MERMAID ~ Kellen

Kellen one my first friends here on PN as "I" see her in MY dreams!

This is taken from one of her "SELF PORTRAITS" that can be here by her permission and her request we produced this together.

She wanted me to make her into something FUN and exciting from one of her portraits. She was already beautiful!

I only wish I could upload it in it's true form and size.

Please Enjoy ~ micki

Really gorgeous!

Hello Micki ! Very creative ,well done ,love it , Your eyes realy look Beutifull in this ? Not that they dont already ???

Your work is really improving Micki. This is lovely. Great impact!

I worked very hard on this one because it was special. It looks really wonderful in full poster size and having to reduce it broke my heart.

 

Anthony, thank you so much! I am working hard to start my own business and Kellen was so kind to let me use one of her portraits as a stepping stone to try and use someone elses work for my portfolio. Using a simple picture and making it into a piece of art. Even I am shocked at how I could get across what I visualized.

 

It is because of people like you, ANTHONY, that I keep striving to get better! :) It is all in the eyes! ALWAYS! Even if there is only one eye (and one patch on the other ;)

Micki, you're improving indeed. Wonderful treatment to her portrait, really.

 

Excellent again - 7/7 anon.

Micki you are amazing, you just keep dazzling us with your creativity.

Miki ! .. your work is really getting higher and more vigorous. Having

a forceful consequence for admiration.. strange and surprising. A full load rating.Cedrico

Excellent! Best regards, Torfinn.

Wow wowow dear Micki :) love it love what you have done from her portrait :)

 

Superb and so unique :) a piece of art : )

 

Biliana

You did capture her beautifully. I think she will be very proud of what you have done to her picture.

Holy Crap....such a change...holy crap, oh wait said that already...Such work...Well Done..Not the critic you were after but I can't think of anything else to say.

 

Ger.

Micki, you are amazing! I'm just usually at a loss for words when I see your images.

Wow, Micki! Wow, Kellen! This is so beautiful! Micki, I love mermaids, and I love the color teal! You did a super fantastic job! ;) KW

Holy CRAP! ~ no not what I was wanting! he he! OK GER, THAT'S it. HA HA AND are you looking on a GOOD screen or a BAD screen?

 

HA HA!

 

John, Thank you :) You are so sweet!

 

I needed to show I could do this with not just me. See, I have you all thinking I am all glitter and stuff. GO LOOK AT MY ZEBRA picture. he he

 

This is how I see KELLEN! ;) Floating up at me in water. Don't you ;)

Thank you so much, This is probably one of the nicest things anyone has ever done for me! I really love what you did with my eyes, and lashes--the whole piece is just fantastic. You have really found a nice niche with these Dreamportraits.

I hope that you never have to "work-work" again.

I was actually thinking about it.

 

Do ARTISTS actually ever clean?

 

hmmm

 

Because when my husband got home yesterday he goes. "Did you do anything with the house?" and I laughed! I was like. NO! HA HA HA

I love this. So artist and very original. :O)

Truely and outstanding piece of work.

 

You could potentially be getting 3's from people that son't see a place for this type of art in photography... They just don't understand good work, so, in my opinion, also shouldn't rate what they don't understand.

 

The movement through the frame is great, as is the different places that you have highlighted the hair. Your photoshop work with the water and the eyes is mezmerizing.

 

I am going back and forth on the skin tone... I like it, but then feel it might be a bit too bright for the rest of the work of art... hmmmmmm... Still not too sure... You are better than me with colours, so I will trust your judgement with it.

 

One of these days, I'd love to see what you could do with that evil shot of me that Nicki has! LOL!

 

Your work has inspired me in more ways than you could imagine, for that I thank you! Please keep up the great work!

BUT when you look at it this way I think it helps. WHEN printed the contrast between the little white in the water and the hair just maks it work. I try to mix the high-key look with the colors and hope it makes it mix. I also try to make the eyes part of the focus. Still working on that one. Got a ways to go on it and it works well in some ways and not in others.

 

I did fix the lips a bit on this as when reducing it the pixels mixed and it frustrated me. Trust me when I printed this I was THRILLED at the results as the water affect worked and I was thrilled how well it did work. Sometimes I wonder why PN's colors on ART and highlights look so different as compared to normal photography that is uploaded.

 

Please let me know if this uploaded picture helps. :) ~ THANKS so much Darren!

 

I'll get right on making you more devilish! HA HA HA (ok that's not hard) HA lol

Even I like it Micki -- and I'm not known for liking much of anything! I have just gained a whole new level of respect for your artistic creativity and am sorry that I did not see it in you before now.

 

My very highest and most humble regards.

After seeing some of your recent posts, one would be very tempted to dub thee "The Queen of PS" work.

J3

Seen it Micki, yeah,, your express has change towards Art nouveau-deco, and you can master this excellent,,i find this one the most superior of the 3,,,,you let the picture tells its own story,,,, and you let it,,,makes it great,,,re. niels

Andre, I actually thought of you and what you would like when I was doing this. Making sure I didn't over do it to much. YEAH ~ I am glad I kept the softness to it. I think you would like the origional. Thank you so much!

 

Julius ~ you humble ME! I amm always so empowered by your pictures, it is because of you that I remember not to sharpen too much and leave things softer.

 

NIELS. I follow the light! ALWAYS the light of a picture! I study you and that is why I am much better at doing what I do ;)

 

Thank you

Micki, when I first opened this, I immediately imagined the hair's swirling movement through the water...you've given it movement and life...I love that! The eyes and mouth are great, but my favorite is the nose...just enough realism in the high key face to add depth and life. Very nice. You have a very magical imagination my dear...it's fun and inspiring! :)

 

Leslie