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Wood Spirits in Nature #5, DONE!

Wood Spirits in Nature #5 - DONE!. People and nature are one, inter-connected.

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Wood Spirits in Nature #5, Tree Huggers

It's worth some (a little bit out of focus) close ups of these wood spirits. Tree huggers, I guess I'm just one of them.

 

 

 

As an aside, anyone out there have a close up lens for a Pentax that they're ready to let go of? Help, I need a better lens.

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Wood Spirits in Nature #5, Face Details

Besides painting the face details, I've added many more thin coats of paint to make this art work glow.

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Wood Spirits in Nature #5, Starting to Work

This version is a little better. I'm always disturbed until I paint the eye and face details, but that's still to come.

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Wood Spirits in Nature #5, Darks around Leaves

I'm using darks in the leaves to make the picture more crisp, but so far it's not working. I'll just have to keep plugging away until this picture works.

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Wood Spirits in Nature #5, Spirits Stand Out

Adding the flesh tones makes the spirits stand out from the leaves.

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Wood Spirits in Nature #5, First Coat of Paint

Putting the same color paint on the entire carved artwork makes the carving detail appear flat.

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