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Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Finnished Tiger

Today I let my painting just sit as I did some house work- - - each time I walked by, I thought of ways to finnish it.   How to put in the whiskers, and how many?  How detailed did I want the background?   Which pastles wouid work?  I used my red plastic to look thru and judge the values, tricky as most of this cat in in the orange- - -red family of colors, but it did help.  I also have a blue one, so going back and forth seemed to help.     I do think the values are OK- - - but maybe will try other things next time I do a face up close.  This is where I stopped.

6 comments:

  1. He is gorgeous, Ida. I like how you have left the background (and the back of his body) a bit unfocused, it helps with all that "face" in the foreground. He really is a charmer!

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  2. Wow! This is beautiful Ida! Great job!!!! Yay! I'm so excited about this one. And to think it started as a green/grey support. Who would have thought the colors would turn out so rich and vibrant over it. Congratulations!

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  3. Thanks Sandy , for your very nice words! I go to your blog often just to see your cats and ocean paintings. Beautiful work.

    Carolyn, using different support is fun and interesting. Indoors in a small area, the suede really holds down the dust! I love your brush and snow painting on the pastel card, and it makes me want to use that now!! Its really nice.

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  4. What a wonderful pastel painting. He is absolutely beautiful and you painted him perfectly.!!!

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  5. Fantastic Ida. As though I could reach in and ruffle his ears and feel the softness of his fur!

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  6. Wow! More nice comments on my tiger1 Thanks so much, ladies. Glad you took a momment to coment, thats wonderful.

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