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Vintage Petrol Pumps

Last post 09-07-2008 11:58 AM by Otilia Carrillo. 4 replies.
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  • 09-07-2008 2:18 AM

    I saw these old fuel pumps last weekend sitting proudly outside a mechanics workshop.  I wish we were still paying the prices they were back when these were operating.  LOL! 

    Painted first with sketch then with detailed watercolour.


  • 09-07-2008 3:59 AM In reply to

    Re: Vintage Petrol Pumps

    Another nostalgic one, a nice idea for a picture. Just a small tip here, but when using sketch mode it can't think for you, so all lines are equally sharp or dense, and not all lines need to be there. For instance, if you had done a pencil sketch of this scene, the odds are you would have concentrated on your main subject - the pumps - and perhaps sketched the merest trace of the trees in the background. You can still do this in sketch mode, by making a selection of the trees, and blurring them, this can then lead to an illusion of depth in the picture. also wherever necessary you can set your eraser to a low opacity and thin out some lines, if you want to that is.

    children paint because they don't know they can't - so what happens as we become adults? - Me
    Life is very nice, but it has no shape. The object of art is actually to give it some, and to do it by every artifice possible - truer than the truth. - Jean Anouilh 1910-87
  • 09-07-2008 4:03 AM In reply to

    • Anne
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    Re: Vintage Petrol Pumps

    Lovely nostalgic picture.
    Anne A.
  • 09-07-2008 7:31 AM In reply to

    • Kirk
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    Re: Vintage Petrol Pumps

    ooo . . . very nice Dianne. Cartoony even.

  • 09-07-2008 11:58 AM In reply to

    Re: Vintage Petrol Pumps

    Very good.
    Otilia Carrillo
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