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Friday, June 3, 2011

The Secret Garden

This is a small fantasy piece I did this afternoon on YUPO paper. I call it "The Secret Garden!" It is approximately 4" x 5" and will probably become a greeting card. It is amazing how many colors you can get from the three primaries - I used pthalo blue, cadmium yellow medium and quinacridone red - and all these colors are mixtures of those three. Although I know that you can get all colors from the primaries, I still find these many colors totally amazing when it happens!

4 comments:

Autumn Leaves said...

Beautiful colors indeed, Barb. These remind me of jellyfish for some reason!

Gillian Mowbray said...

I so feel the need to get hold of some Yupo after seeing this. I agree with Sherry ^ it looks like a tropical seascape. Really vibrant.

Barb Sailor said...

Thanks,Sherry - I can see the resemblence to jellyfish life forms.

Barb Sailor said...

Gillian - perhaps I should have named it "underwater garden!" Thanks for your comments!