Boots

Glen Allen

Boots

Image inspired by Van Gogh’s early period.

Started life as a straight still life of a pair of boots. I had been to the Van Gogh museum and wanted to do a tribute to the master himself. So I set about experimenting with various manipulation filters and programmes until lI discovered a little gem that allows me to turn my images into oil painting effects. Magic!

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  • jlynn

    jlynn

    Fantastic rich tones, wonderful light,, very thought provoking image!

  • Glen Allen replied

    Thank you your comments are much appreciated. I was inspired by a vist to the Van Gogh museum earlier this year in amsterdam, fantastic place if you ever get the chance to go if you have not already. It seems that Van Gogh is well known for his sunflowers and fields and starry night scenes but his early work whilst dark is stunning.

  • cruisin4susan

    cruisin4susan

    wow this is lovely very well done indeed

  • Glen Allen replied

    Thanks Susan, glad you like it.

  • Antanas

    Antanas

    perfectly done, very good composition

  • Glen Allen replied

    Thanks Antanas, I particularly like this one myself I was inspired by a visit to the Van Gogh Museum earlier this year.

  • Tessa Bishop

    Tessa Bishop

    Wonderful image, beautiful to look at

  • Glen Allen replied

    Thanks Tessa, glad you like it, it is one of my own favorites.

  • Bevsimages

    Bevsimages

    Fab treatment & end result great lighting technique x ;)

  • Glen Allen replied

    Thanks Bev, glad you like it.

  • sticky

    sticky

    inspired but much more interestin !!! Like it lots !

  • Glen Allen

    Glen Allen

    Thanks, i like it too

  • EnVee

    EnVee

    very unique! a work of art :)

  • Glen Allen

    Glen Allen

    Thank you Nancy, not too unique Van Gogh got there well before me LOL!

  • Glen Allen replied

    Thank you Nancy, not too unique Van Gogh got there well before me LOL!

  • margpie

    margpie

    is this a painting? if it’s a photograph I love the effect you have used, how could you not be inspired by Van Gough lol

  • Glen Allen

    Glen Allen

    Its a photogrpah of ordinay CAT boot and I post-processed it in software to give the painting effect. Thanks for the comments.

  • Kathryn Potempski

    Kathryn Potempski

    fine work of photography Glen cool composition, colour and light.love all your work

  • Glen Allen replied

    Thank you Kathryn, your comments are much appreciated.

  • Steve Chapple

    Steve Chapple

    This is a stunning outcome, true art!!!!!

  • Glen Allen replied

    Thank you Stephen, much appreciated.

  • blurtsmum

    blurtsmum

    These are great – did you know there was a shoe group on redbubble? This would look great in there! – It’s a great pic – I like boots slightly biased but even so I am convinced it is a good pic.

  • Glen Allen

    Glen Allen

    Thanks for your comments, I didn’t know there was a shoe group, I’ll take a look. Thanks for the comment I too am biased and love this shot lol.

  • saleire

    saleire

    Wonderful work…..pure genius to make something so simple and ordinary, so beautiful.

  • Glen Allen replied

    Thank you, but I am only copying what Van Gogh di before me.

  • Andy Harris

    Andy Harris

    Great shot… Caught the colour very well…!

  • Glen Allen replied

    Thank you Andy.

  • Rasendyll

    Rasendyll

    Great image Glen-and filters aren’t cheeting, just another approach.

  • Glen Allen replied

    lol its a little more than filters to be honest. PS was only used on these to convert from Raw to Tiff and alter the saturation/contrast ready to process in a dedicated paint programme. I tried several conversion filters/progs specifically for this image before I found one that I was completley happy with. The trick is to know what images will work by the conversion and I am enjoying doing it at the moment which is what really counts. This was inspired by my visit to thye Van Gogh Museum I came home and really wanted to acheive somthing along these lines and am quite pleased with the results.

  • TFFDavid

    TFFDavid

    Pretty cool photo Glen.

    When I was 16, and we’re talking 35 year ago now, I had some Doc Martins and got a can of silver spray paint and done my boots.

    My old man nearly knocked my heed off. lol

  • Glen Allen

    Glen Allen

    Not wanting to give the game away but these are CAT boots, I can understand your old mans reaction though Docs cost a fortune, probably still do eh? Was that in response to the Glam Rock age of the early 70’s?

