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Acrylic Painting => Acrylic Painting Classes => Topic started by: Karen on February 23, 2012, 08:48:59 PM
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I painted along _ Nice clear instruction even in those difficult circumstances where you had to be the cameraman
And demonstrate too Nolan. Please let us know how your wife is, I think we are all concerned.
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Karen, you always do such nice work! I really enjoy seeing your art! :clap: :clap:
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Great work. Wood looks like wood and jellybeans look yummy.
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Really well done, Karen! :clap: :clap: :clap:
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wow great job Karen
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Hey Karen, I like your painting........very well done :clap: :clap: :clap:
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Karen, fantastic!
I missed the class, can't wait to see the replay.
Karen, I am really impressed with your work.
What's wrong with Nolan s wife?
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Looks wonderful Karen.
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Oh wow, that is excellent, well done!! :clap:
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thank You all for these comments. It's was fun to paint this and Nolan made it easy Though I think my wood came from different trees to his.
Anya and those those who didn't watch - Nolan had to cope with a site crash and a medical emergency at home Dennis took his wife to hospital
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Karen... your work is truly amazing. Well done... mmm, can I please have one of those jellybeans... i can taste it already ;D
I didn't know about Nolan's wife being ill, shame man that is really terrible news. I truly wish for her to get better soon and recouperate completely. :flowers: Poor Nolan, and to have a crashed site at the same time. Nolan here is a :1hug: for you. Thinking of you and your family, please let us know how your wife is doing. I agree with Karen, I think we are all concerned. You are all after all 'family'. ;)
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I didn't know about Nolan's wife being ill, shame man that is really terrible news. I truly wish for her to get better soon and recouperate completely. :flowers: Poor Nolan, and to have a crashed site at the same time. Nolan here is a :1hug: for you. Thinking of you and your family, please let us know how your wife is doing. I agree with Karen, I think we are all concerned. You are all after all 'family'. ;)
Ditto from me! Karen, you have such a great way with words.
I regret I had to miss the wood painting class. Karen, you gave me a nice sneak peek. :thankyou: Nice work!
Amazing to think Nolan soldiered on through the class without Dennis to do the camera work and he sure must have been stressed over his wife's condition.
Here's my hug, Nolan :1hug:
:pray: your wife has a speedy and complete recovery.
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Nolan and Dennis, add mine to the group hug :hug: !
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Nolan and family here is my :hug: and prayers too. I hope your wife is recovering well. Our eyes are so important and all artists would especially feel more stressed at the thought of losing our sight.
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I didn't realise someone had already created this 'Jelly Beans On Wood Panels' project! And a fine job you have done of it too Karen! :clap: :clap:
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GOOD JOB KAREN!!!! O0
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Has the replay for the wood class been posted? I can't seem to find it...but, I'm also technically (and artisically) challenged!
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Your wood and Jelly beans still life looks awesome Karen, well done, I'm really impressed :clap: :yippee:
I edited the replay today and it is currently uploading, so should be up in another 12 hours O0
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Nolan, since I am doing this in oil, between what stages should I let it dry?
I tried to do mine, think I tried to rush it and it looks like :cursing: Will have to redo it. :)
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In the manual I have indicated when to dry O0
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:thankyou: Nolan
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Finished my wood painting,hope it is fine as my camera is being tempemental at the moment.It was done in Acrylics.
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Wow, very very nice Helenty.
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Nicely done Helen, shows great texture. :clap:
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Helen, your wood looks very authentic! Way to go! O0
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WOW Helen, you wood looks awesome :clap:
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Very realistic! Nice job Helen! :clap: :clap: :clap:
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nice work Helen :clap: :clap:
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I especially like all the smaller little knots you have added O0
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Thanks for the lovely comments,it certainly gives one a confidence boost.
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Brilliantly done and very realistic. Well done Helenty :clap: :clap: :clap:
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Very wood like Helen and nice jellybean colours. It's hard to get them bright.
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I admire anyone who paints in acrylics and produces very good paintings. It challenges a persons skill to the limit.
Helenty, you've done a fine job of this and, it's great that you shared it with us.
Well done :) :clap: :clap:
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OK so here is my attempt at faux wood. I found this a little challenging, and the jelly beans were probably the most fun. I think when/if the wood is a smaller factor in the painting such as in the one Nolan is doing now, getting it to look so much like wood may not (hopefully) be quite such a challenge
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well it came out lovely Gail :clap: well done. I especially like the gaps between the wood and the reflections, great job.
Usually wood forms part of the background in a still life and is not painted in such detail, but you need to know how to achieve the detail first. That way you can easily suggest the detail by using the correct techniques, just to lesser degree. Hope that made sense?
