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Burano Venice Italy

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TerryCurley
Burano Venice Italy is known for being the most colorful town in the world. I think I will be doing many more paintings of this town. The buildings look a little dirty and run down in my painting because that's the way it was in the reference. You can see I didn't keep exactly to the script. Please feel free to make suggestions for improvement.

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TerryCurley
Thank you Steve and Susan, I really appreciate the encouragement.
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Thank you Jim.
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I decided to wipe off the dark cloud. It was an after thought on the painting and I didn't think it looked good.

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Thank you Jim, Steve, Stever. The reason I removed the dark cloud was because I realized there was no bright sunlight on the buildings or anywhere and I wanted to create a reason for that. But it didn't work. The original photo has a greyish sky. I should have been true to the photo in that respect.
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Thanks Liz and ABT.
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Thank you Susan.
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dickhutchings said:
This turned out great! What's the deal with wiping off the clouds? Was everything else dry?
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Yes, everything else was dry. The clouds were an after thought and not a good one.
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dickhutchings said:
So you had no fear of wiping off the sky underneath?
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I think the first time I did something like that I had a fear but it worked out perfectly and I never have been afraid to do it since. I'm guessing you didn't try wiping off the purple ocean for fear of ruining it?
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dickhutchings said:
I haven't done it because I just haven't had the time to get back to it. I wonder if the paint is still wet in my my Stay Wet pallet. I didn't add anything to it so it's most likely dry by now. Maybe I'll check it tonight.
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If it isn't dry by now then you are not using Walnut Alkyd Medium, you are using Walnut Oil medium. It should be dry in two days at most. I once bought Walnut Oil by mistake. What I did was buy some Liquin and mixed the two together and that worked great.
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