Drawn with Art Set app on iPhone. When drawing an eye, always begin with the globe, or eyeball. Get it right. Shade it as you would a sphere. Then wrap and drape the eyelids over the ball, conforming to the shape of the rounded object. Do not forget to show the light reflecting off the inner part of the lower lid. Also, use a drop of red along the medial canthus. Shading can create a sense of depth, as the eye sits deeply within the orbit.
Drawing by Max, age 4
A clown face perhaps. Max chose the color for the background and the figure, with a little prompting. I like his touch of green, boldly standing out against the purple. His read purple combination adds much subtlety.
The Rennaissance Portrait
The Rennaissance Portrait (click on this link to see NY Times Gallery of this show)
During the early Renaissance, artists working in Florence, Venice, and the courts of Italy created magnificent portrayals of the people around them—from heads of state and church to patrons, scholars, poets, and artists—concentrating for the first time on producing recognizable likenesses and expressions of personality. The rapid development of portraiture was linked closely to Renaissance society and politics, ideals of the individual, and concepts of beauty.
During the early Renaissance, artists working in Florence, Venice, and the courts of Italy created magnificent portrayals of the people around them—from heads of state and church to patrons, scholars, poets, and artists—concentrating for the first time on producing recognizable likenesses and expressions of personality. The rapid development of portraiture was linked closely to Renaissance society and politics, ideals of the individual, and concepts of beauty.
Botticelli Portrait
Painted on asketch app on the iPad 4S. This Botticelli portrait is on display at The Metroplolitan Museum of Art, in a magnificent exhibit titled Portraits of the Rennaissance.
Violinist and Celloist at Central Park Boat Lake
Movie - Click to Listen, originally uploaded by lionheart613.
Please click movie to listen.
Accidental Sky
I was using the SlowShutter app on the iPhone 4S. I propped up the camera to stabilize it, so as to blur the people walking by in the park, without blurring the background. The camera tipped over and fell. Luckily, it fell on a soft patch and no harm was done. The slow shutter however accidentally captured the sky, blurred and swirling to wonderful effect!
Bethesda Fountain
HDR lets us see the angel statue outside, as well as interior detail, without blowing out the highlights.
Harlequin Elephant
Camouflaged patterns are effective. The eye must work to reveal the form of the elephant in this window display at Louis Vuitton.
Mannequin
Taken with iPhone: Used TiltShiftGen app on iphone 4S to selectively blur background. Then used Cool fx app to apply masks. I used the glamour app and white diffusion to selectively make a warm glow on the mannequin's face.
Agent Provocateur
Agent Provocateur (movie, click on arrow to see mannequin come to life), originally uploaded by lionheart613.
Click on the arrow to see this Pygmalion come to life.
Front Street
In HDR, a scene capturing the revitalized look of South Street Seaport. Old New York at its very best.
Volley
Love the intense rusty green, and the motion effect of the players. Shooting from behind a fence creates a voyeuristic effect.
Howard and Crosby
A colorful street scene, could be Paris, but on a charming intersection of Crosby and Howard Streets, at the Mondrian Hotel, a chic boutique hotel in soho.
The Streets Have Memories
The HDR pro app needs two pictures to align, taking each at a different exposure. However ghosts of people are created when individuals walk into view while the camera was still taking the preliminary photos. Those shown here are all immersed in cell phone activities and seem present yet very much apart from one another. I think that when you are with another person, or even walking in the street, if you are immersed in your personal iPhone or other smart device, you avoid all the interactions that make us the social animal we are. You become a ghost, an invisible non-being, a person non-persona.
Newbury Street
Taken with iPhone 4S, with HDR app, dynamic light, photogene. I warmed the tones with dutch light effect, and used extreme overcooked HDR.
Chinese Restaurant
I placed the fork over the edge of the table to recreate the trompe l'oeil effect of a still life from Amsterdam.
Ice Cream Shoppe
Another beautiful HDR photo, a small little ice cream shoppe on main street in Rockport
Rockport
Created with iPhone 4S and Dynamic Light together with HDR pro apps. It reminds me of a hyperrealistic watercolor painting.
Model in Chinatown
HDR creates a brilliant surge of ultra sharp vibrant color, and motion, to beautiful effect.
Matisse Oranges
With HDR program on iPhone 4S, an ordinary bowl of oranges becomes a Matisse - Cezanne still life of tapestry and patterns.
Ballerinas Up a Tree
Unusual and unexpected vantage points create tension and visual excitement. The usual structured harmony of the ballerinas' pose is replaced by a natural spritely lighthearted engagement up a stately oak tree.