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Gail!
I LOVE what you did with this...your wood (and jelly beans) look fantastic...casts a great mood I think!
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Well done Gail. You have done a great job here. :clap: :clap:
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Nice work on the wood, Gail! Your jelly beans are well done too. :congrats:
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thanks for all your kind words. The fabric folds lesson was just as difficult. I will be posting in another day or so this painful lesson...but lessons learned are helping in the larger painting.
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:clap: You did very well, Gail.
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Super job on the wood Gail :clap: Boy, do I miss the 'Jelly Belly' Bean Shop! :2funny:
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I like your wood, it looks like the real stuff Ray. You'll find the wood in the big still life easier.
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Musika, I think the pattern in the wood grain looks good! O0
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wow very nice :clap:
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WOW :heeha: ... with all this lovely wood I can truly build myself a shed for the garden :whistle: ... Well done everyone on a super accomplishment. :clap: :clap: :clap:
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Gail, wonderful technique as usual, Musika, a perfect rendition.
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Well done Musika :clap: :clap:
Let me know when you get to the varnishing...I have a few bits could use a coat or two..... >:D
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You want me to go to hull and back?
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:2funny: brilliant Musica
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:2funny: :nono: :2funny:
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Hi everyone,
Here is my jelly beans and wood surface.
I think I might have put the nails at wrong place. I really enjoyed this lesson. It doesn't quite look like wood, only when I took all the mask tape off, and wend off for a cup of tea, then when I came back suddenly I felt it does look like a wood surface! Thanks Nolan!
Alice
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The wood is great, I love the knot in the lowest plank.
I just keep looking at your signature, does it really say 'Nolan' or is it a lookalike of Nolan's signature?
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I think you have managed to get a very good wood effect. I especially like the knot and the screws, very realistic :clap: :clap: :clap:
please don't copy my signature :knuppel2:
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Excellent job Alice. :clap: :clap: :clap:
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I followed Nolan step by step all the way to the end, so of course, the signature, before I even realize it, it is aleardy done that way.... :uglystupid2: will try to make it look different in my next painting :heeha:
Alice
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Just use your own signature Alice.
In fact, when I paint the classes and really follow Nolan step by step, I don't put my signature on it since the painting isn't really 'mine'.
There are some copyright restrictions on paintings you make, following the classes, and when I don't change anything in the painting, something that makes it really different, than I don't sign it; just to be on the safe side.
According to Dutch law, I could sign them as: Paintbasket/ Germa
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I write on the back: Original Design by Dennis L. Clark/Paintbasket
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That's a good idea too.
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we are happy for you to sign your class paintings with your name. We just don't want them to be sold O0
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Thanks for that information Nolan, didn't know it worked that way.
But than, I think I'll write it on the back, as Val does, so my children of hb don't sell it when I would drop dead. :crazy2: ;D
Maybe I'm very famous by that time, and when the media discover that you were my teacher, you will share in my fame, as it should be. :2funny:
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I would prefer if you don't drop dead :heeha: ;D
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I would prefer if you don't drop dead :heeha: ;D
I'll second that! O0 ;D
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It's not on my calender for the first 30 years or so. ;)
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I thought might as well do this then while I work on white painting. By the time Im done with that hopefully, this is dry then.
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Oh boy, now I want to know why there is tape around your canvas...
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maybe they are plasters ;D ::)
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:tooth: No plaster. Just to keep it neat
Its still wet. Its like sticky when I lightly touch. I might have to do the drapery folds while still waiting.
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Is it a stretched canvas or a canvas board you're working on?
I always paint from edge to edge and don't keep neat edges on my paintings. :-\
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Canvas board. I didnt feel like working on the whole canvas but prefer to be neat :P. While the white object and glazing, I wanted that framed look.
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It's actually a very handy way to get a framed look on those thinner "Single-thick" stretched canvas - paint the edging in the style of the frame - then tape - then paint the real painting. I've used it before with a black "frame."
Does the trick well vjah.
O0
Batman.
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I see a lot of artists tape the edge of their canvasses lately, then remove once the painting is finished, very popular at the moment O0
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I understand that way of working on stretched canvas, but not on a canvas board, since they are too flat to hang them on a wall without a real frame.
On a stretched canvas, I like to paint the edges as if they are a part of the picture I paint.
