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Published: 2008-04-28 02:08:35 +0000 UTC; Views: 1427; Favourites: 17; Downloads: 41
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ACEO size, 2 1/2" x 3 1/2"Prismacolor Premier on white Rising Stonehenge heavy 100% cotton art paper.
Created as an experiment after reading Masterful Color by Arlene Steinberg, I drew this lilac sprig from life and from a photo reference I took shortly after bringing it indoors, using muted complementary colors as the first "underpainting" layer and then covering them with the true local colors, shadow and light colors and burnished layers in about eleven hours of fierce perfectionistic concentration that succeeded wonderfully. The original is as rich and luminous as an oil painting. I have it stuck to my easel with a bit of blue tack just to enjoy it before someone snaps it up on eBay.
If you want to be that lucky collector, here's the ACEO Lilac Auction Link on eBay. I will only list it once. If it doesn't sell, it moves to the front of my album with the rest of the keepers. But I'm giving buyers a fair chance at it, once.
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The veins in the leaves look incredible.
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Thank you! I need to do something like this in oil pastels too, where I can do veining by scraping...
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I must say you captured the close tight knit clumping of lilac flowers very well here. No space between any of them, and I always marvel at how such a plant packs on the flowers.
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The colours are absolutely stunning the purple petals in particular.
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Thank you! I'm working on another version of it, changing the color of the lilac spray to pink, and have the first stage posted in my Scraps if you're interested. I hope to get as rich and varied a pink as I did the purple.
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I really love this - the colours are so rich and vibrant. The purple underpainting really gives it a lot of depth
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Wow, thank you! I've got two bids on it already and hope by the time the auction ends that it'll go for a good price.
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Beautiful! I really like the rich colors. How did you like Arlene's book? I have been thinking about getting it.
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I loved Arlene's book. I own dozens of colored pencils books and it ranks right up there with "Painting Light with Colored Pencils" by Cecile Baird and my Gary Greene books (still my all time favorites but I have a particular fondness for Gary Greene).
I am planning on doing some of the exercises in my sketchbook, and I'll post them here if I do. Like the marbles. I can't resist those marbles!
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I love Arlene's works. She is so talented. I will definitely be buying her book then and adding it to my library
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It's wonderful. It is so inspiring. There are several more exercises in it that I'll be adapting and making my own over time. She got me falling in love with my Prismacolors again and inspired me to finally upgrade my full range set with the new full range set (I had been chewing through the old set ferociously before that), because there were old New Colors I didn't have, that were introduced while I was broke during my homeless-and-disabled years, as opposed to now just disabled and having Social Security and some spending money in the budget.
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This is beautiful, i love what happens when green meets its complementary colour, the same about yellow but green-red is my favourite because it is a very common combination among living beings.
I'm currently reading a book about Turner and God the man is the best painter ever, i mean colour is everything in his work, you can see a black and white photograph of any masterpiece from the Renaissance and you still can appreciate the drawing or the composition but Turner without colour is nothing, because he found the very essence of painting. Now i want to read Goethe's Colors Theory.
I'll be reading your blog and probably posting on it, i want to start one to post step by step examples of how i do my drawings.
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Thank you! Oh that sounds interesting. Way cool! I saw your comment on my LJ and answered it, thank you so much. I feel like I should get back to doing more extinct animals again, especially in realism. I fooled around with a primitive mammoth done like a cave painting, but I want to get more precise -- and I found some interesting jaguar and tarpan references in a copy of Smithsonian that I found cleaning up a few days ago.
I like some of Turner's work. Currently what I'm looking into in color theory though, is the Munsell color system for designers -- someone brought that up on a discussion board and I thought it might be interesting to give it a page in my colored pencils book. Kitten has been urging me to do it as a workbook and so I might try to reorganize my material in that format during May, if it works out I could be self publishing with Booklocker fairly soon. Topical nonfiction sells well when it's self published.
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Sure! i commented on just one of your entries but i read many of them so i saw your pictures of Ari facing mirrors and taking a nap on your old monitor (i have a similar opinion about televisions).
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Yep. They were invented for cats to sleep on.
I sometimes wonder if I couldn't get the same effect though, by putting a heating pad on LOW and putting it on top of a shelf. Heat and a high place to sleep that's safe for an arboreal creature.
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Yes but you would be taking the big pleasure of eclipsing movies with their tails away from them!
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Well, yes. Poor little Ari now has to settle for sitting in my lap thumping his head under my chin and leaning on my chest for attention during movies instead of obscuring them with his tail.
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Thank you! I loved doing it. I've started a new one in pink, and posted the first stage in my Scraps if you're interested.
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Thank you! I'm going to be doing more Prismacolors soon, I think, I had so much fun with this one!
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Goodness, this is one of your best! The scan positively glows from the richness of the color... I can only imagine how luminous and amazing the original must look!
I especially love the texture and depth of the leaves. The veining is so realistic and the sense of light and dark is fantastic. You really outdid yourself this time. The color-! I can't get over how delicious it looks.
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Oooh thank you! I have to admit I was thinking of you while I worked on it. I even considered changing the local color of the flowers to pink rather than purple, but decided to go with something close to the real flower instead of arbitrarily doing pink. In the reference, the veining in the flowers was very clear, and I had the real flowers right next to me in a clean maple syrup bottle. They're wilting now, curling up and dangling, but still smell so wonderful that I can't bear to throw them out. Besides, they may perk up a bit in the morning. I vaguely remember them doing that.
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