those arab paintings in BH.

[lakemonster11]

3. Wow, I would have liked to have seen that!

[regnaD kciN]

12. I remember that house!

It was in unbelievably bad taste. A few years later, the couple split up in a highly-acrimonious divorce and the house sat vacant and decaying for a number of years, before being destroyed in a fire of "suspicious origin."

[intheflow]

2. I like the second one!

Is the woman holding the sword, or is it being held against her? I can't tell. But either one, I like the lighting, tone and realisim in the second picture best.

:thumbsup:

[lakemonster11]

4. Thanks.

She's holding it. It's supposed to be Medea.

[intheflow]

5. Even cooler!

I was thinking it was more like Joan of Arc, but then, that's the point of art. If it's good, it speaks to the viewer through their own lens as if that's what the artist intended.

Still... I was thinking about adopting the Joan of Arc picture as one of my alter-egos going back to Mississippi for the next five months: fighting for hurricane survivors with the sword of justice! I'm not so sure Medea's sword is quite the right alter-ego for a minister to adopt.
:rofl:

[lakemonster11]

6. Perhaps not.

Is Lucretia better?



Noble, yes, but probably not very liberal. ;)

[Blue_In_AK]

7. These are really very beautiful.

[lakemonster11]

8. Thank you.

[ConsAreLiars]

9. People can study your control of the lighting for some good lessons.

And composition/cropping also. If these were a couple of pages in a coffee table book, people for sure would pick it up and begin browsing.

[lakemonster11]

10. Wow, thanks.

I actually think this is a more artistic crop of the first one, but, of course, you can't tell it's Perseus anymore:



I basically subscribe to the "if your pictures aren't good enough, you're not close enough" theory. :)

[F.Gordon]

11. How come I'm the only one who doesn't know "who"....

these are?
:dunce:

The first and last..... incredible. All good, but those are my faves. You have such an amazing eye for working with color. Do you have an Art background?

[lakemonster11]

13. Don't worry!

The first one's the only one that's obvious, and only if you know the story. The others could be almost anybody.

Nah, I don't have an art background, but I'm glad it seems like I do! ;) I took one art history class in college and I took some photo classes last year.

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14. Movie assignment for you.

You must rent Lawrence Olivier's finest performance, in "Clash of the Titans." :rofl:

Burgess Meredith, Harry Hamlin, Maggie Smith, and a bunch of stop motion monsters that would make Sinbad run for the hills. Made by the same guys that did all the Sinbad movies. It's the story of Perseus and the Gorgon, with the story of Andromeda and the Kraken thrown in for good measure. Tacky, but campy fun!

[F.Gordon]

15. I have to watch a movie?

No one said anything about having to watch movies. This photoemgraphigul stuff is getting complicated. I think I will take up knitting.
:crazy:

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16. Well, they do use cameras.

...just really huge ones. I could use a new ski cap and a muffler while your at it though.:hi: