My brother sent me a photo, which I think came from the Sheffield Star newspaper, possibly more specifically from their correspondent here. It’s from last weekend’s Championship match at Beautiful Downtown Bramall Lane, in which Sheffield United played Nottingham Forest.
The weather wasn’t great. The match finished 0-0.
But the photo needed some playing with in Lightroom, in my humble opinion. (See here for details of why I appropriate other people’s photography).
When I saw it, it reminded me of a dramatic painting, so obviously I made it into a dramatic painting.
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The blizzard conditions are obviously what makes this photo so eye-catching, but it’s the juxtaposition of that chaos with the stability of the horizontal touchline in the foreground that I really like. It’s almost cinematic.
I’m not an artist, but if I was, I think I’d like to paint something this good.
In the meantime, I’ll just have to content myself by attempting to make artwork out of other people’s photos.