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Layne (Feb 17, 2010)
drawn in 12 min

Layne (Feb 17, 2010)
drawn in 7 min

something wacky was going on with the applet.

Layne (edited Feb 18, 2010)
drawn in 25 min

Layne (Feb 17, 2010)
drawn in 18 min

davincipoppalag (Feb 18, 2010)

Prettty,. It has a sort of Native American feel

lori (Feb 18, 2010)

it's beautiful...

Layne (Feb 18, 2010)
drawn in 22 min

Miss_DJ (Feb 18, 2010)

neat! nice colors

Suntan (Feb 18, 2010)

yes, it is. :)

Layne (Feb 27, 2010)
drawn in 29 min

Layne (Feb 27, 2010)
drawn in 9 min

well, i am tired of working on this. It turned out all right I think. I would have preferred to increase the hight of the canvas on this, but I dont know if you can do that using the applet I was using.

Teapot (Feb 27, 2010)

I bought all the illustrations from that book in card form about...erm...30 years ago. Still have them. Still love them. This is very, very pretty and has captured the feeling of his work.

Layne (Feb 27, 2010)

I am glad you like it. They republished the east of the sun and west of the moon about two(?) years ago in a really nice hardcover edition. :) I was so glad when i saw because while I had a book of his illustrations I really wanted to be able to read the stories that went along with all of his illustrations.

enjoydotcom (Feb 27, 2010)

Very attractive style, those soothing colors are great.

It would be a great contest, draw from your favorite artist. In his or her style.

mursku (Feb 27, 2010)

when i compare your piece with the original, the first thing that pops to my eyes is that the original looks like it was made with watercolors, while yours looks too smooth, there's hardly any texture.. i liked the texture you had going in the fifth version.
if you wanted to have texture like in the original painting, an easy (and quick!) way to do it, would be with a scatter brush (choose a high scatter count and you can maybe crank up the spacing too) on a separate layer. that way you can easily erase the eventual wayward dots from unwanted areas, and you can also play around with the blend mode and opacity (make it subtle)

..hmm, another thing that i noticed was that the original was much more sharper (darker and thinner lines).. i suck at line art so i'll not gonna try to give you any advice on that. You would only get worse if i tried to teach you line art :P