Just lovely.
Used salts for the effect?
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Thanks for the nice comment and, yes....I love the effects you can get with salt when working with transparent watercolors. I'm now trying to learn computer-generated art since I can't see well enough to paint any longer. Anything to pacify the creativity beast, right? 
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This is heaps nice, love the colours.. Ive never heard of using salt before.. pls explain. 
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Thanks, betina...glad you liked it. Salt....all I can tell you is how I use it, okay? If you're familiar with transparent watercolor, you know about wet-into-wet, right? Well, when the wet has partially dried (not really wet, but still shiny)I grab my salt shaker (just like the ones you use at the table) and sprinkle a light covering wherever I want effects and, as in the case of this particular painting, around the edges to stop any color from spreading past the salt which will also give it a vignetted appearance. Once the paint and grains of salt are totally dry (I personally use a 1200W hairdryer to make sure of dryness)I brush the salt off with my fingers, uaing as light a touch as possible. Some people use colored salt -- I don't, don't really like the effect. When the salt is removed by brushing it brings with it whatever pigment it landed on that was wet. Any tips more precise than that are sorta useless. Only way to tell what works for you is trial and error. Hope I didn't bore you with more than you ever wanted to know about salt. LOL.
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Oh no, Mary! Please don't spend hours at your pc painting. It deteriorates your eyesight faster as well. But you love art as much as myself so my words are probably falling upon deaf ears, huh? I myself have to go and get a new prescription for my double vision/blurriness from my years of cg painting on this artificially radidiated light monitor.
*sigh* We're cursed to be slaves to our pc canvases I suppose.
Oh, great piece by the way!
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