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by Lil Taylor
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This is a particularly dream-like painting of a sailboat on the water, almost lost in the gold of the day with the reflection shadowing it along the... more
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This is a particularly dream-like painting of a sailboat on the water, almost lost in the gold of the day with the reflection shadowing it along the way. This original is signed on paper and, unframed, the dimensions are 16 x 12. I enjoyed painting this as I made a huge mess. First, water was slopped on so that the paper was extremely wet and then the reds, yellows and blues were applied. The fun part began when I turned the paper to the side, allowing the colors to blend nad bleed off the edge. After the background dried, I masked the reflection I wanted to cover and then was able to paint around it before pulling it off to show the colors in between the blacks. In between, I painted the sailboat and did it directly on top of the colors already there because I wanted it to have a translucent feel to where I even rubbed much of the paint off. This painting is on cold-pressed Arches paper and unframed.
***** As a watercolorist, I take my inspiration from the places I've lived and visited. Many of my paintings were done while living in Florida. Now that I'm living in North Carolina, I can hopefully expand my base to more of the native species of flowers and animals here. Ever since I was a small girl, I have always loved, nature - felt a part of the beauty and order which surrounds us everyday. The intricacies of colors in nature astounded me. I remember a starling that had been shot and I found alive back when I would nurse animals back to health. Starlings are known as ugly birds but as I looked at it in the sunlight, I was amazed with the myriad of colors reflected back at me. Blues, purples, reds all invaded my...
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Aurelio Zucco
Exceptional work! L/F
Lil Taylor replied:
Thank you, Aurelio!
Christopher James
One of your peers nominated this image in the 1000 views Groups nominated images by your fellow artist in the Special Features #16 promotion discussion. Please visit and pass on the love to another artist.....L/F/Tw
Lil Taylor replied:
Thanks so much, Christopher!! It is an honor!!
Beverly Guilliams
Nominating this Beauty into the 1000 Views,Group............v./f.
Christopher James
Congratulation.....your wonderful work has been featured in the 1000 Views on 1 Image Group l/f/p
John Bailey
Congratulations on being featured in the Fine Art America Group "Images That Excite You!"
Lil Taylor replied:
Thank you, John!! I'm so happy to be featured!! :)
Lil Taylor
Thank you, Jerry!! This is my Van Gogh color dream!! :)
Jerry Bokowski
Lil, there is just something very captivating about this....the vivid colors and silhouetted sail boat work very well together! FAV Jerry
Lil Taylor
Thank you, Lisa, for hosting this contest. I appreciate the kind words! :)
Lisa Wooten
Thank you for participating in my contest. Nice vibrant colors. L
Lil Taylor
Thank you, Robert for the feature!!!
Lil Taylor
Thanks, Ernestine for the feature in Harmony and Happiness. I felt this one really embodied the group!!
Lil Taylor
Thanks again, Paul for the feature!!
Jolanta Anna Karolska
Well...fancy that!! knew this was yours Lil!! bravo!! Good luck !! f/v
Lil Taylor replied:
You know me so well!!! And good luck to you, my friend!!
Lil Taylor
Thank you, Elizabeth!!! It feels like a dream, doesn't it?
Elizabeth S Zulauf
Calming and beautiful colors, Lil! WOW! =) F/V
David Kehrli
Lil, just voted for this, but seems some of my votes aren't being counted, so please let me know. I just love the effect you've achieved here.
Lil Taylor replied:
Thank you very much, David. I'm sorry but I didn't see your mail until after the contest was over.
Pamela Meredith
love this so nice and bright voted
Lil Taylor replied:
Thank you so much for you sweet comments and your vote!! I really appreciate it!
Lil Taylor
Anne, thank you for visiting my works and taking the time to comment. I love the way you describe the paintings and you remind me of myself. I promise after the holidays are over or if I can get the time, I'll check out and do some commenting myself. Thanks SO MUCH!!
Lil Taylor
Thank you so much. I really appreciate the kind comments and being in the group.
Jennifer Blenkinsopp
wonderful watercolour, great colour and composition.
Chris Gudger
This is lovely. This entire painting is wild light reflecting wild light. Wonderful!!
Ken Day
Really lovely piece of artwork Lil. Very talented job on this piece.
Lil Taylor
Thank all of you so much for your kind comments. I promise when I finish this painting I'm working on now, I will visit and comment on everyone of your sites. How sweet for you to take the time to visit my site, Emma, Pit and Farah. I've been back less than two weeks and I have some payback for my friends to get busy with. :)
Farah Faizal
beautiful work..love the colors n the way u did with the reflection...