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Monday, May 4, 2009

Illustration Friday: Hierarchy . Colorful cactuses


Hierarchy of colors in a cactus.
I painted this illustration with watercolor on paper.
I was inspired by this beautiful photo of cactuses in Arizona
by Sparklerama.

Wish I could grow such a big cactus at home :)
My grandma had a huge cactus, 1.2 meters and she
had grown it herself, but I think it took something
around 30 years for her cactus to grow that big.


This is the sketch of my illustration.

And here is the painting in my hand!

25 comments:

  1. That is gorgeous! Lovely shapes, colors, saturation variety, it's all so lovely. I'll be checking out the rest of your blog now.

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  2. Truly Gorgeous. Really pretty.

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  3. great job on this illustration, love your take and execution!

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  4. Aww...this is so beautiful and sweet :O)

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  5. This is amazing! But, may I suggest...if you plan to plant cactus, be very careful, cause it could effect your aura/life energy. Especially with a BIG one.
    Good day to you!

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  6. This is really sooooooo pretty!

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  7. it's so beautiful... love the colours and the birds!!!

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  8. This is supremely dreamy :) I wish I could grow a cactus like this as well!

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  9. that is the most beautiful wonderful pretty cactus I have seen in a long while!

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  10. Nice combination of colors and rounded shapes! The print is marvelous and neat , lovely, good job sis :X

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  11. Wonderful ! you are so talent !

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  12. wow! Afi, definetly this is my favorite, love the diferent colors you used and the little birds, you should check the ones growing in México.

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  13. This is lovely - such a clean looking illustration!

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  14. oh wow! I wish I was this good with watercolors! great depth!

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  15. you are soooo talented! this is absolutely beautiful!

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  16. Nice subtle variations in colors. Like this a lot.

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  17. love the muted colours in this - very nice!

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  18. I watched this marvellous drawing, from there I jumped onto Flickr-photos with stunning little creatures that you made...it was just a nice journey to travel a while trough your world. I come back for sure!
    Greetz from Belgium!
    Kathy

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  19. Thanks a lot to all of you for visiting and leaving such sweet comments! :) You encourage me to work more!!!

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  20. Oh, JooJoo! This is the most be-YOOOOO-tiful cactus! I love the soft colors and all the repetitions of roundness. Fantastic!

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  21. It is beautiful! I love how you painted this.

    Why don't you come over to my blog (http://painteddaisies.blogspot.com/) and join us and put your url on Mr Linky?!

    Happy Cactus Monday and IF!

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  22. This is stunning!!!!!!!!!! What a beautiful painting!!! :o)

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  23. Amazing colors and beautiful drawing! Your work is great!

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