Hi, I'm Lucinda
The photo was taken with my new Canon EOS 450D (with a tamron 18-200mm lense), by me in the mirror. It's a little overexposed, but at my age, that's not necessarily a bad thing.
Bare Bones Bio:
I was born in Louisiana, USA in 1956, youngest of four girls. In 1967 we all moved to New Jersey when my father was transferred. I've always loved to read and soon gravitated towards Sci Fi, Fantasy, and nonfiction (mostly English History). The last was influenced by watching Masterpiece Theatre. I had the opportunity to go to the UK and Greece on 10 day Easter trips through my high school, which instilled in me an itch to travel. After one year of college,(I learned a lot, but unfortunately not much from my professors and text books) I joined the Air Force and went to Japan and England. I married a fellow GI (Bill), in England, got out of the Air Force (Bill stayed in)and went back to the States. Bill and I then lived in Rancho Cordova, California (where we had our first son, Charles),
Biloxi, Mississippi (where we had our second son, James), Oxfordshire, UK (For me, thank you Bill), and San Antonio, Texas (where we live now). Bill is retired from the Air Force and drives a Big Rig for J. B. Hunt. I am an office manager for a carwash. Charles and James graduated last May from University of Texas at San Antonio and Texas A&M at College Station respectively. Yeah!!!
Interests:
Reading - Mostly nonfiction history, though I have widened the field somewhat. I also like journals and diaries and have been reading "The Diary of Samuel Pepys" on and off for a while now. I'm currently on Vol. VII 1666. (I haven't gotten to the great fire yet). My fiction tends to run to fantasy, Douglas Adams, Terry Pratchett, and Neil Gaiman to name a few.
Music - I grew up on rock, folk, musicals, classical, and Gilbert and Sullivan. I still love all that and have added jazz, blues, bluegrass, celtic and a little country. I don't play any instruments and can't sing (the singing talent in our family seemed to lessen with each new sister and I'm the baby of the bunch), but I'm an enthusiastic listener.
Art (Drawing, Photography and Oil Painting) - One of the regular pastimes of my sisters and I growing up was paper dolls. We used typing paper to make swimsuit clad paper dolls with pattern book heads. Then we spent countless hours drawing and coloring clothes for them. Depending on the current story, they could be clothes from Regency England, Colonial America, or Star Trek. I also drew faces from the hairdo magazines and was happy if they looked fairly human. I now draw and have recently taken up oil painting. I'm a definite amateur at photography. I've taken pictures since the mid 70s when I went to Japan, but they are mostly of my travels, kids and cats. I've got a lot to go through to see which ones are worth posting. I bought my first digital camera last April (09) for my birthday (I ordered it in April, received it in May, for my birthday in June. (I don't believe in being too literal about such things) I bought PhotoShop in June. I've still got a lot to learn on both, but it's a lot of fun.
Other - My sister Gail and I love The Teaching Company lectures. We both buy history, I occasionally buy literature and she occasionally buys math and science and we watch each other's. I'm also a tad fond of cats.
I could gush, and probably have, about all the talent I see on RR. I find myself using the words wow and beautiful far too much. I guess I should pull out the Thesaurus.Â
Comments (32)
alessimarco
Very nice! The fluid effect is very attractive!
annie5
Very interesting..great result! So original :)
Madbat
Yes that really does look like a cat! cough Ok, No it doesn't...I think that's awesome looking! I can't believe that started out as a cat!
psyoshida
Amazing things emerge when you play in PS. Very expressive eyes your lady has, a little bit sad looking or perhaps just contemplative. I love the soft pastel tones of this scene. Very creative and original as always. Excellent art.
goodoleboy
Really like the clarity, contrasts and paisleylike undulating textures in this amazing transition from cat to lady, Lucinda!
magnus073
Lucinda I think this is lovely and after reading the story of how it came to be it is even more special now. This was such a splendid idea and gave me the biggest smile ever :)
wysiwig
Hey I dated her once. Valerie Loveless was a platinum blond although her hair was shorter. This is quite good, reminiscent of the Modigliani portrait of his lover Jeanne Hébuterne. Truth be told I like yours better.
mariogiannecchini
Complimenti , Lucinda ! Una bella idea supportata da una buona esecuzione del lavoro a cui aggiungere i meriti della fantasia. Bella improvvisazione !!! Congratulations Lucinda! A nice idea supported by good performance of the work to add the merits of the imagination. Nice improvisation!
helanker
OHH she is lovely Lucinda. He looks like a mermaid. Well done :-)
durleybeachbum
I can feel the fun you had!! I agree with Mark about the Modigliani likeness. I love that shininess on the right!
flavia49
wonderful work!!!
alanwilliams
Splendid image
Radar_rad-dude
BEAUTIFUL!!!!!
wjames
Wonderful image, who knows where it leads you when you start playing with PS
greensleeves81
An extraordinary experiment! Nature stores immense energy in each and everything you see irrelevant to its size or shape. If you have that 'spark' within you, then go and set it on fire, let it explode.
JSGraphics
Awesome! Well done!
unstart
Beautifully done..love the liquid bg and your lady is lovely!
jocko500
you did very good here
MagikUnicorn Online Now!
B E A U T Y
jendellas
I think she is amazing!!!!
sandra46
FANTABULOUS IMAGE!!!! GREAT WORK!!!
npauling
This has turned out beautifully in spite of it starting out as a cat picture. I love how it has turned out and the face looks lovely with its expression and colouring. Very well done.
mgtcs
WOW....Lucinda this is a fantastic image, fantastic expression and colors, superb work my friend, congratulations!
BertDes
Wonderful. Very special effects.
Chipka
I have yet to try anything remotely like this and I must say that you've inspired me to do so! This is amazing, so well presented and conceived! The expression on her face is so wonderfully contemplative and a bit cryptic. The colors are superb and so natural. (I saw the original that inspired this in so sedate and feline a way and I'll comment on that when I'm more awake.) This reminds me of quite a lot of the work I've seen hanging in the hallowed halls of Chicago's Art Institute, and well...I'd love to see this there, in the Modern Wing amid lesser pieces of art by really famous people! This has a wonderful feel to it, and there's something about it that makes me think of...oh...I don't really know...but something definitely 20th Century, when artists experimented and expressed something a bit less "mannered" than what's being put out today, if that makes sense: there's something elegant and visceral in this and I like it immensely.
rainbows
This is beautiful artwork, you have great talent. Diane.
jmb007
splendide travail!!!
drifterlee
Turned out wonderful!!
emmecielle
Excellent work! :)
misskitty
Beautiful! Hard to believe it started as a pic of Cleo. Great work! Reminds me of the story book character Rapunzel...or what I think she would look like.