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PAINTOGRAPHY: The blending of individually stylized painting, with photography, and graphic design, to communicate with an audience, or to tell a story. There are few who are practicing this new art form, and not all agree on its exact application. Some are persons who acquire a photograph, and paint a painting based on the photograph. Others take a digital image and using proprietary software, digitally paint the image itself.

Photographic purists have difficulty accepting the blending of these two art forms, painting purists have difficulty with the idea that anything other than a paintbrush* on canvas* is painting. Paintography links all three mediums, painting, photography, and graphic art, into a single medium. But, is it painting? Or is it photography? The answer is a resounding “YES”. Does the artist see a photograph in his mind or does the photographer see how it will look as a painting? Again, the answer is a resounding “YES”. One without out the other is left empty. Whether you see the photograph first and create the painting, or see the painting and use the photographic shot as the canvas makes no difference, it is the end result that matters.

America’s first “Paintography Studio” TM is in Carmel, Indiana.. As in any photographic, or paint mediums, Paintography always tells a story. Whether in an impressionistic style, like Marv Alpert, or in portraits created to capture “Moments in Time” for parents and families, , Paintography is the up and coming medium for the 21st Century.


 * Paintbrush is a general term, as is canvas, representing all methods and tools used in quote, "traditional" painting.