Finished this pastel painting today

[LiberalLoner]

10x8 on Luxarchival paper. Thank you for looking and for any critiques.

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I will probably make some small changes to it after I look at it awhile.

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1. Beautiful...love the colors.

[WheelWalker]

2. Indeed. Almost tie dye. Begs for mushrooms.

[LiberalLoner]

37. LOL thank you! ❤️

[LiberalLoner]

36. Thank you so much! ❤️

[Jade Fox]

3. Gorgeous. I love the colors and the composition.

[LiberalLoner]

38. Thank you so much! ❤️

[underpants]

4. ✅

[LiberalLoner]

39. 😍

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5. If you do make prints available, please let us know...

I have very little room in the motorhome, but I'd love to have about a 12-18 inch print.

[LiberalLoner]

40. Thank you so much, 😍 I would like to offer you and everyone else here the right

To download my image and print and use as you wish. I think copy shops make art quality prints with digital images? I’ve never tried so I’m not sure.

But please feel free to use any of my paintings I post here for prints, screen savers etc. the only thing I ask is for it to be personal use rather than professional or resale.

❤️🌹☮️

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63. Thank you, that's very generous to art lovers everywhere.

[LiberalLoner]

65. 🥰

[LoisB]

6. That is beautiful. You are very talented.

[LiberalLoner]

41. Thank you so much! ❤️

[cate94]

7. Beautiful!

Excellent work!

[LiberalLoner]

42. Thank you so much! ❤️

[Walleye]

8. Powerful combination to color

[LiberalLoner]

43. Thank you so much! ❤️

[sinkingfeeling]

9. Lovely.

[LiberalLoner]

44. Thank you so much! ❤️

[GPV]

10. Gorgeous light!

[LiberalLoner]

45. Thank you so much! ❤️

[Oppaloopa]

11. Wonderful looks like Florida before the storm

[LiberalLoner]

46. Thank you so much! ❤️

[rubbersole]

12. Nice.

You're very talented.

[LiberalLoner]

47. Thank you so much! ❤️

[Grumpy Old Guy]

13. Beautiful!

[LiberalLoner]

48. Thank you so much! ❤️

[PatSeg]

14. Oh, that is stunning!

Thank you for sharing.

[LiberalLoner]

49. Thank you so much for looking! ❤️

[Joinfortmill]

15. 👍

[LiberalLoner]

50. 😍

[frogmarch]

16. Wow! It's breathtaking! Gorgeous!

[LiberalLoner]

52. Thank you so much! ❤️

[jmbar2]

17. I can't imagine the joy of being able to do this so well.

It's like your brain is it's own beautiful movie. Great talent!

[LiberalLoner]

53. Wow, thank you so so much! ❤️ Mostly I am very critical of my own work and get down a lot, tbh.

[iluvtennis]

18. It's very beautiful. I'm a left brain analytical engineer and just love right brain creative people

[LiberalLoner]

54. Thank you so so much, and I am in awe of you left brain geniuses! ❤️👏✌️🌹

[niyad]

19. Just lovely. Thank you for sharing.

[LiberalLoner]

55. Thank you so much! ❤️

[Collimator]

20. Astonishing!

I'm on the beach being overwhelmed by the color right now.

Wish I could capture reality. My abstracts are colorful, but they look like drug trips. (I don't actually do drugs.)

You have my most heartfelt sympathy regarding the urge to go back and change it. One of the most crucial challenges in any artistic endeavor is knowing when to stop.

Just look at George Lucas and how he keeps tweaking Star Wars.

[LiberalLoner]

56. Thank you so much! I love feedback from a fellow artist most of all,

And being able to sympathize with shared challenges! I am sure your work is awesome!

I read somewhere recently that we artists tend to hate our own work because it always looks like we made it and we keep hoping to get to a point where it will look like someone else made it, which just isn’t possible of course.

[Permanut]

21. Nicely done..

I hate people with talent though.

[LiberalLoner]

57. Lol thanks! ❤️ I don't feel like I have any talent though, I just refuse to quit is all.

[Wounded Bear]

22. Well done!

[LiberalLoner]

58. Thank you so much! ❤️

[flying rabbit]

23. Very nice!

The colors are excellent

[LiberalLoner]

59. Thank you so much! ❤️

[COL Mustard]

24. It's not in my house....

That's my critique....beautiful...

[LiberalLoner]

60. LOL thank you so much! ❤️

[AllaN01Bear]

25. wow. lovely. what medium may i ask? thanks . ur so talented .

