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From: Mike Beech

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Sent: Friday, April 29, 2011 9:12 AM

Subject: [Anaglyphs] Re: A painting I did in HS (Converted)

Well, it works for me. Good conversion and interesting insight. I once did a conversion of similar art, but it was a friend's art. In the end she had her wildly strange art interpreted into layers by me. She was enthusiastic about the result, so I guess we were on the same wavelength. Mike Beech 3D Tips: www.digital3dstereo.com/tips001.htm 3D Stereo Magic Mastering 2D to 3D Conversion Digital 3D Stereo Guide Super Stereo 3D http://www.digital3dstereo.com --- On Thu, 4/28/11, Brian Wallace <Starg82343(-at-)hotmail.com> wrote: From: Brian Wallace <Starg82343(-at-)hotmail.com> Subject: [3dXchange] A painting I did in HS (Converted) To: "3D-StereoviewXchange" <3D-StereoviewXchange(-at-)yahoogroups.com> Date: Thursday, April 28, 2011, 10:00 PM   In High School art class, I chose cubism as a style of art to research for an assignment and then had to do a painting from what I had learned.    Each time the art teacher commented on what I had done so far, it was wrong, wrong, wrong! and I'd have to begin again.  I could not get anything right.  I found it a bit strange as I thought I was doing it correctly even though I admit that I didn't really understand much of what I had been reading.  I tried to make it look like the images of cubism I had researched.   I finally became so frustrated, I had reached the boiling point!  From that point on during the assignment, I didn't try to adhere to what I thought cubism was supposed to be and every time the teacher came around, I suppose the expression on my face told him I was about to explode any second and he never uttered another word about how my painting was progressing.  I just continued without caring much how it turned out.    I found the freedom of doing what I wanted, not caring how it turned out or what the teacher thought of it to be very liberating.  Occasionally, in the back of my mind, I wondered... was this what the teacher actually wanted me to achieve?  Perhaps something more important than understanding a particular art style, was letting one's self be set free to create!  Isn't that the true goal of being an artist?  But then I would dismiss that random thought as being too clever a plan for this teacher.  I used to think of myself compared to others my age as pretty artistic but I never got above a "B" in this class.    After it was done, he still didn't indicate yah or nay but I was just glad he stopped telling me it was wrong.  To this day I don't know how close I came to getting anything right or for that matter if it even got in the ball park.   Some years ago, I believe I may have posted the image here in the group when I first started trying to convert my 2D paintings to 3D.  I have since cleaned up some stray lines in the painting and redid the conversion to 3D again today.  I may not know how badly I did my High School assignment, but because the painting style is not realism, I believe I could petty much convert the painting any way I wanted.  Nothing about it to me is either wrong or right.    There's a particular freedom to be experienced when you are completely original and don't conform to any pre-conformed notions.  Because I created it, no one can tell me that it's incorrect as there are no references to measure by.     Cheers, Brian       My Flickr page: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ur4chun8/ Click on a thumbnail pic, then Click on "+ ALL SIZES" (for larger view)   My photos according to "Interestingness" http://fiveprime.org/hivemind/Tags/Brian,Wallace,3d