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Anne Hathaway's Cottage - who became the old bard's wife

Last post 12-10-2009 5:36 PM by Dianne Paine. 3 replies.
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  • 12-10-2009 11:57 AM

    Anne Hathaway's Cottage - who became the old bard's wife

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    Anne Hathaway was the wife of William Shakespeare. They were married in 1582, and had a son together called Hamnet Shakespeare - sketch followed by detailed watercolour then also taken into psp to convert to sepia


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  • 12-10-2009 5:14 PM In reply to

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    I like the sepia tones that you have used here Tolouse.  Unfortunately for my taste I feel that there is too much similiar detail between the hedge, the roof and the trees behind.  Not sure that in this case there was all that much you could do about it.

  • 12-10-2009 5:26 PM In reply to

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     I agree - as I was doing it the thatched roof looked just like the hedge, as they would in real life I suppose, so I blurred the thatch a little to try and differentiate, at the same time doing the same to the foliage, to make matters worse because the whole thing was in sepia tonally there was little difference either. One of these days I will redo the whole thing.

    children paint because they don't know they can't - so what happens as we become adults? - Me
    Life is very nice, but it has no shape. The object of art is actually to give it some, and to do it by every artifice possible - truer than the truth. - Jean Anouilh 1910-87

  • 12-10-2009 5:36 PM In reply to

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    I've had another thought on this one.

    Perhaps Tolouse because you were using sepia you could have darkened one of those areas to increase the contrast a little between them?  I know that wouldn't work in colour but with not using colour maybe it might have?   Just a thought.
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