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AndyIomoon — Deep in the Woods
Published: 2008-08-22 11:06:28 +0000 UTC; Views: 4777; Favourites: 105; Downloads: 47
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Finally - took a deep breath and finished. I would love it to be so much more but I am happy at the same time. I am so keen to get onto the next piece which is the important outcome for me. The tentativeness is drifting away and I can't wait to splash some more paint around!
This scan is a poor reflection of the original but when your scanner costs 90 bucks you shouldn't expect too much, right?
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Aww, it's a little gnome home. 
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Hehheh - thank you. So nice to hear that kind of reaction to my work
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thank youuuuuuuuu
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Sigh...stunning and peaceful and vibrant and....wonderful.
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Thanks, Kevin. I wouldn't mind settling back in a place like this
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Indeed- I often think that I'm really doing with my own work is creating the place I want to live in and the folks I want to be there with me!
By the way....I just downloaded this and noticed the little porch in the lower left hand area of the roots: if anyone reads this, you really do need to download this wonderful image for the full view for all the enchanting details.
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Lovely! not entirely sure that that exactly shade of red goes with the pinks and yellows, but that's being *picky*!
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You are absolutely right of course. I really painted myself into a corner (so to speak) with my early choices of colour.
Still learning!
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aren't we all!! *hugs* you are brilliant.
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Thanks matie - and for the fave too!
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fairies and butterflies, see??? FAIRIES AND BUTTERFLIES
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hehheh - ok - you with the eagle eyes! You were right
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Boy, it looks great Andy! I love the white silhouettes.
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Thanks matie. The white silhouettes were an idea that almost came out the way I had imagined it. Softer borders on the silhouettes may have done the trick. Good news is that the next piece is stretched and ready to go.
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Thank you my friend
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If this is a poor reflection, the original must have been wonderful!
I really love this one- the blue door is cute & mysterious at the same time!
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Indeed. Who lives behind that door? That's a whole new story (and maybe illustration)
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It turned out really nice.
As for the scan, are you sure that you've turned off all of the auto-adjustments?
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Thanks matie.
I have tweeked my scanner as much as I can but in the end it comes down to cheap optics.
It's perfectly serviceable for b/w scans though. I have had it for 3-4 years now so maybe it is time to upgrade!
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i so feel u...plus my scanner's face is about the same size as notebook paper...so everyti,e i want to upload something big i take a pic and that's NEVER the same lol
great job. Beautiful as expected!!
~M
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I would love to get a larger scanner but the cost of a decent A3 scanner is astronomical!
I have been taking photos of this particular piece along the way so I can put together a walkthru but, as you say, a photo is never the same. It is so hard to get even lighting across the illustration unless you have a semi-pro lighting rig set up.
I actually scanned this one in two pieces and then stitched it together in Photoshop which has its own set of perils.
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yeah i attempted doing the two-part scan thing a couple weeks ago and i still couldn't get the lighting to match where the "seam" was lol but i am not a computer graphics wiz....not even close. I kind of avoid doing anything that involves cgi.... i only have photoshop for emergency tweaking.
some of my watercolors are really big and i had to photo them and they look really dark, but when i mess with the contrast u can see all the deivations in the colors because of inconsistant lighting. I am thinking of trying taking them outside. Maybe that'll fix it.
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It's true a little bit of Photoshop wizardry is needed to stitch the two parts together. A photo in even light might work (under flouros is best I hear) or if you have dollars to spare you could always get them professionally scanned on a drum scanner that will handle larger sizes.
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It's good that you don't feel tentative anymore; now you can splash paint around and do lots more lovely stuff.
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Totally agree about the leaves. Good call
And I am putting my next piece down onto watercolour board today so full steam ahead I say!
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Full steam ahead indeed.
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Thank you my Hower friend
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