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This deviation has been chosen as a feature of the week
on *Word-worth-1000-pics which is a community project
promoting artists on dA.
It has been found from the word of the week : "SUMMER "
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I am honored! Thank you so much for the feature!
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Nice. These are so dramatic. I like the sweep of the spray as it moves up toward the right, there's a lot of movement. It's looser than your Cyclamen but still beautiful. How do you get the blooms to edge out that neatly along a curly edge? That's so cool and I haven't gotten watercolor to do that yet. Though I am starting to do wet into wet and tilt things more to get paint to move.
Come Thursday I'm getting a package with a Yupo pad in it, so I'll be finding out then what I can do on a nonabsorbent surface -- scary!
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Up with Yupo!
When I paint curly edges of flowers I prime the petal and then drop in paint that is quite heavily pigmented. I like to go just outside the petal as it will be drawn to the water if it barely touches. I also coax it a bit if I want it to form a "pleat". I have found glads and iris to be quite challenging and did not "get it " at first - actually for a long time
Is this helpful? I will try again if it doen't make sense. Let me know. Marsha
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Yes, it does help. When you say you prime the petal, do you mean that having the sketch of it on the paper, you wet just those petal areas and not the rest of the paper? That came to mind as one way to get those effects, though I think you must have also been tilting sometimes to get it to run out to the edges.
Yupo is going to be fun. I'm getting all excited about it now, and I don't have to worry about wrecking it because I really could put it under the tap and wash off a bad painting if I totally botch it. Hee hee. I might still continue to work with what I've got down and not do that very often, but knowing I could is comforting. Does that work with staining colors too?
I am still planning to do another wet into wet where I'll get really crazy with the colors and do a vivid weird colored wash, then let the wash itself decide what the subject is like doing cloud paintings. I've got a vague idea it might turn into a colorful alien landscape out of one of my fantasy novels, or a sunset with magic going off in it. But I really don't know -- and default is a sunset anyway if I get it and it doesn't look weird enough to be alien. I know I can go back with ink or pens and do silhouetted landscape things like my other sunsets. Or gouache, I haven't tried combining gouache and transparent watercolor yet but that might let me do some highlights into the silhouettes or bright backlighting details on some of the features in the landscape. I'm vaguely thinking through how to plan that. The other idea was to just do it roughly in the shape of a landscape with sky colors and browns and greens and let that determine where the vegetation is. Then detail by dry brushing into whatever it suggests itself as -- come to think of it a multicolor thing could also turn into a spray of flowers as likely as a sunset. I need to try this!
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Hi again!
Yes, I did mean to only wet the petal you are working on and tilting and allowing paint to run are often handy as well as blowing on the paint at times.
I have had Yupo retain a slight stain from some staining colors but I don't see it as a problem as it is very faint. I also tried scrubbing with a brush and just as I feared it did injure the surface, but this could be a plus if texture was wanted.
I'm sure you will enjoy wet in wet and really, you can't go wrong, because of the possible uses for "failed" designs as they can become part of collage or as you suggested "find" subjects to develop into artistic shapes or draw with pen and ink. Have fun!
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I've got a neat one in progress. I used my Lukas watercolor set and Arches paper and decided on doing a reef scene. Reserved a couple of white areas to do corals on toward the bottom, then the Blick package came with my tube of Opera Rose. I gave up on getting a half pan of Opera Rose when Winsor-Newton put it off again till March... ow, I ordered this in December??? So when Blick suggested trying the tube, I thought about it and tried the tube.
So I did the coral in Opera Rose, sloshing it in for an underpainting and letting some areas get darker than others. Then took some bright yellow and sloshed that into it here and there for wet into wet, which made weird blossoms and shaded it through oranges. It came out neat, I'm tempted to scan it before going in and detailing with colored pencils. The whole idea was to do an underpainting for colored pencil reef scene in Prismacolor Lightfast, but it looked neat if rough in watercolor alone.
I might try for one in watercolor alone but might want a better sketch to try to get more detail into it -- go very loose in the first layer and then start detailing after that dries, sort of like doing more watercolor on this one instead of heading into colored pencils. Either way it's very cool and the Opera Rose is a screaming bright startling color that I'm having fun with.
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Sounds Great! I can see the peachy orange in my mind. I have a tube of opera rose - it sure is a screamer!!
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Oooh yeah. I knew it'd be strong, but I'm stunned. I think it'd make a nice soft pink though if thinned enough, the lighter areas that I swiped the yellow into were soft for doing things like pink roses. I'm going to have to play with it a lot and see what I come up with. Oh, hibiscus in Opera Rose, or azaleas, they'd be so realistic!
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Thank you very much for the comment and the fav.
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Ohh, what a very beautiful piece of artwork, the colours are SO gorgeous
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Lovely colors and composition. The painting appears to be in motion, which is unusual and attractive.
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Thanks. I'm pleased that you would notice the movement in my work. Not many comment on this aspect of a painting.
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I'm mostly color blind, so I notice movement or pattern more quickly than colors.
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How interesting. Do you enjoy contrast and value changes more intensely, I wonder. With color blindness I believe one has difficulty distinguishing the different hues. Since movement is highly valued in artwork, you are somewhat at an advantage at least in that respect by the condition. Of course you may not view it that way.
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I had to give your comments some thought because I had never considered the ability to see movement before color a strength. But I suppose it is, all things being equal. I appreciate the thought. There are some challenges, and it isn't as though I'm stone color blind...I see most colors according to the doctor...it's labeling them that is the problem. I will quite often not "see" the color until someone says..."oh, isn't that a lovely shade of (whatever) and bang - then I see "color." It's very odd. Color dyslexsia.
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The anology with dyslexia really helps me understand. Each of us is unique.
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Your flower work is so darn lovely! Another 
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I am flattered by your comment. Your work is lovely. I have studied color and hope each painting will express my love of color and evoke the same in others. I often paint with live flowers, but they do tend to change so quickly. I usually take a photo too. As the hours pass the petals droop or reach for the light but it is still my preferred method for still lifes.
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Just the truth my friend, you do an awesome job with colour!
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Gorgeous!!!! Gald to see your return Marsha!!!
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Thanks, Barb. It feels good to be active again. I swear I'll not get so far behind in the future.
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Well don't swear to that, you never know what will take you down another road, other than here!! Hope you and your family are well!!
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My family and I are doing well. I hope this is the case for you as well. Happy Thanksgiving.
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Yep, everyone is fine!!!
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Thank you very much. I appreciate your comment.
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Thank you for your kind words and also for the fave on the painting!
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Gorgeous rendering
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None whatsoever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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