Blondheim Art Florida Marsh Original Painting

6x9 inches
acrylic on panel
350.00
silver frame
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Painters Tip

Enlarging Photos

Gridding

There are a couple of handy ways to enlarge a photograph. My favorite is by the grid method. Draw a grid on your photo or a copy of your photo if you don't want to ruin the photo. Then make the identical grid pattern on your canvas. Then it is just a matter of filling in each square accurately. Look at the squares as individual contour drawings, not as a definable objects. Pay attention to positive and negative space, curves angles or line placement within the squares. At the end, you have enlarged the photo fairly easily and it is a fun project. As a bonus, you may end up with some pretty cool abstract painting ideas.

Opaque Projector

The second method is by opaque projector. This goes much faster than the grid method but you will need to be aware that if you don't have straight angles it can look distorted. I would suggest that you actually hang the canvas straight on the wall before starting, to minimize the distortion.

Free Hand

Of course, you can free hand too. This takes quite a while and many corrections. I like to draw it out on paper, make my corrections and then hold the paper up to a window and use clean paper and pencil to redraw a neater version. Then you can flip it over, use pressure on the backside to follow the lines, flip again right side up and draw on your canvas. The faint lines will show.

They all work.