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LyrebirdJacki — Hycanith Macaw Watercolour
Published: 2009-04-29 15:42:44 +0000 UTC; Views: 1958; Favourites: 25; Downloads: 70
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yeah, i think im finally conquering watercolours. tho i guess im cheating cos im using the watercolour pencils, but i really only wet the brush, rubbed it against the pencil colour and painted like it was straight paint, i didnt draw and colour it on the paper so i guess its not completely cheating....sorry its blurred a bit, i tried to take the photo with the flash off, and it blurs when i do that, and whith the flash on, it was pretty much white. i think i might practice paints a bit more, so i can get betterer
constructive crit is fine, but keep in mind this is my first painting that i havent given up on and ditched or rushed, so technically its my first in my opinion, so dont say anything i dont already know.
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i wouldnt say that
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can you draw humans?...cuz i cant...im into animals and dragons and monsters...i cant draw humans...
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humans are hard, i cant draw them very good. there is 2 portraits somewhere in my gallery of my mum and me but i did those ages ago, they arnt very good...
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omg i love it!!!!!!!! i really do!!!! if this is your first painting....then dang you are good!! **favd**
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you are quite welcome
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That's not an Aussie bird! 
This is technically a really well painted painting. I love the colour choices, the soft pastel tones work really well with the background, and the bird's been painted so well, especially with the tones and detail on the beak and head. And the yellow stands out nicely, but not a whole lot which is good. The only problem though might be that the photo's a bit blurry.
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yeah, its a crappy camera, i started a part time job to save up for a new good one but i kinda thought i could save it up for more better stuff (art materials lol) i think its pretty good for something im not generally good at, the blue melted into the yellow part around the eye so i cant say i didnt have troubles lol. you noticed it wasnt an aussie bird? your the real ornithologist arn't you hehe. nah, ill get back to my australian birds again, i think an eclectus pair perhaps?
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Kewl, maybe you could divide your earnings for like art materials and a camera. Yes I did lol, well...I figured Australia didn't have any Macaws
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yeah, id say we dont have macaws, but we still got cockys which are just as good. i get the black ones here which are real goreous, sound alot nicer than the white ones. i quit my job a while back tho, gotta look for a new one if i want that camera lol
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Yeah, if not better 
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whoops, didnt read the last part. unfortuently i suck with technology so i guess electronics is not for me, i want to work at a wildlife park sort of place, would be able to get closer to the birds of prey then, tho i cant until im 16...
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Oh that sounds kewl. That's only like a year or so away though eh. Maybe you should get a job in a petting zoo lol.
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we dont have a petting zoo here tho unfortuently, the clostets we got to a petting zoo is the crocodile park lol
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Lol that totally counts
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mum worked there for a short period of time as a part of a uni course and she loved it.
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i would love to see glossy cockies, corellas are pretty cute too, someone feeds these birds at a falt near my house and usually its just pigeons there but it was awesome when a big flock of corellas appeared, hanging from the power lines upside down, waddling on the road, not a sight i see very often
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I can't actually recall seeing one in the wild before, we planted a whole bunch of native trees at my last high school so we'd get more. That's so cute about the corellas!
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lol awesome, we planted native trees in primary skool and a few years later in my last year there they dug them all out which was a shame
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All I thought when I saw the thumbnail of this was "How dare Jacki say she can't paint for shit?!"
Brilliant work
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it is shit lol compared to what i can do. i kinda just dabbed the paint stuff on it in a bird outline lol like those colour in the line things u do as a little kid. thanks thos
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Like those things that had the little dark/black dots in it, and you spread water over it and it magically got colour? They were pretty cool, I remember those things.
I once had a Disney Beauty and the Beast (shit, I almost wrote Number of the Beast... I must have Maiden on the brain) or something - maybe it was that The Emperors' New Clothes or whatever it was called one? - nah, I'm pretty sure it had a Disney princess in it - thingo that you had this weirdshit stick of wax, or a pen of some sort that was white, and you cooloured in with it over special bits in the book and it changed colour. It was fun, so didn't last long, I'd coloured all the special bits of it in very soon after I got it.
