Sunday, April 20, 2008

For the Birds Masterpiece Collection - "The Quack"

A new one already?! It's only been a few hours & there's a new piece up?! Oh well...

By popular request (& by popular I mean 2 people), here's my latest piece, "The Quack", based off of Edvard Munch's The Scream. I don't think anyone would want to steal this from a museum, let alone put it into a museum.

It's funny, I thought this would by my hardest one to do, but as a matter of fact it was a piece of cake, thanks to the Oil Paint filter in Photoshop. & yet, this is probably my least favorite project so far. I tried adding grain, saturating it, changing the colors a bit & even redoing the whole thing from scratch 3 times, but for some reason the newly-added stuff sticks out like a sore thumb. It doesn't look like it's part of the painting. I guess it's just a bit too hard to recreate the sporadic yet somewhat delicate and precise brushstrokes of Munch's work. Oh well, onto the next thing...

3 comments:

Emily Plassmann said...

i cant be too sure...
but I think Edvard Munch only used the tubes to paint he didnt use burshes somtimes.. i think... it was either him or Van goh

thats probably why it was hard to paint Steve o on The Scream ... because im sure photoshop doesnt have a "oil paint tube " brush

Anonymous said...

great work! thanks for taking my request!

Kathy Shin is... said...

Despite your limitations on the Adobe program you have, this has got to be my favorite one. It's pretty good work. I hope you could attempt a Seurat. That would be awesome.