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05-15-2012, 03:01 PM
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Re: May CHALLENGE
Wow all the work here is amazing. Hope fully I will have the time to squeeze at least one.
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05-15-2012, 05:38 PM
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Re: May CHALLENGE
Guess I'd call this Prevailing Winds if I had to give it a name. No time to comment on the rest of the posts here - will have to visit later.
Cheers!
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05-15-2012, 06:00 PM
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Texas
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Re: May CHALLENGE
"Somewhere in the Southwest" Acrylics, 9x12 canvas board. Not real happy with it. The colors really aren't that bright IRL
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05-15-2012, 06:01 PM
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Re: May CHALLENGE
Linda...I really like the old house. Nice job!
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05-15-2012, 06:05 PM
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Texas
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Re: May CHALLENGE
My goodness Sandra. You have been busy. Never sure what to expect to see from you. BTW, first glance at the bull I thought he had a romantic look in his eyes! All of them well done!
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05-15-2012, 07:44 PM
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Wisconsin
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Re: May CHALLENGE
Linda, this is beautifully done! The grasses are so full of motion and the colors are so lovely. Excellent sky, too. I really like that peek of light through the window of the house. Great job!
Cindy, what a great painting! Your trees are so pretty and have a nice balance to them. Great textures throughout. Well done! 
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05-16-2012, 12:15 PM
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Canada
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Re: May CHALLENGE
Linda the way your foreground is extended makes your painting the same sort of scene as the Wyath painting with the girl laying on the grass looking up at the house .
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05-16-2012, 01:45 PM
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Henderson, NV
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Re: May CHALLENGE
Catherine - absolutely love both your pieces - wonderful light. And Sandra, yours really have an impact. Great color, esp the horse. Oh wait, there's more! Love that steer! Cem - great forms on those rocks. And Les , mine definitely reminds folks of Wyeth - it's that raised horizon I think. Probably not the skill in rendering....
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05-16-2012, 03:51 PM
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Kay, I couldn't resist giving your pretty sunflowers a try. I just had a brush pen on hand so I went with that. Thanks for the great image!
This is about 4x4 inches on sketch paper. I was going to add some color, but the paper is a little light for heavy ink. Drawn with a Faber-Castell Pitt Brush Pen. Took roughly 45 minutes. C&C welcome.
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05-16-2012, 04:55 PM
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Jenna...that looks really nice. Love pen & ink!
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05-16-2012, 10:18 PM
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Wisconsin
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Thank you very much, cem! I love pen and ink too. One of my favorite ways to make art. |
05-17-2012, 10:27 PM
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Leitchfield, KY
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Re: May CHALLENGE
The photograph of that prarie house is awesome. What a fantastic old southern dwelling. Would love to take a tour.
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05-18-2012, 04:21 PM
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DFW, Texas
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Re: May CHALLENGE
I have been obsess by calligraphy ink, and trying to mimic the serigraph process by drawing.
Here are two attemps at the photos:
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05-18-2012, 04:54 PM
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Big Spring,Texas
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Re: May CHALLENGE
Linda, your old house perched on a hill does have a Wyeth feel to it. Really nice!
Cindy, the textures are amazing within your rock scene, and I'd like to see that place in person someday.
Jenna, what a wow of a sunflower done in ink, not something you see every day and such lovely curved lines.
Maria, your ink work is amazing, too, had to look hard to see that it was me and DH you did as it is so abstract! The horse of course was easier to determine.
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05-18-2012, 06:15 PM
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A Local Legend
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Re: May CHALLENGE
I've been lurking for several months and finally decided to butt in.
I thought I would give you the other end of the steer (opposite Larry who did such a great job on the back end)
Kay the skull is fantastic.
Sandra....Wow.
Cem, great job.
Linda, Wyeth, yes just add Christine. Super. 
Jenna just great.
Maria good job on a difficult art form.
My piece is an 8 by 10 inch, oil pastel on gessoed masonite.
My background is a bit surreal. I had thought of abstracting the background and just make the steer and the ground he's standing on representational.
I wasn't able to lighten the reference photo, in photoshop, to get a reading of the darkside of the steer. I hope my guess is acceptable.
Suggestions for improvement welcome. |
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