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Peachfuzz — Exploding Pansies
Published: 2006-07-25 23:49:13 +0000 UTC; Views: 625; Favourites: 16; Downloads: 25
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How apparent is it that I couldn't think of a good title?
Hm. Anyway. This one's a gift for my pansy-loving auntie, whose dial-up connection I'm clogging up right now.
I went with a light, unpenned coloring technique for this one, again very different than my usual coloring style. It sure is easier on the hand, though, and uses a lot less lead, even if it isn't quite as solid and vibrant as I'd like.I really went to town on these pansies.
Pansies have a boring form but the colors they come in are wonderful! I had a lot of fun using colors that I normally wouldn't get to use in a floral piece. It didn't scan to perfection, but my auntie's scanner was more kind to it than my own scanner would have been.Crayola pencils, 8 by 10 inch Strathmore Drawing paper, 4-ish hours.
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You also have an aunt that's crazy about pansies? Cool
It's my aunt's favorite flower, and since she ran a flower shop at our farm almost my whole life (she quit two years ago)I've grown found of them too.
The pic is lovely, very nice colouring
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Yay for pansy-crazy aunties!
Thanks for the nice comment. 
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yeah, your title had me all excited. I was ready for some pansy destruction. *sigh* maybe next time. I do love the technique you used though.
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I love the variety in these pansies. I'm fond of them and don't think of them as having a boring shape -- though pansies and violas have a very easy to draw shape with large distinct petals and interesting variations in pattern and color, sometimes shading and sometimes distinct as bands or areas of color. The soft textured application's very different but lovely.
I'd suggest matting in white or a very pale pastel color for best effect doing this style of florals. I may have to get one of those drawing pads to fool with it and do some soft textured drawings too.
Alternately, you might try using this technique on watercolor paper and doing an underpainting in transparent watercolor. Or if you use the same paper, mark off a 4" x 6" area in the middle of the 8" x 10" paper so there are very wide margins and then underpaint carefully so that you don't cockle it too much -- in flat colors that work with the colors you're laying over them.
I did an underpainted salmon-colored rose yesterday with Prismacolor Watercolor Pencils and the final layer is definitely textured, but the underpainting gave it the same brilliance as if I'd gone ahead and burnished over and over till it was brilliant and textureless.
Both styles are great. Now you're inspiring me to do something like that again...
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Whenever I see pansies, I think of Alice in Wonderland, and the little singing pansies 
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Oooh! Prettiful pansies! And you posted them on my birthday!
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Sorry for making another message, but I have to ask somthing. xD
Could you note me your name if you have AIM, MSN, or Yahoo?
(I bought GuildWars BTW x3)
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I don't do any of that IM-type stuff, and I don't play online games. Note me next time you want to ask about something non-art related instead of sticking it in a comment on my art.
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Sorry xP
I didn't think about that xP
And I thought it was you who played Guild Wars >_>
Maybe it was star...
Agh. xP
I SWEAR it was you D:
Well it wasn't
Sorry >_o
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You're right.
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xP
Thanks for confirming that.
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Now, I genereally don't have much to say about your flower pictures, seeing as it's not an area I'm overly interested in (depite always being well drawn), however I just had to say something about one of the recent ones, almost entirely because of the style you chose to colour it in. First time I opened this up I was quite surprised to see the colouring done this way. It's just an interesting contrast from your usualy style, which is usually so very bright and colourful. Personally, I'd like to see you play around with colouring this way a bit more, maybe in one of your anthro pictures, perhaps? *wink, wink, nudge, nudge* 
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This Strathmore paper has a cool texture so this light style works really well.
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Argh! What a bunch of pansies!
I think it looks lovely, and it's nice that you tried a different colouring style with this artwork. I definitely agree with one of the commenters above me, who noted that some of the pansies look like butterflies. What an interesting observation. It's a very nice piece Peachfuzz.
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Thanks, Donna.
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WOOOOOOOOOOOOW! Omg, I love these, they look so great! Makes me think of the talking flowers garden in Alice in Wonderlands for some reason. 
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Thank you for the nice comment and fav.
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how colorful and beautiful. I think you make full use of the surface of this paper. put the strong touch on the front flower and leaves, and it make good contrast effect to the behind parts. I often see the pansie at the flower beds. but just now I notice a part of petals looks a few resemble to the butterfly. this flowers are very cute.
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Pretty! This is really nice. Trying different styles can be refreshing.
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Thanks.
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nice job! pansies are da best flowers ever! (that you can grow in the shade XD)
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They're not my favorites but they are beautiful.
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they're the only pretty thing I can grow
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Indeed.
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They're so beautiful! [And my mom's favorite flower!]. I simply cannot believe it was done in crayola colored pencils. Wow.
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Thanks for the comment.
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like not smearing so much?
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Very cute and pretty! I like how you have the different colors around the page. It makes your eye move in more than one direction. Great work! I bet your aunt will love it.
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When I started looking up pansy references I was so happy to find out that they came in so many different colors! I crammed a bunch of them on the page just so I could have a blast using all those different colors.
Thanks.
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the pansies are so colorful ^^ me likes the piccy!
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PANSIIIIIIES*snicker* pretty ones, I always call Tatsu one and he jsut turned inot one
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