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Amarathimi — Injyan

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Media: Watercolours and some watercolour pencils
Size: A4
The line-art only version of the picture can be found here: [link]
I’ll move the line-art later to my scraps.

I have so long wanted to paint a picture like this, but I have always been bad at landscapes. I had a huge inspiration of this picture during summer and I wanted so hard to paint it. I used many many pictures of Yosemite park as a reference. I first wanted to use Finnish landscape, but it was impossible, because I wanted mountains and forest and we don’t have any big mountains in Finland.

This scene doesn’t actually exist in my book. (not yet at least) But if I could choose a cover for my book, it would be something like this.

It took me almost a week to find courage to colour the picture. I liked the line-art of the picture so much that I was scared that I ruin it during colouring. I chanced the title of the picture from Nini Hawkeye to Injyan. (The name of the forest in my book.) I thought it would suit the picture better.
I’m quite glad with the colouring. It is not perfect, but it’s the best I could do with my current skills. This is my first landscape that has really succeeded.


Hope you like it!!

Edit: I rescanned the sky. It had bad wriggles in the old version.
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Comments: 37

ruokamulta [2009-06-01 09:08:02 +0000 UTC]

hienoi maisemia

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Amarathimi In reply to ruokamulta [2009-06-02 09:37:44 +0000 UTC]

Kiitos.

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CharmedPearl [2008-11-18 05:33:44 +0000 UTC]

this is fantastic!
great job for a first landscape painting!

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Amarathimi In reply to CharmedPearl [2008-11-18 09:16:41 +0000 UTC]

Thank you so much!!
I'm really happy that you like it.

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CharmedPearl In reply to Amarathimi [2008-11-19 06:38:11 +0000 UTC]

you're very welcome

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mollygrace [2008-11-16 20:10:46 +0000 UTC]

Watercolor pencils! Yay!!

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Amarathimi In reply to mollygrace [2008-11-17 16:45:43 +0000 UTC]

The final touch only. The majority of the picture is painted with traditional watercolours.

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mollygrace In reply to Amarathimi [2008-11-18 18:10:03 +0000 UTC]

Yeah, WC pencils are better on details.

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JannaFairyArt [2008-11-16 09:59:06 +0000 UTC]

Hello! This beautiful deviation was featured in my journal here [link]
I hope it is ok but if you don't want to be fetured, let me know and I will remove it

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Amarathimi In reply to JannaFairyArt [2008-11-17 10:26:34 +0000 UTC]

Thank you so much!!!

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JannaFairyArt In reply to Amarathimi [2008-11-17 11:46:25 +0000 UTC]

You are welcome!

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Hele-san [2008-10-29 15:21:51 +0000 UTC]

Maisema on aivan ihana! Tekisi itsekin mieli päästä tuolle oksalle!

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Amarathimi In reply to Hele-san [2008-11-03 06:44:13 +0000 UTC]

Kiitoksia. Niniä käy oikein kateeksi vai mitä?
Itsekkin pidän tästä maisemasta. Ensimmäisiä todella onnistuneita maisemamaalauksiani.

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Hele-san In reply to Amarathimi [2008-11-03 12:53:55 +0000 UTC]

Juu niin käy.

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Siila02 [2008-09-01 19:07:29 +0000 UTC]

Fantastic landscape!
Actually, this landscape seems familiar to me.
Not from Yosemite national park, but there might be somewhere I have been to.
ah..no big mountains in Finland??

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Amarathimi In reply to Siila02 [2008-09-02 11:08:04 +0000 UTC]

Thank you so much!!
That's strange. I used many photos from Yosemite and combined different elements of each of them and used them as a guideline for my final picture.

Yes, no big mountains. Largest hills are in Lapland and in middle-east Finland. I remember that the highest places are Koli and Saana tunturi, or something like that. The landscape is full of hills formed after the last ice age however. On my way to grandma who lives in middle Finland the road is constant ups and downs. Most of the hills tend to be covered by trees thou so they are not high enough to actually be called mountains.

