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Thanks!
I really need to get back to this series one of these days. Skulls are such fun to draw.
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Well, it seems as though you worked out the problems with the colour, at least for me it works very well.
Once again, I think the design of the ballons to be eerie, but in the wind rushing through a leafless forrest kind of way.
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Eerie is good - that's one of the moods I was trying to achieve. I'll probably do one that's downright morbid one of these days, but I do like the weird, peaceful effect most of all.
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Comparitively speaking, morbid is easy compared to eerie.
And I really should read over what I type before pressing send. I'm only now realising that sometimes what I post is incomprehensible.
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okay, that is the most awesome thing (and dreamlike) I have pretty much ever seen. O_O *rubs eyes* Man. It also helps that I love skulls and bones and such, so it's just awesome and not creepy. Although I'm not sure how it could be. Eh. Fantastic work though! ^_^
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Hey, excellent! I'm glad you like this idea and that it's given you the right impression. I want to avoid "morbid" in this series for the most part, though that's a tricky thing to do when it's skulls. For some reason, people have a really negative impression of skulls... I mean, it's not like everyone doesn't *have* one.
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there's a lot of things that seem to have negative connotations that shouldn't. Skulls and bones are one of them, blood is another, and so is nudity. It's always amusing just HOW negative the reactions are at times.
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Thanks! I'm glad I finally found an excuse to add to this series. Skull balloons are such fun to draw.
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Oh man, this is such a cool idea! Dream on, dream on. And please continue to let us revel in the imagery!
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Thanks again!
I definitely have some more ideas for this series. I want to get that green-and-gold scheme to work properly, so I think I'll tackle the skull balloons again fairly soon. Mom also got me a human skull (a plastic one, which will definitely last longer and won't *smell* funny) for my birthday, so now I can work on some new balloon angles.
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Awesome! I look forward to seeing what you come up with.
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WOW this is definitely one of your best. I love the concept.
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Thanks very much! This one gave me some frustration; I'm just glad I managed to pound it out in two days so that I could meet my deadline.
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Thanks very much. I plan to do several more of these crazy things.
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Wonderful job again Rachael! I do like the aubergine/eggplant color you added to the mountains and the pink tint to the sky. The yellow, gold, and green fits itself more in my mind to a different medium. I can't wait to see youer exhibit in Thayer. Congrats on getting it done!
jfk
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Thanks very much.
Aubergine...!! What a fantastic word... Had to go look that one up to discover that you'd provided the translation already.
I think I can get the gold-and-green to work if I do another round and use colored pencils to balance out the transitions between colors and forms. Being limited to watercolor set me back on that score. That's okay, though. I have several more ideas for hot-air skulls that I want to try out. Lots of room for experimentation.
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Yes I used to work for Chanel cosmetics...
jfk
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Thanks. It definitely needed the Big Dark, but I still want to get that green-and-gold color scheme to cooperate with me.
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I wonder what those would be like to ride in...
I told you you'd be able to do it, and you always say you'll turn it to mud...D: Please...
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They would be unbelievably cool to ride in... And most of the local populace would probably consider it an extremely ill omen, too.
I'm steadily working on figuring out the "right" place to stop on watercolor paintings. If I overwork it, it goes to mud. But I managed to stop just in time, so it looks all right.
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Thanks. I'm fairly pleased with it.
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I so look forward to a day when I can lookup in the sky and see the floaty-skulls next to the ReMax balloons...
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Floating skulls pwns Re/Max. Maybe for the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade...?
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Floating skull EATS Re/Max more like 
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that is looking a LOT better than the earlier version! very awesome!!!
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Thanks! Yeah, the dark blues and violets on the mountains were just what this one needed. I'm still going to tackle one with the greens and golds, but after a bit. I can only handle so many happy little skulls at a time.
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now it's time for some unhappy skulls?
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Nah, skulls are forever happy. My skull is perpetually happy; it's my lips that have other ideas...
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so now you will be making sad lip art?
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LOL - NOOOOOO! Happy skulls! I like bones! Down with lips and fleshy bits, I say...
...This thread is getting *awfully* weird, you know.
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yesh it is. and i like fleshy bits AND skulls! yay fleshy bits!
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Wow... this is kinda... creepy. 
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That's the weird thing - it never even crosses my mind that this kind of thing is creepy. The dream was so pastoral that I've never looked at skulls the same since.
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Well, not like horror-movie-creepy, just... weird-creepy. You know what I'm saying? Like a scene from one of those dreams that is just plain weird... That must've been one weird dream, know what I'm sayin'? The weirdest dream I ever had would have to be when Harry Potter turned evil and was turning everyone into giant, man-eating arachnids.
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Lovely! This "final" vers. is awesome!!
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Thank you! I'm glad I finally made the watercolors obey my iron will.
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I bet anyone would need iron will when working with watercolours!
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*jaw drop* o my god i-i love thi-this peace of work *picks up jaw*
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Thanks very much! It took some serious reworking to get the contrasts to work properly, but I think I'm pleased with the final result.
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You know, this is going to end up sounding very off-kilter and strange, but this piece reminds me of this book that I believe was called 'Our Universe' - it was this very large picture book, I believe from the 70s or 80s, that illustrated all sorts of things about the planets in our galaxy, but in particular our solar system, and what 'alien life' might look like on other planets if it did exist...
And I don't remember which planet it was on, but this reminds me of one particular illustration they did of blimp-like creatures that just floated peacefully through the atmosphere. XD
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I know there have been more than one of those type of books. Wayne Barlowe did a couple of those back in the late seventies and early eighties - Barlowe's Guide to Extraterrestrials and Expedition. Expedition, in particular, had some creatures kind of like you described (and which have evidently lodged in my subconscious!). I'll have to see if I can hunt down any other resources - I love those kinds of alien ecology books.
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Heh, I'd be able to give you a better fix on what I read but it's at my pop's house, in a city more than six hundred miles away. XD However, seeing as how that's that...
It was still a really fascinating book overall. I rather like the illustrations.
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