Creative Tuesday - Store Front
I think I prefer the black and white version, as the sky in the colored painting is too dark for my taste. I usually do a pale wash for background, but I have noticed that when I scan my finished product some of the color fades and, as a result, the sky looks almost white. Has anyone else found this to be the case?
At any rate, I made an effort to really blue that ol' sky this time but now I think that I overdid it. Oh well. What's done is done...at least as far as this week's contribution is concerned.
I loved the topic this week; buildings are fun.
Janice, that's funny, because i knew you;d like he theme. never forgot that building in the woods for short and tall. So well done as is this. I love them both. Yes, light blues are hard for scanners to pick up. It is so easy to go too dark on skies too. As it is, I love the red of the store and i agree that there is a sharp sketchy feel to the BW version too. I will show them both. GREAT job. you relaly knocked yourself out again. TY. :)
ReplyDeleteThis is just so fantastic and nostalgic, makes me wish for simpler times. :-)
ReplyDeleteA General Store is such a perfect pick for store front theme.
ReplyDeleteLove the detail, the color, and that little kiten waiting for the owner to come out with a saucer of milk.
Like the b&w too. both delightful!
Great job Janice. I like them both too. If you are like me I have so much art around I have not idea what to do with it. Sometimes I do one subject 5 or 6 times and all different for sure.
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Fabulous job on both pictures. I think the blue sky gives it drama. Love the little cat waiting patiently.
ReplyDeleteI love your general store... oh those were the days... it's mainly horrid convenient supermarkets... our general store when I was growing up, was called Mr Wibbly's... he was a wonderful man, his shop always smelt of chocolate and tobacco and polished wood...
ReplyDeleteI think the colored version looks lovely! I love the pen lines!
ReplyDeleteoooh, I love this building! I love good old-fashioned general stores!
ReplyDeleteYour sky looks great against the red, but I know what you mean, watercolors just look so light, too on my scanner.
Great details, in this one, too!
have a great night!
Your General Store is so charming. I like the blue sky the way it is...perfect with the red. I also like the little kitty sitting out front : )
ReplyDeleteI like both versions! Lovely job on your general store.
ReplyDeleteI like the blue sky. I think the shade is goes well with the house but I do like the black and white better somehow. it seem to have that old-fashion feeling to it.
ReplyDeleteA lovely old general store! I have trouble with the scanner changing my colors on some things, too. Sometimes fiddling with the gamma setting of the scanner program helps.
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