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Etrangerre — Desert Dawn: the Palm

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Published: 2017-10-01 07:18:42 +0000 UTC; Views: 184; Favourites: 4; Downloads: 0
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Description На севере диком стоит одиноко
На голой вершине сосна
И дремлет, качаясь, и снегом сыпучим
Одета, как ризой, она.

И снится ей всё, что в пустыне далёкой —
В том крае, где солнца восход,
Одна и грустна на утёсе горючем
Прекрасная пальма растет.
(М. Ю. Лермонтов "Пальма")

Seems like I've overdone a bit with oranges, so it's likely to be sunset, but — let's pretend it's still dawn
Another pastel experiment to me. Based on the poem "The Palm" by my favourite Russian poet, M. Lermontov.
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Comments: 3

PeeterOra1 [2017-10-01 17:58:02 +0000 UTC]

Good, expressive work... technically well executed, yet the palm-tree above needs bit more surrounding space (it situates to close to the border of the work) and as it is situating in the distance, the lines of it should have been more vague (it is called "air-perspective", when objects further away seem to the viewer bit blurry, and not as sharp, as the objects in front, necessary to create an illusion of 3D space on 2D surface)

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Etrangerre In reply to PeeterOra1 [2017-10-01 18:11:22 +0000 UTC]

... Yep, you have finally written about this work, yay! I was waiting all day long, not only to know your opinion, but to know you're alright...
Thank you for this frank and very useful comment, these comments of yours help me so much to make a better artist! Yes, I still have some problems with composing the objects on the sheet, try to correct it, but rarely succeed... I think I have the same mistake in my previous work, but I work with it, I believe I will finally avoid it one day About the air perspective — frankly speaking, I just tried to emphasize the palm this way as a main object of the composition, yet I see I've overdone with it some way... Mb the other time I'll try to make it another way Thank you one more time, my dear "quality mark"!

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PeeterOra1 In reply to Etrangerre [2017-10-01 18:21:34 +0000 UTC]

Always!

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