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Published: 2006-02-02 04:49:40 +0000 UTC; Views: 1319; Favourites: 33; Downloads: 38
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9X11 watercolor on 140lb. paperOriginal for sale: inspiredportraits@charter.net Or, you could send me a note.
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Very beautiful floral artwork with lovely vibrant colours
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Hi,
I would like to let you know I am featuring your incredible art in my weekly feature journal. 
Hugs,
Anj
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There is nothing I like more than EXPOSING my friends!!!! 
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WOW! I am excited and pleased! Thank you so much! Your support means a great deal to me!
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Thank you and thanks for your fave, too!
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I am a sucker when it comes to my grandmother's favorite flower. Beautifully done.
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Absolutely beautiful. Excellent water colours giving the flowers true life. Well done !!
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Oh, I wish I could use watercolours like you do! Great job!
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Ooh, I love this one, it is soooo very beautiful. Most excellent work
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Very beautiful. Irises remind me of someone close to me that I don't get see too often.
Nicely done.
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I'm happy my painting reminded you of someone. Thanks.
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Oh, thank you. Also thanks for the favorite on Woodland Columbine.
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I was drawn to this because of my fondness for Iris's. A lovely composition.
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Oooooooooh this is fantastic! I love irises, especially showy irises. I like the way you grouped irises of different colors together. I love the strong values and pretty composition. I drool at your watercolor style and will study this to learn from it.
And I also liked your woodland columbine card too, it was a little light but very delicate and lovely. I couldn't comment on it because you had comments turned off, but wanted to let you know I saw it and appreciated it. That one's gorgeous too!
But irises grab me right by the eyes and don't let go. Hehehe I've drawn enough of them. This is amazing. I've got to favorite it.
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Ah, thank you, Robert. We surely do agree on our love of Irises! OH. Idid not intend to have comments turned of on Colombines. I slipped up there, but won't bother to edit it. Some times I like to go for the delicate side with watercolors. What has taken me years to learn with watercolors is that the results that I want are best achieved by wetting the paper first, or wetting an area first before applying color. That way the watercolor and paper does the work for you. (If I let it!)
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That's neat! I have to try partial wetting. I did actual full wetting first doing the gradated wash on Autumn Morning and let that dry before going in with the trees... but I have to try that with wetting only an area and then charging different colors into it. Maybe letting it bead up and get darker and flow in particular directions. That'll be cool! Thanks!
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I think you will find it fun. For the kids at school where I volunteer I have let them use straws to blow it around on the paper making "'blottos" or just designs. That way they get to learn how the capillary action of the paper reacts with watercolors.
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That sounds fun too! One of my watercolor books described doing a streaked wash by putting the colors on and then tilting the paper so they all run at an angle, creating a sky with this brilliant wash of light coming through a gap in the clouds. I want to try that sky on something, and I'm waiting till I can order frisket paper to cut out a mask for the landscape under it rather than use up all my masking fluid trying to cover a large area. And use different colors in my sky, since I love storm clouds and like mixing them.
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We just don't have time to try everything, do we?
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Not all at once, anyway. I'm finding things I thought of trying years ago starting to come into reach when they do, when my skills are up to it. It's more that I'll get a lot of ideas all at the same time and they're all good and distinguishing which one I want to do now is hard.
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Exactly. I will have to live to be 200 to be able to do all the things that come into my mind - fat chance of that happening.!
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Oh hey, it's something to try for! Besides, it's the journey that counts. I figure if I lasted till a thousand I'd never run out of ideas.
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I'm determined to try to do my best at everything I do. I take my art very seriously, and try not to take myself too seriously.
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Makes total sense to me. I took my writing very seriously until I started getting better at it and gaining some confidence. Now every success leaves me feeling more relaxed and easygoing about it, confident in skill and trusting that it doesn't matter which of my books is the one that rubs the market right. If I do a lot of them, something will.
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The power of positive thinking at work!!
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Yep! It was an odd, pleasant surprise to discover that the positive thinking is my natural reaction to things, not difficult at all except in immediate crises like say, the shelter or eviction or whatever. I used to think I was depressed, now I know that's only the pain talking on bad days. And don't make real decisions on pain days.
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This is beautiful, beautiful, beautiful! I love the rich colors and generous forms and lines. Nice work!
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Thank you Thank you Thank you !!!!!!!!!!!!!!11 I appreciate the favoring very much.
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You're welcome. I like your art so much!
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