Roland Slicing Tomatoes

**tad** · 08 October 2005, 06:15 AM

Greetings All,
Just one of my latest in my usual style. Had the opportunity to eat dinner with Roland Passot, one of the best chefs in San Francisco. "The" best in my opinion.

Regards,
tad

**John Rayner** · 08 October 2005, 12:54 PM

Nice Picture Tad... Long time since I have seen any of your pieces. I have always enjoyed them.

**a4hire** · 09 October 2005, 05:41 AM

Very Nice work Tad, It looks like a painting, it must have been nice to eat such a meal with Roland.

**gwpriester** · 09 October 2005, 04:32 PM

Lucky you Tad.

The worst chef in San Francisco is probably better than the best chef in most cities. I could sure go for some Chinese or North Beach Italian about now.

Gary

**John Rayner** · 09 October 2005, 09:54 PM

I gonna Have Beer brats... yumm... Yumm...

**tad** · 10 October 2005, 05:26 AM

Now Gary, you have to be more specific.

Which type of Chinese food, and which region of Italy.

I will say that North Beach has become more Italian and less Chinese in the last two years. However, the parking garage in North Beach has "forturne cookie" phrases instead of numbers for the parking slots. ("A man who is down need fear no fall")

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tad

**Simon Beck** · 10 October 2005, 07:54 AM

Very "painterly". It has something of the look of a 1950s book illustration about it; maybe from a book on Mediterranean cookery... A bit decadent... Beatnik, even?

Pretentious? Moi?

wW · 14 October 2005, 08:31 PM

Nice work Tad, very painterly. Can you post a wire frame export of the same dwg? I'm curious as to the shapes you use for the brush strokes.

**tad** · 15 October 2005, 05:34 AM

Sure,
Here it is. No brushes though. It's all photography. Just my style:

http://www.xaraxone.com/FeaturedArt/tb/index.htm
http://www.xaraxone.com/guest/guest24/

This technique is not as simple as one might think. I just spent over 4 hours on the same image today trying to get my 2000P to print anywhere near my 9600. Had to up the saturation 25% (the max) and cut the brightness 15%. Of course, I could use Xara's transparency tool to go far more than that, but I wanted to test out Epson's drivers.

Rgds,
tad