lincoln park, san francisco.

[duccio]

I sent another cypress tree photo, this one, to my LJ friend asakiyume earlier today.



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Comments

[shinsetsu]

That is beautiful! Thank you. How did you get that effect? It looks like the paintings I have in my Asian art journal. :)

[duccio]

In my old computer which is now defunct, I had Adobe Elements 2.0. I used several of the tools in there to alter this picture to look like the painters from around 1915 who painted these trees a lot in their paintings. A favorite of mine from among the painters of that era was Arthur Frank Mathews. Here is one of his paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art NYC:

[shinsetsu]

Ooh, I like that! Thanks you. Did you get your Adobe off that machine so you could use it?

I will have to go look for more by that artist. I used to subscribe to the Met Museum feed they have here at DW, but they posted all this esoteric stuff that I didn't like a whole lot, so I dropped it.

[duccio]

He and his wife Lucia were both excellent painters. They are both well represented in the Oakland Museum collection. Arthur Mathews murals are in various public buildings in Oakland and San Francisco, and in the state capitol in Sacramento. It is probable that Arthur Mathews and Robinson Jeffers were acquainted and probably good friends. They each put forth a heroic vision of California in their own ways that survives somewhat today.

I actually decided not to put it on the new machine and just use the basic tools in photobucket and in iPhoto. You get all of those tools to play with and I don't know, they get in the way of your ideas somehow. I don't really miss the Adobe.