Lesser Apotheoun

[Kimberly Dow]

Congratulations Garth - and beautiful painting as always!
Im looking forward to a demo as well. And a website.

[Garth Herrick]

Dear Claudemir, Allan, Michele, Alex, Terri, David, and Kim,

Thanks for your unified chorus of kind words, enthusiasm and arm twisting! There still is no website. However, I did manage to complete an ambitious scheme for a digitally animated painting demonstration, that is unfortunately too involved and large scaled to post here.

So this is the link to the demo at another site.

I thank everyone for their patience and hope the demonstration has been worth the wait!

Thanks again,

Garth

[Claudemir Bonfim]

It was not only worth the waiting but also very interesting and instructive.
Thanks for sharing.

[Claudemir Bonfim]

The prize was well-deserved too!
I liked the animation very much, are considering recording a video?

[Michele Rushworth]

Thanks, Garth -- very interesting demo! (Is that the old Nell Arte forum?)

Are the upper layers done with dry brush scumbles with more or less opaque paint? Also, when you show a new step in the animation does that represent one new layer or many new layers?

[Garth Herrick]

Originally Posted by Michele Rushworth

Thanks, Garth -- very interesting demo! (Is that the old Nell Arte forum?)

Are the upper layers done with dry brush scumbles with more or less opaque paint? Also, when you show a new step in the animation does that represent one new layer or many new layers?

Dear Claudemir and Michele,

Thanks so much! I see why others do videos now. That would be much easier than what I did.

This demo is posted on the newly established Art and Artistry Forum, up and running since late October. It's a very multi-disciplinary and all encompasing community of artists, and a well mannered bunch.

Michele, I think you are right in that much of the upper layer developments are more or less opaque scumbles to alter and build on the under layers.

The animation steps are partly arbitrary. I was basically just painting, but every so often when I felt something significant had changed in the development, I took a progress photo, thirty in all. The changes in each step may be small or large. To condense the presentation, I combined every three progress shots together forming ten groups of three images each. Each subsequent .GIF animation represents the subsequent three image progressions and there are no overlaps, as useful as that could be in certain instances.

I wish I could post this demonstration directly on this Forum, but if I did it would require significantly scaling it down. Those .GIF files are huge! I am amazed they posted and worked at all. I am glad we can link these and other useful WIP demonstrations from time to time. My preference would be to post the same here too, were it possible.

Thanks again,

Garth

[Terri Ficenec]

Wow Garth! What a cool way to do the demo.

LOVE the way the images update in stages. You must had had the camera fixed in the same position the whole time to get all those the images so perfectly aligned?

*** This would be great on your website! ***

[Garth Herrick]

Thanks Terri! In truth, I did not have the camera rigidly set. What a help that would have been! I had little foresight of what I would be producing with these casually hand-held progress shots. They were a true nightmare to straighten out and edit. Don't try this at home! Photoshop is amazing, I must say.

Garth

[Garth Herrick]

Folks,

I failed to mention several months back that I uploaded a 30-frame video demonstration of this painting in progress on YouTube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtAYUZl8BnQ

or follow this link .

It would be interesting to get some opinions on this type of demonstration. There are many others worth watching (filmed with actual video cameras, as opposed to mine which was cobbled from digital still photos). I think many here could do the same and post more demos there.

Anyway, it would be nice to get some response from real artists. Here is a recent comment I had to chuckle about:

"Fake,
scan a real picture, then add many different filters until you get something completely different, then cancel one by one all the filters and you have same result, [................]"

Oh well, that one should perhaps be deleted. Another YouTube demo artist just privately suggested I delete it.

Enjoy!

Garth

[Michele Rushworth]

Great video, and a useful teaching tool. I'll recommend it to my students when I teach a portrait work shop next month.

The music is a hoot -- maybe I should listen to something like that while I paint!