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Published: 2007-11-04 16:50:19 +0000 UTC; Views: 829; Favourites: 30; Downloads: 0
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EDIT: I have now completed this picture with lots of detail work, and have uploaded it along with the original so you can see the difference. The latest picture was scanned in at 300ppi, sharpened to match the original as it is now, then I inserted the original one and this whole piece is now uploaded here at 72ppi.There is still a 300ppi version of the first one Here , but as you will see, it's distorted because of the intense increase in size, however as it has quite a few fav's I put it into my Scraps rather than delete it (that puts the total number of
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ACEO's (Art Cards, Editions and Originals) are 2.5x3.5" in size. They are one of a kind (OOAK) originals, so that the purchaser is the only person in the world who has it. Obviously a copy can be made for non-commercial use by the originating artist for the record.
This one is done in W&N Artist watercolours on W&N Bockingford acid-free 140lb Water Colour paper. (The paper is actually too grainy for my liking and I shall be using smoother paper in future.)
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NOTE: This image is strictly © AnnaKirsten and no copying for any other personal or commercial use is allowed.
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Thank you! I want to do some more painting like that - just pure watercolour!
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Thanks so much for faving this! Yes, I'm a bit like Jack of All Trades and Master of None, which has been annoying me for ages, because I keep getting dragged back and forth in deciding what I might do next! lol!
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But that's ok to dabble a little in everything too, variety is a good thing and I dont believe we have to lmit ourselves to one style or topic or genre either, but I do think your niche is in the fractal
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I love this landscape, with its muted colours and elegant detail. I use Winsor & Newton Artist Watercolour too and it's wonderful, I don't know how I got along for so long using Cotman colours. Actually I do, it was the fabulous little Field Box that kept me using that set and replacing its pans year after year, but I finally shelled out for an Artist Field Box and don't regret it -- except the change of palette, I may have to purchase Sap Green and Burnt Umber separately to include them!
You might try Arches Hot Press for painting that small. I bought a Hot Press block and it's wonderful for details. I sometimes lay out ACEOs on a watercolour block and paint all the ones on that block together, then peel it up and cut them apart.
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Thank you SO much - this is all very affirmative of my ruined effort (from the scanning)!
I hate sap green!!! Instead I have broken the rule on the advice of a miniature artist friend of mine (lives near me) and bought Daler Rowney Hookers Green (Artists). The pigmentation in that is slightly different to the W & N one, and mixes beautifully with lots of other colours to get warmer or cooler tones of green.
And believe it or not, I have a block of Arches too - exactly as you describe, even with the lines drawn on it by my husband so I can do all my ACEO's at once before tearing off the block! How funny's that!! Only thing is it's horrendously expensive paper!
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Look at Dick Blick if you are using cold press too -- there's a sale on, a 12" x 16" block of cold press 140lb Arches paper with a free Kolinsky sable brush size 6 (my favorite size for anything but ACEOs), and that's a huge supply of paper for about $34 -- essentially the fancy brush is free and the whole thing is marked down to major discount.
Once a sheet or block is divided into ACEOs though, it'll pay for itself on one sheet or less than one sheet. I used to flinch at using expensive materials till I found that out on the street in New Orleans. Canson paper was going for $2.68 a sheet, and I was flipped over paying that much for one sheet of paper. Till I realized I was getting $15 at least for using a quarter of it for a cheap black and white charcoal sketch, then I stopped worrying and just bought it as needed. But all my supplies are a lot cheaper online at Blick or mail order from Blick than any store I've ever been to.
Yarka's Russian Green rocks. They also sell just the replacement pan for $2.65 or so if I remember right, so you could try just that color in either a big tube or a single pan and see if you like it. The fancy Master Set with a wooden holder is gorgeous, a friend of mine bought that, but the 24 pan set costs very little more.
I haven't tried Daniel Smith or Daler Rowney yet... and I have a sneaking suspicion that when I do, I'll wind up with one of these multibrand collections that keep expanding like my colored pencils sets. So far with Yarka, Winsor & Newton and Lukas, I have more colors than I'm used to anyway, so it may be a while before I try another set or random tubes. Though I love greens...
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What a great find!
