April 28, 2009

photographing paintings

My friend Becky and I are getting ready to sell our work at this summer’s SoWa Open Markets in the South End. She’s a painter, so we spent Saturday trying to get perfect images for her to make prints. I don’t know if you’ve ever tried to get well-lit glare-free images of oil paintings, but it’s not easy...

Becky stood behind the easel in case the 90-degrees-to-the-floor painting fell.



It was a strange moment for me, to photograph this painting of myself based on a photo from 3 years ago.


This one, also of me, is from January, when I had just moved back to Boston...

This one is called “Berkshire Red.”

Check out more of Becky’s work at http://beckydaroff.com/paintings/.

1 comment:

Unknown said...

I made it to Mo's blog! I feel famous. Look at the fabulous detail she captured in my paintings - http://beckydaroff.com/paintings/details/jenmerry_d.html. My version of this shot was all blurry and splotchy ...