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[liralen]

Purple Peony
Originally uploaded by Liralen Li.

My very first try at color... a purple peony attempt that is very poor. I really didn't work the blue in enough, and the stem and leaves are a complete mess, and I didn't pay much attention to the leaves. I also did the cardinal sin of re-painting some of the petals.

It's a first try. I'll get better. There's two other ink paintings now up on flickr, as a few folks asked to see things in comments. Click on the picture and it should take you to the other picture of pictures. *laughter*

I'm just starting!! So I'm not very good, yet, but I have to learn and people seemed interested in my poor beginning paintings, so I thought I'd go ahead and put up photos of 'em.

Comments

[marith.livejournal.com]

Oh, I really like those! The lobster thing is probably the best technically, but I really like the peony - it may not be an accurate representation, but as an abstract floral form it's really cool (especially from a little distance, as it appears in the smaller version of the picture). I could see that looking really nice painted on a shirt or skirt or bag.

[rephetibel.livejournal.com]

They are ALL nice but I especially like the crawdad.

[archangelbeth]

Oh, cool! The flower is pretty colors, and the shrimp is adorable, and the stalk of the bamboo is really, really nice. (And actually, the leaves of it grow on me.)

(Someone posted on the bamboo, too. Cool!)

[incandescens]

That's beautiful.