Pandemic Pastime

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Re: Pandemic Pastime

Postby monik7 » Tue Sep 21, 2021 5:54 pm

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Re: Pandemic Pastime

Postby snowball » Tue Sep 21, 2021 10:57 pm

very nice... what do you use for your inspiration?
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Re: Pandemic Pastime

Postby BarbaraRose » Tue Sep 21, 2021 11:26 pm

Ooh! I love this one! So simple but cool!
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Re: Pandemic Pastime

Postby MandysMom » Wed Sep 22, 2021 1:15 am

Very calming. Love the colors.
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Re: Pandemic Pastime

Postby monik7 » Wed Sep 22, 2021 10:33 am

snowball wrote:very nice... what do you use for your inspiration?
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Thank you Sheila. For this one, I remembered seeing some pictures from China or Japan in a distinctive style. They were done in all black paint and were of sharp crags, cliffs and small pine trees that looked like they were growing out of the rocks. A while back I tried to do something similar and the mountains were a complete fail. The trees came out OK. So for this I decided to do a more traditional mountainside and will try to master the Chinese/Japanese style of the mountains later. I also made the trees taller, more like the pine trees we have here.
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Re: Pandemic Pastime

Postby monik7 » Wed Sep 22, 2021 10:38 am

BarbaraRose wrote:Ooh! I love this one! So simple but cool!

Yes Barbie, this is very simple. I would guess it took about 25 minutes to complete - 15 minutes of which included letting the mountain dry before adding the trees. Sometimes simple is better. :)
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Re: Pandemic Pastime

Postby OregonLuvr » Wed Sep 22, 2021 2:00 pm

Sandi, I really like ALL your pictures. They are so calming, simple, not busy like so many pictures. Seems like they all tell a story.
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Re: Pandemic Pastime

Postby monik7 » Wed Sep 22, 2021 2:41 pm

I appreciate the positive comments. I tend to lack confidence and they help me to keep trying to improve.
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Re: Pandemic Pastime

Postby chalet05 » Wed Sep 22, 2021 4:24 pm

Sandi, I love seeing what you try next! Beautiful always!
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Re: Pandemic Pastime

Postby monik7 » Thu Sep 23, 2021 6:29 pm

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I saw a picture of a reverse silhouette of a basketball player in a magazine so I decided to see if I could create a similar effect for a ballet dancer. One of my granddaughters is taking ballet and I think she’s very talented (Grandma speaking, but she’s NOT biased). :lol: I think I’ll frame it and give it to her for her room and hope it might encourage her to continue her study of ballet.

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Re: Pandemic Pastime

Postby Shirlv » Thu Sep 23, 2021 7:44 pm

It would inspire me to dance. :)
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Re: Pandemic Pastime

Postby Bethers » Thu Sep 23, 2021 9:40 pm

That is awesome. I hope she'll treasure it.
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Re: Pandemic Pastime

Postby snowball » Thu Sep 23, 2021 10:37 pm

how pretty that is!!! she should love it
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Re: Pandemic Pastime

Postby monik7 » Sat Sep 25, 2021 5:14 pm

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When I posted the sunflower, Velda mentioned her favorite flower is the iris. So I thought I’d give it a try.
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Re: Pandemic Pastime

Postby snowball » Sat Sep 25, 2021 10:39 pm

that Iris is so pretty!!!!
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