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Published: 2007-12-15 05:04:40 +0000 UTC; Views: 14751; Favourites: 778; Downloads: 0
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8"x10" acrylic on canvas.SOLD
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Thank you. This is one of those pieces that actually made me sad when it sold
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Very true. I like that perspective.
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lovely, simply lovely 
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Thank you, and thanks for the watch, too
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Awe, thanks. I really do appreciate your favs and compliments
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Your so welcome I love your art
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Thank you. That means a lot to me.
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very very nice. i really really like it , the composition is sooo cool , this should be the poster in my room
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Sounds good to me. Thanks
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This is very beautiful, I really appreciate your style. I think it is very nice!
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Lovely motive and use of color: your art looks so unique!
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Great work..Awesome colorization..Cheers
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Thank you. I can't wait to get back home and start the next one in the series. Have a happy New Year!
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Ahaan nice to hear that..Best of luck :thumnbsup:
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You have been featured in: State of the Surreal | 2007 .
An article showcasing some of the wonderful surreal paintings that have been submitted to deviantART in 2007.
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Thank you! I added the article to favs. I am honored that you featured me with such great talent. Thank you, and have a great New Year!
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No worries, you've some fantastic artwork in your gallery. Happy New Year to you as well. <3
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I like the backgroun a lot, so many harmony among the colours!
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Thank you. The other pieces in this collection will be of similar colors and tones. I am excited to start the next one, just have to get some Christmas presents painted first!
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beautiful and scary. Looking forward to see your paintings in this series.
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I appreciate you watching for them. I am excited to intentionally work a series project like this. We will see where is goes together!
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I bet it's going to be great!
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crazy composition in this piece, I like it a lot.
Is there a story behind the series and/or this piece in particular?
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I have updated the description to explain a little bit about the project. This piece in particular was explained above. I'll let you search for it, just for fun
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you so added stuff since I last read it
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oh i have felt like the girl before.. been stung by my own curiousity..
love the colours of this..
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Ah Bryan, this is beautiful, the childlikeness of it and mood..What shares you this inspiration, if you don't feel the need to explain, you don't have to brother..
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That looks great! Do you use any type of acrylic medium in your paints to make them more blendable? I can never get a good blending with acrylic....
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Yes, I use a super secret, very custom special acrylic extender that I created myself. It's chemical makeup is H2O. So, if you are savvy in chemistry, you can decipher the formula and begin to use the stuff yourself. 
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Hm, interesting. I usually use very wet brushes as well but I constantly find myself trying to blend too dry paint. Also the paint on my pallet dries before I can use it every now and again. I'm by no means an exceptionally slow painter or anything.
Do you mix the water directly into the paint or just keep your brush very wet?
I like the spray misting idea - I'll definitely try that. I just bought a liquid paint retarder to try that out for extending drying time, but it doesn't seem to be that effective and it makes the paint transparent. (My guess is that's it's simple glycerin which is often used to slow watercolor drying time.)
Thanks for the help
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Sometimes I will mix water directly into the paint. Keeping the brush very clean is a large help, too. I will sometimes paint with just water on the brush, painting over areas that are not totally dry. This helps with blending.
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Does that not dilute the paint and make it transparent?
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Yes, it does. That is what you want, when you want blending with acrylics. The transparency allows the underlying color to come through, giving the transition between the colors the 'illusion' of being blended. In other words, if you want to blend between (for example) a dark blue and a light blue, you start with zero water and lay your dark. Then lay your light on the other end. Then in between them, use varying ratios of paint to water to create transparent layers between the two non-diluted areas. This would be much easier if I could show you while I was doing it, but I don't want to put it on YouTube and give away all my techniques
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Don't worry, I understand what you're saying. I've always been a fan of blending wet paint on the canvas itself but I can see how dilute transparent layers could be used for regular blending.
I'm leaning one painting at a time
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Aren't we all. Every time I finish a painting, I want to go back and work on older ones to employ everything I just learned on the recent one. That must be why we continue to paint and paint and paint some more.
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I get that feeling all the time
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I love the bees and her hair!! Another awesome painting!!
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I really love this peice...it captures my imagination! its so unique with the bees on strings and the birds on top that are free. Why are the bees on strings?
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The birds and the bees. The bees usually have strings attached...
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Hahaha! Your right...children and all sorts of troubles.
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