I’ve lucked into a magical palette. Creatures just keep showing up! This one is children’s illustration-ish. I’ve pushed the PS vibrance up a little and smudged here and there.
Palette Creatures
June 18, 2013
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Comments on: "Palette Creatures" (78)
Ok this is so Beautiful i love this. Is a print available?
Thank you GD! I can make it available on Blue Canvas-a click on the right hand margin:)
Wow, fire breathing dragon petals and such delicacy!
Oh it’s gorgeous! I can imagine a silk scarf..
There’s a good idea! Thanks Cath!
How wonderful, fire breathing dragons… how you capture the imagination and transport us to fantasy 🙂
So nice to say. Thank you:)
it’s magic what you can do with blended colors. 🙂
It’s the palette that’s magic;) Thank you:)
I mix my colors directly on my paper, so there are no creatures on my palette. Love this!
Thank you!
Love it Elena! So many creatures of all kinds and colours 🙂
Thanks!
Oh wow! oh wow! I LOVE it! My favourite type of dragon..the beautiful friendly types! 😀 and a little whimsical smokey sort of an elemental child sitting on it ! The whole thing is just SO lovely! Eeek! LOL
Thank you Shree!
Those creatures have the same spontaneity and freshness as the images emerging from the turbulent eddies of our dreams and visions.
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I see them there too;) Thanks Marcelo
Now this, I would seriously love to hang a copy of in my new abode.
I’d be honored Troy:)
A magical dragon and so many little faces, just delightful!
Thank you!
Fantastic! I love this painting! Thank you, dear Elena, for sharing!
Big hugs, much love, Stefania! 🙂
Thank you!
As always…I am so loving this!!!
🙂 I’m glad Robin!
Brilliant Elena – love the dragons and colors, and fluidness to this piece. You have the most incredible imagination, it’s a mark of creativity that makes you standout as an artist.
You are so kind Mary. Really, creatures just jump forward!
LOVE!
Thanks Carol!
Oh I say . What am I seeing here ….all manner of goodly elusive creatures . To be sure it IS magic !
So lovely Elena .
Thanks much Poppy:)
Love it…the colours. Xx
Nothing like watercolor color! Thanks Jane:)
Wonderful work Elena. Truly magical!
Thanks Uday!
how fun!
Thanks!
So many creatures and faces all over the palette. Really fun to just dig in and find them all (and I am sure there are many more than I could figure out). So vibrant and alive!
Thanks Otto:)
very cool
Thanks!
You’re really good with your PS edits. This is beautiful 🙂
Thanks Allyson Marie:)
wow. wow. wow!
🙂 Thanks!
Super neat! Definitely a red dragon, and above, a blue-haired purple pixie trying to catch a ride! Maybe even a ghostly creature in front. Wonderful color!
Yes! You’ve got them. Thanks Cindy:)
Quite lovely! I’m sure my palettes never did this 🙂
You have to buy the palette during the vernal equinox;) Thanks Richard!
Brilliant energy and magical creatures for sure! This is vibrant in every way, beautiful.
There is an oriental feel to it, dragons and slippery fish…
Thanks so much Karen!
Amazing. It looks like an area of the Mandelbrot set. I love it!
Hadn’t thought about it like that. Thank you!
What beautiful colors! And I can see a magical “seahorse/dragon-like” creature coming out of the red.
Wonderful! 🙂
Yes;) Thanks Jess!
A feast for the imagination – with an oriental flavour!
Thanks Louis:)
Dragons 😀 Nice !
Gotta love dragons. Thanks Helen:)
Love it! It’s a wonderful image.
Thanks very much:)
This is awesome Elena!
Thanks Tim:)
i suddenly saw a palette & coffee stain (ute schatzmuller) exhibition! terrific
I’d enjoy that. Thanks!
I love it when art is left to happen… it is usually when the Muse kicks in full swing!
True-much fun:)
Magical palette? That is a piece of luck!
Yes, truly-pictures compose themselves!
Beautiful creatures, Elena! Magical palette indeed!
🙂
Thank you Marina:)
Goldfish dragon! Goldfish dragon!!
Yeah! A hybrid for sure:)
Very cute ! And it looks more wild !
What ever the approach, the end product is the matter.
Thank you Yoshi!
Very cool! I would hang it in my rooms!
How big is it?
Thanks:) Small-about 7″x7″
That’s a pitty! I’m sure, this would be even more effictive in XL size!
But I’m no artist of course…