It's astonishing, as usual. It stills reeks of oil paint and it has a great surface texture; no machine did this. I can't wait to get it mounted and up on the wall.
Do me a favor and get out your cameras and take a portrait of your loved one and then send it to Jack for "processing." They will truly be as blown away as I am. It's weird, like looking at your son with another mind's eyes. Blown away. The photograph of the painting just doesn't do it justice.
Wow!!! That is completely beautiful.
ReplyDeleteI know, and I like the fact that it isn't a Photoshopped facsimile but an interpretation. It's really hard to see from the bad photo of the painting but in the 20"x24" painting he seems to have an incredibly melancholy gaze that really grabs you with its emotional painterly intensity.
ReplyDeleteIn reality, when I took the photo, he was watching cartoons.
Yeah, it has a real mood. Actually, I like this much more than the one of your parents--and that's good.
ReplyDeleteI need to go through my photos and see what merits a painting.
Jim,
ReplyDeleteYes, and the best thing about it is that you can request a particular style. In the first one they did for me, here
(terrible photo but I no longer have the painting and can't redo it) they painted practically every hair of the cat, so they don't just do Impressionistic styles.
The one of my parents was the only one I had, so I couldn't really choose the whole setup, unlike the one I specifically took the last time.
But for the price and the talent, I'm going to take down all the mounted art posters in my house and put up real paintings by real people of real people that I know! How much better can you get?
PS I love your new icon.
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