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ah yes i had one of those with the wax sticks and it did that, i think i had anastatia or somethinf lol i wonder why u have maiden on the mind, might be that thing u were on about at cmax they were doing some sort of iron maiden movie?
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Yes, they were, and I went to see it with Eddie! The name thing was funny, there was someone showing the camera one of the 100+ or however many tattoos of Eddie they had "I have Eddie tied to my nipples and bellybutton, and when I move like this, he tries to escape" =/
There were like 4 or 5 other people watching it. All but two of them, and us, left when there was technical difficulties, to come back and watch it at a later date. We chose to stay, waiting the 10mins for the lightbulb to be changed so there was a picture on screen, and got a free choc top each
And then after the thing, met the other two who were there, also a couple. Michael and Skye. I've seen them walking about cas a few times. They told us all sorts of concerts they've been to (they even went to the Brisbane one of the Maiden tour the doco was about, Michael was wearing a shirt that some people were wearing in the doco
Yeah. That's a damn long comment, I'ma wrap it up here.
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oooh free choc top **imagines grotty chocolate coated icecream which i cant eat anyways) think thats a pretty good bargain for waiting lol. like the tattoo bit lol, would like to see eddie run away
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I keep forgetting about you not being able to eat all the nice stuff
Hmm... do I detect a hint of jealousy?
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no, just a hint of making it sound not yummy
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Oh... it didn't work well, the stuff was nice and nummy
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Huzzah! I love hyacinths! I have a friend who keeps tons of birds, and always obsessed over hyacinths, so I'm afraid I caught a bit of it. Let's see, constuctive criticism... not a lot. Maybe the shadows are a little deep under the feathers under the beak. They look like they stick out more than they should... like a cockatoo's feathers! That's it!
... but to be honest, I kinda like the hyacinth with a fluffier look.
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there are dark cos i went over it with a black coloured pencil after it dried cos i thought it looked all too light lol maybe it would of been better if i left it huh hehe. but thanks, i like all birds, i chose a hycanith cos it wasnt much colour
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I like 'em mostly 'cause they're so big. I'm the same way about ravens, danes, and belgian draft horses. It's probably some overt form of short person syndrome. Oh well.
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It looks really nice. 
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yesh, cheating helps doesnt it?
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sometimes, sometimes.
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lol 2nd to comment.
little blury, but the drawing is awesome. can you draw a drawing of a picture? like maybe if you ever have time in the future i'd love if you could draw a drawing of a picture of a birdy. my friend has lots of birds and she's been very sick...where she can't live by herself because she doesn't know if she'll black out or need to go to the hospital. feel so bad for her, she just turned 30 and her body is acting like she is 90. thought it would cheer her up to see a drawing of her bird. just a sujestion if u run out of ideas.
-Lizzy
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if u got a picture of her bird yeah ill be happy to help out, thanks for the comment, camera ruined it didnt it?
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no not really....
ya ya it did
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wow, thats great...
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indeed, **claps** congradulations on first comment, tho thats not difficult to get first comment on my drawings lol. my exams are in a few weeks, tho i think i only got an english one this time
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i have romanian, math and geogaphy...im from romania 
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wow u have to pass to get to highskool? here u just go up a grade each year no matter wat u got in your exams, its only year 12 (final year) that u have to put an effort to get into. at the moment im in year 11 so i really dont have to worry, cos all years before year 12 really arn't counted so i got it easy, hope u pass, would suck to redo a year right?
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i wont redo a year...i wanna get to a good highschool and it depends on the grades from school and the exam grades...AAH...im so nervous...
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ooooh sounds like alot of pressure, well good luck
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hah, exam is tommorow...
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oh noes, run away run away
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hah, passed...the grade will probably be the same as last year...HAHAHA...8.50...or 8.60 with luck
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ooh goodie you passed, would of sucked if u had to retake the exam, we dont retake them here, u fail an exam, u FAIL!! lol
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