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Saturday, February 25, 2012

"Feeding Time" pastel painting

9 x 12

I finished this today.  This was a lot of fun.  I challenged myself with attempting the water ripples.  Certain parts of them were highly reflective in the photograph, and many of them were soft and almost invisible.  Next time I will paint fish on a larger surface.  The reflections were hard to do small.

6 comments:

Euphoria said...

I love your fishes. I think I've told you that before...Am I right?

ti-igra said...

This is an incredibly wonderful job, Carolyn! My friend! You are the fairy! :)))))))

I LOVE LOVE LOVE!!!!! Your pastel and fishes - sooo realistic! Water!!!!!!! :))
Fantastic!!!!

☆sapphire said...

WOW! So wonderful! I love your koi and the color contrast; vivid warm colors and dark blue. Your ripples look very real. Thank you for sharing this beautiful painting.

Ida M. Glazier said...

Wow--those koi certainly look the part!!! Great colors. Painting small has just set this up for you confidance-wise. Sorta like doing a "color-study" When you do this larger, it will be spectacular!!!!

Carolyn Jean Thompson said...

Thank you so much Kira, Ira, Sapphire and Ida! I'm so glad you like it!

Sharon said...

Oh wow, that is fantastic!!