Finished

Deer At Nightfall
11x14" Acrylic on canvas
November 2007

This one had been hanging around unfinished for a few weeks. But understandably. There was something wrong with it but I just couldn't put my finger on it. Since I'm not one to sign a painting until I'm satisfied with it, it just sat. Then a couple days ago the 'wrong' stuck out like a sore foot, obvious as could be. So I was able to finish it, sign it, and call it a done deal. Sweet.

Then it came time to post the work on my website, and man! what a hassle! I still haven't nailed down the photography angle so that the images I post actually look like my artwork color-wise. They're either too blue or too green or too red, and when I try to compensate in any type of photo imaging editor, something is always lost, e.g., contrast or saturation in one area of the photo or another. I have the sneaking suspicion that I'm gonna hafta take some serious time out to rig lighting and play with camera settings so the original photos'll need little if any retouching. The problem I'm having of late is the texture of the canvas has been too obvious, exaggerated in my photos - something I know is a lighting problem solved with a diffuser.

Anyway, I'm calling this painting a wrap even though viewer's over the internet will probably never see the painting as it was meant to be seen.

If anyone has any advice about artwork photography, I'd sure be obliging.

Camera: Sony Cyber-shot 7.2 megapixel with a Carl-Zeiss Vario-Tessar 2,8-5,2/7,9-23,7 lense.

'Til next time,

Cheers!