Ani Trone

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It must be the rain or maybe I’ve just come to find a new passion. Here is an old photo of my step mom and dad from 6 years ago. I only had the 600×480 version but I brought it into Photoshop and changed the resolution so I could have a larger version for painting.

I really love how the expressions stayed the same but I really liked how it brought out the nice coolpastels…my dad’s right cheek was a little tricky but I think it came out really special, al least to me

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Another experiment with an old photo…I loved how the shadows and highlights came into effect once I started adjusting in Lightroom. I then brought it into CS3 and did a little pixel bending and painting

Smudged, painted and experimented with…

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I was cleaning my gun yesterday and set it just perfectly on my notepad…don’t you just love when these little mishaps occur

No, I’m kidding, I did this on purpose!

CS3 Painting

I was going through some old stuff for inspiration and improvement…I came across an old photo of my nephew Victor (this from a phtoshoot of their band Bullets and Betrayal) and decided to mess around with some pixels…:)

It is not my best but I liked my idea of keeping the background a seperate style…smudged, painted and spot removal tool used but definately not abused.

As always…click the tiny photo for the “El Grande” version

Ani Grinched

So last night I was out chopping up some rounds to put in the fireplace and I go to chop this particular piece and it flips off the edge of the rock and uppercuts me square on the chin! I stumbled back a little and thought to myself, “What in the hell just happened?!”

Well what happened was a great big bruise and swollen chin! I woke up this morning looking like the original joker with my newely blackened and pronunced chin pertruding out of my grumpy and sore face!

All is not lost, this afternoon I decided on our new Christmas cards…as always click picture for larger version