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Published: 2009-08-28 22:38:14 +0000 UTC; Views: 4387; Favourites: 200; Downloads: 0
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Awesome; thank you. I love to draw birds with wings like these.
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that is beautiful. wonderful job! i looove the colors and the composition
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you're very much welcome ^^
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Often when I see your work, I wonder"what can she do to top THAT?" And yet, you seem to keep getting better and better. Beautiful work
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LOL - Would you believe, I wonder the same thing at the conclusion of every one of my major projects?
Thanks very much. This one is still one of my high points, but I just *might* have something to top it coming up the pike.
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Hey! I finally made the phoenix blog post and you can check it out here:
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That is an awesome collection. Thank you for including me among such fantastic artists.
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Yeah, no prob. Thanks for letting me use yours!
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Hello! I love your firebird piece and was wondering if I could use it in a blog post featuring firebird artwork? You'll be credited and a link back to this deviation will be included, of course. Please let me know!
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Yes, that would be fine. Thank you very much for asking first.
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beautiful. I love how they seem to be out of the picture, while being the greatest part of it. And even if they're fire birds, the blue color makes it all more peaceful than firey... like a fire and dance of wisdom and hope.
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Thank you!
The idea of Balance is a running theme in my artwork, though I don't always say so in the project descriptions. I like to experiment with different elements like these to see if I can get it to work out just right. Fortunately, this big bruiser was one of the successful attempts!
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They are so beautiful... I love the colors and their tail feathers especially. Just looks fantastic.
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Thank you once again.
Those colors were so much fun to work with for this piece - I'm definitely going to be doing more like this.
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The eyeball-searingness of the birds is somewhat diminished when you add in a nice, cool-coloured background like that. Makes it easier to look at for long periods of time
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It's certainly better-balanced with a proper amount of warm and cool colors to play together. 
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Wow, the final is AMAZING! I love your composite works- They have so much life and motion, not to mention the color and detail. Absolutely awesome!
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This is lovely, good job! Are you going to be at Dragoncon this year?
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Thanks very much!
Alas, no, I won't be at DragonCon. The trip to Spain that I took in June cleaned me out.
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Sorry to hear.... but well worth it though!
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Absolutly flippin gorgeouse! The detail on the two birds is especialy beautiful..........and I have to say that I really whish I hads the skill and patiance do to something as good as this.
*Faves*
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Thanks very much!
When I look back at stuff like this, it's hard to imagine that *I* had the patience to do it. I spread out the really detailed birdy bits over many days, so it didn't see like such a difficult task.
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Sounds like a sensible way of doing it. Me being me would probably have tried to do it in a onner and thrown the whole lot out of the window XD
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Amazing. You continue to impress. I love how you pulled everything together.
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.. I'm having a hard time absorbing that this was all done traditionally. o.0
YOU AND YER MAD SKILLZ. ORMNWEKFMEWKFMWEK.
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LOL LOL... As long as I take my time and don't rush the project, it's not that hard to do all this stuff. The background bits - the starfield and the watercolor squares on top of that - were very quick and easy. The birds did take time to draw and color, but I spread it out so that it didn't kill my hands and eyes.
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Haha! True, true. Rushing things often results to mediocre works, afterall.
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This is really beautifull <3 would be interesting to see how the final piece looks in real live though, maybe you could take a take a photo and put it in your scraps or something. really love it 
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Thanks very much!
I'll consider posting a photo of the real-media final composition, but I have not yet been able to get a good photo of my artwork. We'll see.
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Wow it came out amazing! your comp skills are good too!
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Thanks very much!
It's not too hard to cut-and-paste stuff in Photoshop. The special effects are really simple ones, too. It was that, or fiddle with partial image alignments for three days if I'd actually tried to scan in the finished artwork!
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Such a breath-taking detailed work. So colorful, so lively and beautiful, its hard to pull the eyes off it.
Very well done.
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What a gorgeous composition! The watercolor is lovely...the multi-media aspect of this piece adds unique flair. And of course the phoenixes are gorgeous, too.
Were the birds done on some form of thicker paper, like card-stock or tag-board? I can't imagine trying to use an exacto knife on normal paper with that level of detail...
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Thanks very much!
Yeah, I used bristol board for the birds. Bristol is about twice the thickness of cardstock, and more uniform in its composition (where cardstock will give you horrible water spots if you use watercolor on it due to the irregularity of the pulp they use for that kind of paper).
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The colors are gorgeous, and I always love the effects you do for your watercolor backgrounds!
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Thanks very much!
Fortunately, those watercolor effects are quick and easy - probably the simplest part of the project.
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This is just so cool! 
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Thanks very much!
Yeah, 50 hours seems like a long time, but when you're really *into* the project, the time flies right by you. It's not 50 hours all in one sitting, either, mind you. My wrist would spontaneously combust if I did that. I spread it out over many days.
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Thank you - glad you're impressed.
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