{"id":140,"date":"2012-09-28T09:52:36","date_gmt":"2012-09-28T13:52:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metasilk.com\/wpages\/?p=140"},"modified":"2012-10-13T20:08:22","modified_gmt":"2012-10-14T00:08:22","slug":"moon-dragon-watercolor-ink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metasilk.com\/wd\/moon-dragon-watercolor-ink\/","title":{"rendered":"Moon Dragon (watercolor & ink)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Moon Dragon<\/a><\/div>\n

One of a pair. (The other doesn’t scan well so it’s not up yet). Drawn in 2007 or 2008, I forget, inked in 2008 — don’t remember when I started painting it. Did only the trees on both and then they sat for a long, long, long time…. finally a fit of persistence happened (yay!) and I finished them.<\/p>\n

This long delay was bad for the paper where the painters tape held it flat on the board. So the edges of the paper are roughed up.<\/p>\n

The scanner was so happy with the blues that it forgot to do the greens or something. The small image is the actual painting; I cleaned up the white boarder and some overruns for a printable version.<\/p>\n

The painted area is about 3″ across and 7″ tall (very roughly; ask me later and I might measure it). The paper I think is 6″ x 9″ or something.<\/p>\n

ADVICE WANTED: Please critique! (Every work is mulch for the next ones \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

My own questions are: What color(s) should the dragon have been to stand out best? Is the faint glow where I tried lifting some of the blue helpful?<\/p>\n

Should I have softened the stars differently or more?<\/p>\n

How about the shadows? More? Where aren’t they right?<\/p>\n

THANKS.<\/p>\n

I will sell them both but I have to get the other up and figure things out too. Lots I’d like to sell… anyway, that’s time consuming too (Prints up at deviantArt<\/a> though because they make it very simple). Back to chores and kid care now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Moon Dragon One of a pair. (The other doesn’t scan well so it’s not up yet). Drawn in 2007 or 2008, I forget, inked in 2008 — don’t remember when I started painting it. Did only the trees on both and then they sat for a long, long, long time….… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8,11],"tags":[51,20,44,48,45,47,49,46,50,43],"class_list":["post-140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-kids","tag-crescent","tag-critters","tag-dragon","tag-forest","tag-moon","tag-night","tag-pine","tag-sleep","tag-spruce","tag-watercolor"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phmexg-2g","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1566,"url":"https:\/\/www.metasilk.com\/wd\/inktober-1-beastie-branch-crescent-moon\/","url_meta":{"origin":140,"position":0},"title":"Inktober 1: beastie, branch, crescent moon","author":"Kir","date":"2 October 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"I kind of skipped #inktober last year. 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