Wednesday, 9 September 2009

Swan, 1. 9x12, Oils on board.


This swan is from a Photo of mine that I took

a couple of weeks ago. The water is made up

because I didn`t like the shape and tone of

the water that it was in.

11 comments:

  1. Hi Vic, what colors are you using for your water. Love the natural effect, not to blue. Nice work.


    Joan

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  2. Hi Joan.
    Thank you for your comment. I absolutely enjoyed painting this Swan. One of our club members was given the task of getting as many members to do a small painting on a round piece
    of Canvas. They are for our Church that we rent
    our Rooms off for meetings. She will mount them
    onto a DVD disk for hanging on the Christmas tree at Christmas. One of the two that I have given her is of a Swan, that made me do a larger
    painting of this Swan. The Colours I used for the water Joan, are--Ultramarine Blue,Burnt sienna, Yellow Ochre and Tatanium White. My main
    trouble is experimenting with mixing to get those elusive Colours that we all want. Joan, you haven`t done any posting lately, come on now, get cracking. All the best my friend.
    Vic.

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  3. Hi Vic,

    Thank you for the colors, I will give the mixture a try on one of my recent paintings. One of those nasty artist slumps has been nipping at my heels.

    I am off to my studio, in your words to "get cracking" Thank you so much Vic.

    Have a great day. Oh by the way. I love your swan.
    Joan

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  4. Oh! Joan, we all have them don`t we. I have certainly had my share of them. Thanks again
    my friend, and I hope I had something to do with you in getting cracking. All the best.
    Vic.

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  5. What a wonderful painting, Vic. Everything about it speaks of true nature in the wild.

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  6. Thank you very much Janelle for your lovely
    comment. I did enjoy painting it. All the best
    to you.
    Vic.

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  7. Good Morning Vic,

    Yes you did post on my painting. I posted it twice, you were right it didn't need much work. But I did a little tweaking. As for the problem with unwanted followers, I don't know what to do. Someone left a message on my blog, and left other sites I could join. Let me tell you Vic, they weren't to nice. I also have followers that I can't seem to delete. I will continue to try to get to the bottom of this, there must be a way. You have a great day my friend.

    Joan

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  8. Hi Joan. Thanks for your answer. It is a problem with these nasty blogs. I can`t understand Google allowing it, can you?
    I have written to them but it appears that
    they don`t answer anyone. I know of one other person that wrote three times and not one was answerd. One of my son`s is an IT engineer and
    he is trying to find an answer to this problem.
    Thanks again Joan and all the best my friend.
    Vic.

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  9. When I first looked at it, it was the water that I was admiring, so even better that you invented it. I also really like the composition here.

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  10. Thank you Karen for you comment. I do believe
    that most Artist`s make up their own interpritation of the subject. Whether it be from plein Air, or from a photograph. One might
    try to copy the Photo as close as possible, but
    at least as far as I am concerned, it ends up
    your own. I have just looked up you Blog Karen,
    and you sure have got the Colour and Drawing
    bits spot on. Wonderful paintings. I haven`t fully checked all on your Blog yet, so do you
    paint Land or sea Scapes as well? All the best
    Karen.
    Vic.

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  11. Karen. I`m so sorry about the bit where I asked you if you do Land or Seascapes as well, I was miles away thinking of someone else. please forgive me. I is something to do with my Age I think. Of course you paint brilliant Landscapes and am very glad that I have come across your Blog. Sorry again Karen, and all the best.
    Vic.

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