But maybe Nolan is right and is it a very popular thing at this moment and maybe I am just an old fashioned old lady who sticks to traditional work too much. ;) :2funny:
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One time, I saw a painting where the sides and top painted too for 3D effect, or stuff sticking out as part of painting. There was a lady, shes retired and she's experienced painter tired of "traditional" painting. She has painted realism, impressionistic and some other styles. So this was her new endeavor. She painted the word "Memories" in cursive old style kinda tilted and fading towards end of canvas. At the end she stuck those old film negatives curled. Really moving because I remember those when I was a kid :D and my grandma making a picture album. That was the first and only semester I attended a painting class at community college because I then switch to PB. Nothing wrong to stick to traditional painting Germa O0 .
Funny thing at the time, I thought I was in the wrong class. I have never painted before so I felt lost because everyone is doing their own thing and I just wanted to learn to paint and at the end I was even more confused ;D .
Oh there is these little gadget where you can tack on the back and voila, instantly you can hang the canvas board without framing them. Or tack 2 on the wall and then rest the bottom painting between these hooks.
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I have paintings hanging in my house that were painted on the narrow stretch canvasses. O0
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Here's my finished wood study:
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Vjah,
Nice work on both the wood and the fabric folds.
You're a fast learner.
aloha
mea
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:clap: :clap: Very nice, Vjah!
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:thankyou: Bev and Mea.
Not a fast learner but more like Excellent Teachers! All credits go to Dennis and Nolan. Lets Draw class really was my foundation and it was only 4 weeks not years. All the questions answered and I came out not confused! More like excited because I can try to explain, to myself. ;D After the course, it made me see things differently and more curious :nosey: why it looks like that. Then flashbacks to what they explained. So I get more information as I get my eye to 'see'. Then add the color mixing class and Voila! Of course, you have to put time for practice. Like, I did the color wheel Dennis taught and practice color mixings. I tried to get all shades of a color ;D (OCD).
And here we are :painting: .
:thankyou: Dennis and Nolan!
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WOW, lovely wood,it looks so real.
I really like the dark piece in the wood!
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your wood effect is immaculate Vjah :heeha: :yippee: :yippee: :yippee:
I wonder if the jelly beans won't stand up off the wood even more if you darken the shadows they cast on the wood even more? Especially the green and to a lesser degree the orange ones
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Vjah, this is fantastic. Wood looks so real. I so agree if you will darken your shadow unde the jelly beans they will really stand out. :clap: :clap:
Nina :flowers:
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:thankyou: Germa, Nolan and Nina.
I darken the shadows and it looks better not washed out :) .
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O0 :clap: :clap:
Nina :flowers:
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Vjah, Your painting is excellent! I am a woodworker and your grain looks very realistic! :clap:
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looks great now - lots more depth
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Well done Vjah, banner job on the wood and jelly beans. O0 :clap: :clap: :clap:
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:thankyou: Nina, Christina, nolan and Val.
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Wow Vjah you really accomplished some great realism there. Wood grain is not all that easy!
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:thankyou: Lynn! Aye, only fellow artists share the pain :) .
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Here is my wood effect
The bottom panel grew on a different continent :smiley6600:
Paula
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Paula, your wood grain looks great! You did a very good job! :clap:
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great wood effect Paula :clap: :clap: :clap:
You often get wood of the same tree having very different colours like that, it's 100 normal O0
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Paula very nice/well done wood panels. :clap: :clap: :clap:
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Great job Paula, :clap: :clap:
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Extremely nice work Paula. Very effective and realistic O0
Batman.
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Paula,
I love your wood grain - very realistic. Yes, theirs always one piece that gets in the package from another planet.
I think I'll do wood grain as practice tomorrow.
aloha
mea
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Ooops, had a typo in my last message. Should have been "There's always..."
aloha
mal
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I liked this exercise. Very hard to mess it up, or is it? :)
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Very beautifull Dirk, highlights and all :congrats: :clap: :clap: :clap:
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As for messing up, it depends whose hand it is, at the end of the brush ;) .Mine didnt look half as good!You are doing great dirk123!
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Wonderful set of woods, Dirk! Wood grains are sorta' "messed up" by nature and you captured the effect. :clap:
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Thanks Danielle, Zayn and Judie for your encouraging words. :thankyou:
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Impressive! :clap:
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beautiful job and it is easier than you first think eh :clap: :clap: :clap:
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:) could you use liquid masking fluid instead?
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instead of the masking tape? If so, I think the masking tape is a better option. I don't recommend using masking fluid with oil paints
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The cost of fluid is prohibitive for large areas. Contact paper seems to be a better option for most projects.
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I have done the wood effect in oil with the strawberies (2 classes in one) on a 10 x 10 inches canvas. My strawberies and wood were taken from my kitchen table and photographed from a low angle not from the top. Any advice welcome.
