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Dov's Art Gallery~KES said Jul 5, 9:29 PM: |
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Meet Dov and his wonderful renderings with art and photography. Discover more and post below…  |
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Re: Dov's Art Gallery~KES said Jul 5, 9:36 PM: |
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Hi Dov! Winter in Paradise below – but there is more to come soon!  |
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Re: Dov's Art GallerySillyOldBear said Jul 6, 12:54 AM: |
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Thank you, Kathy! My art… I use to say that I can't draw to save my life. My wife says that's not true - that I could if I practiced. But to be honest - I don't have the patience or focus (I have ADHD :)) that it takes to sit hours and hours doing tedious practice-doodles that leave me unsatisfied and frustrated because I can't get it right. My father, who was an artist too, used slides and a projector to render the out-lines in his motifs, and when I first got a computer and Internet access I sort of picked that up. My stepmother used photography as her main source of material together with textiles. I work solely on the computer using free stock photos, photos in the public domain and my own photos to create my art. My main software is Paintshop Pro 8 and Adobe Elements 2. My inspirations… Life, I think. And the NEED to create. I have made art since I was a child. I can't help myself :) Much of what I do is what I call 'instant art', which means that I don't work long on each piece. I muck about with colors, filters, elements and suddenly I have 'the right expression' there, without knowing how I got there. On a good day I can produce 5-10 images in a row, often around a basic theme (which I never know beforehand :)). Much of my faith goes into my work - it's difficult not to express my cultural and spiritual ancestry in my art - both negative and positive - although the negative often ends up in the Political Art section these days. I often do political art - mostly as illustrations for my own blog entries. But I have been known to take requests for others' blogs as well. I think that's it…:) Hugs, Dov Posted blow you see examples of my political art - all of it is not in my album yet 
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Re: Dov's Art GalleryPhoenix said Jul 6, 3:21 AM: |
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Hi Dov! |
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Re: Dov's Art GalleryNicole said Jul 6, 6:05 AM: |
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Dov, I had a delightful wander through your gallery yesterday, and would like to post one of my favourites.  |
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Re: Dov's Art Gallery~KES said Jul 6, 6:37 AM: |
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Thanks for stopping in Dov's Art Gallery today!!! 
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Re: Dov's Art GallerySillyOldBear said Jul 6, 7:57 AM: |
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Kathy, thanks! Happiness is some times to make a clean break from one's family of origin, accepting that “yes my mother's a sadistic asshole and my father an abusive drunk”. The point I am making in the blog entry is that if our parents are abusive, and do not care for us when we are children, we have no obligation to honor them beyond the honor and respect we grant any stranger. In fact, to rightly honor our parents, as our biological origin, we have to honor ourselves first - and that means leaving any toxic situation our parents have created that we are living in or have lived in. The Command to honor one's parents presupposes that they are worthy of that honor and are true to Torah and G-d in their care for us when we are children.
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Re: Dov's Art GalleryNicole said Jul 6, 8:36 AM: |
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It's a good point, Dov. The commandment to honour has been so problematic to many, I think, where there has been abuse, neglect and abandonment, among other things. |
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Re: Dov's Art Gallery~KES said Jul 6, 9:45 AM: |
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Hi Nicole,  |
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Re: Dov's Art Gallery~KES said Jul 6, 9:37 AM: |
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Thanks for stopping in and leaving your heart print Valerie. I love your icon… such a mini piece of art that looks pure.  |
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Re: Dov's Art GallerySillyOldBear said Jul 6, 12:39 PM: |
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Hey you guys! |
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Re: Dov's Art GalleryMeenakshi said Jul 6, 10:51 PM: |
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And I love the Grand Canyon picture. Brings back memories. Very unusual style, Dov [BUT I am not an artist; just an admirer]  |
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Re: Dov's Art GallerySillyOldBear said Jul 7, 12:13 AM: |
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Meenakshi, I am glad you liked the Grand Canyon picture(s). About the style…: I was bored (I bore easily :)), and felt like I had tried just about every method there was… (I was wrong of course, but that's how it felt :)). I have always been fascinated by artists who look at a view and render it totally off-color (i.e use colors that objectively are not in the view) but still manage to re-create the view in some way. So I found a GC picture online and looked at where there were natural divisional lines in the lanscape - and drew a line on a separate layer, and then on to the next divisional line and so on until I had all the lines I wanted, and then it was sort of like *paint-by.numbers* - simply find one color in each 'field' using the color-choosing tool (dropper) in PSP8, and then I flood filled each 'field' with the color I had chosen. I think I used 8 or 10 layers (many duplicates of each layer) altering the blend and opacity in each layer - to let the texture of the original picture shine through and then a couple of watercolor filters. Yes, it is an unusual style, and as you can see from my album, I have (so far) made only three pictures using this particular technique. Hugs, Dov
