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Joyce & Charles Wedding/Birthday Portrait

Captured Emotions

I’ve known Mo for over a decade and over the years I’ve had the privilege to see some of his work. More recently, I saw his airbrush paintings of wedding portraits he had done for some of our friends (including his own).

When it came time to decide on a wedding/birthday gift for my fiance, the idea of asking Mo to create one of his timeless pieces was on the top of my list. Mo is truly talented and his ability to capture every fine detail and human emotion through the airbrush is amazing.

I gave Mo one of my favorite pictures of me and my fiance. It was one of those candid shots I thought would look sweet in a black and white painting. I was confident that Mo would do great work but I was in complete and utter awe when he revealed the final product. The painting looked like a replica of the actual picture, yet more beautiful and personal. He was somehow able to add so much depth to the picture. His attention to every tiny detail like how the sun reflected off our faces and my reflection in my fiance’s sunglasses was mind blowing.

I am so excited to give the painting to my fiance and have it hanging in our place. Knowing that it was done by a dear friend will make it that much more special when we look at it everyday for the rest of our lives. Thanks Mo! – Joyce

Although the Timelapse Video illustrates nearly every stage of the painting, see more details and the extra steps I took to prepare this canvas…

My Wedding Portrait Timelapse

Bobo’s Portrait Timelapse Video

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Here is the edited footage of the timelapse video I produced and edited during the making of Bobo’s Pet Portrait.

I had a Canon G9 set up on a Gorillapod and also on my Manfrotto 190XDB tripod to shoot one shot every minute using the intervalometer in the CHDK firmware. I changed the angle at the beginning of every session to change up the viewing angles to make the video have more visual appeal.

I also used my Nikon D90 with a 50mm f1.8 lens set up on the Manfrotto tripod to shoot the movies used in the introduction and towards the ending of the video.

I gave iMovie ’09 the benefit of the doubt to edit the footage I captured, however I had many nagging issues with its stability while I was editing. Rebooting proved to settle most of the issues, but what Macbook Pro owner reboots their Mac? Anyhow, the editing experience went smoothly after the rough start, and the learning curve was much smaller than I had anticipated (coming from a background using iMovie 06 HD, Adobe Premiere, and Final Cut).

I also used Aperture 3 to edit the photos. I was hoping to use A3 to edit this together using its new video feature, but I found it too lacking when it came down to editing the video clips from my Canon G9 or the Nikon D90.

I intend to do this for the more of my future art projects. While I usually enjoy watching timelapse projects, I’ve also found that directing, editing, and piecing together videos and still images has been very rewarding.

-Sulmo Kim | artist@sulmokim.com

Bobo’s Pet Portrait

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Some people love their pets enough to immortalize them in a painting. My mother is one of these people!

Bobo has been our family dog since 1998 when my mother found him at the local Petco after scouring for months for a suitable, household companion. This was the first small dog that we ever owned, and he’s been the best pet we’ve had since the first day.

I’ve done 3 other paintings of Bobo over the years, and none have made the cut in my mother’s eye, who can be my toughest critic (out of love of course). I took some photos with my Canon G9 a few years ago and assembled a book for her, and she chose this calm and sleepy photo of Bobo to be painted and hung over her fireplace.

-Sulmo Kim | artist@sulmokim.com

See what it takes to make the cut for mom…