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« on: September 30, 2009, 10:26:40 PM » |
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Here it is - midnight. And I'm alone in my office playing with balloons.
Any of you 'with' me?
BTW, I finally got good at the 260-heart! Yay
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« Reply #1 on: October 02, 2009, 10:03:32 PM » |
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Hello Mr Moon. Here it is - only 11 pm this time. And I'm playing around with these supplies again.
I get glued to the studio. Just me. Tired. But I don't leave.
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« Reply #2 on: October 03, 2009, 05:35:11 AM » |
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The moon was bright last night. I got in around 12:30 last night and was amazed at how bright and easy it was to see and get my key in the door.
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« Reply #3 on: October 11, 2009, 10:46:12 PM » |
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Thank you Sherry - I can imagine the beautiful experience you describe.
There have a been a few times when I've been overcome by the magnificence of natural lighting too.
One was just a couple of weeks ago. Driving thru Manhattan after a gig. Could barely take the moment to look at it - but the sun was glowing
really glowing off a few streets.
And the other was, oh my, it was over 10-years ago. When I was into Painting En-Plain-Aire. Oil Paints. I was in a little park just before a thunderstorm. The sky became a luminous gray. The trees were highlighted so brightly - high contrast to the part that wasn't highlighted. The air was
still
Made me think of the old paintings - perhaps because I was painting water - but it made me think of the old paintings of a ship tossed at sea. Turner, perhaps?
It's loving light and loving colors that.....
Hey! I am typing here at this Forum on a low-intensity sky-blue background,
surrounded by no-man's land of marshmallow-white
which is then surrounded by a super-high-intensity opaque SKY BLUE WOW
BEAUTY.
Do we all see the some Colors when we come to this Forum?
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« Reply #4 on: October 11, 2009, 10:51:13 PM » |
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And now that the previous message is posted, I see the same colors being used. But the words are on a white background and there's much less of the low-intensity high-value blue. It's okay, but I'd rather be here - where I'm typing right on the light blue.
Being aware of this now
makes it a treat to post here.
Go ahead everybody - enjoy.
I'm interested in your experiences.
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« Reply #5 on: October 12, 2009, 07:04:41 AM » |
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Speaking of your marshmallow white makes me think of the beautiful clouds I was admiring yesterday. I kept thinking I wanted to make a cloud face. I think I would love that, but would anyone else? It makes me think of the tie dye face I offer. I love that face, but get few requests for it.
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« Reply #6 on: October 13, 2009, 10:58:20 PM » |
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I'm not as facile with uploading my pictures here - It's a big job for me each time I do it - even just finding the picture I'm thinking of....
But maybe you can imagine this: One of the faces I used to make a lot is a white mask of cloudlike scallops.
Filled with pink hearts and little blue stars. At first I was real excited with it - so glad when people asked for it from my sample-sheet. But then I didn't take it out so often - because I lost the softness of the 'cloud' - it started looking too solid - not as lovely as planned. So I'd fuss around with it, which isn't a good idea. Just wasting time before I just gave up, stuck on the hearts and stars, and luckily didn't have much time to spend accepting the humility of knowing that I still needed to learn stuff.
So I put it aside, haven't gotten back to it yet. If you have any ideas about making that cloud look lovely, I hope you'll tell us.
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« Reply #7 on: October 14, 2009, 06:28:43 PM » |
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I haven't tried it yet. Too much busyness in my life right now and I have another fair starting tomorrow. Maybe when the slow season rolls around I'll have more time to try new things. I would want it to be realistic. I saw some Thomas KinKaid (sp?) paintings the other day and I wanted the clouds to look like his... so realistic to me... and beautiful.
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« Reply #8 on: October 17, 2009, 04:44:26 PM » |
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Wow - I can't imagine that for Face-Painting. Especially for painting a cloud without a full scene...
I hope you'll post that when you figure it out.
As far as the artist you mention, I think his name is spelled Kinkade.
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« Reply #9 on: October 17, 2009, 09:50:52 PM » |
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No, I didn't want to just paint one big cloud.. LOL  I wanted to paint something of a cloud scene. Blue sky with clouds type thing.  |
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« Reply #10 on: October 20, 2009, 08:48:37 AM » |
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Like I said - I'd sure like to see that. Meanwhile, I finally found a picture of my cloud. Thought you might like to see it:  Alison in NY |
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« Reply #11 on: October 20, 2009, 08:49:53 AM » |
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BTW, I finally tried to get to sleep by midnight.
I feel almost as fresh as my cloud girl this morning!
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« Reply #12 on: October 20, 2009, 08:03:58 PM » |
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Pretty one Alison, thanks for sharing it. Do you usually have a board for people to choose from? Just curious. |
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« Reply #13 on: October 20, 2009, 08:24:42 PM » |
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Oh Yes - I usually put out a board with my Samples.
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« Reply #14 on: October 23, 2009, 10:56:29 PM » |
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Here I am again. Midl of the night, surfing the web - even though my first gig tomorrow starts at 7 am, and my 2nd gig tomorrow ends at 11 pm. Yeow.
But my client sent me some ridiculous clip-art that she wants me to paint on everyone's face. I had to think up some ways that that the stuff might look right.
I'm still stuck on her sillouette of a witch on a broom. How to paint that ON A FACE? Maybe, maybe, make it real small on the forehead with swooshes of color on an angle? Oh, I don't know. It might be too detailed to make so small.......
So I'm not sleeping yet. And how about that ghost that she wants? Could I smash it onto the center of the face? Lol - maybe things will seem simpler when I get there.
Here I am again. Anybody with me?
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