Photo to Painting – Billy Idyll

Photo to Painting: Blue November Edition

December 7, 2023 by Billy Idyll

Lately I’ve been painting a lot more from my own photos, especially flawed or odd photos. Winter Sun What I I love about the original photo: that super bright blue and yellow in the distant sky! The contrast between vivid and dull. What I don’t like about original photo: The bright sky is much too … Read more

Photo to Painting: Autumn Foliage

November 2, 2023 by Billy Idyll

I spent much of October painting autumn foliage. Much of it was outdoors/plein air/in person, but sometimes I saw a great tree and took a snap to paint later at home, and I actually did. This is the first month where I did a lot of painting from my own, very recent photos. Let’s see how it went!

Sunset Photos Part 2: More Mauve!

October 31, 2023September 28, 2023 by Billy Idyll

Last month, I began painting some of my old photos, and realized all the ones I wanted to paint were sunsets! I was a little disappointed with my results, largely because I kept insisting on using Ultramarine Blue in the more violet clouds, which kept them very electric-bright when they should have been mauve. So, I decided to paint some more, different sunset photos, with a special effort to keep the mauve clouds muted.

What to do with those old sunset photos? Paint ’em!

October 31, 2023August 29, 2023 by Billy Idyll

Recently, I’ve been going through my old photos because I’m running out of space on Google Photos. I can sort my old photos into roughly four categories: This last category are the hardest to decide on. They’re not good enough to post publicly and may not even seem interesting to anyone else, but I have … Read more