  • TFFDavid

    TFFDavid

    Aye, happy days . . . click click

  • Glen Allen replied

    Terriffic, I come the part of the Midlands where they come from, they were real local heros when I was a kid. Noddy Holder had a night club locally and Dave (always on the platform heels and kept falling off breaking his leg) settled down in Wolverhampton in the end. Great times eh?

  • TFFDavid

    TFFDavid

    Better than the shite they call music these days . . . The Faces, Mott The Hoople, Slade, Wizzard, T Rex . . . I could go on and on and on.

    Photography, Newcastle United and Music are the 3 things that float my boat.

  • Glen Allen replied

    Yea it was all good and the decade before it which I only discovered as I got older. These days though I tend to have a broader appreciation including the old masters and their orchestral masterpieces. I balme ELO and roll over Bethoovan for that though LOL!

  • TFFDavid

    TFFDavid

    Ohhh man, I love ELO, Jeff Lynne rocks, love the stuff he done with The Traveling Wilburys too.

  • Glen Allen replied

    Ive realised I just christened Beethoven Beth LOL

  • amarica

    amarica

    Love it

  • Glen Allen replied

    Thank you Amarica it is one of my current favorites too.

  • nancie

    nancie

    this is amazing
    did you paint this??

  • Glen Allen replied

    afraid not i’m not that talented. It is a photograph transformed into a painting type effect.

  • LinaJ

    LinaJ

    awesome image! love the shoe color!

  • Glen Allen replied

    Thanks Lina, they were black in the original photograph.

  • Cathy Middleton

    Cathy Middleton

    Interesting approach. Great gold colour.

  • Glen Allen replied

    Thanks but Van Gogh got ther before me lol.

  • Crokus Label

    Crokus Label

    Well travelled by the looks of it… ;)

    Great compo here…

  • Glen Allen replied

    LOL I don’t really know I got them from a charity shop LOL

    Thanks for the comment and favouriting

    Glen

  • Crokus Label

    Crokus Label

    lol… that is even better… lol they have history… to unveil… ;)
    (you are welcome… )

  • sharra

    sharra

    this is a great shot. i love it. its clever. and looks like a painting.

  • Glen Allen replied

    Thank you I really appreciate your comments.

  • Jason Connolly

    Jason Connolly

    Spot on pal, this is really good Glen..

  • Glen Allen replied

    Thanks jason

  • Susan van Zyl

    Susan van Zyl

    love it! Really love the rich colours. Stunning!

  • Glen Allen replied

    thank you your comments are really appreciated.

  • Jenifer

    Jenifer

    This is so awesome.

  • Glen Allen replied

    Thank you, much appreciated. Glad you like it.

  • Rosina  Lamberti

    Rosina Lamberti

    Wonderful work…

  • Glen Allen replied

    thank you

  • missjaimee

    missjaimee

    i love what you have done with this.. well done

  • NautilusBlue

    NautilusBlue

    Very nicely done mate. I love the rich tones

  • Glen Allen replied

    Thanks glad you like it.

  • LeeWooTsang

    LeeWooTsang

    Deese be the kinky boots, I knowin dat much!

  • Glen Allen replied

    Thanks LeeWoo, not sure about that one hey each to his own!

  • TnTPhotoart

    TnTPhotoart

    I love me boots an these look almost as heavy as me New Rocks is it a photo an which filter makes it look like paint as I need to do this to a landscape

  • Glen Allen replied

    Tracy, thank for comments. It is a photo but post shot processed. Ill bubble mail you.

  • annonymouse

    annonymouse

    great image !!

  • Glen Allen replied

    Thanks for the comment.

  • Teresa Schultz

    Teresa Schultz

    ok lol I am here, um, not familiar with van goghs earlier stuff, but this still looks super, I like the shine. :)

  • Glen Allen replied

    LOL Thanks for the comments and visit Teresa, google van gogh and shoes and you’ll see some examples, his best one though was the potato eaters which is in the VG Museum Amsterdam, well worht a visit if you get chance.

  • Teresa Schultz

    Teresa Schultz

    lol okay sometime when have more airtime and not trying to catch up commenting on RB or marketing our web, I think I am leaving very blonde moment comments all over, poor me! :)

  • Keith Richardson

    Keith Richardson

    Hi Glen – great image, especially with the black background. You have achieved such genuine gold. Great.
    Keith

  • Glen Allen replied

    Thank you Keith

  • Zuzana

    Zuzana

    A really beautiful work! Well done.

