Doom and Color DOOM!

[liralen]

One of the coolest things about living out on the high plains is that one can see the weather coming for miles.

One of the scariest things about living out on the high plains it that one can really see the weather just coming for miles. Especially when the thunderstorm clouds fill the sky all the way from the mountains to the border of Kansas and I'm just on my way out to ride my bike to the grocery store. And the wind was blowing. There are reasons there's a guy by the road selling bricks attached to link chain labeled "Boulder Wind Chimes" around here.

Sadly, I managed to get home before the rains hit. It would have been cooler to ride in the rain, though I probably would not have cared for the thunder and lightning.

I painted yesterday and met the doom that is color. I hate color. I suck at color. I still have to try it, though. Silly me.



First I did a little black and white to get my courage up...


And I'd studied a few of the more classical cherry blossom paintings that I really liked. Most painting lesson books don't have what I really wanted to paint, but I found a beautiful book on classical paintings and poetry and was inspired enough to do this:


I got brave enough to try this after a comment by marith


And then I really had to laugh at myself for doing this. Yes, really CHUNKY sparrows. *laughs and laughs* There was just too much water on the brush, but I liked how the cherry blossoms turned out with color instead of lines, they're much, much easier.

Comments

[incandescens]

Those are lovely. The cherry blossoms in particular in the last one are gorgeous, and the birds really aren't bad!

[liralen.livejournal.com]

*giggles way too much*

But but...

yeah, they do look like birds.. just... really fat ones. *laughs* But maybe cute for that.

Thank you!!

[tamago.livejournal.com]

Superdeformed Chibi Birds! Supah-cute!

[liralen.livejournal.com]

*just falls over giggling*

THEY ARE!!

[ogier30.livejournal.com]

Those are beautiful!

[liralen.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[stark-black.livejournal.com]

I really like the black and white cherry blossoms, but the color ones are great too. The birds are cute I think.

Really beautiful. x)

[liralen.livejournal.com]

XDD Thank you!! I'm glad you like the b&w cherry blossoms.

*giggles about the birds*

[jilara.livejournal.com]

But the birds are FUN! I like the silly cartoony aspect of them. See, you can say "But I meant to do that."

[liralen.livejournal.com]

*laughs*

As Tamago said, above, Super-deformed Chibi sparrows!

[bloodthirstylt.livejournal.com]

I think they are all beautiful. I like the chunky sparrows.

[liralen.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I'm glad you like 'em. *giggles* I so can't judge my own work.

[bloodthirstylt.livejournal.com]

I can't judge my own work....I think almost everything I do sucks. *huggles* we're our own worst critics.

[liralen.livejournal.com]

Sometimes true. *grin* Enough to be annoying, sometimes, for me.

[outintexas.livejournal.com]

Speaking of weather, Dolly made for some interesting skies on Wednesday here. The cloud line for the outer bands of the storm cut right through Austin, so if you looked north west, you saw sunny blue sky, and if you looked south east, you saw angry dark clouds that just gave you this incredible impression of turbulence, even though there was little real motion.

We only got a little bit of rain Wednesday and Thursday, but we needed it. I'm just glad the storm didn't come much closer than it did. There were tornados and lots of sever weather just a tiny bit south of here, between Austin and San Antonio.

BTW, the paintings are lovely, ESPECIALLY the chunky sparrows and cherry blossoms.

[liralen.livejournal.com]

Whew... I'm glad that you didn't get hit by the worst of it, and that you did get some rain. Wow... that's impressive.

*giggles* Everyone loves the chunky sparrows! *laughs* It's so cool.

[marith.livejournal.com]

Oh, I like all of those! The topmost one (chrysanthemum?) probably has the nicest form of them all, but the color really adds so much charm. I can see why you can't resist it. :)

The colored flowers are beautiful. And the sparrows may be plump but they look really alive - the two colors you chose are just right! (are those traditional sparrow colors? dunno about birds.)

[liralen.livejournal.com]

*blushes* I'm so glad tha tyou liked them all! Yeah, the chrysanthemum is pretty traditional on the most part. But, yeah, the color really adds a lot if I can actually get them to behave on a brush. The purple orchids actually had three colors on the brush for the flowers, a purple, a deep blue, and just a tip of black. And the leaves were varying levels of light green, dark green, and black ink. Mixing them all on the brush means I have to recreate all the levels of colors pretty well to get more of whatever effect...

So, yeah... it adds a lot of charm and is out-of-control in a way that I can't resist. *laughs*

The sparrows had orange and brown for the bodies, black for the wings and eyes and beaks, and white and diluted black ink for the bellys and bodies. They're pretty much brown dabbed with black and white belly birds. Next time you eat outside a sparrow will probably show up. *grins*

[r0ck3tsci3ntist.livejournal.com]

Here I clicked on this expecting true suck and I got pretty good. -_~

I love the colors and your sparrow anatomy may be a little askew, but really, fat sparrows are awfully cute and the French like them better that way anyway (good eating).

[liralen.livejournal.com]

*giggles* You're so kind to me. *grin*

I'm glad you like the colors... I'll have to try some more. And, yeah... askew. That is a marvelous word! *grin*

Mmm.. plump.

A birder told me, this evening, that sparrows, in early spring look really, really fat because they have all their feathers fluffed out to keep warm. So spring sparrows are *supposed* to be fat and they get more sleek in the summer. I laughed so hard.

[rasetsunyo.livejournal.com]

The flowers are beautiful, and the sparrows really are very cute. :D

[liralen.livejournal.com]

XDD Hee. I think I'll just have to concede that, indeed, the sparrows are very cute.

They do make me giggle.

I'm glad you like the flowers!

[buildingafuture.livejournal.com]

Oh wow Swan those are breath-taking!!

[liralen.livejournal.com]

*snugs you* I promised you cherry blossoms, is there a particular painting you want?

I'm very glad you like 'em.

[liralen.livejournal.com]

And you can have more than one, if you like. Hit the *painting* tag and I think there was a whole slew of cherry blossoms in the previous painting post, too. Pick as you like, sweet, you deserve something you like.

[buildingafuture.livejournal.com]

Really??!?!? *grins looking excited* Can I have to color cherry blossoms here? and there was one in other post I fell in love with....*feels greedy*...I will comment on that post to let you know...

Thank you! *hugs close*

[liralen.livejournal.com]

*laughs and laughs* You *want* the fat chicks? Sure.

I'll need your address to send them to you. I'll email you to get it.

[akuni.livejournal.com]

Those are beautiful! I can't speak about the technical things you aren't satisfied with, but just looking at it, it's still pretty enough that I would have it on my wall, proudly.

[liralen.livejournal.com]

*blushes* That's what counts, really.

So, thank you, very much!! They're calming to do, and it's even more fun when other people like 'em, too. I'm still learning, so it's fun to put up even my mistakes so I can see what I've learned from 'em.