Recent content by Bongo

That's weird, I bought a palette tray and it came with a doughball.

Thanks Terri. I have a whole rap about candid vs posed portraits.

thank you Jo!

I can identify completely with this part of what Ayin said: (emphasis mine) "I do enjoy finishing artwork; working on it is more torture than enjoyment. I become extremely focused when I work and perfectionistic about what I want the work to look like. I wouldn't call that "enjoyment." It's...

Ayin, Donna' thank you so much!

I remember reading about this case, before it became a lawsuit. Too bad Doine-with an "e" isn't alive , he might have been' able to sue the gallery for too - since they were falsely attributing his painting to someone else - Doing (no :") I heard of a wildlife painter of some moderate fame...

"Dam Tailor" oil on 11"x14" very cheap stretched canvas A little back story. This painting is based on a photo I took 20 years ago. I was walking down an alley with my camera when this guy comes out the backdoor of his shop into the alley to have a smoke. As I walked past and facing away...

You had me at the bowling trophies. I want that clock! What can I say that hasn't been said.... more please. Maybe NOT include the original photos but DO include snapshots from the same vintage so people can appreciate your process without engaging in the matching game.... just a thought.

One of your very best. So well painted, detailed without being superfluous - all in service of the image. And something done on a knife's edge, a balancing act; you've not hidden, but celebrated the fact that this was based on a photo, keeping the aspects that make family snapshots so...

Saint LG, thank you for posting these, and Michelle, thank you for painting them.

Marvelous. Love everything about it.

working on this project for YouTube and I wanted to change a still photo that's a ".jeg file to a video format ".mp4 file. All that should happen is when you click on the .jpeg you see the still image, when you click on the .mp4 you see the still image but it plays for 5 seconds. So here's the...

I used Nikon when I shot film. Then got a Canon Dslr when they first came out. Shot it so much I fried the shutter, then got a Pentax 10d when it first came out -battery grip, weather sealed, first digital with ibis, - at the time I too loved big heavy cameras. Thought I was cool by...