frustratedearthmother
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Beautiful work!
Art anyone?
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sonorabitandspur
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Thanks, I used to draw all the time, so what you see is the culmination of years of experience. For years I drew for advertisement, mostly cuts of meat. For years I struggled and the single most helpful thing was the use of high quality drawing pencils on good quality paper. Don't spare the graphite! Lol! I love to see others work! I see there are several artist here with great talent! I especially liked the drawing of the border collie and the three sheep. That had a wonderful artistic and at the same time realistic arrangement. It is obvious she knew what she drew!
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WOW. The shading is excellent. I love how it gives the perfect impression of light coming from a certain angle.
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samssimonsays
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@sonorabitandspur Your pieces are amazing! My goal is to reach that point one day! Each day I work at it I can see progress towards it.
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As for the Border collie and three sheep I think I did two different ones. One of their backsides and the border collie following them, the other was it actually herding and the sheep standing facing it.
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As for the Border collie and three sheep I think I did two different ones. One of their backsides and the border collie following them, the other was it actually herding and the sheep standing facing it.
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samssimonsays
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I found several of my paintings from 2012-2013. I had never painted before and decided to give it a try.
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samssimonsays
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Those are so cute - but I especially love the bears!
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samssimonsays
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Thank you! I don't actually have a photo of it, but it was framed with birch frames and auctioned off for our county wild life rehab center that I volunteered at. The two rabbit ones were donated to my local rabbit club and raffled.
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Those are really great, especially considering that you had never painted before!!!
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Those paintings are an excellent start! I used to work in watercolors. Iwas never satisfied with my oil painting. One of the things that helped me with shading was practising in pen and ink. I never felt I did them well but I have to work in very dark color in conjunction with light paper. I began to see where I needed heavier applications of the dark soft graphite. I use a full spectrum of pencils from 4h to 8b.(II use alot of 6b and 8b pencils.) The brand is Mars Lumograph. Good quality pencils are quite an advantage. Beyond that paper stumps for blending along with pink and gum erasers to also wipe in highlights. Pencil or more properly Graphite is my favorite medium.
