Friday, January 3, 2014

Kinkade's Street. Stages of Creation

by Natasha Malyutina.

Recently I got another request to show how I create my works using photo art technique (painting over photos, matte painting, photo manipulation, etc). This was about my "The Evening Street" piece - Thomas Kinkade style.

Unfortunately, I lost the very first stages' sketches so I'll have to just mention it here without images. The piece was done for a mini-contest the task of which was to recreate the style of the great american artist Thomas Kinkade. "Painter of Light" as he characterized himself. Indeed, day or night - his works are full of somewhat special magical lighting. Apparently the key accent should have been the light itself. That's why I decided to leave complex multi-level space and numerous elements out this time. Thus, only three images were taken as a base for this work - Victorian house in the foreground, brick house in the right, and the sky. Of course I needed several additional elements that make each more or less complex photo manipulation complete.

Friday, July 20, 2012

Mission Santa Barbara

- Where do you want to go?
- Santa Barbara
- Why there?
- I know everybody there...
(after watching too much Santa Barbara soap opera)


 Capwell times are already in the past, but Santa Barbara is still an american Riviera of some sort that almost everyone wants to visit or live in. But the city of Santa Barbara is not known only by its fancy resorts and beaches, and the glamour... the famous road of "El Camino Real" goes through the city - almost 600 mile road from San Diego to San Francisco that connected The Spanish California Missions in the old times. The Mission in Santa Barbara is one of those 21 missions. It's still in quite good condition despite having been built back in 1786. It's even shown in the opening theme for the namesake soap opera.