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Siila02 In reply to Amarathimi [2008-09-02 18:29:07 +0000 UTC]

I also realized Baltic state from the other side from Finland are very flat.
A lithuanian guide said that the highest there is 300m, which is like hill but is considered to be 'mountain' not a 'hill.'

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Amarathimi In reply to Siila02 [2008-09-03 08:40:13 +0000 UTC]

Not as flat as them, but not really high. I checked the highest place - it's Haiti, 1324 m high. It's in Lapland.

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Siila02 In reply to Amarathimi [2008-09-03 17:57:27 +0000 UTC]

oh, That's quite high enough.

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GTHunt [2008-08-22 08:58:53 +0000 UTC]

This is really beautiful, I'm very impressed. Your painting skills have developed a lot, you're getting very good at it very quickly!

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Amarathimi In reply to GTHunt [2008-08-22 14:59:23 +0000 UTC]

Thank you so much!
I try really hard to get better. My mind is buzzing with ideas an beautiful scenes, but I lack the skills to bring them out as good as I can imagine them. It's sometimes really anoying.

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GTHunt In reply to Amarathimi [2008-08-25 04:45:16 +0000 UTC]

I understand what you mean, I'm so angry with my work that I can't even put anything on my deviant page yet! All we can do is keep practicing I suppose. You have nothing to worry about though, your artwork is stunning and creative.

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Amarathimi In reply to GTHunt [2008-08-25 07:49:44 +0000 UTC]

Yes, practising is the only key to improve.

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sammalsiipiart [2008-08-20 14:33:29 +0000 UTC]

Jee, maalasit tämän! Upeasti käytetty värejä ja tuo usva näyttää oikein kauniilta. Hienoa työtä, itselleni tulee tästä heti mieleen raikkaat ja kuulaat syysaamut.

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Amarathimi In reply to sammalsiipiart [2008-08-20 16:52:03 +0000 UTC]

Kiitoksia todella paljon!
Näin aika paljon vaivaa tämän työn eteen ja jouduin käyttämään tekniikoita, joita en ollut kokellillut koskaan aikaisemmin. Se, että pidät siitä, merkitsee minulle todella paljon. Omat maisema maalauksesi ovat todella upeita!

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Vesea [2008-08-20 12:21:12 +0000 UTC]

The mountains are great!

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Amarathimi In reply to Vesea [2008-08-20 16:48:26 +0000 UTC]

Thank you!!
I'm really glad you like them.

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Elfin-Grrl [2008-08-19 09:57:43 +0000 UTC]

Lovely work, the landscape is beautiful

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Amarathimi In reply to Elfin-Grrl [2008-08-19 10:22:41 +0000 UTC]

Thank you so much!!
I'm really glad you like it. One of my first succeeded landscapes.

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EgilSterkr [2008-08-18 13:13:01 +0000 UTC]

tästä tuli tosi hieno! syvyysvaikutelma on onnistunut hyvin!

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Amarathimi In reply to EgilSterkr [2008-08-18 14:37:23 +0000 UTC]

Kiitooss!!!
Näin tämän eteen paljon vaivaa.

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Allcor [2008-08-17 23:24:25 +0000 UTC]

cute!!! and full of fantasy spirits as usual XDDD

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Amarathimi In reply to Allcor [2008-08-18 05:48:50 +0000 UTC]

Thank you so much!

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Viika [2008-08-17 19:08:02 +0000 UTC]

wau!!

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Amarathimi In reply to Viika [2008-08-18 05:48:37 +0000 UTC]

Kiitos.

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JannaFairyArt [2008-08-17 16:50:07 +0000 UTC]

Thecomposition is really good ! A little curious child has discovered a magnificent world behind his doorway I love this theme a lot. The misty valley and the waterfall are great, amazing landscape ( it is hard to believe that you haven't painted any landscape before)

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Amarathimi In reply to JannaFairyArt [2008-08-17 17:21:37 +0000 UTC]

Thank you so much!!!
Yes, I haven't really done lanscapes before. I have tried, but not succeeded. Reference helped a lot.

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