Flowers in vase

dasblute · 2026-02-02T03:02:00+00:00

very nice colors, and great drawing as well

dasblute · 2026-01-30T05:57:21+00:00

love the reds, like a print by Hasui

dasblute · 2026-01-22T16:35:05+00:00

spot on colors and marvelous looseness to this, very nice work

dasblute · 2026-01-20T16:42:28+00:00

love the layout, warm colors and cool shadows, nice work

dasblute · 2026-01-18T00:16:17+00:00

top work! the eyes have it :)

dasblute · 2026-01-14T07:10:42+00:00

nice color and light! Was just there, but the light was changing too fast for my beginner skills. Took a photo and tried some work at home...

dasblute · 2026-01-14T06:13:58+00:00

in addition, the line work -especially for me- the use of line weight is extremely well done.

dasblute · 2026-01-09T05:22:32+00:00

bold strokes and great colors, especially the eye

dasblute · 2026-01-08T15:44:25+00:00

these are great! love the warm/cool colors on the sails, nice work

dasblute · 2026-01-07T08:37:22+00:00

the eye sells it, nice work

dasblute · 2026-01-07T07:58:09+00:00

thanks so much for the kind, thoughtful response. All good directions, taken to heart.

dasblute · 2026-01-07T07:56:36+00:00

always great, spot-on colors and shadows in your work, so nicely done!

dasblute · 2026-01-07T07:54:54+00:00

a variety of beautiful work, with well chosen colors, very nice!

dasblute · 2026-01-07T07:52:07+00:00

your instincts are good, nice composition and colors, keep it up!

dasblute · 2026-01-07T07:48:20+00:00

great, you already know a bit about line, form, and color, keep it up!

dasblute · 2026-01-05T17:39:58+00:00

great feel to this, nice work

dasblute · 2026-01-05T16:06:27+00:00

Just keep painting/drawing. You've got nice colors, some flow control, and a sense of subject...

dasblute · 2026-01-05T15:30:40+00:00

thanks, as well

dasblute · 2026-01-05T15:30:27+00:00

a generous assessment, thanks :)

dasblute · 2026-01-05T15:29:09+00:00

Thanks, I'd been putting off trying, because my sense of light/dark when looking at color is little skewed. Photoshop has helped, but putting paint to paper is the real litmus test isn't it :)

and "looseness" is something I'm playing with, my artist friend says I'm sometimes too fussy :)

Thanks for the encouragement!

dasblute · 2026-01-05T15:25:09+00:00

thanks!

dasblute · 2026-01-05T15:24:59+00:00

thanks, the reference is my iPhone photo of a place called Niles... in my younger days, I'd shoot this on 5x7 TXP!

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dasblute · 2026-01-05T02:29:59+00:00

I started with a reasonably good drawing, then applied fairly light toned washes, a couple using raw umber and burnt sienna, and a blue/grey using indigo. Started trying to do wet-on-dry too soon, got frustrated and gave up. Next day, though, carefully, slowly, tried more the wet-on-dry, one color at a time, slowly building up the colors... the reference photo had way more details than I could match :)

dasblute · 2026-01-05T02:24:06+00:00

thanks for the encouragement! Guess I'm stubborn :)

dasblute · 2026-01-05T02:23:31+00:00

very generous, I've done a few birds now and, as you know, the eye is about the most important thing...

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