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i had ordered several giclees recently and they have come in. i stretched them tonight. all but one, as i didn’t buy all the bars i needed. Voodoo Child … i never did get a decent high resolution shot so the image i had could only be enlarged up to something like 6 x 8 or something like that. i took a chance and ordered a larger image … 8 x 11. there was the chance it would be blurry, but i was willing to take the chance and see what the results were. they weren’t TOO bad, but i could definitely tell. it was sort of like what a tattoo looks like when it starts to blow out. it was very minute, mostly in the dark areas that butted against the whites, kind of a like a faint bleed. so … i took my palette and began fixing it. before i knew it i was enhancing things without going overboard to make the painting look too very different from the original [since this is for a friend who was interested in purchasing the original]. what turned out was a punched up version of the original that, dare i say, i like better. it’s more dramatic, there’s more metallic and carbon pigment and i was able to add gold where it seemed to have needed to be in the original [but missed, since it was a piece i'd worked long at ... after a while you lose sight of what is needed, what you intend.] at any rate, here’s the original:

and here is the handpainted giclee:

close up:

i know it still seems blurry, but chalk that up to user error on the camera side. [too much caffeine and sugar!!] also, the middle photo looks a bit wonky .. i had to take a photo at an angle to reduce glare, then distort it in photoshop. soon as it’s dry, i can scan it. at 8 x 11, it’s a perfect scannable size.

in other news, my first giclee painting, NIGHT BLOOM, sold. as i type this, the 1978:Tom Waits giclee repainting is drying on the shelf. more to come later.