My great-aunt's a painter.

She's won awards and stuff, and has a lot of paintings hanging up in her house.

I made the mistake of trying to photograph every one.

663MB of photos (before reduction/cropping).
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And I didn't even get to their bedroom, just the rest of their house... and this isn't including the ones that were sold, of course.

(You can tell at the end where I got lazy and started taking pics of groups at a time since the images are huge anyways).

Also I totally went swimming with a bunch of old people and ate too much fried chicken and cheesecake.

So that was my weekend.

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[quote name='BloodyFlame' post='3870652' date='Sep 4 2011, 08:44 PM']Could you upload those paintings? I would like to see them, if you don't mind.[/quote]
Well, if his aunt can sell the paintings, chances are he won't actually upload the images.
 
[quote name='BloodyFlame' post='3870652' date='Sep 4 2011, 08:44 PM']Could you upload those paintings? I would like to see them, if you don't mind.[/quote]Sure, but I'mma' batch-resize first so I don't kill my upload though. There might be some duplicates, I went through a second time to get the ones I missed and might have photographed the same frame from a different angle. The last two images are of the "work area".

http://rydian.net/paintings_resized.zip

(It's not done uploading yet, give it 5-10 minutes or so.)
 
[quote name='Slyakin' post='3870653' date='Sep 4 2011, 08:45 PM'][quote name='BloodyFlame' post='3870652' date='Sep 4 2011, 08:44 PM']Could you upload those paintings? I would like to see them, if you don't mind.[/quote]Well, if his aunt can sell the paintings, chances are he won't actually upload the images.[/quote]Well the thing there is that paintings aren't just about the still image. For example a PNG of the Mona Lisa is worth hack squat, a reproduction sells for dollars, but the actual painting is worth a ton.

And there aren't professional images or anything you could make a great reproduction out of anyways, I did this mainly to just have around for my own review (as some of the portrait shots are of dead family members). I just got overwhelmed by the sheer number.

EDIT: Oh yeah, and some are just copies, for example the original of the escalator painting she did is up in the building it was made for.
 
These pictures are incredible. Just looking at the first few paintings tell me that she is very skilled.
 
Forgot to mention that a few of them are her husband (Jack/J), but the majority are her. XD

And yeah, most of the time when people talk about her work is commission portraits and decoration.
 

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