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Fiddler Crab by *robertsloan2:iconrobertsloan2:

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Submitted: June 18, 2008
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ACEO size, 2 1/2" x 3 1/2"

Sumi-e ink ground from the stick, and red seal paste on 300lb Arches watercolor paper.

I finally carved the seal with my RAS initial from the small set, with somewhat ambiguous results. It looks cool though. This fiddler crab painting is my first sumi-e in a long time and I'm very happy with how it came out. I used a little dry brushing for the dark accents on the legs and back of the shell, while I used very wet washes for the streaks in the water.
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*Runewitch:iconRunewitch: Jun 18, 2008, 10:03:32 AM
Very neat looking.

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To know what is right and not do it is the worst cowardice~Confucius

Creo ergo sum
*robertsloan2:iconrobertsloan2: Jun 18, 2008, 10:19:15 AM
Thank you! I love sumi-e. It's been the inspiration for many of my Asian style watercolors, but now I'm using the original methods and ink and it's great.

I bought some rice paper from Dick Blick but need to get some thick white cotton flannel to put under it for painting for a blotter, so that I can do rice paper -- also rice paper is thin and soft so I might need to archivally mount it to watercolor paper afterward once I do that.

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Robert A. Sloan, writer and artist
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*Runewitch:iconRunewitch: Jun 18, 2008, 10:41:36 AM
I made a kite out of rice paper once. It was part of an interesting art class I took at Chabot College across the Bay in Hayward -- one of the things we had to do was design and egg crate that you could throw off the top of a two story building and have the eggs survive intact. It was a fun class.

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To know what is right and not do it is the worst cowardice~Confucius

Creo ergo sum
~Minstrel-Ayreon:iconMinstrel-Ayreon: Jun 18, 2008, 10:13:00 PM
Oooh. Very nice sumi-e look, and what you did with your signature REALLY completes the feel of the piece! I think that's particularly creative when you work even a signature into the creative work as a whole. :-)

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~Nekomarunosuke:iconNekomarunosuke: Jun 19, 2008, 3:21:44 AM
long time ago I also carve my signature on the stone for scrupture. my signature involve the not prane Kanji and hard to complete and the outcome isn't good. then I carve the negative space and leave the word. finally I don't use it. if the outcome become well, it won't be match with my colored pencil taste.

once I've made the animal stump from the sweet potato, the sweet potato is much softer than stone and easy to make but it's not durable.
~artistichobbit:iconartistichobbit: Jul 4, 2008, 8:00:24 PM
nice work i really like this .

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*robertsloan2:iconrobertsloan2: Jul 16, 2008, 3:01:17 PM
Thank you! I'm having fun with the Asian painting techniques. I bought some Chinese watercolors and I'm hunting around for a palette to use with them so I can try those with this style.

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Robert A. Sloan, writer and artist
Visit Explore-Oil-Pastels-with-Robert-Sloan.com, my oil pastels site!
*robertsloan2:iconrobertsloan2: Jul 16, 2008, 3:08:34 PM
Hmm... that would be an interesting approach. Temporary but fun, to do printing with a sweet potato. I could do entire art works doing that, use the potato and then throw it away when I'm done with the set of prints. I think of the texture of a sweet potato and it is firm enough to get some good detail!

Then once I'm done, cut off the part that's stained and the rest can still be cooked and eaten. If I do all the printing in one day anyway.

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Robert A. Sloan, writer and artist
Visit Explore-Oil-Pastels-with-Robert-Sloan.com, my oil pastels site!
*robertsloan2:iconrobertsloan2: Jul 16, 2008, 3:09:07 PM
Thank you! I always do try to work the signature in as a balancing element in the composition. I had to develop an eye for where to place it and how to make it look.

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Robert A. Sloan, writer and artist
Visit Explore-Oil-Pastels-with-Robert-Sloan.com, my oil pastels site!
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