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Swimming in the Deep End
Published: 2010-06-24 05:18:04 +0000 UTC; Views: 19492; Favourites: 2024; Downloads: 48
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Edit 2•6•12 WOW A DD Thanks so much you guys! This is amazing, thanks for all your wonderful comments and faves!Available for purchase at my etsy shop:
TheLUUvre.etsy.com
This was inspired by this beautiful piece by *tir-ri :
I like hers better. ;w; Seriously, I think I'd probably trade a vital organ to be able to paint like her.
Uhm... at first I debated on what to put in the center of the light, like a chalice or... something else representative of the divine or inner peace or whatever... but then I realized that it's different for all of us but it also all comes from the same source. What peace and divinity is... that's something that we are always searching for. When we are together in love and community... that's one thing that brings us closer to it. The fish being us, of course. X3
Edit 2•6•12: WOW A DD Thanks so much you guys! This is amazing, thanks for all your wonderful comments and faves!
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Watercolor Paint
Acrylic Paint
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Comments: 137
Love the lines and colors in this, and I'm glad you left the source of the glow up to the individual viewer's imagination!
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Thank you very much, haha, well you know people are going to see what they want to anyway, might as well tell them it's okay.
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Hm, where to start. I love the concept, and how they are all swimming towards 'the light', and how they change color as they get closer, and how that light really seems to glow. Good job!
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wow... i can totally get lost in your beautifully colored works... makes one start to dream and meditate and just be happy
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You lie. This is the coolest painting in the WORLD.
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LMAO Thanks very much! X3
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Holy GOD this is beautiful /flailflailflail
*tir-ri 's painting is beautiful too, but this and hers are two different things. There's no comparing them. I love the sense of movement in this. And you were right about not putting anything in the center--it works perfectly this way.
Lovely~
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*w* Aww, thank you so much! I appreciate you taking the time to comment and tell me these lovely flattering things, it means a lot!
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Very beautiful. Your description as well.
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You are very welcome...great 
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LULZ I think the squid is jealous. X3 The squid says, "Why marry her and not me? ;A; I'm the beautiful one!"
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*is crazy*
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Squid, you are beautiful. But I might accidentally eat you. XD
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This is so, so gorgeous! i really love all the sea creatures and beautiful patterns, and the colors! Delicious.
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8D Thanks very much! I was a bit worried that it might be too busy... and that there's something a little off about the composition...
But anyway, thank you!
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How do you get the bare white spaces? DO you go and put tape there or something? I just.. absolutely love all your artwork :] i just dont know what to say to all of them, theyre all just so lovely
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I've been playing around with negative space in a lot of my work, but in this particular painting the only "natural" white (as in, the white of the paper) is in the center of the light. For that, before I did anything else I put down a wash of color that was a gradation from blue to green to yellow to clear. Everything else is on top of that.
For the other places of white, that's actually white acrylic. X3 Some watercolor purists might consider that cheating, but in my opinion there are no rules in art. X
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Hey regardless its still breathe taking :]
thank you for the tips because I tried out watercolor not too long ago, i was pretty good at first but now i suck xDDD
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LULZ Well, you should have seen the first time I tried using them. DISASTER. X3 I've been working with watercolor for about... almost 6 years now, with lots of classes and instruction... and I know for sure I'm not a master of it.
You might want to check out *puimun 's work... she blows me away!!! And :tir-ri: too. There's probably lots of others, but those are the ones I think of off the top of my head. X3
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I LOVE WATERCOLOR but i don't think ill ever be good at it xDDD'
but defiantly ill check them out if they're anything like you :]
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