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Tsunami ACEO ATC

Posted on 22 March 2013 by metasilk

“Tsunami” is the fifth in a series of various weatherwomen. (“Snowstorm” is the first)

Painted with Winsor and Newton watercolors and iridescent medium on an Arches hotpress ACEO blank from Ellen Million Graphics.

Art copyright © 2013 Kirsten Talmage. Prints and cards through deviantArt and Storm Women Dancing. Small ones.

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Fireheart Dancing (ACEO ATC)

Posted on 15 March 2013 by metasilk

Watercolors (some are iridescent, but that doesn’t show in the scan) on Bristol paper. I am in love with the colors in the original, although I didn’t realize what I’d done with her hands until too late.

My son says this is upside-down. What do you think?

Learned something about my scanner, too: dark things like this scan quite nicely.

Prints through deviantArt at the moment; more likely. Small ones. Original going to a friend.

 

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Just One More (ACEO ATC)

Posted on 8 March 2013 by metasilk

Here’s the second one: the gray squirrel.

The story: My stepmom noted she didn’t have any of my art on her walls. I only had ACEO ATC-sized Bristol paper, graphite, and water colored pencils with me. But she had a recently-filled bird feeder.

This was a good combination.

I did three cards for her: Two Juncos, a Northern cardinal (not scanned), and this gray squirrel.

(I have learned, however, that I prefer both sketch paper and cold press water color paper.) (And Dad’s scanner is about as useful as mine.)

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Two Juncos ACEO ATC

Posted on 2 March 2013 by metasilk

My stepmom noted she didn’t have any of my art on her walls. I only had ACEO ATC-sized Bristol paper, graphite, and water colored pencils with me. But she had a recently-filled bird feeder.

This was a good combination.

I did three cards for her: this one, a Northern cardinal,and a gray squirrel.

(I have learned, however, that I prefer both sketch paper and cold press water color paper.) (And Dad’s scanner is about as useful as mine.)

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Desert Druid (ink sketch)

Posted on 1 February 2013 by metasilk

For Sketchfest #32: Prompt: desert druid from Peggy B

Pencil and ink sketch, 8.5 x 5.5″. Trying to figure out how/what to color it with. Playing around in Photoshop with that though it’s not my strong point. Might be better with different proportions but I’ve not yet ruthlessly cropped the tortoise.

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how do you know who did it?

Posted on 26 January 2013 by metasilk

Am in some process of conversing with CafePress about including the names of designers/artists when they feed listings to Amazon.
On the one hand, it’s cool to have more listings (example: the Dragon Reader / Ex Libris design) . On the other, I’d like my name attached to my art.
So.
Emails.
Will post here when I have a chance; have the first two up in facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WhimsicalDreamsArt/notes
A couple more replies have occurred of the “we’ll look into it” sort, but in very nice ways.

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Knighting the Wood Duck (draft sketch)

Posted on 25 January 2013 by metasilk

For Sketchfest #32: Prompt: Swamp “mer”maid from Anke Wehner

Crayola watercolor on smooth Canson sketchpaper. I know, I know! Thus the sketch! part. :) … oh, and then photographed under bad fluorescent lighting and minimally adjusted in Photoshop. Could that be any worse?? Muses, I tell ya.

I hope I can find time to do this on some real water color paper with somewhat better paints. It’s about 6 x 6.5 inches I think. References are Vermont swamps and typical inhabitants. More or less.

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Voina

Posted on 18 January 2013 by metasilk

“Воина на березах” might be the Russian for “warrior (fem.) for the birches”. Hm…

I liked this prompt, and I liked not doing a cheesecake sort of pose.

Soft pencil, sketchbook, some tinting in color pencil, a fair bit of scanner burn, sorta corrected (mostly by more cropping that I’d've liked). I can see this in my head in watercolor. Not sure I have time and patience both to get there. Lots of unfinished art thumping around my head at the moment. I think she needs embroidery.

The prompt was Anthropomorphic female Tiger warrior, prompted by: Edward Cammarota, during Sketch Fest #32 (January, 2013)

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Winter Wizard

Posted on 8 December 2012 by metasilk

Watercolor and ink on light watercolor paper.

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Not the Grinch (WIP)

Posted on 25 November 2012 by metasilk

Ink and watercolor pencil on cheap watercolor paper. I digitally darkened him down a bit. Questions:

* Should I apply water to the colored pencil? It tends to smooth and saturate the coors (good) but I have a heck of a lot of blending of colors (and two brands of watercolor pencil, Staedler & Faber-Castell).

* What background? Cut him out and make a collage on some abstract-but-with-perspective print pattern? Figure out how to put in a snowy village? Help!

* Should there be a trail of presents? Where and how to lay those out?

Done more or less for Sketchfest and might become one of our holiday cards.

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