Innographx

by **sylvia_dg** on Mon Oct 09, 2006 1:03 am

Hi,
Here's an interesting character you might want to play with. He was my cyclo driver in Ho Chi Minh Ville (Saigon), Vietnam. This guy is 50 years old! Must have had a tough life...
Sylvia

by **sylvia_dg** on Mon Oct 09, 2006 2:36 am

Here's a version I did mostly with Nik's Pastel, Impressionist (on Stevie Acrylic), Buzz and smudging with Pam Sav watercolor brush.
Sylvia

by **lylejk** on Mon Oct 09, 2006 3:46 am

Hope you all like.

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by **Blacknight** on Mon Oct 09, 2006 4:24 am

Filters and curves. Very faded cutout w/layer blend (lighten).

http://www.pbase.com/image/68237545

by **phyllis stewart** on Mon Oct 09, 2006 6:03 am

Sylvia, wonderful portrait! Thanks for sharing it with us.

All three of you have done a terrific job on this, in three very different styles no less! This is going to be a great thread, I think.

by **kiska** on Mon Oct 09, 2006 12:37 pm

SA gradient nib, oils, flats.

by **Ron** on Mon Oct 09, 2006 2:32 pm

These are great!

Kisk - I have to admit I jumped when I saw your redition! It has that Freddy Kruger look! :twisted:

I did mine in PS...

http://web.rollins.edu/~rpease/photos/cyclo-driver1.jpg

by **patricia kay** on Mon Oct 09, 2006 5:25 pm

Thanks for the great photo Sylvia...
Like your painting...lovely smudge effect...

Lyle...your texture looks like fabric...nice...

Blacknight....Yours glows...like the background too...

Kiska...Great ...looks like its on canvas...

Ron...Like how you have removed some of the background details...yours also glows!

I had a try at smudging in Photoshop CS2...Painter IX for a little blending..added a frame action...
Patricia....

by **dbuckle** on Mon Oct 09, 2006 6:41 pm

http://glasscat-artworks.smugmug.com/ph ... 5635-L.jpg
http://glasscat-artworks.smugmug.com/ph ... 5535-L.jpg
Used Studio Artist layers and several preset brushes.

by **kiska** on Mon Oct 09, 2006 7:30 pm

Freddy Kruger, Ron???? FREDDY KRUGER!!!!!! :frog:

pk, I like what you've done to your version. HE doesn't look like Freddy! :cheesy:

by **dan** on Mon Oct 09, 2006 8:09 pm

Sylvia, Thanks for this interesting character posted here.
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Great artwork everyone.
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I used impressionist for my creation.
Regards,
Dan

by **Ron** on Mon Oct 09, 2006 11:46 pm

kiska wrote:Freddy Kruger, Ron???? FREDDY KRUGER!!!!!!

LOL - ahh, common! Give him a scary frown and longer finger nails and the resemblance is uncanny! :tongueeyes:

http://www.cbu.edu/~seisen/FreddyKrugerPortrait.jpg

by **sylvia_dg** on Tue Oct 10, 2006 1:23 am

Wow, good job everybody!
Here's a BW version of this guy. I wish I could show him how succesful he is online! This guy is homeless and pushes people around town for a living...
Thanks to all of you for painting this picture.
Sylvia

by **phyllis stewart** on Wed Oct 11, 2006 6:14 am

I knew this would be a great thread... so much variety and so many wonderful renderings!

by **dkcoats** on Fri Oct 13, 2006 12:05 am

Sylvia, thanks for another great photo.

I envy you your--11 weeks, was it?--in SE Asia. I spent one of the best years of my life in Thailand many years ago, thanks to Uncle Sam. (You generally didn't go to Vietnam by choice at the time and other parts of the region were equally out of the question.) I think a part of me never left there. It was a truly amazing place. I'd love to go back someday but it seems unlikely.

I painted your cyclo guy in Artweaver after some fiddling in PS.

