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This is only significant because it's the first painting I did everything forβI built the stretcher, stretched the canvas, primed the canvas, and painted it (of course).Related content
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This is absolutely stunning. The soft colors work beautifully with the abstract nature of it, it has a very dream-like quality
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Thanks a lot 
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you're welcome
really? is it like each student got assigned different colours?? sorry, i'm just curious, i'm not an art student, i'm just wondering what's it like
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"oil on canvas"...
that does have a nice ring to it! ^-^ haha
this is cool! I think the hand outline could stand to be a little more promenent, though!
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Hah, it always seemed like the best artists use oil on canvas. And I always wanted to try it. But now I realize it's a pain in the ass!
Thanks for the crit, too. It's more noticeable when you see it for real. Besides, this assignment was the first time we could be abstract, so I had to go a little crazy ;D
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I love the layers and the mood of the colour scheme.
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Geeze that sounds like a process and a half... You're more productive than me
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Eight? Geeze...
Any chance you have seven more things to post though? ;D
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Aw poo. Oils drive me nuts like that though. Even when they do eventually dry they still feel wet...to me at least. ...And oil paint generally hates me. ~__~
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I know D: It took me a while to get the hang of them. My first few attempts were disastrous. When they're drying I keep poking them to see if they're dry yet XD and they never are >>
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Did you get finger prints all over your paintings?
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No 
The bigger problem is when my mom touches my paintings when they aren't done
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My mom does that >__> She also smacks her finger down on my pencil stuff to point something out hard enough to smudge it. ...It never erases out either *sigh*
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Way to go. A true painter. Looks real nice.
I think it would be cool if you made the hand look like glass. A few highlites with different tones of white would do it. Refract the image behind the hand a little. I don't know, what do you think?
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Not a true painter quite yet ;D I still have three more levels of painting class!
Ah. That's a cool idea! The refraction sounds really difficult, though. I wish I'd thought of that sooner 
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Must be hard to produce like that. Just to finish for finishings sake. Hope it works out!
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Gosh, I'm so glad I'm not a painter, all the work would kill me. At least with poetry I just... write fancy. Your media takes so much precision, creativity, and effort.
And you do have dainty hands!
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I bought a premade canvas for my final project ;D If you don't get them too big it's definitely worth the price.
Hah. I have anorexic hands. Back in ninth grade I wore a ring on every finger...now, after years of dieting, they're all too big for me.
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:3 You should take a picture (scrap), with your hand next to something for scale.
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:3 AWESOME size reference! Everybody has a PS2 box laying around, hahaha.
Slender and adorable hands
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Hahaha...I always have a PS2 box laying around somewhere! Total RPG nerd...and it was the only thing I could find that comes in a standard size!
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I would have some RPGs, but my brother sells them off after he's played them. Kingdom Hearts 2 is the least "jock-y" game I have, besides DDR.
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I would never let anyone sell my RPGs. I even kept most of my brother's. They're mine now!!! Hah!
Kingdom Hearts sucks D: I have the first one and think it's retarded, so didn't bother playing the second one; I assume the concept and gameplay are pretty much the same... I despise Square Enix. Why did they have to merge!? 
My camera fails so much more than yours. No fair. And it's kind of pointless for you to hide your face since I've already seen it! I think only...four people from dA have seen my face.
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D; He's older though, and strongggg. Lucky girl!
Well, my family is really big on photography, and on getting a product that will last a long time, so I ended up with a GREAT Christmas present that makes up for the following years of getting the littlest things. 
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My brother is older and stronger, but also apathetic, so it works out.
I thought KH was so pointless. I don't like Disney [the only Disney movie I've seen is the Lion King, and that was at least 10 years ago] and I feel like they just bastardized...er, included, the Final Fantasy characters so that the retarded fanboys/girls would buy the game. There was so much wandering around in each world that it was hard for me to follow the main plot. I found the battle system really, really annoying. The thing that finally made me quit is when I found enough dalmatians, it said I got the new spell, but I didn't actually get it! So I was stuck with shit magic forever. And the AI sucked. For hack&slash get Shining Force Neo. The plot and characters are absolutely ridiculous, but the battle system is incredibly addicting. Or Odin Sphere!!! omg, not quite hack&slash, but an amazingly fun battle system, great storyline and characters...could be the best game I've ever played. ...I told you I'm an RPG nerd
That's cool! My family is cheap and doesn't know anything about technology D:
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Hahah, it's okay, my brother is a hardcore RPG kid, even trading old games for credit for new ones. But we live so far apart, he never really lends me anything.
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What bugged me is that the battles never ended. It added to the endless wandering problem. Honestly, they needed more party members. I mean permanent party members, not just one from a specific world that you could temproraily recruit because it was better than Donald's continuous dying D: Heh, Monstro was one of the only places I could beat without gamefaqs [it bothers me to use gamefaqs, but KH pissed me off to no end and I couldn't figure out what was happening most of the time]...The only reasons I bought KH were because people said it was good, it was by Square Enix, and I thought the Final Fantasy elements would have had more importance than they did. Now I won't even touch anything by Sqaure Enix, and hope that future KHs won't ruin Zell D:
A hardcore RPG kid would keep every game ;D You still must get Odin Sphere, it's only $20 at Gamestop~
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Oops, forgot the link [link]
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I think the cool colours and flowing hand shapes, like someone else said, reminds me of the sea.
Nice work.
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Thanks babe
And sorry for getting back to you so late, and commenting your stuff late too. It's like a million projects are kicking my ass right now. Forgive me?
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Aww it's totally fine dear. 
Now, though you need to be kicking those project's asses!!!
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Reminds me of dipping your hands in sea water. o:
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P.s. you have very dainty hands. How do you choose the patterns and flow for abstract pieces anyhow?
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It's gorgeous; the flow from the focal point is really well done. The colour choices and placement makes it echo. Love it. Congrats on making everything yourself
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Thanks! It wasn't a big canvas but I still feel like I accomplished something.
As for your comments on abstracts...it's something I find really difficult to explain. A lot of people think abstracts should be planned scrupulously but I find that doesn't work for me. You just have to trust your instinct [and practice. and be lucky.] It does help to start out with something, though. A palette, a mood or idea, or an object that you want to represent. And every so often I look at it from a distance to see how the composition is going and if it's moving the way I want.
I wanted this one to be very fluid...then decided it was ugly and added a lot of straight lines and rectangles into the space I'd already established. Then I still didn't like it, so I traced my hand over it and called it a day
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