Botanical Art
Every painting is a journey.
It starts with a visit to the local farmer’s market where produce is artfully displayed and calling out “paint me!” Or with a call for entry from an arts organization for paintings to be submitted for inclusion in their exhibit. Or something as simple as a walk through the woods, along a creek, in a prairie filled with wildflowers, or a friend’s garden. So many choices!
The actual process of painting does not start until after several hours are spent looking at the subject, researching its structure, doing some quick sketches, doing some detailed sketches, taking several reference photographs, and working out a composition. Then . . . no painting just yet . . . a complete drawing needs to be created.
Okay, ready to paint. But wait, first the drawing needs to be transferred to the final substrate, be it watercolor paper or calfskin vellum. And which paint colors to use? Need to do some color studies by mixing, comparing, re-mixing.
Finally, the favorite brushes come out and the trip begins.
Photography
Both Linda and Larry are photo enthusiasts. Most of the photography in this site lean towards natural subjects, flora, fauna, and landscapes, but with our passion for travel, we also incorporate architecture and people as well. Still, there are some that just don’t fit these categories.
Most of the photographs in these collections were taken by Larry, but there are quite a number by Linda as well. We have a similar ‘eye’, and with a collection of about 60,000 photos, some of which were taken a few years ago, we occasionally aren't sure just who took which photo. Accordingly, we credit our ‘entity’, dailypowers, on all of them.
Since these photos have been taken over several years, the equipment used has varied quite a bit as we have changed/improved our gear. We are currently using two primary cameras, a Sony RX-100 point-and-shoot, and a Nikon D750 with a Nikkor 24-105 zoom, a Nikkor 105 Macro, and a Nikkor 80-400 zoom.
We try to shoot what we experience as accurately as possible, but we do use Adobe Lightroom photo editing software to crop or make changes if we couldn't or didn’t get what we wanted in the camera.
