Le Cloitre des Récollets – La Maison des Vins de Bergerac photo – adam cope corrected photo by Dominique Lieppe when photography meets blogging meets photoshop One of the interesting things that occasionally happens when photography meets blogging meets photoshop is that photos get retouched according to the particular taste of individual photographers. A…
Category: Photography in painting
How artists use photography? Artistic photoshop & digital manipulation of images … some occasional blog posts by this landscape painter
Heightened Colour in Photography
heightened colour vs. ‘accurate’ colour The same question of heightened colour vs. ‘accurate’ colour (what ever that means) applies to photography. Just as it does in painting.. How much do you ‘bump’ the saturation up? The loss is a smooth gradient, of how one colour runs into another. We live in colour sataurated world &…
Un Pigeonnier Troglodyte en Périgord
DETAILWORK IN PROGRESS ‘Bicorne 2 bis‘ Large Size Oil approx 33 x 24 inches © adam cope Un Pigeonnier Troglodyte en Périgord I’ve been working on a large oil painting of the cliffs. As I’m not certain about the entire painting, I’m not going to blog it for the instant. But here is a crop…
More on Sketching & Photography
‘Telly Fans 1’ Sanguine A5 sketchbook double-spread © the artist NFS ‘Telly Fans 2’ Sanguine A5 sketchbook double-spread © the artist NFS sketching & photography An ex-student wrote to me recently, with these kind & interesting comments : “….I really loved –and was inspired by–seeing the drawings you’ve been doing of your children (and the…
Reference Photos for Plein-Air Painters 1 – Gerhard Richter’s Photo Atlas
‘Sechoir à Tabac 3 – Crépuscule’ (Tobacco Drying Barn 3 – Twilight) Oil on Canvas 38 x 46cm (approx 15 x 19 inches). © The Artist. Available – email me Some photos of this huge, magnificent tobacco drying barn. My Reference Photos of ‘Sechoir à Tabac’ Wish there was a person by the door…
WIP : Sunset 31 Dec – Photographing Paintings & Retouching Plein-Air small formats.
WORK IN PROGRESS (WIP) Sunset 31 Dec – after session in the field and two retouching sessions in the studio 30 x 40 cm – approx12 x 16 inches oil on panel Sunset 31 Dec – after first session in the field 30 x 40 cm – approx12 x 16 inches oil on panel Photographing…
Sauvignon, Boisse
‘Sauvignon, Boisse’ Watercolour 28 x 38 cm. Quarter Imperial. Whatman 300gms. sold © The Artist. Last parcel of sauvignon yet to be harvested. Autumnal overcast sky, grapey mauve, the landscape mellow with misty stratus, a bluey shade of manganese mauve. Last brave yellow tops of vine leaves. Yellow ochre bottoms heavy with mauvey blue grapes.…
Notan Photograph – ‘The Wirly Gates’
‘The Wirly Gates’ 2004 © The Artist. Notan can mean something/nothing as well as dark/light Notan photography? Is the black emptiness? Photography has difficult of reading things in shadows. It frequently makes pictures with black nothingness as shadows… These digital cameras are great for ‘visual thinking’ … working things out in a visual way… kind…
‘Le Cingle de Tremolat’ 2003
‘Le Cingle de Tremolat’ 2003 Huile sur Toile © Adam Cope Grand Format approx 150 x 100 cm painting, photography & postcards/plein air. Carrying on with this rambling musing about painting, photography & postcards/plein air….Describing something of the process by which I arrived at this (popular) oil painting might be of interest… or not (deafening…
