flower boxes

Based on reference photo by Emidio Machado called "Barcos 2" http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/26115218/ Check out his gallery...incredible photos..

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Full size it.

I have finished halfway into the exam so I am going to do another quite large one. Marcello gave me permission to do this.
I'm very pleased with how this came out. *grins*
I attempted the lens flare/flair 4 times. It was anoying. This is the best one though. :)

|| Sorry Method3 but I can't do any more to it because it comes up with an error. ||

Hate hate HATE these things.... Gave me a shiver all the while I painted it. Had to walk away a few times... The only good thing is I haven't gotten sloppy using a mouse.... God i hate these. Brrrrr.

The antenna may be a little off but I can't look at this anymore.

Playing around with techniques. Still need to try some with some tweaking in colors but hey. THere are some things I like (lips, eyes) and some that need some serious fixing (nose) I suck at skin tone but thought this was a lil better than usual. LOL

I had this dream on Friday, I'd forgotten it until I was doing some shopping and it popped into my head so I thought I'd share.

It was on my Aunts farm, in an area that doesn't exit anywhere on her property, but in dreams your mind compensates by convincing you you know it. There were hay stacks, one larger than the other, and myself, her and her son (my cousin) were walking around the area when we looked up and saw some Canada geese, I don't remember if they were flying north or south, we talked about them and noticed there were more than there should be. It started out as a small group in V formation (we commented on it in the dream) But suddenly it turned into a swarm of them not a flock, a swarm, and they began to look like they were landing, but really they were flying directly for us.

We didn't have time to get to the house, I noticed an old blanket in the hay and dove under that and my cousing threw my aunt on the hay and covered her with his body, then they came. They were at waist level when they flew by so I could feel them hit the blanket when they passed. *boomboomboom* Each one that swooped down hit it and my cousin and all we could do was wait till they passed. I lifted up the blanket to see how my aunt and cousin were and they gave me a worried look then buried their heads in the hay as more birds swooped down *boomboomboom* on the blanket as they hit, and I watched them fly up into the sky and join the rest.

After the last bird swooped, hit and flew off it was safe. We weren't hurt, surprisingly and we were like "What the hell was that? When did birds do that?" And walked back to the house. I woke up and thought *whoa* weird dream and hoped I'd remember it, now here it'll be in perpetuity.

Ewwww ...shuddder....

Mm, solids.

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