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Calmality — Good Dream
Published: 2014-03-20 00:49:05 +0000 UTC; Views: 9115; Favourites: 396; Downloads: 0
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Most recent quick painting. Our assignment is to do one painting a week. My professor is finally letting me use water mediums so here's week 8!My Facebook
Medium: tea and watercolor
Size: 8.5x11
Time: about 4 hours
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Comments: 58
Lovely! I should try painting with tea again - I remember it being a lot of fun.
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I would recommend it- painting with tea is very rewarding!
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This is really beautiful. Reminds me of some childhood books of mine :3. I love the combination of autumnal colors.
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What a great compliment 
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Soooo amazing! I love the peaceful feeling of this peace. The colors really work together well, and really pop at the same time, superb work!
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Aww, thank you very much! This one has become one of my favorites the more I come back to it.
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Elegantly simple. I like the suggestion of water and mist/spume.
I'd like to visit this place.
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One of the greatest compliments 
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My pleasure! Keep up the great work.
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Thank you for all the wonderful comments! I really appreciate it
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I think there's not a single thing that I don't love about this painting 
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What an amazing compliment! I really appreciate that.
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Beautiful work.
The choice of a limited palette works really well and you get a wonderful sense of being in the middle of nowhere with the bear
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Thank you so much for the feedback. 
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You're welcome 
I couldn't work with tea....I would either drink the stuff I was painting with or dip my brush in my cuppa 
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I thought I'd have that problem too...however if you boil many tea bags like I do you will not mistake it. It is dark and smells pretty bad.
Although, I have dipped by brush in my actual tea cup a few times. XD
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I have enough problems keeping my paintbrush out of my brew with ordinary paint water.......I get too focussed on what I am doing...have had to make a fair few new brews lol
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Thank you very much! I appreciate that
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Oh wow! Gorgeous!! Your skills are amazing, and so is your style. I truly love it!
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Thank you for the feedback! I so appreciate it
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Wonderfull!!! It's like an old Japaneese pictures! Bravo!
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Beautiful, looks like an illustration taken out of a fairy-tale book.
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Thank you very much! That's what I was going for.
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Oooh, so lovely! I love how soft and gentle it is; a super peaceful scene. I also love how well you took advantage of the watercolor medium as opposed to fighting against it.
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Thank you very much for such great feedback! Tea does fight away watercolor when mixed. Glad you think it meshes well despite that
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Hehe, I never knew tea fought against watercolors! Is it because its mildly acidic? It looks lovely regardless.
I just meant how some people layer watercolors so much and so carefully that it looks like something you could do in oils; requires a great deal of skill, of course, but it's a waste of watercolors beautifully spontaneity, which you used so well in this painting!
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It's something I discovered when I started working. The tea will push the watercolor around and actually pull any watercolor that was laid down previously, out of the paper. Can be frustrating!
I get what you mean and it's a great compliment. I like keeping the watercolor's integrity and natural movement. Thank you again!
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Interesting! I find that ink will push around the watercolor pigment in weird ways that can be exciting or disastrous.
You're quite welcome, Miss Calmality!
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That's what I've found too. It's the thrill of an unpredictable and fussy medium.
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I really like how simple this painting is, yet at the same time so well executed. Love the contrast between the sharp, clean outlines of the trees and stones, and the way the colours just merge into one another in a semingly careless way.
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Thank you for taking the time to give me feedback! I was struggling with the contrast of the inked lines and what the tea naturally does. Thanks for your thoughts, glad you like it.
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