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Credits to my sweet Natalia forI used
Derwent watercolor pencils dry
Albrecht Durer faber castell watercolor pencils dry
Edding 140S Marker 0.3mm black for all the tiny lines of the feather
Edding 780 0.8 mm white for the highlights
all
so very much for viewing and commenting!
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Totally know what you mean, none of my art turns out exactly how I want it too, but I'm just glad people seem to like it.
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It takes time to happen 
Dont count too much on ppl's opinion about your art.What's more important is how you feel about it.there's no one better qualified than yourself to tell if you need to improve or not and if so in which ways.You will be the best judge of yourself,and the most cruel one i am afraid..
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Thats all very true, you are very wise.
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Being old is all in one's mind
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says the one who is hardly 20!
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I;m turing 17 on monday and my brother's only 12 it does make me feel kind of old
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to be true?
I am teasing sweetie,thank you very much for the kind words!!
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That is very good !
Great detail and shading !
Good work with the colours.
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Your use of colors is a thing of beauty...Bravo, everything looks great!
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I did change the colors a lot this time Erin, but at least one can recognize her still!
thank you dear for the kind words!
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You're very welcome! Keep up the amazing work!
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Chris! I'm so happy!
Thank you, my Dear!
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Thank YOU sweetheart,for your permission and your friendship!
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Chris! I'm so happy! :lovelyheartsplz:
Thank you, my Dear! :aawplz:
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I always forget to add 'icon'
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I always forget to add "icon" too,that's why i always use 'preview' before i add the comment!
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Well I suppose the first thing I would say is that I was quite right about my thoughts of this photo and your talents. Christina this is amazing, beautiful, and maybe not perfect in your eyes, but perfect in mine. Your lines and care have done her great justice, and in my opinion this sets you apart from most portrait artists in that you can take and image and craft it beautifully in your style and really make that image yours. I am so glad you did this piece and I want you to know I think you did just a great job with it.
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This was your doing!!
Because you make me itching!
Little devil... 
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Well my suggestion, and your doing is more like it, but the teamwork showed well in this case.
Imagine that a little imp calling me a little devil.
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Hah! It takes one to know another sweetie!
massive fun huh?
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It does and your right on both accounts.
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awesome work perhaps just a touch to much in the lips a softer high light would have looked more natural. your pallet is superb great realism
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Thank you very much Paul for the thoughtful comment!
I see your point concerning her lips,i totally understand it.
But what my brains sets as a priority,my body completely ignores apparently,and my hands do their thing one way or another.
A time will come where my head will rule over my artistic (exaggerating) addictions,but i am still waiting for this day to come my friend...
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o i totally understand u. I was just talking BOUT THIS with a student of mine yesterday i was explaining how i often have a plan but some times i go off and do other things until i can rap my mind around the fact that i'm not fallowing it. LOL then of course i have to go back and fix what i knew was wrong in the first place but for some reason i could not stop my self. i think its the joy of painting it over takes us and we just let go this can at times be a good thing but more often then not its not productive.
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i get it.
Its a funny thing to set a schedule for one of your pieces and you see it turning to something you didnt expect,but isnt it wonderful at the same time?Lose yourself in it?
i have no idea if i ever manage to make strict rules for my art,but even if i dont i wouldnt care less.Its the one thing that makes me happy beyond words,it makes me whole you know?
enough rules we have in life already,we dont need more...
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yes i agree i try to stick to the plan bu i also listen to the work if it tells me something new then i do that they have a voice the secret is to learn to listen
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i am familiar with the voices my friend,always listening to them loud and clear,often i believe i belong to the madhouse lol.
I think what you are doing,you are doing it in a magnificent way,you are very disciplined and it shows in your work!
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thank you i am definitely a bit mad LOL i teach art to painters on line i have a discussion forum. my primary goal is not to teach people how to paint like i do but to give them the tools to go off and be the kind of artist they can be. my primary tool is to teach them how to be disciplined if they can learn that then it can apply to almost every aspect of there lives not just art. my second goal and this is vary hard to teach is the skill of observation if you can see it perceive it then threw practice you will eventually be able to paint it at least that's the ideal. i have been blessed to have been born with a natural ability to dissect seen's and to be able to brake things down in to their component parts i always thought this was something every one could do it was not until i started teaching that i found this to be a difficult skill for some. its my single biggest frustration. how do you get people to understand that much of art is about looking at things from various focuses like from the over all macro down to the micro and to learn to switch back and forth from one aspect back not spending to much time in any one place to avoid looking perspective. unless you have this ability naturally its hard to learn not impossible but i think its is something that is wired in to our brains. hope you don't mind that change of subject but i love to talk about process stuff. much of what i do teaching is about process that is part of that inner voice learning to listen to it and to Incorporated our instincts in to what drives us is the key to personal expression threw art. i think you are highly disciplined too people who do realism have to have this or it all falls apart. i was looking at your portfolio i can see how you have improved over time vary cool to see it shows that you are focused and working towards a goal.
