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At first there was an old shimmerOr was it at first?
Maybe it was in the end?
Do you know what happens to stars when they die?
They burst to give life
And kill in the process
And the cycle continues again
New life is born
New stars are created
And the Tree of Life looks over it all
Eternally
About three A6 monochromatic watercolour paintings with a bit of gouache and some golden leaf experiments
Inspiration "Follow me "by Serenity
Ok! My dears! I have to confess
for a long time I was looking for my ideal teal watercolour and I finally found it 
... and it's from the Daniel Smith's ridiculously expensive series
and it's perfect 
and I'm on a budget for art supplies now 
Anyways! I saw puimun abstract treescapes tutorial and played around a subject I hardly ever tried - trees
each one of them is made with only one colour - on the left one of my favourites, indigo; in the middle one red I hardly eve use, and on the right - my new teal DS Β it's supposed to be a story of universe using the Tree of Life archetype as a representation
... maybe someone saw what I had on mind without this awkward explanation
Thank you so much for the visit my dear
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Comments: 29
Love this collection. Beautiful verse in the detailed description 
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thrilled to see that there are amazing people who read the descriptions - thank you so much for that
and thank you for your inspiring comment
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Awesome job with creating the trees with a limited colour palette! They look so beautiful, and side by side they really look magical (plus is that gold watercolour paints?). Amazing watercolour works as always
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that's actually golden leaf - a technique I'm recently trying to understand
thank you so much for such a sweet comment my dear
good luck with your experiments
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Ahhh I see, that's so cool! It really works in the composition of the piece 
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still experimenting with it - there are still so many possibilities to discover
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I love the harmony of colors and textures in all three compositions! It all looks great!
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thank you so much my dear
and you like them in the meantime? that's even more awesome!
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Oh of course I like them. Theyβre on point!
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They all look wonderful! I love the color choice!
Daniel Smith truly is an expensive brand, but I love them too, they are great!
The last month I have worked with a lot of different golds but it didn't come to my mind to use golden leaf. I need to try that to, but it also seems hard to proper scan itΒ Β
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experimenting with colours - especially the red tones - is actually something I struggle with
I have only one Daniel Smith colour for now. but I'm afraid I'll be getting a wider collection in the future 
just a few comments further (earlier?) you'll get really neat advise from Aya-Lunar about photographing the golden gleam
thank you so much for your support my dear
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Β It's the least I could do :>
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that's awesome to hear!
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Outstanding! The colors help this piece stand out so well!
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making a mixture of colours you love, colours you start to discover and colours you looked for a long time - maybe that's the secret?
thank you so much for your comment
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These look so beautiful! I love how you did this, the colors, the gold the faint illustrations that are so magical, so well done!
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maybe a bit different than I usually do... sorry about that 
I'm so happy to see that you enjoy this experiment anyway my dear
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I know, that's why I prefer to take a picture of those pieces in sunlight, it works best for me.
No problem!
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photos of artworks never seem to work for me 
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You have to make sure they are taken with a good quality camera, or decent at least, not with your cellphone, an Iphone or Ipad can also take good pictures sometimes, make sure it lays flat with the right lighting outside, or you tape the back to a wall or the ground, whatever you think works best, and hover before it, or over it, and make sure you have the angle right, like right on it. Afterwards you can crop it, and edit it to the best of your abilities in a free online editor :> There's many! That's how I do it. I make sure to take enough pictures, to make sure I don't have ones that are blurry and have good quality :>
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that's an amazing idea! I've never tried taping down the artwork to get better lighting
maybe that is the reason why I never managed to get a decent photo
thank you so much for your encouragement my dear
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Well, indeed, cause when you lay your watercolor work on a surface it's a bit rippled, cause of the painting and water, so it's best to make it as flat as possible, you can edit it afterwards too, to make sure it looks good and in the borders as well :>
Sure! Just experiment and try to think of clever solutions!
No problem :>
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sometimes simple ideas are the most ingenious ones
thank you for the encouragement my dear
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