Antique Reflections Painting by Omaste Witkowski

Antique Reflections

by Omaste Witkowski

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Title

Antique Reflections

Artist

Omaste Witkowski

Medium

Painting - Digital Photograph

Description

Antique Reflections
� Omaste Witkowski
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This 1600s English Farm is located in Virginia at the Frontier Culture Museum. It is a place that I visited with my family when we were on vacation a few years ago. I really enjoyed the color of the home and the corresponding reflection on the water. It is such a nice contrast with the other colors present.

I started with a digital photograph and used a HDR process to tone map the light. Then I applied a finishing oil paint layer to add texture to the overall image. I did some tonal work to even out the colors and make them realistic to what I was seeing in nature but not excessively.
I am interested in photography as an "unusual" or "unique" image making process. In other words I enjoy starting with a photograph of an ordinary scene or subject and then I try to make it my own by adding unusual processing techniques. I hope you enjoy viewing my work as much as i enjoy creating it.
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From Wikipedia "The Frontier Culture Museum, located in Staunton, Virginia is a living history museum that tells the story of the people who migrated from the Old World to America and the life they created in the Shenandoah Valley. The Museum is made up of original or reproduced examples of traditional buildings from the Old World and America.

Many of the early immigrants to the Shenandoah Valley were farmers seeking opportunities for a better life. The Museum�s Old World Exhibits include an Igbo West African Farm, an English Farm, an Irish Farm, an Irish Forge, and a German Farm. These people eventually became Americans and contributed to the success of the colonies and the United States. The Museum�s growing American Exhibits currently comprise of an Eastern Woodland Indian exhibit, a 1740s American Settlement, a 1820s American Farm, a 1850s American Farm, and an Early American Schoolhouse."
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Background:

English colonization of North America began with the founding of Jamestown in 1607. Over the next century other English colonies were established along the Atlantic coast of what would become the United States. By 1700, almost 250,000 people, most of whom were born in England or were of English descent, lived in the colonies.

Virginia was England's first North American colony, and as many as 120,000 English migrants arrived here in the 1600s. Some colonists were granted land where they established tobacco plantations worked by white indentured servants and African slaves. Settlement slowly crept westward into the piedmont, and by the mid-1700s Anglo-Virginians crossed the Blue Ridge and began to settle in the Valley of Virginia.

Contributions to American culture:

English culture and traditions were dominant in England's North American colonies due to the numbers of English settlers, and the role the Crown and English proprietors played in establishing these colonies. In Virginia, this culture quickly took on the characteristics of southern England. This took the form of a patriarchal and hierarchical society led by the "gentlemen" of the colony. With the arrival of other ethnic groups and the emergence of political democracy during the era of the American Revolution, this traditional culture faded. What endured were American versions of English language, law and government, morality, and an ideal of individual liberty" http://www.frontiermuseum.org/england.html