I did three paintings as gifts for a friend - well, not exactly paintings with brushes, but anyway... I started with a photo portrait of him by me, digitally worked with it in Adobe Photoshop and Corel Photo Paint and made two distinct works out of it, one looking like an illustration, in colour, the other in black and white, much like the Audrey Hepburn portrait, sold in IKEA, made by Phil Handsley. And then I tried the same technique on my friend's favourite photograph: a Helmut Newton portrait of Isabella Rosselini and David Lynch. The colour illustration has a background that was made by another of my photos, again touched up in Photoshop. I printed them on canvas sized 90X90 cm with material left to do the inside framing easily. Let me know what you think.
