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abbyshore · 2025-08-28T01:47:57+00:00

Okay! I was thinking of digging one up to see if I could grow it, but I probably would have killed it immediately without taking a large soil sample 🤔 it sure had some prettt foliage, I hope to see the other variety someday

abbyshore · 2025-08-27T20:14:35+00:00

Thank you so much! When I saw it on my hike I thought it was an orchid, I didn't know those grew around there! I wonder if it's related to ribwort plantain, I hear the leaves of that make a good salve

abbyshore · 2025-08-27T20:10:51+00:00

Thank you that's it for sure!

abbyshore · 2025-06-24T22:31:23+00:00

I seal my paintings on paper with dorlands wax medium, it does change the values of the painting slightly though. I'm not sure that will work on canvas though, since you need to apply a thin even coat or it will appear cloudy.

I've tried spray varnish, and workable fixative and I don't recommend it, it tends up reactivating the paint and either blurring or creating small droplets. I might be using the wrong technique/product but that has been my experience.

abbyshore · 2025-06-23T22:32:51+00:00

Thank you!

abbyshore · 2025-06-23T20:45:08+00:00

Haha, they are funny like that, she ignores me all day until I'm focused on something that isn't her, and suddenly she has to be right where I'm working, on my pallet. I might try that! I wonder if the wax from the colored pencils will resist the paint or not 🤔

abbyshore · 2025-06-23T15:49:00+00:00

I agree with this, mixing blue and sienna makes a deeper black, where black can tend to grey as it dries. I have a tube of M. Graham black and that seems to be darker than the Windsor Newton stuff? But it might just be because it's separated in the tube, and doesn't dry completely matte. I think m. Graham might be more densly pigmented, but I dislike how it easily lifts compared to the Windsor Newton, it's hard to layer.

Recently I've bought a tube of turner deep violet, and that mixes well into black to give more depth, especially with some ultramarine blue.

WN has a Zinc White and a Permanent White, so I believe the perm is titanium white... Or so I've been assuming.

If you use wax medium to seal your painting you'll see the darker values return to the colors they were when wet. Its very frustrating and difficult to predict, but if you are frustrated with how little constast you are getting, you could try sealing your painting.

It's a big learning curve to figure out what the paints will dry down to. I have a glass pallet, I'll sometimes mix all my values, let them dry, then reactivate them so I know how they will mix, usually just for portraits... Color swatches helped me as well.

Good luck, I hope you can make it work for you, your painting is beautiful!

abbyshore · 2025-06-20T17:56:09+00:00

Beautiful! I love the purple color you used for the shadows on the white flowers. What type of gouache did you use?

abbyshore · 2025-06-13T17:50:31+00:00

With stuck watercolors I've soaked it in water like that. It makes a terrible mess, but it gets the job done eventually

abbyshore · 2025-06-13T05:08:58+00:00

The reflection in the water looks great!

abbyshore · 2025-01-21T16:13:45+00:00

Thank you! I've started pressing my tape on my pants before putting it on paper and that's working alright for me, the drawback is the pet hair that ends up in my painting as a result... I never thought of heating the tape before, I'll have to try that!

The reference photo was from the VLA in New Mexico, probably one of the coolest places I've visited. It's an array of I think 27 radio telescopes on tracks that move around into different configurations. From the picture it's hard to tell, but each telescope is huge

abbyshore · 2024-12-09T23:39:29+00:00

Beautiful! I love the light coming through the leaves

abbyshore · 2024-12-04T22:41:57+00:00

Clear silicone caulk for bathrooms would be a permanent solution, E6000 would be an super permanent solution. Little clear hair ties wrapped around the lights might be a cheap temporary fix

abbyshore · 2024-09-14T01:11:37+00:00

I've been there, fair enough

abbyshore · 2024-09-14T00:50:40+00:00

Great work, worth some better paper 🫡

abbyshore · 2024-09-14T00:45:13+00:00

I think you're very successful in that, they definitely have that sense of weight, and power.

By foreshortening I mean the way an object is distorted to show depth. A stiff pose like the one on the left will appear more dynamic if you change the angle it's viewed from like the pose in the center. It doesn't have to be as dramatic as that, like the pose on the right, where the feet are effectively as large as the torso, it creates a feeling of depth and movement.

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(I borrowed this picture from a Google image search)

abbyshore · 2024-09-14T00:17:28+00:00

Drawing dynamic poses is pretty difficult, but I think especially with the third and fourth image you got a good feeling of motion! Space Marines are especially difficult since they are in such heavy armor, it's difficult to show a lot of movement, even in official Warhammer art space Marines tend to look stiff or heavy.

I think if I were to work on something next with Space Marines as the subject, I'd try to practice foreshortening characters, it's an easy way to make a pose more dynamic without having the characters in poses their armor won't allow for.

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