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The birdflower for November; Chrysanthemum. Mums are wonderful little flowers that come in every color (except blue, I found out). Chrysanthemum's eyes and tail stones are citrine, as it is November's birthstone.I suppose the working title for this would have been something like, "Mum Thief" or "Oh Crap, I Dropped My Flowers, but I Don't Care Since I'm Flying Out of This Swirly Cool Background."
The background is partially due to something weird going on with the illustration board and me fixing it, and partially experimentation with a different style. I got these weird 'scratches' on the board, and it was as if there was wax or something on the board. Where the 'scratches' were, the paint wouldn't soak in. Regardless, I think I was able to save the painting.
See the other birdflowers here: [link]
Watercolor on illustration board, 9X12 inches
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Comments: 39
I love the background! I didn't know Chrysanthemums were November's flower....
Having Topaz as my birthstone sucks because it usually looks the color of piss... XD
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Heehee, they look like little Truffula Trees. 
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Citrine is also known as Topaz, it's my Birthstone for November
I also really love the colour u used
Its soo pwetty ^_^
Can we be friends? Pweeze?
*puppy dog look
It will make me oh ever so happy ^_^
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So pretty!
I have always had Topaz as my November birthstone. Have they changed it?
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So far as I've read, topaz is the primary birthstone for November, and citrine is the alternative birthstone.
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Ah, the imperial flower of Japan, at least from the description of Japan as "Chrysamphemum Empire" and such as I have heard. Nice touch.
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I find the tailfeathers paticularly amazing here.
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really good job on the 'mums'...like that shortening, never heard it before! def the second title. great stuff!
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wow, very outstanding! wonderful job! keep all of your hard work up and wow, you seis to amaze!
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I really like the bird's pose and the spread of the feathers. Beautiful!
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Just an fyi, citrine actually isn't November's birthstone, it's golden topaz. I'm born in November so I know
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Many months have multiple birthstones.
I made sure to research the birthstones in multiple sources to make sure.
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I've looked up birthstones in numerous books, jewelry/gem stores, and online and only have seen citrine listed as November's birthstone twice. I imagine all months have multiple stones, but each month has only one most commonly used one.
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Yay, my month! LoL I feel I have the right to favorite this.
I've been waiting to favorite all of your month birds (gorgeous and original... you are amazing)... But I decided this one would be the most meaningful for me.
With that said...
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I'm glad I didn't disappoint with this one!
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wow that's gorgeous...oh and i like the second working title...oh crap something something dropped something swirly cool background...
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you know what's sad is that for as much as I appear to despise my birth month's colors, they fit my personality which is jewel toned, wild, and bubbly free. There's a spiritedness to this bird that fits every single November Scorpio baby that I've met. The calendar is going to be lovely.
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Lovely
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Yay for the birthday month! ^_^ I love the free feeling to it. The background could be wind, visible. Very lovely!
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Hehehe, the background could be anything you want it to be.
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Beautiful! The colors are love
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This is really beautiful despite the illustration board having wax & the scratches on it. My birthday month is November and I love how realistic the chrysanthemum flowers look! It's very lively and I'm going to put it into my 
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Thanks! I'm glad you like your month's birdflower. I was really upset when I first started painting and saw the scratches, since I had already drawn everything on the board. In a way, it's good that I was forced to figure out a way of covering the scratches, since it caused me to experiment with a new style.
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Welcomes! It was very stunning and I love birds. I get upset if a drawing, story, or a painting is just fighting (I'm being QUITE SERIOUS here) me, but it is much better to just let your mind wander and then an idea for a painting hits you like magic. I've never had scratches on any of my illustration boards but I either get dirt spots or ink smudges on them instead, I'm glad that it did.
I should try to do a watercolor painting on an illustration board soon.
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Woohoo! My birth month.
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Well, both citrine and topaz are the birthstones, so they could be either.
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Topaz comes in more colors. Yeah, I know it's only the golden color which is the birthstone. Oh well.
Besides, I don't have any pieces of citrine.
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I love this one the flight falling the flowers totally reminds me of my birth month there is a wildness to his expression of late fall and the coming winter Gorgeous
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Really wonderful
I love tha way you draw all the feathers.. and the richness of the colors *-*
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