heppnerguy Posted May 22, 2014 Report Share Posted May 22, 2014 this is a Steve Good pattern that I downloaded and printed some time back and I found it laying around the shop, so I decided, "What the heck" and cut it. My wife came into the shop and said that would go perfect with my hummingbird intarsia piece you made for me. So I ask her if I should try to colorize it because several people suggested that I might do that on the last item I put here a couple of days ago. So I took a crack at it. Not too awfully bad this time. Not one of my talents. What do you people think ? should I have just left it natural ? Looking for an honest answer on this. It could effect what I do in the future. Dick heppnerbuy LarryEA 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LarryEA Posted May 22, 2014 Report Share Posted May 22, 2014 If I could do this anonymously, I would, but you asked for it. LOL... just kidding. Here's my thoughts. The painting on the flowers looks good. But it makes the rest of it look unfinished. JMHO Larry Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DWSUDEKUM Posted May 22, 2014 Report Share Posted May 22, 2014 Nicely cut Dick. Love the flowers, might want to make the hummers stand out a bit more. Overall I like this one .Thanks for sharing this with us. DW LarryEA 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amazingkevin Posted May 23, 2014 Report Share Posted May 23, 2014 It's a keeper,great looking coloring,well done Keep them coming! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wombatie Posted May 23, 2014 Report Share Posted May 23, 2014 It looks great but I agree with Larry it looks unfinished. I love the flower but it leaves the birds looking a bit flat. Marg LarryEA 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lawson56 Posted May 23, 2014 Report Share Posted May 23, 2014 I have to go along with the rest,At the very least color the background a sky blue maybe,to bring out the humming birds. LarryEA 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thatknobtony Posted May 23, 2014 Report Share Posted May 23, 2014 Very nice Dick but I made the mistake of showing the wife. Guess what, that's right will be making one as well. When will I ever learn? keefie 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frankorona Posted May 23, 2014 Report Share Posted May 23, 2014 Excellent job. Personally I like are the red flowers and hummingbirds in natural color, make a good contrast and looks much work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron Johnson Posted May 23, 2014 Report Share Posted May 23, 2014 Excellent job in cutting of a fine pattern Dick. My opinion would be to emphasize the subject when using paint or any other medium. What you've done still looks terrific but over all unfinished. LarryEA 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bendita Posted May 23, 2014 Report Share Posted May 23, 2014 A wonderful piece Dick, but like everyone else I find the overall piece unfinished I personally would varnish the whole thing including the flower and think that will pull the whole thing together. Right now your eyes are drawn directly to the flower not the birdies where there is real beauty so you need to take that away and by varnishing the whole thing it will pull it together. I would use a mat Varnish not glossy you don't want it to jump of the picture and bite you so keep it down with a nice flat tint. A great piece just the same Dick you did well Congratulations on a piece of art and give your wife a big hug for suggesting it LarryEA 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robbert100 Posted May 23, 2014 Report Share Posted May 23, 2014 in my opinion, steve goode has used the wrong flowers that gives it a bit of a strange impression to me that the birds do not belong there it does not feel naturalbut if women like it then who am I? LarryEA 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heppnerguy Posted May 23, 2014 Author Report Share Posted May 23, 2014 Thank you all for your input. I really had a lot of the same feelings as I looked at this one. I am not too much for colorization done by me because I just am not very good at doing that. I agree with robbert100 on the flower, I too that it was truly the wrong flower for this piece. I thought the design on the flower was really well done by Steve Good, but not really appropriate for the hummingbird. I might try this again some time and try to improve on the colorization, as I call it. but to be honest with all of you, it just is something that I don't feel I have much skill in that phase of this art. I also think that a water color like the ones we used as kids for coloring books or a food color mixture might work better than the acrylic I used here. Thanks again for all your imput. I love the honesty, I asked for and the ideas that was already my thinking as I looked at it too. Dick heppnerguy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keefie Posted May 23, 2014 Report Share Posted May 23, 2014 Dick, sorry to say it, but I too have to agree with all the others, the painted flower looks great, but it leaves the humming birds needing some colour too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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