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| Paul, © 2012 Sheryl Karas |
I've been experimenting with combining digital photography and more conventional painting in one piece. In this painting I have worked with a photograph I took of my partner Paul in Photoshop and then cut out and collaged the print into a painting. The background and the shirt is painted. I also painted what I hoped might read as reflections of the color in the background onto his face, hair and beard. There are both positives and negatives for me in this approach as an artist. It freed me to be as wild as I wanted to be with the background and to experiment with a variety of techniques using my photograph as an underpainting. On the downside, cutting the face out and collaging it into the painting created technical dilemmas I did not anticipate. It required multiple attempts to get something I was ultimately satisfied with.
This piece is not for sale.
