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MBoulad — Blue-Green and Gold
Published: 2007-05-22 10:45:38 +0000 UTC; Views: 2835; Favourites: 112; Downloads: 0
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I've wanted to try out some new brushes in Painter...this is an experiment with the thick wet oil brush (for the fish and plants) and watercolour and sponges for the water surface. I found the oil brush pretty challenging to handle, and because it takes continuous pressure when blending it's extremely tiring on your hand. But I like the effect you can get with it...though it's a bit tricky in the blending (hard to figure out how/why it's picking up colours as it blends).I kept jumping up to peer at the underside of our gold fish to see what they look like from below while I worked on this
Never paid much attention to them from that angle before this 
About 10 hours, Painter and wacom tablet.
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Comments: 62
Gorgeous, gorgeous colours in this! As always, you never fail to impress. Wonderful!!
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Lovely, ethereal, and very, very fun. 
Perhaps this is where "Fishy, The Phoenix Goldfish " lives now! 
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Thank ye kindly
Hey, I like your new av, very eyecatching 
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You are more than welcome 
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original work, I love the composition and the colours!! +fav!!
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Thanks so much for the fav 
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a quick exercise?? you must be very talented
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As always this is first class.
I do get the feelin' I'm drowning tho.
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You're sweet (and a much better artist than me
Drowning? Yeah, and the goldfish are circling in...feeding frenzy! Argh!
They remind me of sharks from this angle
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Fabulous work, and I love the movement this has too
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love the motion and colors. ^^ The goldfish look especially animated wioth their flowy fins and shiny scales.
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Thank you...it was pretty cool trying to paint from a live fishie, but the fins I painted aren't anywhere near as pretty as on the real thing
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I really adore their fins, they look gorgeous being transparent like that... so nicely done.
I think though, that my favourite part would have to be the plants, reaching, curling and twisting up toward the surface, it's just beautiful.
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THank you
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You're welcome, I think you did an awesome job on them! So great stuff.
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wow this is simply beautiful! i just love the contrasting warm and cool colors. expertly done!
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Thank you and for the fav as well
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This is so beautifull !! Love it! The fishes are great, so much detail. I never wanted an aquarium but this one I like to have
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Well, it's easier taking care of a painting than aquarium
Honestly we just have a fish bowl with one lonely goldfish in it. We've had him over 4 years though and he's going strong
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hehehen that is thrue
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Its beautiful. The oils give it a nice smooth look which really helps the idea of them being in water. Just gorgous.
I tried drawing something...it was a sad scene to watch. >.<
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Oh stop it
Have you done more fashion illustrations? I bet you'd enjoy that, since you design your own clothes...if you love it it will come easier
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No. >.< To both comments. I haven't been in that much of a creative mood since classes have drained it from it.
More recently though I have thought about doing some more painting, like what I did with my table top five years ago. You can see a little intense of it in my icon. Not the best but it was fun.
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Thanks
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Nicely done! The fish and plants actually look like they've been done traditionally (wouldn't it be cool if we could do impasto effects using CG too??)
You should be really proud of this piece
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Hey! you *can* do impasto effects with CG
Thanks for your comment
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Beautiful.
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Looks awesome. The angle makes it all.
I was wondering why you had to jump up to view the underside of the fish? 
And I guess you could try adjusting the brush settings yourself, changing it to your liking. If the strain's too much. I've never been very brave is messing around with those stuff, but hey, the settings are changeable for a reason, eh?
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Thank ye, darlin'
It's not that the fish live up high, it's that I'm short. I can barely see over the kitchen counter, the stepping stool is very helpful 
I don't know if there's anyway to adjust the brush to avoid the hand strain prob...everytime you touch the pen down the selected colour flows for awhile, to blend in the other colours you have to continue to hold down until it starts picking them up. I can't think of any other way to do it
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sweet and what an idea, goldfish from below, lol .....brushes look like fun to play with
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Well, I just started out playing with the sponge and watercolour and came up with something that looked to me like the water surface when you're swimming up
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Experimenting is fun and it loosens up the creativity. Did you do your banner for childrensiullustrator yet? I've popped in to look for it from time to time....I think I'll recognize your art without your name, so I'm testing myself to see if I can.
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I have one but I don't like it much 
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Something from the umbrellas one? The mercats? The fairie journal one?
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I've finally given up trying to make one from an old painting, I keep getting frustrated with all the resizing and stuff... I'm making one right now
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LOL a challenge! I hope I'm up to it. I took a slice from one of mine, but had trouble resizing it too, for some reason.
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