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Eight separate pieces, 1 1/2" x 6" in Pigma Micron and Staedtler Karat Aquarell on paper.Here they are, all of them colored! Just had to post the batch together, now that all eight are finished. Enjoy!
And if you want to use it for bookmarks, it's now available as a print 9" x 12" -- just order your print in choice of surfaces, then cut it apart and laminate them separately or just use them. Eight different designs in one print, unless you enjoy hanging it on the wall to see the variations together. This is some of why I put this one up as a print, so that people could get good quality color reproduction bookmarks using it.
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Yes, you may! Please feel free to print them, cut them out and laminate them. Alternately, you can go to the line art listing, print the line art and color them yourself. If you post your coloring versions, please link to my originals and note me so that I can come see what you did with them. I love seeing what others do with my line art.
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Thank you! THese were my Christmas presents for my housemates. They came out so great that now I want to make a batch of them for myself too! Maybe I'll do that sometime soon. I read a lot and having a bunch of them around would be great!
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That sounds so nice ^3^ I'll have to comission you to do some for me ! Ha ha !
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Ahhh sorry about that. I don't do commissions. I can't afford to sell any art, and if I did I'd probably just do prints.
But, you could always get some white card stock, download the large image, print it out on white cardstock, cut them apart and laminate them with 2" wide clear packing tape the way I did the originals. Then you'd have a whole set of them! Or print out the black and white line art versions, color them yourself in your own favorite colors and do the same thing. Then my gift to my housemates is a gift to all my dA friends too.
Just don't do them for sale. I'm allowing people to do this for personal use so that's not for money.
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Wow , thank you so much .. thats so nice of you ! @_@
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I know people like my art, and I can't afford to sell it so I might as well share.
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A lovely collection.. could be a little tidier though
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Well, they were just laid out loose on my scanner -- they were already cut out by the time I scanned them. Unless you mean smoothness of line, in which case, yeah, I've seen people who can do finer cleaner lines than I do. But I'm getting better.
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Very beautiful designs, I always loved them! I wish I could learn how to do them myself though... I'm bad with things like that. :/
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They're not that hard. Two or three pages back in my Gallery I've got a page posted with the method I use -- and I don't grid them out, just sketch lightly till I get the lines right.
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Ooh those are darned cool! Great colors! I think my favorite is the one at top right, it's unusual shape. But i like 'em all. Methinks they would make nice tattoos.
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Thanks! Feel free to use them as tattoo designs, either temporary or permanent-- you could always just print them out, trace them on and ink them with pens to see how they look.
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oh wow robert well donme the colors are so pretty on these.
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oh awsome. the color is even better! i love how the colors change, intertwine, fade! oh they are great. whoever is recieving them will be proud~
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I hope! They did come out better than I was afraid they would though, the colors are even brighter in the original and the laminating did what a spray gloss does to colored pencil and made them a bit darker and richer. They feel more finished now that I've laminated them.
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oh yes. from a different comment, the all green one is definitely my favorate. its super! oh they are all so pretty!
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When I did enough of them that I could keep one, the green one is the one I kept for me. I've got an extra in case I miscounted number of adult housemates, or if someone I know comes over, or whatever, but I would miss that green one if I didn't keep it. Those greens are brighter in the original and it came out neat to use two different light greens the way I had it laid out.
These were a lot of fun to do and color. Enjoy the line art too, if you want to print them out and color them it's simple to laminate them with two inch wide clear packing tape. I trim off the tape close to the edge of the paper after burnishing the two sides together and getting bubbles out, rather than right at the edge, since it's good to seal it from the sides in case they get spilled on. Or you can use that laminating stuff from the drugstore. Either way they come out neat. Any small artwork will do for them.
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neato. yeah. a year or so back, i did a large number of watercolour book marks, they were elegant and simple, mostly one line of color on each. each one was unique, i probly had about 15..but i lost them! i was going to give them as gifts, or just look at them...something! but they're gone! and not coming back, i havent seen them sence before i moved, and i still havent seen them..*poof* gone forever...
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Oh those must have been beautiful. You should do a new series if you miss them -- you'd never duplicate the first ones but you'd probably come up with something just as beautiful.
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yep. i just need to get some water colour paper and some paint...all i own is acrylic...im poor *bleh*
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Awww... that is frustrating. Dick Blick has some interesting supplies that are very inexpensive though, if you can order online. Yarka student pan colours, the 12 colour set, is extremely inexpensive but very high quality, and Blick's student paper is 18 cents a sheet for half size sheets. Dick Blick probably does ship anywhere in the world but it's bound to be more costly outside the USA, so with anything that's a bargain there it would probably help to check for local online supply companies and compare the rates vs. prices.
But there are some good brands. Reeves supplies are inexpensive and high quality, so is Loew-Cornell usually. Oh, and Acorn Planet has Marie's Chinese Watercolours in a very inexpensive 12 or 18 tube set. They're high quality and very low price for tube watercolours. I don't know what you're more interested in, pan sets or tube watercolours, but it's not that hard to find good ones cheap. Actually, Yarka has student pan tubes too, they're very high quality watercolours.
