Nancy and Audrie brought us a wonderful Etsy site, "Vintage Atmosphere", for our inspiration. I chose item #1 that brought back memories of young childhood, catching fireflies with neighbor children on a warm summer's evening. (When I think about it now, that was rather cruel.) I really don't see that many fireflies these days and wonder if I, my friends and children like us are to blame. ; )
I started with a dark blue shimmer CS since I knew it would be hard to create a bg as dark as I wanted. I used my MS bottle acrylics knowing that watercolors would never work. The acrylics worked well and I got the effect I hoped for. IRL the shimmer of the CS adds something, but my poor photography skills never captured it. : (
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Sat, Aug 09, 2014 @ 4:42 PM
Holy smokes! How on earth could you even stamp on that dark blue paper! This is something else and so beautifully painted! I have an image here with a jar and I am at a loss on how to color glass. Yours is perfection!
We are loaded with fireflies here and we caught them too! So I would not feel guilty (grin).
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Sat, Aug 09, 2014 @ 4:44 PM
Oh Sallie, I can't even imagine being able or know how to paint that jar the way you did!!! It is incredibly gorgeous and so realistic (which I love). Wow!! I've always been impressed by your painting but this is, wow...I WISH I could do a jar like that!
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Sat, Aug 09, 2014 @ 4:51 PM
Sallie, this is absolutely stunning!!! I am looking at this on my iPad and I can see the shimmer of the blue bg, great choice for bg, and you have really captured the glow!! WOW!!
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