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Wow.. did you experience this or purely imagination that you were there? It s so amazing how you were able to capture the details at that moment. It looks so real. It also conveyed the feels to me as i have experienced be in the water like this. Lol

Hahahaha! Sorry that made me laugh out loud. I have never made paper myself but it is a goal of mine for this or maybe next year. I do believe there are a lot of online videos for if you wanna make some. Did your fly explosion come when you tried to blend your pulp? I hope you're adding enough water to it so that the paper bits don't catch on fire with the heat that the blender creates.

Thank you so much!

Wtf? Straight to the verbal abuse? I'm sorry that you've encountered rude people on Reddit. I evidently have too.

Wow. this gives me stranded and drowning vibes. The nature of the waves looks very realistic, Well done!

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I love the lavender! Also, the colors look wonderful together

How did you render the blurred out of focus part? I always wonder how artist do this. This looks awesome by the way. It really looks like a moving body of water.

Very cool!!!! Do you make your own paper? If so do you have any ideas of what to research to Start making paper. I made it before and caused a massive fly explosion because I clearly am one of those folks who is like The Fool from the tarot deck and gleefully leaps into the unknown. Most times that works out. The paper making turned fly experiment not so much!

Haha! That sounds so cool. Now it those Royal Grammas do look like signals being shot, lol.

The base material is a handmade paper stuck on layers of mount board. And then encased in a custom made float frame.

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Very cool! What is the base material?

Paper or something else? These look like Two planets full of coral reefs sending signals to the other!

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Thank you! But I prefer to leave it as it is.

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I never knew it was possible to draw realistic water in charcoal. The glints from the sun and the sense of motion is really peaceful

Very pretty. ♥️ if I might make a suggestion. The white line at the horizon kind of divides the painting in half. Just a few brush strokes to break that line a bit would fix that.

Thank you so much!!!

I love this so much. Very impressive, especially the "glinting" of the ocean from the sun's light. Excellent job!

WOW!! I can hear the water sloshing about!

This is really helpful, thank you! 😊

I was a huge fan of the Dillons. Leo and Diane Dillon were a husband and wife team who collaborated on artwork together. They mainly illustrated books covers including many for science fiction, fantasy books which is how I first discovered their work. Back in 1981 I bought a copy of The Art of Leo and Diane Dillion. But it’s just a thin book and of course only covers their work up to that time. I would love to find a book of their later works but I have searched over the years and there hasn’t been one published. They did so many wonderful covers. I am so disappointed that no one has ever published a comprehensive book of their work.