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Dunn95 — Peace and Joy in Dots of Color
Published: 2012-06-22 04:10:33 +0000 UTC; Views: 725; Favourites: 34; Downloads: 8
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Oil on Canvas, 16 x 20 inches. This one was both fun and difficult. I loved arranging this with the colors, subject, and that sun, ha. But of course, dots can only be so interesting after awhile. But it's always worth it in the end. I really enjoyed this one, think it turned out very well. The colors seems peaceful and happy to me, and the family of ducks seem to enhance that feeling, ha. Also, the "reflection" is not a really a reflection, but a continuation of the sunswirl basically.Related content
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I never thought I would say this about one of your pieces. Never. But, believe it or not, I'm not really a big fan of your colour choices in this piece. I think it's a combination of the style and the colour, but I'm having a hard time getting into this piece, if you know what I mean, I'm not sure where to look. The only thing that pulls me in is the duck, but then I don't really know where to go from there? I like the concept and idea, and maybe it's just me (I am tired and hyped on coffee right now) but I just can't figure out where to I'm supposed to look or what's this picture is supposed to be about. But on to the good, which there is still lots of! Oh the difficulty of picking out my favorite thing! The sun swirl, the bushes, and shadows of the trees. Starting with the sunswirl, I love how you did it in peach! It gives the picture a quiet peaceful feeling to it. I can't tell you what it is I like so much about the bushes but I do 
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Oh, really? Well, I think you're right. A lot of the color issues comes from the parts of canvas that can tend to peak through when using dots as a technique. That white breaks up the color and it sometimes will brighten up or break up and be less solid. I think that's partially what happened here. And I may have gone too far in softening the colors to draw more attention to the soft light of morning, but perhaps I went a tad too far on this one, which happens, I'm still learning, ha 
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Like you said you're still learning, and its still way better than anything I could do 
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Well, I like how they worked, but they still may be to bright and too "loose". I was more proud of what colors I picked, not necessarily the shade. But yeah, it's fine, It's helps me to improve, ha. I would rather have an honest opinion than a "sugar coated" one, cause that won't help me at all. And really? Well good
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I remember how much I hated doing pointillism in grade 9, so time consuming especially with oil pastels, crayons, or coloured pencils!
Yours looks awesome though, really creative! Keep up the good work!
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Yeah, I almost fell asleep doing the dots once, it's just so tedious. I always find the work worth it in the end though. But yeah, thank you very much
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I agree! And you're very welcome.
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Awesome - this is so similar to a piece I did recently -> [link]
I have been meaning to try this style technique in oil on canvas like yours. Great job!
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Yeah, it is
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Well mine is in oil pastels which doesn't require as much patience
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Yeah, I saw that
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