Artist Challenge Otto Steinert

This is as close as I think I will get to the artist's portrait style. I'm sure glad Lucy is not as troubled as this image makes her look! This was taken at the aquarium we visited and it was blurry to begin with which seemed to fit his approach in some of his portraits. I debated as to whether or not to take out the line down the middle. It sort of works, but at the same time I don't like it running through her face- I was too tired to erase it. It's the edge of the aquarium glass window.

It's been one of my long Tuesdays at work so I'll catch up with you tomorrow.

[Diana]

An amazing image and so well done. Had you not mentioned that it was Lucy, I would not have known what it was. It took me a while to figure it out.

[winghong_ho]

Very clever editing.

[Joan Robillard]

Took me a moment to find Lucy.

[haskar]

I really like this line through the middle. It creates the character of the image.

[katy]

I’m glad you left that line in. It seems to be a better interpretation of his type of work. This is an excellent response to the challenge.

[LManning (Laura)]

A very compelling result.

[Shutterbug]

I like this image as it is. I do see the line cutting through Lucy’s nose. Did you try something like Touch/Retouch line remover to get rid of it?

[Kathy]

I thought it was a photo for the abstract month. I had to look very closely to even see Lucy. It's a cool image

[Ann H. LeFevre]

@ludwigsdiana @wh2021 @joansmor @haskar @grammyn @ljmanning @shutterbug49 @randystreat

Thank you Diana, Winghong, Joan, Hannah, Katy, Laura, Debbie, and Kathy!

@shutterbug49 I did- and thought of just taking it out of her face, but it looked very obvious when I did that. I couldn't find a happy medium between getting it off of her and into the background with it looking like it was supposed to be that way. So in the end I opted to just leave it in. It kind of fit his disjointed portraits though so, I was "ok" but not completely happy with it. I think his goal in those types of portraits was to show that people are not always what they seem like on the outside. Anyway- he was much better at than I obviously!! haha

[Helen Jane]

I'm clearly lacking in interpretation skills as it has taken me a very long time to find a face. Once found, I liked the way Lucy's nose crosses the line so leaving the line in seems good to me.