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KimLuster on May 12, 2014
So I bought these water pens. Hollow tubes you fill with water, with a brush tip on the end, and it stays moist constantly. “Watercolor never was easier!” goes the sales tag. I'm all for easy so I snatched some up…
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They're sorta interesting, but very uncontrollable. It's very difficult to vary the amount of water you apply, but I'm stubborn, so I forced my way to the finish with this page. It's fairly obvious where everything bled and puddled…
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So another art experiment to cast to the wayside! I'll keep them - they seem to be somewhat useful for ‘lifting’ watercolor back out to produce lighter areas, and for pre-wetting large areas, but for applying paint directly - never again!
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Story: Enjoy these little slice-of-life scenes for a couple more pages, cuz it's really gonna pick up speed soon, dammit! :))
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Thanks for Reading Everyone!
skyangel at 3:41PM, Feb. 2, 2015
I didn't notice the difference in the colouring until I read your editorial and then looked back and saw what you meant. I'm all for new stuff too but it's amazing how often an improvement or change just makes twice as much work in the end.
KimLuster at 7:04AM, May 14, 2014
Haha, I like those old Cheesy Movies - seen lots of them (many with ol' Bogie in them) but not recalling this one. May have to dig it up :)
fallopiancrusader at 6:56AM, May 14, 2014
The treasure of the Sierra Madre was an old western starring Humphrey Bogart. There's a quote about not needing no badges that has entered the common vernacular. I saw it years ago, so I don't remember it exactly.
KimLuster at 4:25AM, May 14, 2014
@Peipei: Thanks! Kimber Lee and her Family deserve some happiness after what they've been through... and for what's coming...
Peipei at 9:05PM, May 13, 2014
I love how happy everything is (understandably considering what just happened between Kim and Emilio xD). Nice family scene. :)
KimLuster at 11:32AM, May 13, 2014
"No, you submit, do you hear? You be strong, you survive... You stay alive, no matter what occurs! I will find you. No matter how long it takes, no matter how far, I will find you" -- Hawkeye (Last of the Mohicans)
Banes at 10:48AM, May 13, 2014
Yeah it's gonna blow up soon I bet. I have no idea what's gonna happen next - but I suspect it's gonna take Kim away from her loved ones again...
KimLuster at 7:10AM, May 13, 2014
@bravo1102: Thanks! Yeah, for large areas I may not totally give up on the tube brushes... And Kimber Lee's hair... Ha, like a man with a comb-over, she pretended to herself no one noticed. Her long lustrous hair will certainly play a role in the future ;)
bravo1102 at 6:33AM, May 13, 2014
Looks like it would be great for large undefined areas because it looks wonderful for the backgrounds. And you know Kimber Lee you weren't fooling anyone so let the hair hang down. Tie a bell in it as it hangs to your ankles so you look like some anime fighter.
KimLuster at 4:24AM, May 13, 2014
@plymayer: I saw a movie once (A Christian Slater love story I think) where boy and girl meet, have some happy encounters, then more happy things... I kept waiting for 'the Crisis' to rear its head. It never did! It was just constantly escalating happiness until... they may have married at the end. All I know is I hated the movie. @plymayer and jgib99: Haha I'm happy y'all like the art - I felt it was a failed experiment, but maybe there's some good stuff to keep from it :)
jgib99 at 9:42PM, May 12, 2014
The artwork is great!
plymayer at 9:22PM, May 12, 2014
Love the art work. Great page.
plymayer at 9:22PM, May 12, 2014
All this happiness has me worried.
KimLuster at 7:35PM, May 12, 2014
Hehe, is that a B/W Movie? I know I heard it somewhere, but it's buried in my collective culture subconcious :) Yeah, those tubes will do okay for large flat areas (or at least an initial wetting before applying paint), but small details... Nope, nope... :)
fallopiancrusader at 5:15PM, May 12, 2014
"we don't need no rabbits..." Is that a reference to "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre?" The paint tubes seem to be good at big swooshy washes, but it looks like it's difficult to get really controlled effects.