Yay! The Plate got there!
Managed to get this into the mail before I left, and it arrived to a pleased recipient, so now I can show off picture!
So this is something
annieroo2 commissioned, and the result of all the studies I'd done earlier. I love the leaves. *laughs* And the birds turned out pretty good, and the boys liked the red one better, and I liked the brown one better. Typical. I think it worked...
I'm finding that the plates and ceramics take a different kind of touch and thought about how the glazing colors really work with the brush. Mixing on the brush doesn't do exactly the same thing as on the paper, I have more control over where everything goes, but less of the spontaneity I get with paper, water, and paint. Which is mildly less frustrating in the sense that it goes where I want it, but mildly MORE frustrating in that I don't actually get to see the real colors until after it's all fired and I can't, for the life of me, change anything. *laughs*
I guess I have this thing for out-of-control art mediums...
So this is something
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I'm finding that the plates and ceramics take a different kind of touch and thought about how the glazing colors really work with the brush. Mixing on the brush doesn't do exactly the same thing as on the paper, I have more control over where everything goes, but less of the spontaneity I get with paper, water, and paint. Which is mildly less frustrating in the sense that it goes where I want it, but mildly MORE frustrating in that I don't actually get to see the real colors until after it's all fired and I can't, for the life of me, change anything. *laughs*
I guess I have this thing for out-of-control art mediums...
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And I think I like both birds just as much. They're both so cute! ^^
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I'm glad that you liked! That's helpful.
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You know, seeing you do stuff like this makes me want to see how you'd do with BJD face-ups. You have a light, delicate touch and I could see you doing some nice natural face-ups or ones that look very ethereal. But I'm a little dolly obsessed and EVERYTHING eventually makes its way to being doll related *blushes*.
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Ooo... *studies the nomenclature of what you just said in that second paragraph* I'll have to look into what that takes. *laughs* I'm not doll obsessed, yet!
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From what I understand, most use pastels when doing the face-ups followed by a coating of Mr. Super Clear to protect the face-up from smudging/smearing. Some people use airbrushes as well. I think you can use other mediums like acrylic, too, but I'm not 100% on that.
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I'm so bad with faces, though I guess I could work on that. *thoughtfuls*
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I'm in love with those flowers.
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Thank you!
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You should have seem my mom's eyes perk up, cause she already knew from earlier that it was fragile. I'm sure she doesn't know what it is because no one has bought her a plate in probably 20 years, but she redid her living room a few years back and never got any new plates to match the new decor and this one is going to be PERFECT!!!
Thank you so much for all the work you put into this. I'll be sure to come back the end of July and let you know what she thought of it when she opened it.
Thanks for everything!!! *hugs*
Maybe next year I'll get her a painting to match. ;)
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YAY! I love having the story of how it arrived!! Thank you so much! And, yes, I'd love to know.
You're very welcome, and it'll be fun to see if I get the courage up to advertise doing these as commissions. *grins* Our church has a small art gallery and it might be fun to just do a few bowls and plates and see who wants to buy them for themselves rather than just for Empty Bowls. And I need to get cracking on figuring out how to mount my paintings so that people can matte and frame them.
Thank you, so much, for the incentive to do this! I appreciate it greatly.
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Thank you so much!!!
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I'm going to a wedding for this Seattle trip, and after hearing all this from you, I decided to go ahead and paint them a platter, since they'd commented on the sparrows so often. *laughs* I love hints.
That's very neat... and you're very, very welcome!!
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Thanks for betaing!! And I'm very glad that you enjoy my style! I'm gradually realizing that I can... uhm... write. *laughs*
Thanks for friending! It takes me a while to friend folks, as I already have so many folks on my flist that I can't really keep up, so please don't feel slighted if I don't do it for a while until we exchange a few comments and stuff... I'm just slow.