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[_moonwhisper_]

Right, what I've doing in the fleshy!  Well...photo-fleshy =P

First off, here's the three wee tiles I did of the wonderfully large model.  I'm focusing in her leg, arm and leg/elbow in these, see if you can guess what is where ^^

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[amandadrage]

Oh you used the mini canvases!! :D
The top one I think is her armpit, the second one down I don't know (looks like fingers!) and I think the third one, judging from your sketchbook, is the crease between thigh and stomach.

LOVE the sketches btw. and the painting too, reminds me of Freud with the colours (and of course the subject)

The painting of te blackbird is pretty cool, unusual in that usually I can tell when something is yours straightaway, but when I saw this one in my DA I couldn't place a name to it at first... and was surpised to see it was yours!! I don't even know why. I love that closest layer of landscape with the colour and the trees. What have you got left to do with it?

Oh and the horse is gorgeous! The bright colour and rounded shapes remind me a lot of Franz Marc's horses. Well in the second from last especially, not so much in the latest update. I really like where it's at now! I like the previous one too XD Because the previous one is much more defined and you have the shapes, but the latest one doesn't need the outlines so much because the gorgeous colours and highlights bring him out of the bg. Agh if only you could snap your fingers and have a duplicate, then you could keep both!! lol

You've been a busy bee anyway! It's nice to see :D

(btw I think your work on the larger model and the horse ties in... they both have those curvaceous shapes and lines, you can almost see where the model work has influenced your horse one!)

[_moonwhisper_]

The wee ones are actually little tiles I got from the recylcing centre =P They have so much crap in there, and a whole bunch of these tiles which I thought would come in handy at some point =D
But yes you got them right! Bar the one you thought was like fingers is the bit where her belly meets her leg and elbow ;)

Well the songbird one needs a few highlights and thicker paint-job. But I've kinda given up on it at the moment.

If only we could have doubles of works! That's one good thing about digital =P But I like the challange of tradtional art more, harder to get right first time ^^

I will have more updates soon hopefully...I'll get an update of the horse. Don't think it's finished but not sure what to do with it atm...kinda hard when I've set myself a massive challange of two massive paintings in two weeks >.

[amandadrage]

ooh what sort, just clay tiles? sounds like a good idea. It would be nice to find another source of cheap surfaces to paint on. MDF is not really expensive but I have to keep getting my poor dad to cut it up into reasonable sized bits!

that is quite the challenge, I'm sure you'll manage... because it seems you can be quite prolific when you get into it! You've done a huge amount of painted work over the past few months, when you pool it all together!

[_moonwhisper_]

They were wall tiles - so had textured surfaces. Probably should have primed them before use but never the less it worked!
See it's kinda useful having a workshop where the guys cut everything up for you! But we have to put our frames together ourselves, which is quite fun =P

Well so far enjoying my snow leopard painting, gotten quite far in the two days I've been working on it!