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Last post 09-14-2008 6:37 PM by Rita Odle. 4 replies.
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  • 09-04-2008 5:40 PM

    With this one I wanted to get the effect of paintings I have seen done on black velvet, it was done with a detailed watercolour using the Sargent brush and random strokes at more than one pass, and setting, to give a loose style.


    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
  • 09-04-2008 5:54 PM In reply to

    Re: Fuchsia

    Ahhhhhhh.....I love this. The colours, composition, the brushwork everything.  I love fushcias.....the ballerina's of the flower world.

  • 09-04-2008 8:43 PM In reply to

    • artisan9
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    Re: Fuchsia

    Very good as usual, Tolouse.

    Artisan9 - Ron
  • 09-05-2008 5:11 AM In reply to

    • Anne
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    Re: Fuchsia

    Stunning picture Toulouse, and you have succeeded in making it look like a soft velvety texture, well done!
    Anne A.
  • 09-14-2008 6:37 PM In reply to

    Re: Fuchsia

    Striking!  Gorgeus colors

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