Canvas1354, Captured Light

My newest video on U-Tube “Captured Light" was started late in the day as a demo during Swimming-in-paint a week ago Sunday. Because it was margarita time, I did sign off on it! However, the next morning I saw a few things that really did need attention. Enough to go back into the painting. Normally something I would not do because one session paintings are special in the moment expressions brought to a conclusion quickly. So, to my surprise it cascaded into a few more days beyond my original 15-minute time frame. 

The video includes a synced palette and voice. These two features actually took many unpublished videos and a great deal of time learning how! Another of those video learning curves, and a few more plugins and pieces from Amazon.  Fingers crossed, hoping behind me so I can get back to making art.  

BEFORE 

The  Red circles areas were my problem areas I wanted to resolve.... lol quickly!

AFTER

Captured Light 24x20 oil on linen (9-22-20 canvas 1354) 

 

 THE VIDEO

A video of your process is also a wonderful personal critique tool I discovered doing this project. I get to see my missteps and areas I can improve on.... like over cooking a painting! 

Someday someone will adopt this painting and have a copy of the video to enjoy knowing how it was created.... How cool is that?

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FINE ART REPRODUCTIONS! Should you as an artist do it?

In my humble opinion, yes! Over the last 5-years I've written a lot about this off and on in my blog. My original plan was to go much deeper into than I did. However, over the last 5-years I made it a point acquire good digital captures of many paintings before they hit the galleries. A good digital camera saved as a TIFF file will work well for Do it yourself of small to medium paintings up to 24x30. You can also take 2-shots and merge in Photoshop successfully for some larger works. 

The simple fact is we have an aftermarket product that has real long-term value, only if we take the time to acquire good digital captures beforehand. The captures over the long run are more valuable than the original work. The marketplace for good and yes even bad affordable art is a bottomless pit of eager buyers looking for it. The copyrights afforded us artists is often overlooked.... and should not be! We have a limited lifetime production of our original works. And if we are lucky paid well for it by a few. The rest are left with i-Phone image who would probably like a good reproduction to hang on their favorite walls.

I had some time waiting for some new video equipment and decided to make a slideshow exhibit of all my professional captures. It's kind of a prelude to a virtual exhibit I have in mind. The quality of good imagery is hard to beat and even harder to fake, often why we rely on in-painting.... dressed up as artist embellishment. Time consuming......  Don't get me wrong, I do it to improve surface texture or add gold or silver leaf details when asked. To capture metallic surfaces they they take two shots and merge them in Photoshop. If you watch the video, you can see how well it prints.... no reason to do more.   

CHUCK LARIVEY EDITIONS   

 

The silver-lining, marketing can be done by others.  Thank you for watching the video, like it and subscribe to my U-tube channel if want to see more!👍

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