Nude Woman
Another painted in Gheno's artist studio at the National Academy Museum and School of Fine Arts on the Upper East Side. I placed her in a scene reminiscent of the season. I sculpted the form with flesh tones of varying hues, and worked very hard on establishing the correct proportions. She was a thin woman, and yet my tendency was to bulk her up. I especially like the contrapposto gesture of legs and hips, reminding me of the Greek statues of antiquity.
From Wikipedia: Contrapposto is an Italian term that means counterpose. It is used in the visual arts to describe a human figure standing with most of its weight on one foot so that its shoulders and arms twist off-axis from the hips and legs. This gives the figure a more dynamic, or alternatively relaxed appearance. It can further encompass the tension as a figure changes from resting on a given leg to walking or running upon it (so-called ponderation). Contrapposto is less emphasized than the more sinuous S Curve.
From Wikipedia: Contrapposto is an Italian term that means counterpose. It is used in the visual arts to describe a human figure standing with most of its weight on one foot so that its shoulders and arms twist off-axis from the hips and legs. This gives the figure a more dynamic, or alternatively relaxed appearance. It can further encompass the tension as a figure changes from resting on a given leg to walking or running upon it (so-called ponderation). Contrapposto is less emphasized than the more sinuous S Curve.
Nude Man
BB Painted in Dan Gheno's artist class at the National Academy School. I used a combination of cadmium orange and ultramarine blue to create the rich shadow tones. Initially, I underplayed the shoulders, gradually widening them and adding muscle bulk to add strength and poise. I also widened the stance and set the feet at different levels. I tried to minimize the use of highlights until I really needed them, so as not to wash out the beautiful flesh tones, made from a mixture of naples yellow, cad red light and orange, and maybe some raw sienna.
Central Park to North Fork
I took the painting, a large one, begun earlier a week ago in Central Park, out to the North Fork. I found a winery with a lake, about he same early afternoon sun, and continued to work on my canvas. The transformation is profound. Painting directly on a white canvas enhances the radiance, reminiscent of the artist Monet. The blue sky takes charge, with strong blues now reflecting in the lake. I cut into the trees with the sky, adding dabs of whites and blues into the branches, which I think is a more effective representation of the now semi barren autumnal foliage. The remaining leaves are even more intense. I also carved a small jutting stretch of land into the lake, with three trees, reflecting on the pool. It is almost an entirely different painting. I think in the future, when I complete a painting on location it should be done, and I should not be tempted to return to it. There is a beauty in the moment, in the spontaneity of capturing the scene. It can only be found once. That is what life is all about, collecting fleeting moments and preserving them in the mind's eye for all eternity.
Central Park Autumn
I painted this en plein air, in about one and a half hours. This was at the small sail boat lake on 72nd street in Central Park. I used an earth tone palette, with viridian and green earth, naples yellow, cadmium orange, red and yellow, burnt umber, raw sienna, and ultramarine blue. I worked fast, using large brushes and much paint thinner to quickly cover the canvas. I tried to underpaint with sienna and warm hues, and added the blues and darker colors in the lake and distance to achieve depth. On top, i added pure intense and vibrant cadmiums, capturing the last rays of sun. In the distance, you can see the bridge, with hints of bright yellow leaves showing through. Traces of the upper east side are seen, in the buildings to the side. I like that I kept to the color schema. In painting , broad swaths of color are best. Detail subtracts, does not always add to a paining. keep it loose and free.
North Fork Beach
This is the orignal version, taken with the iPhone 4S, and using a pro HDR app. I held the camera steady, as two photos were taken, then combined. Normally, if you point a camera into the sun, only the sky would show, all else lost in shadows. When the phone snapped the lower half of this scene, the sky was blown out. By combining the two, a very vivid effect is achieved. I added warmth and increased saturation to add to the magical effect.
Sunset Beach Infrared Version
With an app to convert to infrared, the beach takes on an eery tone, haunting, ominous, lonely.
Sunset Beach
One of three renditions taken with the iPhone. This app, called dynamic light, adds a very granular texture, which I thought worked for the beach scene. I added considerable warmth to the photo. If I were painting this, I would use a palette knife and throw sand onto the canvas, maybe gesso too, to add texture.
On the Shelter Island Ferry
Taken with the iPhone 4S, then converted into HDR with HDR pro app. This is a grainy heavily stylized effect. The look reminds me of the movie "300", attaining a near surreal quality. I als desaturated the flesh tones to add to the unearthly effect.
Early Morning in West Village
City is still asleep, streets being swept from night before, suits taken in for cleaning.
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