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Katie-O β Butterflies in the banyon tree
Published: 2006-01-06 01:21:23 +0000 UTC; Views: 9707; Favourites: 206; Downloads: 772
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I was trying to combine oil and egg temera techinques.. which is basically to glaze color over a fully rendered ink underpainting...... It kinda worked.... though it wasn't quite what I intended. I'm pretty happy with it.. enjoy^^Related content
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Love the details on the tree and the butterflies very cool!!
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Beatiful! I love your idea! Of curse I also love the result. Nice work! n___n
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This is beautiful. It seems like a magical place. Good work with the shadows/light.
Congratulations 
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Amazing.. Simply amazing... I think this work deserve a looooot of faves and comments!
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the trees and the leafs are really awesome........!
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This deviation has been chosen as a feature of the week
on *Word-worth-1000-pics which is a community project
promoting artists on dA.
It has been found from the word : "TREE/s "
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the last guy... he is right... itΒ΄s beautiful
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Beautiful work!
I love the glow lighting and all those tree roots
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Beautiful work!
I love the glow lighting and all those tree roots
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I love the way the butterfiles seems to be glowing, making those bright highlights on the person and the trees. Great painting.
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There is such an amazing "completeness" (for lack of a better word) in your artwork. I wish I could do scenery/landscapes the way you do!
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This is awesomely gorgeous! Oh my gosh! 
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HOly Mother of cheezus this is beautiful...my god.
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hey i'm really glad i decided to check through r gallery jeez ur really really really really talented...i like it alot
at first glance the preview image looked almost photographically real ><
lol its great. The trees and roots etc r beautifully rendered n the character is an interestingly lighted, n the leaves r well done etc
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wow it's really great i lova the technik u used the result is amazing!
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This is so beautiful. congrats on getting it into the illustration competition. It has such a trans-cultural feel to it. Could you go into greater depth in explaining your process for creating it - maybe talk about what paper you used even? I am currently exploring combining ink renderings with watercolor. My more rescent experiments with this have not been posted on DA, but are on my website. Anyway, I would love to know more about your illustration process. If it is too long for a comment, you can note me
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This piece was done on 20 x 30in watercolor board (watercolor board is a good piece of watercolor paper that is atached to a really thick cardboard backing... makes it so the paper doesn't buckle at all (you can also streatch watercolor paper as well). for this piece I used ink wash and built up a full tonal underpainitng. After that I used thinned out oils (w/ 50/50 mineral spirits and liquin- liquin is a drying medium). I used thin layers to build up my color. honestly It was challenging to do because some oil colors are transparent and others are opaque. I didn't want to cmpletely loose the underpainting so I had to struggle a little bit to make the paint work for me. Though it didn't come out as I had initially envisioned it.. I like to think it was reasonably sucsessful ^_^
I've seen your work before.. in fact I have one or 2 of your pieces in my favorites^^ I only saw one piece of art combining ink and watercolor.. but it looked good to me. The challenge in combining the 2 is that one of the media has to be dominant.. otherwise they compete >_< but the one piece seems to be a good mix of the 2. I don't have any crits for your work.. I rather enjoy them.. they're very expressive and have a good range of value and color. thanks for the comments^_^ I hope I've been able to answer your questions... if you have anymore feel free to let me know ^____^
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Thanks very much for sharing the technique behind this piece. I think I will try it, but with watercolor, and not oils, since I don't have oils. Thank you also for your encouragement and kind support of my own artwork. Much appreciated
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Its very rare i find an artist on here that I really admire... Some get lucky with a nice picture or two, but im in love with your gallery. Your talent is amazing and refreshing to see, so, for my greedy sake. Keep it up
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Oh my goodness.. I'm very flattered... THANK YOU ^_^
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Technically brilliant, and very beautiful
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wow, your stuff is really impressing me alot. This piece is incredible. You capture expression so well. This piece has earned you the +Watch
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Wow, I've seen a lot of art from various artist on DeviantArt, and I have pretty high standards, but this painting is the first one where I felt compelled to comment on it. It's beautiful first of all, but for some reason when I see it I feel something deeper from it. There's a magic in it. It's something very few of the pieces I've seen on here have made me feel. It's like I can tell you put your whole heart into it, and thats a special thing. I feel it when I see Miyazaki films too. Anyhoo, your profile says you want to be a children's book author, and I have no doubt in my mind that you will be. Good luck to ya, even tho you don't need it.
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awwz :::
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This is amazing! You have such way with Life and emotion and bringing Beauty to the strangest placeses! Great work!
Question: was your intent to leave it full view so big for a reason? (to show of the girl perhaps?)...if not if i may suggest, you shrink the image and re-upload it so its not so huge in a full view
Again Great work!
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yeah I got a lot of complains when I first started putting thing in my gallery here about the size being too small... this piccy is pretty large to begin with ('bout 15"x20") and has a lot going on so I left it fairly large. Plus I know I'm always wanting to look closer at images........ that's one of the problems with viewing them through the computer
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Lol i know what you mean, i use to get alot of complaints so one day i Resized EVERY THIGN in my galler to be about the same size in full view, and it looked as if my Gallery had exploded, so any thing that is still huge i put a note saying "HUGE" when full view... Wish there was a Normal, Big and then Full View... I love getting a closer look...then some times i want to get a REALY close look, lol...
but still its a great picture!
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Good texture, the shining effects are great.
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very nice love the lighting in this picture and as always excellet!
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it looks realy beautiful! the shading and lights! and the idea!!
and all the plant are just great!!
very good work! :3
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it's SO SO SO SO beautiful, you're so talented, girl 
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