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oh cool! and do you know whats neat? for christmas, i got a $50 prepaid american express card. that means i can probley get some stuff online! which is so wicked jammin awsome! so i will be checking out the dick blick site more often now, (its under my favorates of course!) and also, my grandmother is going to get me some prismacolor markers from the site, which is neat! so between everything, i will be going shopping for artsy fartsy supplies soon..very soon...
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Oh that is so great! In that case, if you're looking for inexpensive watercolour supplies, Dick Blick has house brand watercolour paper at 18 cents for half size student grade 90lb and under 50 cents for 140lb, it's good paper, plus lemme get the link for the really good cheap watercolours that ~HappyDrizzt uses: Yarka Student Pan Watercolor Sets -- they're very inexpensive but liquid poured and have the unusual property that they dry as bright as they look while wet. I think that's because of how they're poured rather than pressed into the pans. Reeves Watercolor Sets are good too for tube colors and a couple of them are on Clearance very cheap.
That's so cool you're going to order art supplies. I'm done getting new supplies for a while but still love surfing the site and kibitzing on other people's orders. Heh. Bet you wind up getting over $100 worth of stuff for your $50...
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*blinks* oh my god! i just now went...those are so...CHEAP! thank you muches *huggles* oh yay! paint paint paint for meee!
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Oh purr! Thanks! I love looking stuff up on Blick for friends. I did all my art supplies buying all summer and last fall and I just finished up with an ASW order in December, so I'm stocked up and have no major reason to go looking up these things -- except when friends are looking for stuff! I just get a kick out of doing it.
And if you need brushes -- cheap GOOD brushes Princeton Watercolor Value Packs have a variety of shapes and fibers in combination packs very cheap. I like the Taklon ones better than bristle or sable -- white taklon is like bristle, golden taklon is soft like sable. They are extremely good quality -- I don't know about the camel or pony or stuff because what I got was two Taklon packs -- M and N on this page, the five-brush set with the angled shaders in golden Taklon and the three-brush white Taklon set with a size 6 round, a fan brush and a 3/4" wash brush.
I love that 3/4" wash brush. That thing is just too useful for getting lots of paint or water onto the paper fast. The set I plan to get the next time I order from Blick is set H -- two rounds size 4 and 8, two more flat wash brushes 1/2" and 1" to have a little more variety in sizes both in rounds and wash brushes. If you only get one pack, that one is probably a good one having both rounds and useful size flat wash brushes. But I like just turning friends on to that page because everyone winds up picking favorites out of their packs -- and you can try different sizes and types of brushes cheap in their value packs. They also aren't too horribly expensive individually outside packs. Princeton Good Synthetic Golden Taklon Brushes .
Another incredibly low priced item is they have one brand of opaque watercolor so cheap it made my jaw drop: Morocolor Watercolor Sets -- this is opaque watercolor, not transparent, but a 22 color set for $4.29 blew me away. I saw this set when ~kitten42 bought it for my roommate's kid last year at Christmas and they're fine paint, nothing wrong with it except the brush that comes with it is crummy. What I have are the Pelikan Opaque set and the transparent set, recently bought that to have more colors of watercolor -- the opaques are pretty reasonable at under $12 for 24 colors.
Gouache is different from transparent watercolor, more like tempera or poster paint for handling. It is opaque. You can put white over dark and light over dark, they don't mix on the page as much, and they are very good for decorating scrolls and doing medieval style illuminations and fancy capitals. The Pelikan Opaque 24 color set has the best metallic silver paint I've ever handled, and is why I got the $12 set instead of the $4 set, to get that silver. It has gold too but the gold is more like a bronze.
I don't know if you have any interest in opaque watercolors as well as transparent ones, but if you don't need metallics the Morocolor is another super bargain item. If you like using metallic accents on things the Pelikan Silver mixes easily with all the other colors to get colored metallic anything, something I did with it for years when I had my old set and used it up and went on the endless quest to find Pelikan brand again instead of all these other brands that didn't have metallics in the set. lol
For an artist grade full pans set of transparent watercolors the Pelikan Transparent is reasonable at under $20 when those run a lot higher, but it does not have that Yarka liquid poured quality of staying bright after it dries -- it dries much lighter than it looks wet. I got it to extend my range and now have four watercolor sets that I use by themselves or interchangeably -- especially if I work on a painting in more than one session I might grab a different set to continue on it with more layers. Two are big sets and two are little pocket sets, both of my pocket sets are expensive but great for not needing much space to set up.
Anyway, I'm glad you were happy to find the Yarka sets! They are much higher quality than the usual kid sets, and ~HappyDrizzt did some incredible watercolors with those.
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yeah and those simple, yet reasonably good quality sets is all i need untill i get more skilled in the matter. anything really is true like that. the cheap, simple things, untill i learn how to use them better. hard to beleive maybe, but i am just a beginner! hah!. so yeah. that and i need to look for some more pens, all my pens have about a cm of ink left in them, and i have killed two!
walmart!