Actually I'm in the UK, and I've tried to find a UK equiv. but there doesn't seem to be one. Trouble is I still feel very much in the experimental stage of trad. art because it's been so long since... I still have to do a pen and watercolour wash again, because I simply cannot remember how I went about doing them, and it's causing me to procrastinate!
Never mind, that's up to me to "Just Do It"! Thanks so much for all you advice and help
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Well, I remember how I do ink and watercolor wash. I lightly pencil it with a hard pencil and then ink and then color. You might be doing a different style, like freestyle penwork and wash, or wash and then inking. I don't know your method, but that's mine.
Right... Blick would charge more for UK shipping. I'm not sure how much, you'd have to go to Dick Blick to find out. It might be weight-based. I know that hot press heavy watercolor paper is available in Fabriano too, and most of the good brands. Any brand that does 100% rag watercolor paper seems to offer Hot Press as well as Not and Rough. (Remembered what UK calls Cold Press texture). It's not whether it's Arches, it's whether it's Hot Press, I just like Arches because it's very high quality and most often on sale at Blick compared to other good brands with 100% rag content. If you did find a UK paper company that did Hot Press paper you'd probably pay a lot less.
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I think that shipping costs included, we're about evens. I'm able to get all that over here too, and usually buy on-line where the best UK deals are.
From what I remember I used several different ways with my ink and watercolours. One was totally free-style (you need lots of confidence for this, which at the moment I don't have); another was to draw it all in pencil then do the colour wash - often wet in wet; and the third way was to do all the ink-work first, then add colour wash - or even very finely detailed water colour in brighter colours. I just have to experiment all over again.
I'm itching to get on with it, but other things really do keep taking up my time. We have loads of people coming round for a meal tonight, which was one reason I decided to do a news article and appeal on here, rather than get started on a painting only to have to stop at some critical point! Tomorrow is another day... We shall see!
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Oooh cool! Oh fun that you're having a big get together. We've got a holiday today, US Thanksgiving, usually celebrated by eating so much turkey that you pass out and stuffing bits of pie in around the edges. Something that ~kitten42 and ~HeraldoftheAbyss are puttering with in the kitchen right now, both of them love to cook so this holiday meal is turning into a grand collaboration. Which I get to be the happy audience for, along with the kids and my cat and their dog. The critters get the giblets and tidbits after they're fished out of the gravy, it's good for them.
Yay for tomorrow's painting! I did one today in brush pen and like it a lot, but I'm doing a challenge to do one 4" x 6" painting daily and that's going to be fun through to Dec. 20th.
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Now that does sound challenging! 
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Thanks! I haven't done today's yet, because I'm getting ready to send out ACEO Mermaid all the way to the Australian friend who bought her.
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Congratulations! I was going to start one this evening but other things have taken over as usual!
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LOL -- I really was neglecting DA during November... but am getting all caught up now! Like your style and hope your ACEOs go well!
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Thanks so much!
I could say "You ain't seen nuttin' yet!"
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You could, so I want to see more ACEOs!
Trade sometime?
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They're fast coming up. I finished the one started last night this evening. On average they take about two evenings each to do. It's necessary to let paint dry before the next stage, and that's always a good excuse to get up and walk away from what might appear to be a mess, but at least it helps avoid neck problems! lol! One to go before that page is done, then I'll work on my cat on the wall with all the new ideas I've gathered...
Can't wait for my DR watercolour pencils to come...
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Oooh cool! Please review them when they do, and maybe list where they can be had? I never saw them at my usual online sites.
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Will do! I usually key in ACEO and they come up, although I guess some people using shops don't necessarily always show up. I'm still not confident as to how they will look on scanning them in... That's unfortunately a must in order to sell them or show them here!
I don't think you have added me to your 
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You have different supplies in UK online places, I think... where were you searching that you key on ACEO and get Daler-Rowney watercolor pencils? I search on eBay sometimes for colored pencils just because they're extremely cheap there, and I may wind up buying my large Caran d'Ache set there since I saw it LOTS cheaper than Blick the last time I looked (and did not have the money, or even have it budgeted in December).
I tried to put you on my watch list and stupid site glitched, so I don't know if I did or not. But please, note me or something anyway because I only intermittently get at my watch list. It's huge and I don't have much time for commenting, but do so in great lumps all at once sometimes weeks later. I've got it set to "most recent first" so these intermitten comment sprees can miss something I was looking forward to.
