After a two years absence, the Street Painting festival returns.
But first, Lydia made a bean salad! Those are green beens and cucumbers from the garden.
There were a bunch of artists from out of state, and out of country (Italy).
This one was based on the poster for this years event, which in turn was based on a painting from a previous year which I photographed with the Zeiss Contina. That image is the wallpaper on my Mac.
Final touches as the workman disassemble the tents nearby. It is important to finish it before it is washed away in the middle of the night....
The featured project was this trompe l'oeil view of a Venice Canal in forced perspective.
2 comments:
Nice pics Tom. Difficult to get some of the larger images due to the foreshortening. Need some sort of rolling scaffold with enough focal length so you could lay on your stomach and shoot all the paintings.
Did they run the bike race that weekend also?
David
Well the foreshortening is what every viewer sees. The camera was actually at a more favorable aspect, above and forward, than my eyes.
Our brains and eyes are less forgiving when it is flat on a page than when viewing in the three dimensional world.
There are always a few that correct for, or use that perspective - witness the flying Venetian gondolas.
But the short answer is that these are just happy snaps. Build your own damn scaffolding!
No bicycle race recently. Amgen Tour of California only briefly touched Marin County.
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