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lunatica

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2. I've learned that your art is excellent when you choose

Reply to GreenPartyVoter (Original post)

Mon Mar 23, 2020, 01:38 PM

Mar 2020

to put more details in.

It’s to your credit that your art stands up very well to less detail work, but when you take it further you always bring it to a whole new level of good. So my advice is to go ahead and do your thing because it works. As much as I like your washes and the semi abstractedness of them, your finishing detail work knocks it out of the ball park!

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Can't decide if Grandmother Owl is done, or if I want to decorate [View all] GreenPartyVoter Mar 2020 OP

She's lovely, and her eyes are absolute perfection Glorfindel Mar 2020 #1

Thank you. Her eyes did their own thing, and I love them! I feel like GreenPartyVoter Mar 2020 #5

I've learned that your art is excellent when you choose lunatica Mar 2020 #2

Thank you! She was originally supposed to be whimsical, but I did her eyes and her whole GreenPartyVoter Mar 2020 #4

I let my art sit for awhile when I'm in doubt. lunatica Mar 2020 #8

If I couldn't move on, I'd still be staring at this unfinished piece. LOL GreenPartyVoter Mar 2020 #9

You said you had trouble with faces? lunatica Mar 2020 #10

Less is more at this point. Do another painting and add stuff to it. marble falls Mar 2020 #3

She's wonderful, but even grandmothers pnwest Mar 2020 #6

She's perfect! No bling Karadeniz Mar 2020 #7

I don't have any advice about whether to keep going or not, but the eyes are remarkable. femmedem Mar 2020 #11