Kathleen
Davies
artist 9inspiration and opportunity to obtain references for
portraiture and scenes.
“I try to produce artworks that are as realistic as I
can possibly make them with my selected medium
such as graphite or coloured pencil, pen, watercolour,
acrylics, oils. Often colour changes are rendered in
the paintings that I feel are not represented well in
the original photographic images. As a replacement
for colour in original photograph,s illustrated images
are reproduced with pen line work to give the illusion
of detail, shadow gradations and movement. The
photographs are an aid to producing the finished
artwork, and they accompany visual observations, field
notes, memory and research.”
Keep it simple – use auto...
“My current cameras are Nikon – a D3200 DSLR
and a D5000 DSLR, one equipped with a 300mm
lens, the other with a wide angle and macro. I use
the 300mm lens on the D3200 mostly in sports
mode to capture distant wildlife or closer images
of particular areas of a landscape. I use this one
in sports mode to bring me closer to wildlife,
particularly birds, and capture moments frozen in
time as they take flight. Using the telephoto 300mm
lens also allows me to obtain a closer image without
the need to print enlargements.
“Without getting too technical - when bringing an
image closer with the telephoto, the background