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One a Week: 16

2/17/2016

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Ducks on Ice.  I found this dopping of ducks loitering on the pond at Morris Arboretum two weeks ago. (Language geeks - check this.) 

The shapes appealed to me and I thought it a perfect subject to try out a watercolor exercise I recently read about. The exercise is to simplify the tone into just 4 values using a mixture of burnt sienna and ultramarine blue. This exercise reminded me a lot of the process of making a reduction linocut print.

Aren't these little guys so cute?!?

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Julie Mann
2/17/2016 12:08:24 pm

Want, please!

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Julia
2/17/2016 12:37:36 pm

You got it! I'll email you.

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John Mendez
2/17/2016 12:27:54 pm

Great Job!
I hope everyone is doing well. Tell Josh I said hello and the kids.

(your ex cleaner lol)

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Julia
2/17/2016 12:39:24 pm

Thanks!
Will do! I hope you like your new job!

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Gillian Bedford
2/18/2016 01:55:44 pm

I love it. It reads really nicely!

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Julia
2/18/2016 05:26:21 pm

Thanks, Gillian!

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Rob
2/24/2016 12:33:57 pm

This attractive attractive watercolor reminded me again of a French painters comment: "Summer is for the colorist; winter is for the designer". The black ducks on white,the tree trunk, the shadows, the sharp edge of water - what lovely a design, what fine composition. So pleading to look at.

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