Planning to Retire Soon!

If you are planning to retire in the Philippines soon, I suggest you visit several excellent websites on pro's and cons of retiring in the Philippines. However if you want to retire in the provinces, where life is simple, standard of living cheaper, less traffic congestion and pollution, availability of fresh seafood and vegetables compared to the big cities, my island province is the place for you! If this is your first time in my site, welcome. Some of the photos and videos on this site, I do not own. However, I have no intention on the infringement of your copyrights. The photo above is the front yard of Chateau Du Mer- Our Retirement Home in Boac, Marinduque, Philippines

Thursday, January 12, 2023

My Recent Collections of Digital Water Color Portraits

So much news this week here in California. The floods, power outage, uprooted trees, snow in the Sierras and 18 died related to the bad weather are national headlines on CNN. But today we are dry and sunny, but more rains expected this weekend. Lucky my neighborhood had only 2 days of  3 hours power outage and one uprooted tree and no flooding. To brighten my spirit, I compiled a collection of my recent purchased of digital water color portraits from several companies in Face Book. The two that I like are from mapleinspirations.com and from designmemories.com. The portraits are as follows:   

Water Color Portrait-requesting changing red sweater and non-white shirt to white 

The Original Photograph-taken by Carenna with her cell phone, Christmas Eve Diner en Blanc Party, 2022

There are several companies in FaceBook advertising the same service- copying digitally your photograph to look a painting. You could choose several styles of painting such as watercolor, oil, acrylic etc...I have also ordered a water color portrait from paintus.com. Giftsshack.com and mapleinspirations.com are other companies doing similar service as designmemories.com.

You could order as a poster also, framed or unframed. The price will depend on the size and framing. It is not cheap. For example I paid $149 for the water color portrait with framing above, 18" x 24".  The smallest size 8" X 12" unframed varies from $49 to $69 with 2 persons in the photo. Additional charges will be charge for additional faces in the photograph submitted.  

I am very pleased with the product done ( above) my mapleinspirations.com

I have also ordered from designmemories.com The product is also good as follows:

 


However, another company paintus,com product is not as good as the two companies above.

The eyes of Macrine looked really artificial- the original photo is low resolution also.  The yellow outfits is not copied perfectly.  

The original photo-Golden Wedding Anniversary Party, Chateau Du Mer Hall, 2007




The above three water color portraits are from designmemories.com

Here's my order from Epicpaint that is Poor.


The final frame photo from mapleinspirations arrived yesterday. It is now displayed in the family room.


  Diner en Blanc Christmas Eve Party, 2022, The David B Katague Clan


 

 

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