The second step in my process explained. It involves photoshop and photo-transfering to canvas.

The paintings take some of the personal out of the original photos but keeps their essence.

1. I bring the photos I take into photoshop and do some work there. I like to desaturate the photo so that I can add colour with my paint. Or I take out some colours and leave others.
2. I crop it to fit inside my 8x10 canvas.
3. Print and then use a photo-transfer technique to put my image on the birch panel canvas. I have to remember to reverse the image in photoshop first!

Here is a before and after shot.