Hi, I'm Andrea, and I'm interested in creatures and plants both wild and tamed, and people of all sorts. I only use a compact digital camera ,as I love being able to get it into a back pocket, and not have to cart heavy kit about. I carry a Panasonic Lumix TZ series, binoculars and a hand lens almost everywhere.Most of my outings are with the dogs so I only use point and shoot.
I am getting the hang of Photoshop, thanks to some very kind folk on RR!
I have a wildlife garden in Bournemouth, Dorset, in the UK, and spend a lot of time there . I retired from teaching art to teenagers a while ago.
I'm now getting some good results with my digi compacts; it took me a while to make the switch from my old film camera, an 1960 ish Pentax Spotmatic, but the mistakes are much cheaper!
I have 4 lodgers, 3 dogs and a parrot who, as at 2017, I have had 40 years.
I has so far had 19 dogs, mostly rescues.
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| F Number | f/3.3 |
|---|---|
| Make | Panasonic |
| Model | DMC-TZ70 |
| Shutter Speed | 10/13000 |
| ISO Speed | 400 |
| Focal Length | 4 |
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Comments (11)
Faemike55
interesting character - cool work
T.Rex
Not quite Picasso, but getting there. I like this. The colors and twisted mouth and nose. Keep up the good work. :-)
Kordouane
Indeed, kind Picasso, beautiful work
jendellas
Just love her face.
moochagoo
Love that painting !
miwi
Not quite Picasso, but getting close;excellent done!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
wysiwig
The face you make when you've just heard Trump's latest nonsense. I like what you did with the post worked version.
junge1
Pretty interesting. Have you ever exhibited any of your work Andrea?
Glendaw
Love her expression, great job.
Xo
helanker
OH WOW! I so love your choice of colors here. So original and so bold. You made my day with this. More please. Sorry I was so late coming here.
anahata.c
Several people above mentioned "Picasso". (You got 2 "not quite Picasso"s: Really?) First, I would compare this to Matisse way before I'd compare it to Picasso. (And that's a compliment.) Second---and I'll be kicked out of a lot of art rooms for saying this---while Picasso was incredibly classical, and so balanced, and so intelligent with all his analytical wildness, etc, I don't think he was as great as many make him out to be; and I'd take this face over at least half of his any day. Lots of expression in your subject's eyes, the droop of the face is chasm-y, the deformed/angles lips are terrific, (that's maybe where they see picasso), those deep haunted eyes, with that wonderful green for the irises---blue green---the smeary rough oil-paint-like application of your pastels, and the deep Matisse-like contrasts of vivid hues, along with an angle as if she just craned into the shot, and the chasms in her cheeks---this is a terrific painting, Andrea. I liked the postworked version too, but the original has power no postwork could achieve, and I think this is masterful. Those eyes peer out from the ages. One helluva piece.