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AnnaKirsten — Two Trees
Published: 2007-10-28 17:15:51 +0000 UTC; Views: 1468; Favourites: 67; Downloads: 0
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Again, s'cuse the originality of the title!!!This picture has been standing on our dresser un-noticed for all these years, and I spotted it and got my husband to scan it in (the scanner's on his machine). I doubt I'll find any more of my old pen & ink & watercolour wash pictures now. It was done about 16 years ago, and unfortunately due to the paints not being Artists paints, the colours have somewhat faded. I still like it in its little frame however, and thought I'd share it here.
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Of course, if you would prefer that I don't include it, please let me know.
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Thank you so much - beautifully done!
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Beautiful!!!Wonderful trees and details,like the colours,excellent job!!!
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Beautiful artwork 
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Thank you so much - I didn't see it, and still don't, but never mind hey! It's very kind of you!
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Wonderful! I love the almost monochromatic (what is the word I'm looking for?) coloring.
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Desaturated?
Thanks so much
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This is an excellent painting - great tones - well composed.
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seeing this picture reminds me a of a feeling and a memory..i think its the feeling of being in the woods at chrsitmas or autumn
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I guess that about sums it up, lol!
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I really love these pen & ink watercolors of yours - have you tried re-creating something similar using digital means? Might be an interesting experiment!
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It would be easy enough to do, but wouldn't have the same value unfortunately. No, there are times I just like to sit somewhere else and do something that's original and where the original can't be duplicated as another original! I enjoy doing all sorts of things.. Right now I'm sorting out my new stock account and uploading stuff (which takes simply ages!!)
Thanks so much for your lovely comments!
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A beautiful little watercolor! The faded colors look intentional. I think it gives it a nice old fashioned illustration look.
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Wish I could paint with watercolours so good...
Oh well...
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Awwwwww! 
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What? 
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I love people like you! You encourage and spur me on! Now all I have to do is top procrastinating! (I still have to decide where I'm going to set everything up as a permanent work-place for me. I used to use a studio in our summerhouse at the end of our garden, but it's rather remote, and I don't really want to go there again - esp. as it's now winter time! Anywhere in the house on the other hand, is subject to my two cats jumping up and ruining everything, like they do!)
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I really think you're good in watercolours and you should paint more. 
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Thank you so much - and today I have nearly finished my very first water-colour ACEO!! Just some touching up to do and it's finished! Yaaay I'm happy! Will upload a copy soon...
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Okay, I'm waiting... Hah! I can't wait to see it!
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It has a certain charm: the trees and flowers appear to be fleeing down the bank from... something?
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LOL! Maybe they're on that slipper slope we all get ourselves onto at times! I seem to remember it was a very quick thing to do - in BOTH senses of the word!!!!
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That picture is beautiful! I really love it. It's seriously perfect. ^_^
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WOW! What a wonderful compliment! Thank you so much!
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Watercolors have such a nice, soft look. Well done!
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They do! Mind you, not always! lol! Thanks so much for the 
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This one too very lovely I do oil~is watercolor easy to learn and did you take lessons.
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The only lessons I had in art were from an extremely good and creative art teacher at boarding school, when she and I used to just go off together and enjoy what we both really enjoyed doing with our media! Our styles were very similar - I never copied hers, it was just there! Then when I moved to a grammar school to do A levels, I ducked right out, because that art-teacher didn't like my style one little bit and wanted me to do stuff that I had absolutely no feeling for!
I used to do oils too, and enjoyed the media enormously, but had to stop a lonnnng time ago because of illness/weakness, and also the smell of turps etc. gave me horrendous migraines. I left it too long to get back into them again. When I tried recently, and bearing in mind I couldn't afford Artists oils so that made rather a nasty difference too, what I produced was simply awful and not one bit as I had envisioned. I knew I needed Artists paints, but wasn't prepared to splash out on them having made such a mess with the student materials I had. (These days one can get sans-odour thinners of course, so no smell to that which was a good thing.)
Water colours aren't that easy to do, unless you're prepared to make a mess with it, try out all sorts of ways of applying the media etc. The biggest problem is that once you make a mistake with water colour, unless you dab it off with a dry tissue immediately - and really immediately - it's hard to cover up. Keeping areas white that you want, such as highlighted window-sills and the like, all requires precision working out etc. Also I find that drawing in pencil first actually gets in the way, because there are the darned pencil marks where you just don't want them in the lighter areas - once painted over you can't erase them! Other people, though, will always work in pencil first, and indeed I have done so. For me I find the nicest way to work is totally free-hand straight onto paper with the colours, using tissue, sponge, other textured materials for dabbing off surplus colour or making textures etc.
I still have to really get back into it though! My pen and wash ones always seem to give the most impact. With those, from what I remember, I think I did do outlining in pencil first, then the washes, then I applied fine pen and ink work using the edding 1800 profipens (various thicknesses from 0.1 - 0.7)....
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Thanks for the advice~and I may try it..oils are great but as you said when you put a big class together boy does it stink and I get migraines...so I am looking for other options....
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You poor thing - I empathise with you over getting migraines! I have them every day, and have to just push my way through...
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