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Published: 2008-03-31 20:33:22 +0000 UTC; Views: 1722; Favourites: 38; Downloads: 0
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Well, this one took some time and effort. This is a commissioned watercolour, and at 9" by 12", it's really quite small - I tried to get the basics of the faces and clothing. Each one of the faces is less than a half-inch wide.
Anyway, this is for , who has been kind enough to keep me busy during the slow season. His father is in the front row on the left.
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Thanks very much! I was working from a pretty old photo - I believe it's Viet Nam, if I'm not mistaken.
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Well it's very good, seeing a photo like this brings back memories of old. And no I never went to war but I have family who did. That's why it's haunting to me. Anyway, I find the picture peaceful yet it's like a eye of a storm. A storm that could of been prevented.
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Woah. I really love the subject and composition. It looks fantastic.
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Thank you very much! I found myself packing a lot of work into rather a small space.
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Thank you very much! This one took a little extra effort, so I really appreciate the kind words.
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Again, I am stunned
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Wow! Thanks very much! This one took a little extra effort, that's for sure - I think the faces are more or less recognisable as the people in the reference photo. I just about wore out my #00000 brush on this.
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Great job with the detail on the faces. It's just enough to really give each face its own structure-- I like that I can make out a pinprick of dark color that implies an iris in the guy on the bottom left's eye area.
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Thank you very much! I felt like I needed to give that particular fellow a little extra detail, since he's the father of the fellow who ordered the painting. It was a pretty complicated painting because of the size, but I'm pretty happy with how it worked out.
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Thank you so much! It was tricky, but I tried to think of it almost as a mosaic rather than a group of people - I tried basically just to mkae sure I got the right colours in the right places.
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ery well done! i bet it was an extremly fiddley job with it being so small! xx
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Thanks! I definitely used lots of teeny-tiny brushes.
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It's so cool how you manage to see a face in a mere couple of splashes and lines
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Thanks very much! It's a pretty tricky way to paint, but I think I got these guys looking pretty close to the way they do in the reference photo; I tried not to think of them as "faces", but as patches of colour. When I put the patches in the right places, it seemed to work out okay.
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Thank you very much!
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I love this. You're so brave to do hundreds of portraits in one painting
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You think I cannot count?
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Very nice work! There's a lot of detail.. I'd imagine it would be hard to do!
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Thanks very much! Well, it wasn't so much difficult as time-consuming.
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Well, I guess impressionist could be an interesting take on it :'D
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Wow - that is amazing! The time and effort you put into it is evident, and it really paid off
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Thank you very much! ^_^ I think the faces were the hardest part - I wanted them to look like the guys in the reference photo, but the size meant that I couldn't get too carried away with detail...
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Now this is something quite different. It looks like nice little photograph, nice job on their faces!~
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Thanks very much! It's quite a challenge painting faces that small that look like the people they're supposed to.
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wow amazing! i love the colors and the shadows. and ive always been a sucker for army guys 
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Thanks very much! A long time ago D had me paint his dad in uniform, and it was a pretty big hit, so I hope he likes this one as well.
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hahaha oh god i hope he doesnt think im a weirdo 
im positive dan loves everything you do for him!
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yay!! wow i cant wait to talk to him again, its been so long
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Yeah, he's the greatest! I can understand not wanting to spend so much time on the computer since he uses a computer at work. I know you're really special to him.
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yeah i can unserstand that too, id be like that too if i had to work on the comp so much. aww thats good, cause hes really special to me too :]
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wow nice work on all of the people. Great detail!
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Thanks! This one took some time, but I think it turned out pretty well in the end; I kind of wish I'd saved the reference photo so I could show what I went by.
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Anytime. Not much you can do once you get rid of the referenmce. Not unless you can find it again... Very well.
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Wow, i thought in my dev. that it was a photo... my, you did fantastic with this one... and something different from you too
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Thank you very much! You're right - it's certainly not the kind of thing I normally paint. Complicated little painting...
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... i'm really impressed, love it, the different you... you're welcome
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