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Re: Dov's Art GallerySillyOldBear said Jul 7, 1:14 AM: |
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I thought I'd post the links to my albums, so people don't have to wade through all the miscellaneous stuff to get to the odd picture :D |
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Re: Dov's Art Gallery~KES said Jul 7, 1:01 AM: |
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Meenakshi I have read some your writings. Each artist expresses through a lot of mediums with different tools such as writing, music, painting, graphics, photography, acting, IT, architecture, parenting, creating a home, cooking, etc.  |
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Re: Dov's Art GallerySillyOldBear said Jul 7, 2:21 AM: |
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Kathy, that is true! Many people excel at what they do to a degree where what they do cease to be merely good handiwork or knowledge put in practice and become pure artistery. A good (however subjective) example of this is the difference between Yevgenij Plushenko (male figure skating) and Alexei Yagudin (dito) - where Plushenko is the artist par excellance, while Yagudin is merely very, very technically skilled. “Having IT vs Not Having IT” as it were. On the other hand, I can relate to what Meenakshi is saying - I am not a writer (oh, I dabble), but I am not a literary artist. Whereas Meenakshi is…I think it's important to reclaim and use the proper designations. That is one of the drawbacks on the errosion of language - ARTIST these days means not only someone who expresses through various Art media, (visual art media) but anyone who expresses, regardless of medium. Example: Rembrandt was an ARTIST or visual artist - John Steinbeck was an AUTHOR or literary artist. Michael Jackson was a SINGER/COMPOSER or musical artist. But not an ARTIST. The errosion of language can be very deceptive and in my mind down-right insulting at times, because it some times gives the impression that something is what it it isn't. I don't mind being in the company of MJ, but I really dislike being put in the same category as some of the nickel and dime singers out there, who could not carry a tune even if their lives depended on it. I am an ARTIST or visual artist, because I use visual means to express myself, Meenakshi is an AUTHOR/WRITER or literary artist. We both excel beyond mere skill at what we do. Thoughts? Hugs, Dov
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Re: Dov's Art Gallery~KES said Jul 7, 2:25 AM: |
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Thanks for putting your works in categories Dov. I added them  |
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Re: Dov's Art GallerySillyOldBear said Jul 7, 2:39 AM: |
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Thank you Kathy, for adding the links to the intro :D That was very kind :) |
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Re: Dov's Art GallerySillyOldBear said Jul 7, 3:20 AM: |
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This might seem superfluous, but I'd like to give examples of how I might use the same photos, elements or basic idea in several pieces: |
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Re: Dov's Art Gallery~KES said Jul 7, 6:56 AM: |
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Very creative Dov… I like Dreams of Another Kind the best but found it fun to see how images can be rendered to change the mood of what you are communicating. You are good with the photoshop which is valuable for the web.  |
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Re: Dov's Art GallerySillyOldBear said Jul 7, 10:46 AM: |
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Thanks Kathy! |
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Re: Dov's Art Gallery~KES said Jul 7, 1:36 PM: |
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Photoshop Elements does the same things as my Photoshop CS3. Once you use your tools for the technical expertise, it is still the aesthetics and your own sense of communication injected into each piece that is senior.  |
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Re: Dov's Art GallerySillyOldBear said Jul 7, 2:07 PM: |
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Thank you, Kathy, for stilling my covetous heart :D |
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Re: Dov's Art GallerySillyOldBear said Jul 9, 7:39 AM: |
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Some updates to My Digital Art 
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Re: Dov's Art GallerySillyOldBear said Jul 9, 2:37 PM: |
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I rermoved The Winter King from the album. Another version is coming - hopefully a better one. |
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Re: Dov's Art GallerySillyOldBear said Jul 9, 3:32 PM: |
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Here's a better version:  |
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Re: Dov's Art Gallery~KES said Jul 10, 1:06 AM: |
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Thanks for showing readers “The Winter King”'s better version  |
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Re: Dov's Art GallerySillyOldBear said Jul 10, 3:05 AM: |
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Thank you, Kathy! |
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Re: Dov's Art Gallery~KES said Jul 10, 4:45 AM: |
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Hi, It doesn't matter which program. Here… I will show you how it looks with Starry Night with Vincent Van Gogh. The first one is cool & the second one I added cool and warm filters so it shows better on the web. A filter is like the green over your tiny headshot above where you control how much light you want. On Vincent's picture… the yellows were warmed up by me and the blues cool. Hope that makes sense. Have fun! 
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Re: Dov's Art GallerySillyOldBear said Jul 11, 11:56 AM: |
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hm - thank you Kathy! |
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Re: Dov's Art GallerySillyOldBear said Jul 11, 3:28 PM: |
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I created a new album: Most Recent - pictures/art I have made within the last month. |
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