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The Secret Gardenby ~emla

Traditional Art / Paintings / Illustration / Storybook

So, I started this personal piece about 18 months ago. I got tired of painting ivy and busy with professional work, and it was buried under a stack of sketches for a long time. I dug it up yesterday and decided to finish it.

It's a mock cover for "The Secret Garden." I may use it to play with typography later.

As a refresher, here is the sketch and line art from early 2010: [link]

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Given 2011-11-02

The Secret Garden by =emla ( Suggested by ~angelac and Featured by `Mollinda )

love 15 15

joy 5 5

~~wow 0 0~~

~~mad 0 0~~

sad 1 1

fear 1 1

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*RebeccaTripp May 9, 2012 Professional Traditional Artist

Hello! I'm making a series of art videos about flowers, and I was wondering if I could include this piece in one of my videos. It would be set to an original classical-style composition (by me) about this flower. I'll be sure to credit you and link to your page if you say yes. Here's a link to see the kind of music it is: [link]

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May a blessed light guide you.

*Pixx-73 Mar 27, 2012 Professional Digital Artist

Very precise and beautiful.

Congrats on DD.

~emla Mar 27, 2012 Professional Traditional Artist

Thank you.

*Pixx-73 Mar 28, 2012 Professional Digital Artist

A pleasure.

~xoxored Mar 19, 2012 Hobbyist Digital Artist

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- J'aime les personnes qui ont un coeur ouvert.
- I love the persons who have an opened heart.
- Quiero a las personas que tienen un corazón abierto.
- Jag gillar personer som har ett öppet hjärta
- Amo le persone con un cuore aperto

*Raph1966 Mar 14, 2012 Hobbyist Digital Artist

I gotta ask this since I don't really get a clue via your artist comments. Just what did you use? For a moment I thought it was colored pencil or watercolor pencil.

I ask because I'd like to do something a bit like this...only with a mouse gathering blueberries under a BB bush. Kind of a whimsy theme.

This is fantastic. A belated congrats on the DD.

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~emla Mar 14, 2012 Professional Traditional Artist

Thanks!

This painting is watercolor and gouache (basically watercolor witha chalky pigment added to make it opaque). Gouache is good for details but you might when to do some testing on a spare piece of paper to see how it handles.

*Raph1966 Mar 14, 2012 Hobbyist Digital Artist

Okay. I've been reading up on Gouache and watercolor. I figured it might've been that, or a thin acrylic.

Trying to get back to my "old traditional media roots". The detail in this is mindboggling.

Thanks for the information. ^^

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~hitoriLoner Feb 14, 2012

OMG. I love it so much!

~emla Feb 15, 2012 Professional Traditional Artist

Thank you.

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