So here is the first progress picture. I considered keeping it all in my sketchbook but I wanted to show the dandelion seeds floating among a night sky - like stars - and I don't know how to do that with watercolor. So I scanned the sketch and brought it into Artrage - a painting software I've been using. I'm still learning how to use all the painting and drawing tools. I'm OK with the composition now - just trying to work between getting things technically "correct" and finding the right feeling or expression in Nasrudin.
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You brought Nasrudin to life! Amazing to compare this piece to the original sketch!
"No creature is fully itself till it is, like the dandelion, opened in the bloom of pure relationship to the sun, the entire living cosmos." — D.H. Lawrence.
Jen
A Mainer who can appreciate dandelions? You are a rare breed Jenny! Great quote - thanks!
:) My first bouquet was a fistful of dandelions from my children when they looked at them and didn't see a 'weed'. When I see a dandelion I don't see the weed anymore, I remember that chubby fist and smile of my babies and wish I was back in time...
And of course about right now, I would LOVE to see dandelions!! ;)
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