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my advice would be to add the same wood effect into the top left corner then to sell it :congrats:
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Nice :clap:
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Wow, Danielle, that's quite a painting. Love the texture of the strawberry against the grain of the wood.
aloha
mea
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I love what Nolan suggested!!! Well done!
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:thankyou: so much Nolan for the advice, i will do that and hope to sell it. I should have remembered that! no white at the edges.
:thankyou: Mea, Natalie and Sharon for the encouragement.
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Very well done Danielle :clap: :clap:
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Very realistic strawberries!! Beautiful painting Danielle.
Harwant.
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:thankyou: So much Bhavna and Harwant for your comment and encouragement.
Here is my revised wood as per Nolan's advice and parts of the strawberry.
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Yes, I agree. Karen, you are a great artist.
I would love to get this lesson in watercolors. :heeha: (Hint hint, Dennis...)
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thegrindreTry the WC wood rust plaster lesson.
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Very nice Danielle, you could eat those strawberries. Well done.
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:thankyou: Rick, you can also do the box nest in water colour.
:thankyou: Sally for your encouragement.
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looks great now Danielle :clap: :clap: :clap:
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:thankyou: Nolan :smitten:
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thegrindreTry the WC wood rust plaster lesson.
Yes, thank you. I did see that one and watched it on YouTube.
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O0 Rick
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Nice! :)
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:thankyou: Jay
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Amazing Danielle. So real!!!!
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:thankyou: Juan muchas gracias.
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I did the wood in acrylic, but switched to oil for the jelly beans and the nails. I don't feel ready for acrylics yet.
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Beautiful job, Annie! :yippee: :yippee: :yippee:
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Thanks Steve :flowers: That's encouraging.
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:clap: :clap: :clap: Gorgeous Annie. I really want to give Acrylics a try. Maybe in the New Year I will start.
Patricia
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:clap: I think it is lovely, Annie. Nice wood grain and shiny jelly beans. :smitten:
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Great job, Annie.
Your wood grain is really good. Love those little worm holes in the center of the grain in the bottom slat.
aloha
mea (Never had any desire to eat a jelly bean!)
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Well done Annie :flowers: :flowers:
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Thank you Patricia :flowers:
Thank you Kathy :flowers:
Thank you Mea :flowers:
and Thank you Bhavna :flowers:
You haven't miss much. Tastes like a blob of chewy dyed sugar. Anough sugar to make non-ADD hyper....
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Very nice wood painting effect Annie. Why do you say you were not ready for acrilic and did the gelly beans in oil when you did great job with the wood?
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Hi Danielle,
So nice to see you popping in. I was hoping you would see all my recent oils and WC paintings... and offer strong critics to help me improve. If I could focus on improving one skill in each painting... I would go a long way.
Hard to say, but I think acrylics simply dries to fast for the way I paint. Even with retardant and spay water bottle! I paint slowly and have to deal with frequent unplanned interuptions. I am also a bit confuse with the colors changing a bit when they dry. I am not able yet to match most dry colors. Again a problem I would not have if I painted faster.
In this class, Nolan said that any acrylic classes could be painted with oils, and vice versa. Just that some requires that a step needs to dry well before proceeding to the next step. I had no problem using acrylics for simple backgrounds like 'First Rose' or the 'Semi-abstract Cityscape', and that is a neat way to get started.
Hope your business is doing well.
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I tried acrylic only once, like you I am a slow and the paint was drying faster than I could blend properly.
I do like WC and coloured pencil, which is what I concentrate my art on. I sold my hat ladies and my little kids at the beach this past spring but I have not sold an other painting since. The bear someone wanted it but he never got back to me.
good luck in your art Annie.
just went to see your art on your site you are doing great. keep the good work.
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:clap: you did well with the colors and grain of the wood even though you say you battled with the acrylics Annie
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Thank you Danielle for looking at my gallery. It is great encouragement coming from you. You will sale your paintngs, they are fabulous. Just need to meet the right match.
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:thankyou: Win!
You are very kind. Funny, but the more I look at it, the less I dislike it. 😊
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Funny, but the more I look at it, the less I dislike it. 😊
I understand that Annie, I am the same way. I go away from a painting and come back later, and it doesn't seem so bad. Lloyd says if I could learn to pirouette without falling over..... I'd love my paintings in no time! :D :2funny:
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Thank Val... you normalized that weird feeling.
Happened before, I would think "this is the worst ever" and I brace myself. Then PB members point to areas which need improvement (and I am always so grateful for any critics to help me improve) but then the unexpected when there are also comments on something good that I did not see... and that makes me really happy at the same time.
You guys ROCK! O0
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fabulous Annie - this is one of your best paintings for me :congrats:
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Thank you, thank you very much Nolan. Somewhat a bit speechless...