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Comment by Sybil on November 16, 2008 at 6:07pm - May God bless him and make him better.
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Comment by Dawn on November 16, 2008 at 2:45am -
To all Our Friends that Know Carole, and her husbanad Peter, who is critically ill
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Comment by Meena on October 15, 2008 at 5:20pm -
Hi everyone,
I am new to IDP and loved the idea of this group and couldnt resist joining. am a newbie to art and have an interest in watercolors. I hope that i'll soon have some artwork to upload.
Cheers,
Meena
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Comment by ReddWine on September 14, 2008 at 3:34pm -
I sure could use some guidance on a piece Im stuck on.
Im painting a woman from the side view. I need to paint the muscles in her back/side and Im just not figuring it out. Can anyone make some suggestions, and do you need to see the art first. Shes squating on a mountain..actually its fantasy art so Im not so sure she needs muscle tones...anyway she has a set of wings outstretched flowing behind her ..her hair is flowing into those wings. She is nude all but a pair of black boots and gloves, noooooo its not suggestive or sexual at all, I guess you would just have to see it to understand.
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Comment by Lauren Amerson on July 31, 2008 at 12:49am - hi everyone! lauren
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Comment by PINK on July 30, 2008 at 12:56pm -
Hi Rick,
I like all the infomation you have here thank you for this group.
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Comment by Rick on July 30, 2008 at 8:51am -
Thanks frodron, I looked at a lot of different feeds but this one was the best by a wide margin!
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Comment by frodron on July 30, 2008 at 8:40am -
Thanks Rick,
Lots of good stuff on your latest input.
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Comment by Jes on June 26, 2008 at 7:04pm - Hi Rick, i can never really see the focal point, does that make me a bad judge of art? i just look at a painting and decide there and then whether i like it, sometimes its the colour that attracts me, sometimes it is a tree,cloud, face, Wow what do you know, i guess i do look at a focal point, thanks for pointing that out to me, i am a complete dodo on art.
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Comment by Thomsi on June 18, 2008 at 3:22pm - Excellent idea frodron, must see what my other half can rig up for me. On the few times that I have used wc I usually stretch wc paper it the normal way with the brown sticky paper stuff, but I do stretch several pieces at a time so that I have some ready to use.
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