[LiberalLoner]

32. Thank you so much! Soft pastel, on an 8x10 piece of pastel paper.

[lucca18]

26. Wow! Really beautiful!

You are very talented!

[LiberalLoner]

61. Thank you so much! ❤️

[c-rational]

27. Wow! Simply wow.

[LiberalLoner]

62. Thank you so much! ❤️

[MontanaMama]

28. Oh my gosh.

This is so beautiful, LL.

I owe you pix of Missoula. I haven’t forgotten. I hope all is well with you.

[LiberalLoner]

64. Oh gosh thank you so much! Hope all is well by you! ❤️

To be honest I’ve been being trolled on Twitter and was feeling blue and down on myself but I walked away from there and am starting to feel better now. If I told you who was responsible for the trolling you would never believe it in a million years…

[MontanaMama]

66. Twitter can be such a sewer.

It takes courage to share your work with the world. It takes no personal courage to troll. Stay strong. Keep being you.

ETA: I saw the painting you posted to twitter. It is just beautiful.

[LiberalLoner]

69. Thank you so so so much 🤗🤗🤗🤗a kind word from a friend means everything...

[Duppers]

29. Beautiful!

Do you sell prints?
(cannot afford paintings, unless they are very inexpensive.)

I have a friend in FL, dying of cancer, who'd love this.

TY for sharing with us.

[LiberalLoner]

31. Not yet, but I'm cool with anyone downloading my images and printing off a print,

A lot of printers now let you make really nice prints from digital photos. I’m not picky, as long as someone isn’t trying to sell my work to others, I am happy to let people use my image for personal use, prints, screen savers, etc.

If you feel okay sending me an address, yours or the friend, I will send the original for free. I’d feel really good about doing that random act of kindness. Our world needs more acts like that I think.

It’s small, it’s only 8x10. I’m kind of cheap when it comes to buying paper. I keep telling myself I need to buy some bigger paper and then my paintings would look better, but it’s hard to get out of the habit of not wanting to spend much.

But if you framed it (pastels have to be framed behind glass to prevent smudging as they never “dry” in a sense) you could make it seem bigger. I usually buy an 11x14 frame with an 8x10 mat from Amazon. They don’t cost too much if you don’t get a really super fancy frame.

[Duppers]

33. Omg! You are the nicest person!!

I'll send her addy....she's in Palm Harbor.

Warmest THANKS!!

[LiberalLoner]

34. 😍🤗❤️🌹☮️

[Duppers]

35. And back at ya!

❤️❤️❤️🌹🌹🌹

🤗

[bif]

30. Beautiful!

[LiberalLoner]

51. Thank you so much! ❤️

[peacebuzzard]

67. Powerful pastels,

it really jumps out...beautiful art work.

[LiberalLoner]

68. Thank you so much! ❤️

[lunatica]

70. I can smell the salty ocean air!

This reminds me of a vacation I took with a group of college students and spent the entire time on a beach in Mexico in a small town named Zihuatanejo. We camped behind a sand dune on the edge of a jungle in a small bay. It was so hot that one guy in the group would go wild struggling to get out of the tent and then run screaming into the surf to cool down. Eventually all of us followed him.

It was gorgeous there. Our beach was in a half moon shaped bay on the side of a peninsula and we could trek through some jungle to the other side of the jut of land where there were cliffs overlooking the Pacific Ocean. From that height we could see Manta Rays swimming under the water close to the cliffs. It was marvelous! I have never forgotten the magical feeling of that place and I’m grateful for the experience. We ate fresh catch of the day in an open space restaurant hut on the beach where we could watch the locals cook freshly caught fish, clams and sea turtles over a makeshift fire. Though I must say I couldn’t bring myself to eat turtle and only ate one clam because when I squeezed some lime on the remaining clams they squirmed! They were supposed to be eaten alive but I was unable to eat any more of them.

Your painting brought it all back to me because that’s how our beach looked because Zihuatanejo is on the West coast of Mexico, a couple of hours drive north along the coast from Acapulco, but not yet a huge tourist center. I can feel the waves washing around my ankles and see the luminescence of our footprints when we walked on the beach at night. It’s another, very magical world!

Thanks so much!

[LiberalLoner]

71. Thank YOU so much dear friend, your posts are always pure gems and much appreciated.

Once again for the millionth time I am wishing with all my might we could be neighbors and I could have lunch with you and paint with you and listen to you for hours on end because everything you say is magic…

[lunatica]

72. Right back at ya!

You always inspire me with your art! On many levels.

[LiberalLoner]

73. ❤️❤️❤️❤️