Dahlia

I love this mix of colours, they work so well together that I could resist painting this piece. After my last painting "Frilly Daylily" doing this one was quiet relaxing and I thoroughly enjoyed it. It was suggested to me that I upload some of the steps, so people could see it coming together. I took 12 snapshots of this, 13 if you count the background, but I'm not uploading them all.

Created in Pixarra, Twisted Brush, 1200 x 1600 pixels

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Frilly Daylily

The colours attracted me to this one. I should have thought more about it before starting it. All those frilly bits, really made me hand sore and by the end I was glad to see the bad of it.

Created in Pixarra, Twisted Brush, 1200 x 1600 pixels

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Elliot

This is a painting I did of my mum's cat, Elliot. He was only 8 months old and had to be put to sleep suddenly (long story). I wanted to paint him for mum so she'd have something other then photo's to remember him by.

Created in Pixarra, Twisted Brush, 1200 x 1600 pixels

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Sailing

It's been a while since I've painted anything. I haven't really been in mood so I decided to pull my finger out and do something about it. There isn't much to this piece, but at least it's a start and has me in the mood to paint again.

Created in Pixarra, Twisted Brush, 1600 x 1200 pixels

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Phoenix

I've had the photo of this one sitting on my computer for some time. I had been planning to paint this with Acrylics but never got around to it. I came across it, once again while looking for something to paint and decided it was about time I used it. There wasn't a storm coming in the reference image, but I decided the colours looked great with the red of  the sails and kept it.

Created in Pixarra, Twisted Brush, 1600 x 1200 pixels

Iluka Bay

I have done this one before, but with Acrylics. The original didn't have the boat on the sand. I was told it needed something there, so bored one night I decided to reproduce it and add the boat. At first the boat was blue and I thought that's great, a blue boat next to blue water, so I change it to bright orange.

Created in Pixarra, Twisted Brush, 1600 x 1200 pixels

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Sleeping

Neytiri and Jake, sleeping, the morning after they have mated. I got a little bored with this one. It doesn't have the pretty colours in it that first attracted me to these pieces. I decided that if they had really mated, Neytiri wouldn't have her beaded necklace on, so I've left it out. I'm sure Jake would have removed it anyway. It's rough but a friend told me "rough ends up appropriately stylised sometimes.". You can see the reference here

Created in Pixarra, Twisted Brush, 1600 x 1200 pixels

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