Your photo as an Impressionist painting
Oil straight from the tube, laid in separate touches in a single sitting, so the picture assembles only from a few steps back. Erafy paints your photo that way, as a canvas of 1880.
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How an Impressionist painting was made
The painters who showed together in Paris from 1874 took their name from a hostile review of a canvas called an impression. Two new things made the manner possible: paint in collapsible metal tubes and new bright pigments. A picture was often painted in one sitting in front of its subject, and the subject was modern and ordinary: a railway station, a rowing party, weather on water.
The paint goes on stiff from the tube with flat hog-bristle brushes, with no medium, no glaze and no varnish. Each touch is left as a separate patch of one colour with its edge showing against the next, so the picture assembles from a few steps back. There is no black in the shadows: a shadow is violet, blue or a little green.
Erafy leaves your photo at that first statement. A head is about a dozen facets of four flesh tints, an eye one blunt dark touch, a highlight one lump of lead white. What carries a person is where those facets sit and what colour they are. The place behind you is your photo's own place, repainted in the same touches. With Situation on you might be at a luncheon under a striped awning or on the sands beside the bathing huts.
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Other crafts: Painted and printed
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Questions
Why does the painting look unfinished?
Because it is stopped at the lay-in, the first statement of every form, which is where this manner lives. The whole canvas was blocked in wet in an hour or two and never gone back into, so nothing was floated or glazed smooth afterwards. A smile line, an eyelash or a pore would each need a mark smaller than the bristle, and a mark smaller than the bristle cannot be laid.
What did the Impressionists take from photography?
The cut-off figure, the tilted viewpoint and the casual crop. Freed of the job of recording, painting moved toward what a photograph of the 1870s could not do, colour and the visible fact of being handmade, while borrowing the framing a camera had made ordinary. Japanese woodblock prints were the other half of that borrowing.
What would I look like in an Impressionist painting?
Erafy makes a new picture from your photo in the style of the year you pick, so how much it resembles you varies from one go to the next. It varies most in the black-and-white years and in the crafts before 1900, where faces are drawn in the craft's style. We make no promise about how any result will look.