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Cross purposes I think there.. I keyed in ACEO when I was looking for ACEO's, not when I was looking for DR or any other colours, lol!
Thanks for adding me - you did manage to get me on this time 
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Ahh, that's what happened...
My cat just reset my keyboard to Qwerty like a normal one. Yeah, I don't want to lose contact either. And now that I know they exist I know I'm going to be checking ebay every montth when I have money trying to get them. Because it's an artist brand not in my collection. Collecting is like that. lol
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I hope you'll like them. I'm just getting my husband to scan 6 of them in now...
I'm afraid I collect jewellery! It's a female thing I guess! Rings in particular, and the more valuable the better! lol!
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Oh that's neat. Collecting is fun in itself. I collect colored pencils sets and even came up with a good reason to make it logical and cost effective with writing the colored pencils book. Maybe you can start writing about good jewelry or something? Get a profit out of it to help cover costs and still get to keep the collection?
Of course it's also justified if I sell colored pencils art, but I like to look at the book and think that's why I need all the artist grade brands as research, since reviewing them will help the book reach people who live in countries where the hard to get brands here might be the easy one they can buy down the street.
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Unfortunately there are experts out there who know far more about good jewellery than I do, so really the only thing I could do would be to write a book about how to squander your money on things you love that will eventually bring you little or no return!!!! The real value in jewellery is only in what YOU can get for it, no matter how good a piece you might think it is! As with art, isn't the inherent value simply in what appeals to the individual? It may mean nothing to the next person at all... And I know that most people don't give a toss about what ring I'm currently wearing - why on earth should they? But I enjoy looking at it nevertheless!
There are so many anomalies in this life - like looking at the type of art that sells for millions for instance, and once that person's made their name, they only need to sneeze on their handkerchief to make a fortune if they were to stick it to paper and frame it!!!! (Sorry I hope you're not eating right now! 
I think we have to try not to justify our obsessions too much too. We just do tend to have them because we're human beings! lol! Sometimes they can be turned to excellent use though, which at least with art materials they can be, in order to bring out creativity and some hope in others who just don't realise they have a talent yet!
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Hahahaha! Yes, I was eating, but cracking up thinking of finding a handkerchief and squirting watercolors up my nose. Sorry, that's too silly an image and brought out the gross little boy side of me that'd do it just to outweird whatever performance artist did weirdness. But it's probably been done.
Eh, jewelry is art like any other art and you have a nice collection, I just figured you might know something about stones and picking it and so on -- eHow does pay for articles and no matter how obscure the topic, if you can do it as a How To then it comes out getting you some cash the more of them you write. Specifics like "how to tell good turquoise from synthetic" would actually work, they can be beginner level because the site's sort of at that level. I've done some that I thought would not stretch to three or four steps, but did when I thought of someone who had never done it.
I think it's better to have passionate interests than not. It's fun, it's harmless unless you let it wreck your life and it can lead to creative things. If you're enjoying your jewelry, you do and that's great. I think it's cool.
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I like the idea that you can make money on eHow! lol! I'm sure I could think of something to write about - I can be a very proliferous writer if I don't deliberately stop myself! You can to, I do perceive!! lol!
I think I'd be more inclined towards satire! Like How Not to....! Or How To Make Friends and Lose Them Without Ever Really Trying.. (to counteract the book about How to Make Friends and Influence People!) 
There's enough that's too serious in life, and sometimes I just want to really let go and let the words that formulate in my mind just spill out! Don't you find that too? Things that would shock others, but probably also cause awful offence too, and if we were to really let go and do it, we'd actually live to regret every word we'd said, because these are usually very momentarily the thoughts that go through our minds during the course of some occurring event, which afterwards we see with "normal" perspective.
How to Be Normal would be another interesting subject!!!! That's something I've often wondered about, simply because no-one truly knows what "normal" is!!! Hahaa!
Well I hope, if you ever try that experiment you mentioned, that when you sneeze it all out the result is both very satisfying and artistic at the same time!
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LOL -- I'd probably use a straw at least. Can't quite see snorting watercolors.
