I was surprised to meet my friend Don again in Winchester, this time near the city museum. He was starting another painting but currently has 3 to finish each needing one more (rainy) day.
There is quite a bit of bokeh background so this is for today's challenge in owo-1: lots of bokeh
Fab portrait, Hazel (of course) but what's the bokeh? Definitely shallow DOF though and a fav, but I don't get bokeh, as I demonstrated in my offering today
Pat, my understanding is that Don has to finish those 3 paintings outside when it is a actually raining! I forgot to ask him how he will keep the paintings dry - an outsize umbrella perhaps. Hope I see him again soon and then I will ask!
p.s. He sells them all and just gets comissions from people who see him out and about. The last one he sold was £500 but took 12 days to paint - a rate of around £5 per hour he told me. Painted as much for love as for money!
Well admit I was a bit unsure of this but it looks just like an example on a website I found explaining bokeh!!!
Thank you so much. Perhaps love of something helps one to get better at it!!
Pat, my understanding is that Don has to finish those 3 paintings outside when it is a actually raining! I forgot to ask him how he will keep the paintings dry - an outsize umbrella perhaps. Hope I see him again soon and then I will ask!
p.s. He sells them all and just gets comissions from people who see him out and about. The last one he sold was £500 but took 12 days to paint - a rate of around £5 per hour he told me. Painted as much for love as for money!
Yes I think the paintings are of street scenes in the rain. How happy I would be if I could paint like Don!