Frustrated

Well - it's interesting - just tilt your head when you look at it! I like it either way...

ellice

You might have concentrated too much on the illusion that resulted. Next time try concentrating on the reality that was in your mind?

I have never in my life been able to get a drawing or sculpture out my hands the way it looks in my head. I'll look at a cat and something comes out of my pencil that looks like a horse.

With the advent of CCS, I discovered that I do much better at it with colored squares. Maybe if my junior high art teacher had let me do all my drawings on graph paper?

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It works nicely though !

I think the dark on the left looks great. The gold on the right fades to the background. Junior high art teachers are terrible. Never would let me do things my way. If the project was a still life and I didn't want to do still life, I got a D for doing a perfectly great illustration of boat on the beach next to a dilapitated lobster shack. If we were doing trees and I did a still life, once again a D. I can only draw what the muse wants me to draw. Nothing on special order. Always do what seems right to your eye and to heck with what anyone else thinks. Which side do you prefer?

George

My mind likes the gold. My eyeballs like the green. Somewhere in between a little something is saying, "There's a better color out there--you just need to find it!"

Well, in a classroom setting (or work setting, for that matter), I can see the teacher's point. The teacher wants to grade a particular skill, which you did not demonstrate.

In my Adobe Illustrator class, our teacher was very conscientious about drilling it into us that graphic design is PRODUCTION work for pay and that time is of the essence. There is no muse on the clock. In that regard, I get it.

A good friend of mine is an artist at Hallmark Cards. They don't allow muses there.

I, however, am not on the clock (well, to a certain extent I am--I can't be palavering over one decision forever) and you are not on the clock (or under the gun for grades), so context is everything.

There are some places in the world muses aren't welcome, mores the pity.

You are 100% spot-on. I must fiddle with stuff and re-try and re-think everything as I'm going along.

Thank you.

I still have the feeling that there's a better color than that dark, dark green AND the gold, though if I could only have one or the other, I'd choose the green.

How about a dark green metallic instead of the gold if you are looking for glitz.

Or tweed the dark green with gold?

What about a green that's not so dark--maybe 2 or 3 shades darker than the background? You'd get the contrast without it being so in-your- face, so to speak.

HTH

Joan

Yes, that's precisely what I was thinking. I just ordered 8 different green Kreiniks to see if I can find what clicks.

It's like wanting something to eat, but not knowing what, but you'll know it when you see it.

I like both versions, but I too would try for a different green or a darker gold perhaps? I prefer the gold, it looks more elegant.

Nevertheless, it looks good both ways.

Is the same with Hardanger, I have an idea, I try to recreate it on the computer, by the end I sit down stitching it, before I draw the chart.

I reckon that's called creativitiy. Sometimes things also don't work the way you think em up.

Happy stitching Sibille