Your comedy articles sound good, but I've avoided doing satire on eHow since people do actually go looking for How To on those topics. If I know anything about it, I'll write it -- but mostly I've done how to draw or paint because I'm good at that and I'm building it as a specialty. I'm also considering sweeping up most of those into a Lulu book on how to draw since I'm not doing them under contract.
It's a great place. You might get a lot of hits if you do comedy stuff in your blog, some people get income by putting advertising services like Google Ads on their blogs and then just writing stuff people want to read. That'd be one way to get trickle income out of comedy -- and seriously, using How To as a theme for comedy would rock. It'd tie all the comedy bits together. I'd love to read it.
I don't really get as many of those moments as all that, because I'm weird. I've said a lot of things that shock or confuse people, very often making them think, but that's usually my just being real and not sharing the "normal" paradigm.
I think a "How to be Normal" article would be utterly hilarious and a great spoof on conformity. Go for it.
I tend to get very intense on ideas and outspoken, so maybe I'm just going ahead and saying and doing those things instead of holding them back.
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LOL! Someone said to me recently, "I think it, You say it"!!! I guess that's often true, as I tend to be quite non-conformist, and I also see the most ridiculous scenarios in my mind during the most solemn of occasions too. My daughter is the same.
It was hilarious on one occasion when I had to tell her of the death of someone whom we both knew rather well. We both just laughed sooo much as I was having to relate to her this awful event, and I can only think it was because of the unbelievable solemnity that "normally" goes with such things, that neither of us could get our minds into gear to go with that sort of thinking at the time!
How to tell someone Aunt so-and-so has just died!!!
I doubt I'll start writing anything to be honest. I would rather do art of some sort with what little energy I have, and I don't think I could handle another site either now. This one's already taking up all my time...
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Ah well. It's not for everyone, just something I'm mentioning now and then if someone needs trickle income because it's good for that.
I can see that. At least you had someone who understood your reaction. There's no reason if you were both breaking up the same way -- end of the tension, it sounds like -- not to just be real. It's not as if the aunt was there to be offended.
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I really like seeing more detail, beautiful work!
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Thanks, yes I'm happy with it now (apart from the rough textured paper which really isn't suitable)!
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I don't mind the paper, I love texture!
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Really? Well maybe it worked ok for this little one, but for my cat on the wall I really don't think so! At least, although it looks fine in reality, once scanned it looks so awful to me I am very tempted to just take it down again and try to find another way of getting it onto the computer! Apart from anything else, I've got to be able to get these things looking as they should if I'm going to try selling them on eBay or something!
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Very pretty.. I like the inked version better. I think the water would look better with some lines through it.. hints of small waves or something. Very sparse so the water looks almost glassy. I love this piece as it is though.
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Thanks I'm glad you like it; water is always something that can be improved on I think, but with the texture of that paper on such a small area it was terribly difficult to get any of it really looking right. There's no ink, btw, it's all watercolour.
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Thanks very much... I do wish this were the one that had the share of fav's that were given to the larger version of my first upload though - it would look far better positioned in my gallery then (and I could get rid of the other one), but as it is I'm having to treat them both as the same picture, if you get my drift!
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Thanks
I hope you're ok too?
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But God can completely heal you from them... do you you beliee this though??
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I really don't want to burst your bubble with my own experiences, but to be honest, I've been there, done that, had the prayer for healing, made repentance where I've needed to, and I threw the T-shirt away when not one iota of healing came my way, other than a closer walk with God and a surer faith in His love for me despite the way I am. I will not come under condemnation just because others may think that I must be doing something wrong since I still haven't been healed. Millions are not healed. In fact, not always did Jesus heal. There were times when He healed all who were with Him, but not on ever occasion. Another concept to remember is that of the blind man who was born blind; Jesus was asked who sinned, the blind man or his parents that he was blind. Jesus said, neither! He told them this man was blind in order that He would be able to demonstrate the glory of His Father - He then healed the man.
The consequence of sin - not necessarily our own, but the fallen state - the sin resident in man, is sickness and death. When we become believers, no matter what faith we have, not all of us will receive healing from sickness. And in the end, something will get us anyway - because we die a physical death! I hope this helps you understand that there's more than one side to this particular "coin"? There are many mysteries that we will only understand fully when we depart from this earthly body of ours...
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oooo thankyou very much anna, i think i understand what you mean
How is your little cat ??
xxx
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