Click:

Nice work, everybody.

dc

by **sylvia_dg** on Fri Oct 13, 2006 12:44 am

Hi DC,

Well, why can't you go back there???
When were you there? You said you were there for one year? Wow, that's a long time! I bet it's extremely different from what it used to be!

I stayed only 4 weeks in Thailand, and I must say I liked Vietnam much better! For one thing, people are nicer in Vietnam, and life is a lot cheaper there too. We were a bit disappointed with the sour faces in Thailand. I guess they see tourists just as bags of dollars and resent it when they can't get a good chunk of the dough!... Plus, the prostitution over there is just overwhelming! You wonder if there are any girls not prostitutes between the age of 16 and 25! They all seem to work in bars or in massage parlors! I even met guys who were sick of the girls harrassing them! Imagine that!!!

Nevertheless, I wouldn't mind spending more time there, it's so beautiful!

Thanks for painting the cyclo guy!

Sylvia

by **dkcoats** on Fri Oct 13, 2006 6:45 pm

Sylvia - the only thing preventing me from going back is the airlines' and other entities' stubborn insistence on being paid for tickets, rooms, etc.

I was in Bangkok in '66 and '67 courtesy of the US Army. By all accounts it's changed utterly since then. I have a friend who was there in the Peace Corps in the early '70s and who spends several months a year there now (he has a Thai wife) and he says I wouldn't recognize it, which is another reason I'm ambivalent about wanting to revisit the place. There are places in the region that were inaccessible for obvious reasons when I was there that I'd give my eye teeth to see. Angkor Wat, for one. And others I could have gone to but never got around to, like Chiang Mai. I kick myself regularly about that one.

I'm surprised and saddened to hear about the "sour faces" in Thailand. In my day it was known as the Land of Smiles. The people were so cheerful and friendly one was tempted to wonder if they were on some sort of meds.

dc

by **sylvia_dg** on Fri Oct 13, 2006 9:33 pm

Hi DC,

Yeah, it's pretty expensive to fly there, but once there, it's still decently cheap. You can find very good hotel rooms for $20 or so, and have a good meal for $2.

As for the people, the way I see it, the ones who don't have anything to do with tourists are still very friendly and smiling, but the ones who do deal with tourists are not that nice. Let's say they're OK, but certainely not as friendly as they used to be.

By the way, if you do make it there, stay away from monkeys! I got bit twice by macacas during my trip and am now under treatment for rabies and simian herpes! I'm getting shots every week and am not having fun with those!!! Plus, I have to take pills. I'm still waiting for the results of the blood tests, and hopefully those bloody macacas didn't transmit me any other disease!

We did make it to Angkor Wat, it was quite nice, but nothing like the paintings where it's all golden and everything. More than the temples, we liked the fishing village that is about 20 mns away from Siem Reap. About 3.000 people live in boats on the water, they even have the school and clinic on water! They are extremely poor there, like all Cambodia I guess...

Anyway, I hope you make it there one day, it's sure worth it!

Sylvia

by **Helen** on Sun Oct 15, 2006 12:30 am

Terrific photo to work with Sylvia thank you for posting it.

Love the diversity of styles and approaches everyone has used.

I fiddled with art history brushes, not really knowing what I was doing but will keep trying. Cropped, smudged, diffuse; added sandstone texture and actioned a frame.

Cheers

by **RayGuselli** on Sun Oct 15, 2006 8:00 am

Had a go at smudging - not my forte!

Here goes

Ray

by **FlyingBull** on Sun Oct 15, 2006 10:12 am

Absolutely fantastic Ray. A real piece of art. :wow:

by **PamSav** on Wed Oct 18, 2006 9:50 pm

I really love what's been happening in this thread. Well done to all !!

I couldn't resist adding my interpretation.

Innographx

Cyclo driver Vietnam

Cyclo driver Vietnam

Another oil on canvas.

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