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.
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