Stone Bridge City Park New Orleans

Stone Bridge City Park by figstreetstudio
JK Schwehm, artist

I take a lot of photos of places I love in my city. I grew up walking in City Park and hanging out around this Stone Bridge. I have painted it in acrylics a few times. I use the photos I take to paint from. In the above picture I recently took I used software to make a new fall composition to paint at a later date. This computer generated composition came out so interesting I put it on a greeting card. As my time is limited it may be a while until I get to paint it so I now have it to enjoy to then.

Stone Bridge City Park New Orleans Poster
by figstreetstudio

Tooker's Camp at Indian Village Landing

Tooker's Camp at Indian Village Landing, link to blog story- Camp Painting


One of the main attractions at Indian Village along the West Pearl River near Slidell, LA was “Tooker’s Camp”. Tooker was a colorful fellow for a local town who had a made up hot tub on his front porch and a stop sign. Of that collection of photos I got around to painting his camp but made it up as a starry night with a fried egg moon. Like a Van Gogh. Tooker would have liked it that way. The painting is sold as prints, cards, tiles, and many gift items

LINK to print- http://www.zazzle.com/starry_night_river_camp_poster-228229143845109461

Starry Night River Camp by figstreetstudio
See all the posters at www.zazzle.com

 All around the Indian Village Landing are camps used as weekend homes to people who love to fish. Catfish are plentiful there and good times had by many local people who drive and boat in to stay the weekend. As I would canoe there I took pictures then painted a few camps, Tooker's is my favorite fishing camp painting.
 The camps and area were also used in a music video by Sheryl Crow.

Family Photographs Made Into Art

I make paintings from old family photographs:

For years for family and friends I have taken old photographs and transformed them in to art by painting compositions from the photo onto 8X10 watercolor paper. Once framed they become a work of art and cherished family heirloom. I often take time to also offer this service to the general public and would consider commissions from anyone with an interest in having an old photograph turned into a painting. This is no computer generated gimmick but a real painting so expect the prices to reflect the time and skill it takes to do a work of art. For more information and samples see http://www.figstreet.com/studio/photoart.htmlFig Street Art Studio

You can read more about my paintings from photos at-http://www.figstreet.com/studio/photoart.html.

The above painting is an acrylic portrait from a sepia school photo of my late wife, Nancy, when she was in first grade.

Camp St. Lighthouse Print

The lighthouse on Camp St. New Orleans, print of acrylic painting.

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Camp St. Light House by figstreetstudio