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Featured Artist – Spring 2010: Klaus Lange

SECRETS OF OCEAN LINERS

Impermanent Art — Surprising Beauty

My abstract art photographs are a collection of close-up images  of the worn and rusting paint on ships’ hulls.  With my camera on the high seas I capture fascinating patterns and characters from weathered and repainted ship’s steel. I am a lifelong self-trained artist, and currently give my creativity free reign as a seaman on the San Francisco pilot boat, stationed 12 miles outside the Golden Gate.  While pilots go up and down the Jacob’s ladders in near hourly intervals, I stand camera-ready on deck of the pilot boat, down near the waterline, where the best motifs for my fleeting photography offer themselves so wonderfully. Here for mere moments I find myself presented with surprising Continue reading

Photoshop Painting Produces Photo-like Qualities

by Nancy Haberman

Adobe Photoshop, perhaps best known for its extraordinary photo editing capabilities, can also produce digital paintings that simulate photographic effects.

Struggling to find just the right image of an oak tree led me to begin my exploration of painting in Photoshop. I never use the eraser, but instead, lay down multiple paint strokes in the colors of my chosen palette, building up transparencies and color nuances with each click and drag of the mouse.

Photoshop’s endless brush variations combine with the morphing textures created by overlaying strokes of varying colors and opacities.  To read the entire article click here for a pdf version: Photoshop Painting