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Yay cool! I'm glad I was able to find good cheap ones for you! The Morocolor gouache set is real good for the price, especially the 22 color set. The brush that comes in it is crummy though.
Most art supplies are like that, I've found. The simple cheap versions have their own advantages sometimes -- often they have vivid bright colors compared to the artist grade versions and with that low a cost it's easier to spread out and try different things all the time and not worry about whether it costs a fortune. If I didn't mention cheap watercolor paper, Blick's own house brand paper is incredibly cheap for loose sheets -- you need to get ten sheets of loose paper to get loose paper but it can be any size. Also for drawing paper it's like $1.99 to get 100 sheets -- large sheets -- of loose white student drawing paper. I meant to get some of that last time just to have it around for sketching and scribbling but didn't bother, I'll do it next time. I still haven't used up my big 100 page spiral Canson Universal Recycled sketchbook or come even close to using that up so it's not really a rush thing for me.
Ooh pens! If you use normal ballpoints or rollerballs, check Staples and Office Depot and places like that. You might find a cheap brand of them in boxes of a dozen and that's a lot less than buying individually at Wal-Mart. I got a dozen-box of stick ballpoints for 79 cents at Staples once, and that wasn't even on sale -- they were 49 cents on sale. Sometimes dollar stores have them in bags of ten or twelve cheap too. If you've killed two already it makes sense to get pens in bulk so that you don't ever run out and don't pay as much. Wal-Mart has good prices but some places beat them for some things.
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cool! thanks for the pen tip. ill have to hit up office depot soon then!
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Yep! If you go through them that fast they are much cheaper in boxes of a dozen! I love office supply stores anyway, keep finding all kinds of cool stuff in them.
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yep yep. the more the merrier!
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There are just some things that are fun to shop for.
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oh yeah. like art supplies. oh and socks. i love crazy socks. so what if no one can see them under your jeans, you feel speacial anyways!
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That's neat. I'm glad you like crazy socks. I'm dull that way, have to have black socks and like it best if they're all the same so I never have to match them.
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he he. that would drive me crazy, i guess that would be from having to wear a certain sock for 6 years. and i hate normality, no i dont hate normality, i have a disibility with it. i always accedently break dress code rules, there's always something peculiear about my clothing compaired to everyone else.
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That just sounds like you dress well and their rules are screwy. I always broke dress codes too and never had any respect for them, and what amounted to an allergy to uniforms.
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most definietly. i dress as i fancy. if i feel like wearing a mini skirt and an orange sweater with knee high boot. ok. if i feel like wearing huge black pants and black corset with lace elbow gloves. ok. if i feel like wearing a randome favorate t-shirt and ripped up 80's grunge jeans, ok. or a mix of all three. alright. fo-hawk my hair and put on peacock feather ear rings. yay! where my hair up in tiny little pigtails on top of my head that look like miniature fauna horns. cool.
i live for the moment. its disabling in some cases, but thats how i get my personality. if it happened more than a week ago, oh well, who cares, i dont. whats going on right now is what i care about. thats why i let go of art and stuff so easily. even as a young child i was only possessive of those speacial few things that my parents wouldnt have even asked me to let go of. like Patch, my teddy bear. its eyes are both gone now. but when i got it, it was slightly furless. classic teddy bear. he was my daddy's when he was little, i adopted him.
i took him to school in pre-school for show and tell. he was my one and only favorate, after all. while i was outside, some little boys tried to take him from me. they ended up pulling off his eye. i asked for it back, told them that my daddy would sew it back on for me. instead they through the amber and brown colored eye into the play yard full of acorns. i of course iwas heart brocken and never found the eye.
shortyly afterwards, while sitting at the fireplace at my grandmothers house, a log popped and one of the hot coals landed in my right eye. i wore a patch all through the christmas holidays. i desided to name the so far nameless bear Patch, because he only had one good eye too. my grandmother and eye looked throught all sorts of buttons, and finally found one amber one, and one brown one. we mixed them around a bit untill they fit perfectly into each other. she sewed it on for me.
he had in a sort, a fake eye. i slept with him every night, carried him around every day. eventually most of his pilled stuffing either snuck out of little wholes, or just got so flattened that it didnt matter. his fir was full of bare spots, is full of bare spots, and is rubbed papper thin.
i was watching a movie about 3 years ago, and i got frustrated at the characters. i went to throw the small pillow in my lap at the screen. i mixed up my hands, and before i could realize what i was doing, threw him across the room. his good eye came off. he had one fake eye left, it came off about one year later. now he sits at the top of my closet or around the room. and looks after me.
i want my child to have a toy like that. maybe i could even fix him up, referbish him, and let her adopt him. that would be great.
sorry i got all sentamental on you. its about one of the only things i am sentamental about, besides stuff like my grandmothers house, which was her fathers house, and we all lived next door, my dad, me, my sister, and my grandparents. they fixed up the old house, and moved into it. i am attached as hell to that house, that yard. i have put many good years in their yards, yes yards, we lived in the country next door to them in the origional house for 16 years, untill about this last summer. 72 family acers, acers that we could, and still do have the right to run about and build teepee's.
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