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What you are trying to achieve is almost impossible...
Up to a point,to try and teach discipline to future painters is doable.Even teaching them the art of observation (which personally i believe its much harder to learn than discipline) mostly because it requires an holistic view of...things.
I trust you though.I think you have the patience and the ability to pass the necessary messages to your students.That is an admirable thing by itself.I doubt theres a gray zone with them and you,they either love you or hate you!
Please by all means you can change the topic anytime.I did enjoyed this conversation beyond words and if theres one single thing i have learn to appreciate in my life thats intelligence.Somehow you dont seem ignorant,callow or skilless at all!
As for the discipline you believe you see in me its worthless without the necessary patience. This is MY single biggest frustration .I cant wait Paul..I want it all and i want it now.
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patients Grasshopper is a hallmark of maturity! i don't know how old you are but it will come you may never be a zen master but you can and will improve over time just be kind to your self. Patients shows in ones work so if you commit to being the best then you have to commit to being patient. the most important thing is that you live each day hour and moment to the fullest and keep your focus on the goal while maintaining your life you only get one chance to live it. it goes by fast spend it well
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hehe thank you for making me feel like 6 y old unleashed in the candy store!!
I am under Peter Pan Syndrome anyway i will grow up when i decide to.Now obviously that was a joke,i dont know you at all so i dunno either if you have a solid sense of humor!
I do know how to wait when i must (but only when i MUST i am afraid) i am aware this life is too short,reminds me of the samples the beauty stores give away,always too little to leave us satisfied enough or able to have a opinion about the product.
To live each day and hour with passion is what i do anyway,i am like the candles that burn with a very bright light and disappear very fast.
But since i am still walking on earth,there are plenty of interesting things that can work as a challenge and make my days seem more like fun than duty 
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sorry i have this vary strong motherly instinct to be a sage LOL you may call me Zen Master LOL just kidding. i think i have a good sens of hummer its kind of nerdy and a bit on the dry or intellectual side i will point out my jokes so you will know when im playing which is often though i tend to be a bit on the serious side. i love intellectual conversations i think i would have been vary happy in the company of Gogan Monet and the parisian gang of the 19th century painting all day and drinking coffee and Absinthe all night talking about the great political and social issues of the day im a rebel with out a cause LOL not really i have more causes then you can shake a stick at politix animal rights clean food justest you name it if its liberal and the right thing to believe om on it LOL i told you i was academic i think i was born 75 years to late or maybe its a hang over from a previous life in the cabarets of Europe i love Gothic novels and syfy too i also write gay romantic fiction with a touch of porn thrown in (Its a gay thing) LOL im in the middle of one called Harlan's Journey its about a 24 year old man that comes back from the second world war in 1948 his parents are dead in a car wreck. he meets the love of his life a sort of nire do well A list actor that party's to much and has no direction Harlan and Jack become lovers are stocked by a famous gossip columnist that destroyed jacks life but harland and Jacks Trusty man servant save the day in the end it relies heavily on the old detective styles of the 1930s mystery novel. ok back to painting that's my 30 mint brake
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You have a deal,i ll call you Zen master then!
Yeah i can tell you were born in the wrong century,absinthe is highly toxic dear what would you do with that?No art for you then.
I would love to read your novel,i am a speed reader myself,up to 23000 books till now and i am still counting..
What? only 30 min brake? No lunch for you?cmooon!
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i had a big Breastfed i went out with my X and his BF. he (X Wesley) was leaving for Reno today they are geographically braking up if that makes sens and my X and i are still financially entangled after 20 years its hard to let go hes my best friend hes BF is not that crazy about me being around but that is not my problem. sure on the book when i finish it but don't hold your breath i'm only on page 370 and i have a lot of edits to do i write stream of conciseness style then i have to go back and make it work then add the stylistic stuff that makes it read true to place and time. though i think i did a pretty good job on that. ok back to painting i have to take brakes or my back gets sore this painting is siting kind of low on my easel. i get up and down a thousand times i like to look at it from about 10ft away so i can keep my perspective. im working on the central focal today its making me weep with joy! all take a picture in a few mints and upload it you can take a look if you want.
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thank you so much Ashley,i know,i changed the colors a lot but i couldn't resist!
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