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carrolls_art
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| 05/06/2007 6:52 PM |
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In the discussion "what brand of cp do you use", I mentioned a picture that I did a number of years ago. This is it. I did it with (as well as I remember) assorted brands of pencils on a piece of mat board - full size. I don't remember that I used fixative, but I may have. It hangs on my mom's sunporch, gets right much light, is not under glass, and hasn't faded perceptibly. My husband and I owned a couple of parrots and I used bird books as reference.
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rpartin
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| 05/06/2007 10:01 PM |
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Carroll,
This is nice work.
What color was the matboard and was any of it not covered with the CP?
There does seem to be a small area in the center that looks faded. I think it must be glare. The rest looks so bright!
If this has been on a sunporch for over twenty years, it makes a huge statement as to the lightfastness of CP. I wish you knew what brands you used.
Thanks for sharing it.
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one who sees
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| 05/07/2007 7:35 AM |
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definetly says a lot about cp....considering this was done before the real debate about cps lightfastness came up!......loverly collection of birds! i enjoyed though..finding the ones that werent so out in the open...you have loads of em in there!!!
and even now many still use mat board for cp, i am not one, but many do and claim its just right! |
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vikingwife
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| 05/07/2007 8:04 AM |
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Hi Carroll.....
Vibrant! Looks like a birdie sanctuary.....love all the different parrots! I'm the one who started that "what brand of CP..." thread. Thanks for following up and posting this 
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heatherm
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| 05/07/2007 1:18 PM |
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| I can just imagine all those parrots gossiping together at the same time. Beautiful work. A great ad for CP's, if you remembered which CP's you used you could write to them and tell them. |
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carrolls_art
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| 05/07/2007 6:05 PM |
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| Hey everyone, thanks for your comments! The mat board was white, I think I covered every square inch, and there is some glare from the ceiling light. I took the picture in the evening. I like much smaller pieces now, it took FOREVER to complete!! :-D Even the whihte birds have color on them. |
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one who sees
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| 05/15/2007 9:11 AM |
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| receently i was introduced to a huge selection of birds, thanks jess!, and was floored at the size of the scarlet macaw up close! this is one huge gigantic bird!....they also had a very large cockatoo...and it was dwarfed, nearly, by the macaws size!....when working with such a variety of birds in an image...always make sure to gage that size in relationship to the others!....something i definetly realized when meeting all of the different types.....amazons, macaws, cockatoos of all kinds, parrotlets, love birds ect...it was amazing to see them all in one place so you could truly see how big! or how small they were! |
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carrolls_art
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| 05/15/2007 10:47 AM |
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I've had the opportunity to work with and own a number of different birds, parrots, and smaller. My first job was in a pet store that specialized in birds! They are wonderful creatures, and constantly interesting. The birds in the picture are all 1/2 their true size. I used my first hand knowledge and a bird manual that I had gotten from the pet shop, that had length of body and wingspan and that sort of stuff in it.
Now that I don't have a pet, I'm an avid birdwatcher, attracting as many kinds as I can to my yard!
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