trash the canvas winner announced!

I'm so happy! Things always work out, don't they?

Here is what I ended up doing with a disaster...I turned it into an opportunity.

http://www.simplycanvas.com/cashfortrash/

And here are all the pictures from that afternoon's brainstorm!

http://taunya.zenfolio.com/p375595718

Thank you Simply Canvas!

PPA's Super Monday:The Concept of a Conceptual World by Lissa Hatcher

On Monday, October 25th, 2009 I attended a workshop given by Lissa Hatcher. We accompanied her on a photo session and were given an assignment, to find the picture within the picture.

It was about 4:30 p.m., the sky was overcast and it was windy and drizzling rain, not to mention cold! Watching Lissa work, was comforting and calming. I took some photographs of her working too. Here is my assignment. The picture within the picture. Below is the original image. Let me know what you think!

The progress of a painting

Art can be very subjective! But I wanted to let you have an inside peek at what an almost finished portrait painting looks like. I've included the original photograph so you could see what I started with.

Photo Session of Cinda and Zeus

I had the great pleasure of meeting up with Cinda and Zeus on a very warm September afternoon for some photo time. Here are my three favorites from the session. ~Taunya

Can you paint from an old photograph of mine?

Can you paint from an old photograph of mine? I get asked this question a lot. And truthfully I always have to answer, "I don't know, until I see it." That was the case with this project. My client and now friend, had a wonderful idea...Wouldn't it be neat to turn this photo she had of Joe and his grandson, Luke into a painting. So she brought me the digital image and also some older photographs of Joe. I knew we needed a new background, so her and I talked about ideas. She went back home and took some photos for me, and this one of the shed worked perfect. I had to reconstruct Joe's eye from some earlier photographs, and his tail, and also Luke's tail. The bottom image is the final rendering in photoshop and it is ready for me to start painting now! The title will be "The Mentor Lives on! "Grandpa, will I be like you when I grow up?"

High School Seniors

One of my most favorite subjects to photograph are high school seniors. They seem to enjoy themselves after we spend some time together...and I get these wonderful photos of them!

Here is one of my favorites! I'm going to try to upload a few more to my facebook page, so if you are on facebook....look me up under Taunya Tae Photography!

We are family!

Here's a neat idea. My client wanted to see if we could get all four of her dogs onto one canvas. So we created this collage or grouping in a 16 x 20 format. What do you think?