  • Glen Allen replied

    Thank you, your omments are really appreciated.

    Glen

  • WesternDreamer

    WesternDreamer

    Such wonderful effects you applied to this image… very nice work!

  • Glen Allen replied

    thanks glad you like it.

  • mawaho

    mawaho

    I think these look a bit more comfortable than Van Gogh’s !
    I too like his Potato Eaters painting.
    Your treatment of these boots looks really good. I like the colour tones.

  • Glen Allen replied

    Thank you Im glad you like them. He was painting peasant shoes though soi I suspect they were not that comfortable lol.

  • designerpix

    designerpix

    I really like these boots. A great piece of art and very well done.

  • Glen Allen replied

    Thank you very much

  • LetThemEatArt

    LetThemEatArt

    Cool boots! Do they do ‘em in a size 9 ? You won’t believe it, but I’ve visited Amsterdam a few times but never managed to make it to the Van Gogh for some strange reason…

  • Glen Allen replied

    ive only been twice once when I was 20 and this year. I proposed to my partner there this time and now we are getting married so Amsterdam will always be special to us. We intend going back again soon. The VG museum is just awesome we were there for hours!

  • DreaM

    DreaM

    when less is more… fabulous simplicity, extraordinary result!

  • Glen Allen replied

    Thank you your comments hit the nail on the head.

  • BlackLemonz

    BlackLemonz

    Love this one

  • Glen Allen replied

    Thank you

  • Dave Law

    Dave Law

    Another great work Glen, I like the colours and effects.

  • Glen Allen replied

    Thanks Dave, I really like this one myself

  • peterhoenderdos

    peterhoenderdos

    Yes his early work wasn’t so optimistic. but then again he came from as very dull place. It was in France that his more colourfull life started. And then he cut off his ear.
    great picture here.
    if you ever visit holland again. go and see the kroller muller museum. more Van Goghs there.; At least the last time I was there. That was in the seventies

  • Glen Allen replied

    We certainly will be visiting again, we love Amsterdam. Ill look out for that one. We wnat to visit the big museum with the Rembrants in next time too, but there is so much to fit in, Van Gogh Museum, Cafe bArs, Coffee Bars, etc etc etc you know what it is like LOL.

  • budrfli

    budrfli

    i like it! looks like everyone else does too! :O)

  • Glen Allen replied

    Thank you yes you are right, lots of people have seemed to like this image.

  • Els Steutel

    Els Steutel

    these boots are made for walking…......

    but they look good on a picture too, like the lighting and the color:)

  • Glen Allen replied

    Thank you I appreciate your comments.

  • AARDVARK

    AARDVARK

    Top stuff Glen!

  • Glen Allen replied

    Thanks for the comment.

  • TallGuy

    TallGuy

    Lol… you rich hikers… gold boots…. I’ve just noticed, there’s even a group for shoes… hmmm. should a pair of boots be in a shoe group :)
    Nice One :
    )

  • Glen Allen replied

    Nah, these are CAT steel toe nail boots I am afraid my hiking days, rich or otherwise are well behind me lol.

    Thanks for the comment anyways.

  • Linda  Syms

    Linda Syms

    Great shiny boots,great shot.

  • Glen Allen replied

    Cheers Lynda

  • peyote

    peyote

    nice boots :)
    xXx

  • Glen Allen replied

    Thank you I appreciate your comments.

  • Kelly  J

    Kelly J

    Wow.. thats different! In a nice way! Fantastic treatment :)

  • Glen Allen replied

    Thanks Kelly, all inspired by Van Gogh!

  • mariarty

    mariarty

    Wow! finally found the end of the list. Love this it is fantastic.

  • Glen Allen replied

    Thannk you, much appreciated.

    Glen

  • LYN EVANS

    LYN EVANS

    Excellent image

  • Glen Allen replied

    Thank you Lyn, this is the one that kicked of my painting conversions.

  • LoneAngel

    LoneAngel

    brillent work

  • Glen Allen replied

    Thank you

  • CanDuCreations

    CanDuCreations

    Excellent, very beautiful work

  • Glen Allen replied

    Thank you

  • Svetlana Sewell

    Svetlana Sewell 9 days ago

    Wonderful work:))))

  • Glen Allen replied 8 days ago

    Thnak you x

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