created Gauguin-style painting, personalized w/my own lady - Other Crafts

LL Limbo Lizard Tiki Socialite Aboard the 'Leaky Tiki', Dallas Joined: Aug 24, 2006 Posts: 788	LL Limbo Lizard Posted posted on Mon, Nov 13, 2006 11:14 AM I thought I'd share an idea I tried, in case someone else wants to try it. Instead of getting some framed Gauguin repros for the walls of our tiki-theme houseboat, I decided to try and make my own, with a twist. I inserted a cropped photo of my wife into a Gauguin painting (JPEG format), using Corel PhotoPaint and Adobe Photoshop to make it look like part of the original. I sized them for 8"x10" frames. For me, it's more, uh, interesting to hang these up than the true reproductions. I have my own woman as a Gauguin-style, faux-Polynesian pin-up, (with 'fine art appreciation' as an alibi), and my wife appreciates that it's her I'm oogling. And since it resembles a famous painting, and I've taken off a few years in the process, she's not so embarrassed that someone might catch a glimpse, like she would be about a photograph. (I've blurred her face and 'censored' a bit for privacy, anyway, but you get the idea). So, what do you think? Good idea, or shameless meddling with great art? And, most important,... is it TIKI? Compared with the originals: EA HAERE IA OE THE BATHERS [ Edited by: Limbo Lizard 2007-01-09 09:11 ]

I thought I'd share an idea I tried, in case someone else wants to try it.
Instead of getting some framed Gauguin repros for the walls of our tiki-theme houseboat, I decided to try and make my own, with a twist. I inserted a cropped photo of my wife into a Gauguin painting (JPEG format), using Corel PhotoPaint and Adobe Photoshop to make it look like part of the original. I sized them for 8"x10" frames.
For me, it's more, uh, interesting to hang these up than the true reproductions. I have my own woman as a Gauguin-style, faux-Polynesian pin-up, (with 'fine art appreciation' as an alibi), and my wife appreciates that it's her I'm oogling. And since it resembles a famous painting, and I've taken off a few years in the process, she's not so embarrassed that someone might catch a glimpse, like she would be about a photograph. (I've blurred her face and 'censored' a bit for privacy, anyway, but you get the idea).
So, what do you think? Good idea, or shameless meddling with great art? And, most important,... is it TIKI?

Compared with the originals:

EA HAERE IA OE

THE BATHERS

[ Edited by: Limbo Lizard 2007-01-09 09:11 ]

Post #266388 by Limbo Lizard on Mon, Nov 13, 2006 11:14 AM