CATURDAY ART WITH DANI: GIRL WITH A PEARL

Today Dani is posing in her version of a Classic painting.  With her penchant for dressing up, I knew she would love it.

This is the original, titled
"Girl with a Pearl Earring", by Dutch painter

Johannes Vermeer circa 1665.

Because this painting is quite famous, it has become fodder for reproductions, including one of a cat with a pearl earring, which coincidentally looks quite a bit like my Dani!

So when I came across this while browsing, I couldn't resist making a version of it for myself.

O Dani Girl with a Pearl Earring

I used an actual photograph of Dani, but painted the headdress and dress on her using Photoscape Tools for Painting.  You use the mouse as if it was a paint brush and you can mix colours as if you had an actual palette.

Dani's orientation was different from the original painting, so I tried to select one as close as possible.  Although it's still head on, she was standing further forward, so I had to adjust the costume as a result.

Photoscape is an awesome application and has been around for quite some time.  It is older and has some drawbacks (no pun intended), but also a wide range of photo-editing tools.  I found the latest version which is free to download for anyone who would like to try it.  I have really only used the Editor part of the software, and made a few GIFs over the years.

I learned to use this on my own, through trial and error.  That's one reason I stuck with the Editor part because it had most of what I needed.  There are still many other features I have not used, but you can explore to your heart's content.  

You can look up all of its features online.

Here's the link if you are interested:

  Photoscape 3.9

It is advertised as being virus free, but as I said I downloaded mine at least 7 years ago so this is the latest version.  I have never had any problems with viruses, but you use it at your own risk, of course.

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