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GeeMassamArt — Purple Anemone flower - Aquamarkers
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WATCH my YouTube VIDEO of this painting: youtu.be/q-d-TysD-YQA purple Anemone, painted using Letraset Aquamarkers. It was a present for my Granma who had her 100th Birthday this year
The paper was not great with the Aquamarkers but i sort of got around it somehow...
Flower petals: Royal Purple & Vintage Blue.
Leaves: Viridian, Fern Green and Spring Green.
Brown bits: Mahogany, Rust Red & Bitterwood.
Centre: Marigold & Gold Ochre.
Letraset Aquamarkers on 300gsm Bockingford tinted paper.
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Thanks for checking it out!
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Man, you really have an adorable water color technique. So incredibly tidy! One thing that I noticed, as I clicked pretty much through your entire gallery: To me your pictures look a bit flat colorwise (which I suppose might have something to do with your love for markers?). I have of course no idea how you work, but with watercolors I found it extremely helpful to abandon black completely, mixing greys from complemetary colors only and generally varying colors + hues by introducing opposing colors in the shadows. I think this picture is a good example of what I mean: teslasoliloquy.deviantart.com/… . Similarily to your picture "Footpath near Peatswood" (which is amazingly threedimensional!) the main impression is: a lot of green. However the artist still managed to squeeze in red and blue to, making the general impression richer and deeper for that. Being more flexible with colors can also help to pull background and foreground together. For instance "Puple Aeonium Succulent" has a wonderful blossom, that is pretty exciting colorwise. There are hints of that in the background, too, but background and foreground feel a little disconnected to me, which might have been improved by having one or two streaks of purple (in an alleviated form) in the background.
Okay, I hope I didn't talk to much. Only thing I am writing this is I am sure you could get even more stunning results, if you opened up the range of colors you work with in the individual picture.
Best wishes 
Charlotte
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Thank you so much! I like the fact you have something constructive to say and something that has made me think. TBH my colour theory has always been a bit lacking, i'm researching ideas as we speak 
Thank you so much for the advice, feel free to offer more if you want to
And i like your gallery, i see that you practice what you preach on the Charles Dance picture (his best performance for me is Alien 3) with hints of blush and blue in the background.
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You are very welcome. I'm glad I could be of help!
If you need some advice colorwise, here is something I copied out of a book on watercolors, which really helped me some years ago:
- use high contrast of lights & darks in areas of most interest, midtones in supporting areas, faint contasts in the background
- try to work in massed areas of tonal values, in which you then introduce small variations
- use very saturated colors in the centre of focus, and increasingly unsaturated area when moving away from the main area of interest
Best of luck!
Charlotte
PS: Glad you like my stuff
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Thanks! as an art book reader myself its great to share advice when you find some good stuff!
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Thank you! And Aquamarkers are so like watercolours it's kind of scary yet comforting!
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wow, so it's like a real marker, not just a quirky name? That sounds scary indeed! Great job in your ability to manipulate them like that! hope to see more of those from you! ^-^b
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Check out some of the other ones I've done in my gallery 
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Pretty, and a touching gift for your gran. I had trouble saying anemone, but I can more or less say it right. I like the purple tones and the background.
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Haha! I had trouble spelling it!
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This is pretty. I especially love the leaves - the seem so real! A lovely gift!
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Thank you! Yeah, the leaves I did differently, by mixing on a CD! So I could get an even layer of paint.
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This is gorgeous. What a lovely gift for your grandmother! Great job.
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Thanks, the paper wasn't great, the markers stained a bit and you can see this on the petals. Had I used a different paper, I think the results would have been different. But I'm still pleased with it, and thanks all the same
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