Just for discussion..
Pin shared a beautiful
painted baby portrait bottle.. At first glance, both Steven and I thought it painted a bit flat and possible photo enhanced..
Really glad that was cleared up..
But.. Peter commented, and when I initially stumbled onto photo enhanced paintings, that a
key indicator was the dark area to the base of the image.
I am not so sure any longer.. I would like to use this image, and suggest that they may have changed the photo enhanced technique for the darkening out of the base to cover up the resulting flaw resulting from applying to a curved base. They may now be actually taking a little time to paint it so things appear to blend in rather than simply darkening out.
I have seen others like this, and they just do not look right to me.. In this example, there is an overall flatness to the image.. There are many clues ( to my eye ) within the image that do not appear painted.. I think parts of the background "may" be painted, and the straw in the foreground, but the main and most difficult part to have painted ( mother and child ) does not look right..
If I had the money to purchase this or other bottles I have seen similar ( without the darkened out base ) so as to tear it apart, I would do it just to confirm..
I am leaning towards they may be painting over instead of darkening out.. In the case of the first image, the straw was painted instead of just darkening out to mask that area.. In the 2nd image the mothers lower legs, bottom of pants, the the whole browned out area appear to have been painted in addition to a possible photo enhanced image of the mother and child.. Even the steer looks flat.. There are many other clues.. Lets see if you can see those as well...
I think for those who enjoy purchasing these kind of paintings, there is a need to continually look extra close.. The simple darkening out is possibly just "one" indicator, and not the rule of thumb..