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Published: 2013-09-01 09:13:41 +0000 UTC; Views: 6932; Favourites: 408; Downloads: 0
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'Cliff Top Treehouse' was finalised as a demonstration during a festival last week.The colour combination wasn't my original plan. I was aiming for a midday atmosphere with the distant landscape in sharp focus. But as always the painting had a few ideas of it's own and it very quickly established itself as late afternoon image with the distant hills in a smoky haze.
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This is beautiful...magical...imaginative... I love it!
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Wow, impressive job!Β
I love the composition and the colours of all your paintings!
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As soon as settlement goes through
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Wonderful!! I love this. It reminds me of something, but I have no clue what. Please consider making it a print, or downloadable! I have blank walls that I am looking to fill.
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Cheers for your comment
I don't sell prints from DA but I do sell them from my website! Check it outΒ here
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Awesome! However, the link is broken for some reason. Would you mind pasting it again? Thanks!
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Hmmm...that's weird. Okay, not a problem, second time lucky eh a href="creationinateapot.com/cliff-to⦠">Creations in a Teapot - Print
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Yay! Worked this time! Thank you! I'm adding it to my birthday/Christmas wish list.
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Second time lucky eh
No worries. Have a great Christmas
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same goes for me i love it!
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Absolutely stunning!Β
That tree must be very strong (or magical ^-^) to support the weight of that house.
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Maybe this picture is the moment before..........
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All your works are so deep and warming ! RESPECT!
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I love your use of color and line. What kind of technique or materials do you use for drawing and painting?
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In this work I used a standard archival artline pen, W&N watercolours/gouache on Arches paper.
Hard to say the techniques as I varied them. The best description would be loose and painterly. I let the medium work its own magic
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Thank you for the answer, I was wondering how you use the watercolor/gouache together. Seems to me that gouache is more opaque....? Maybe I'll try and play with it a little, see how it turns out. I think that watercolor is a very hard technique to master and you really have mastered it. The line quality and your style of drawing somehow reminds me of Arthur Rackham, John Howe or Jill Barklem with her lovely Brambly Hedge drawings, but it is still very much your own recocnicable style. Great work!
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No worries
Definitely worth just playing with the two mediums. Watercolour is great for the main washes of colour and establishing colour tones. Gouache is defining darks and lights and giving body to the work. Purchasing white gouache and mixing it with watercolour has positive results too.
Good luck
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Eeep...thank you Β
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Eeep, you're welcome
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They do have a way, at times, of telling you how they really look. 
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And you can't fight it or it ruins the work!
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Totally true.
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