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Okay, got it. Show me more!!

The reflections are easy for me... it's the actual water colour I can't get. Does that colour vary? I just did an autumn tress near water. I have stunning reflections but I can't get the rest of the water to look "real". What do I do? There is obvious space for "real" water, so it can't all be reflections.

Your paintings are helping though, you and I have a very similar style! But I tend to overwork my details too much sometimes...sigh. I don't know when to STOP.

I glaze the water with a brush and pull it from one side to the other. Pull it right over the reflective tree.You have to make sure the brush gets dry in spots so you get the 'sparkle' look on the water.

I wish I knew how to put pictures on here without having to go and 'copy' and 'paste' from Facebook. I have a lot more paintings in a folder that I could post but alas...can't seem to be able to do it.I've done the green tree icon above but it asks for 'URL's and I don't have that information.

You asked if the color varies. Look at the water under the lilies....It's not the real color of water but it works, and I think it's more interesting than just plain blue water. Do you agree?

I know what you mean about overworking....that's tough because you want to make the detail better and then all of a sudden you cross the line and it gets muddy. I still have that struggle at times. I find my best paintings are the shortest in time. They always look fresh. Let's see what you've done Barb..maybe that would help to give you info.

Sun...this is framed into a 16X20. It has a 3 inch matt. So the image is a quarter watercolor sheet.

The water washes I used a 1 in. Winser Newton and the other are a # 6 and # 4. The last two are rounds with a very nice point on them.

Thank you for the nice words.

I'm working in pastels, soft pastel, but might bring out my watercolour brushes today to get it done right!! Can't figure out how to post as I use Firefox!!!

Ladies, to post pictures on an Internet forum you must first have them hosted somewhere.  Artsee is cutting and pasting them from facebook and is able to do so because they have been "uploaded" to facebook and therefore hosted by facebook.

There are different photo hosting sites.  A free one that I use is Photobucket.

http://photobucket.com/

Setup an account and upload your pictures.

Once they are uploaded, here's how you post them.  I've included some "screen shots" & hope that helps.

Get the link code from the hosting site.  For photobucket, if you load the image and then click on it in photobucket you will see an option to share.  Click on Share and then click on the "get link code" tab.  The screen should look something like this ...

The easiest way to get the picture here is to copy the code in the block for "Direct link for layout pages (MySpace backgrounds and custom websites)". 

I'm assuming you guys know how to copy the line.  If not, let me know.  Once you have it copied, come back to your post on BCO and click on the little image of the tree in the tool bar.  It's next to the smiley face.

The following screen will pop up ...

Now all you have to do is paste the line you copied from photobucket on the line "Image URL" and then click the Insert button. 

Okay ... I hope all that makes sense.  If not, please let me know and I'll try to help more.  By the way, I ONLY use Firefox.  I hate, hate, HATE, Internet Explorer!

Since that was probably very boring, here's a pic of some of my flowers to brighten this post a bit.

My flowers

I can tell you how to post a pic that way too, if you wanna know.  It's really not hard.

Lovely

Wouldn`t it be MOONlight? Artsee we have very, very similar styles, I wish I could post some of my pics!!!! I have decided to focus on clouds. I tend to do `series`when I do art and this time I have fallen in love with the way pan pastels blend so beautifully to do clouds!!!!

Who is it that mentioned pan pastels first? I`d like to thank her!!!!! I have almost 40 pans already and am on the hunt for some pastels. Amazing that I bought all the dark, earthy ones thinking that was the way I was going to go, and know find myself doing pastel pastels!!! The grays I have are amazing. I bought those in a 5-pack. I use every single one of them.

On Monday I want to pick up apricot, pale pink, and pale purple. Love planning it all out!

Do you ladies always use the gallery thickness of canvases? I do prefer the 2 inch depth, but wonder if you sell your work as well when it is on the thinner canvases? Do tell!!!!

I use firefox and the image above was posted from my facebook.  

Not sure how you're going about it but here's what I did ...

Bring up the image on your facebook account.  Right click on the image. 

The following box should appear ...

Highlight Copy Image Location 

Go back to your post on the BCO forum and click on the image of the little tree next to the smiley face.

Paste the info you copied from facebook into the Image URL block & click insert.

That's it.

No, you can not post pictures directly from a disk on your computer to an Internet forum.  They must first be hosted somewhere.  A URL is the address where a resource, in this instance, your picture, is located.   If you want to load your pictures to another site other than facebook, you could try Photobucket.  Check out the post I wrote earlier in this thread for more details on that.

Hope that helps.  Let me know if not.