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Published: 2014-01-10 20:50:36 +0000 UTC; Views: 1100; Favourites: 23; Downloads: 4
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A day late - this is a birthday picture for my favourite Hogwarts professor
. It was painted for Albalark, on the occasion of the Hoggywarty Christmas fest on LJ. The image was inspired by her story Saturday's Child - which is actually a Snapey birthday story.In September I started attending art school (evening classes - or rather, Saturday morning classes), and though I doubt that anything is showing, I did get acquainted with acrylics, of which I had been really scared until then. This moonlight scene required strong contrasts, which I am notoriously unable to achieve with watercolour, so I decided to try acrylics instead. So this was my second time ever painting with acrylics, which in use are really entirely the opposite of watercolours XD. Scary, but fun! I hope you like the result.
Media: Reeves acrylics on cardboard.
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It's fun - I am enjoying it and the teacher is very good. But I don't really see any improvement in my art 
Then again, it's only been a few months...
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I'm fascinated - this is the first time I didn't spot a work being by you. I saw it at Hoggywarty but didn't manage to comment right away, as I didn't really follow the fest. This probably shows (at least to me 
The interpretation/illustration of this scene works wonderfully, and your use of these paints as well. I could never tell you aren't well used to painting with acrylics! The shadowing and colouring is great.
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That's very interesting! I thought it was very me... The hand, the shape of the face, the super simple composition
It's funny - I remember that I was quite astonished when cabepfir and I first posted The Dark Lord Rises , and some people said they couldn't see which parts Cecilia had drawn and which parts were mine (NOT a compliment to poor Ceci, by the way XD). Our styles are so strikingly different - but apparently the simple fact of our using the same media was enough to fuse our styles, for some
-Do you know that my art teacher asked me, the other week, if I would be okay drawing something in a more simplified, cartoonish style? She has no idea of the stuff I usually make, and in art class she sees me trying to draw with painstaking realism. I'm wondering of she would recognise my hand if I showed her the things I post here 
My favourite thing in this painting is Snape's ear. It's definitely the most perfect, wonderful, beautiful ear I have ever produced
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It's very pretty, I love the color scheme! It adds a more dreamlike quality to it.
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I would have suggested a bluer, rather than purple, hue for moonlight... but in terms of the lighting overall, the mood, the composition, I like it! (I worked in acrylics a lot when I was in college because they were "easier" than watercolors and much cheaper and faster than oils. Not that I am a painter
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I really like the purple tones! As for a day late, better late than not at all!
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Lol - it was ready quite on time, i just forgot about posting it here until the day after
Glad you like the purple! I loved working with it.
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