a moment of tranquility by sheila stanley-powell

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This is a remake of one I did about 20 years ago.I've noticed a real improvement in my technique(at least I hope it has).I got really brave and actually added some colour to the eye( it obviously takes a heck of a lot to get me out of the box lol). Unfortunatly that detail was lost when I put it on the computer.I'd say there's about 40% overall detail lost on most of my entry's. Have to figure out how to get better image qualitly. The original is 8"x10" (20.5x25.5cm) The background is actually white and not as grey as it appears on screen.

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Linda King 20 Nov 2007

Beautiful piece. I can hear his call echoing in the wild...

David Hipwell 19 Oct 2007

Hey...really love this and all your work......have you ever tried colored pencils or painting......I have done tons of black and white drawings.....but people want color.....

annette steens 11 Aug 2007

you feel the silence, it's a very fine work!

Andrew Hunter 21 Jul 2007

wow Sheila very impressive

Roz Eve 17 Jul 2007

The texture feeling of the feathers and grasses are realy add excitement to this one.

Elf Evans 15 Jun 2007

A fine image...keep 'em commin

STAN SWENSON 20 May 2007

These are the best scratchboard renerings I have ever seen. What patience you have...keep going Sheila./ Stan

Artist Reply: thanks stan, coming from you, with your background in the art world, that means a heck of a lot. mucho gratiis.

John Graham Inkson 20 May 2007

Hi Sheila, this work well. nice feel that the bird is on the water.

Jan van Baarle 02 May 2007

Beautiful work!

Joke Schotting 02 Apr 2007

AWESOME WORK SHEILA!!!

Mrs.David Jobes(Dee) Jobes 31 Mar 2007

Beautiful artistry!!!:)

Artist Reply: thanks for your comments dee. i sent this one e-mail to a friend of mine that teaches art and her only complaint was that she wasn't sure she was comfortable about the abrupt ending(pardon the pun) and now every time i look at it i second guess myself and think maybe she had a point and yet it had been a concious choice when i did the pic(i think i probably wouldn't have spent as much mental energy on it if she wasn't a teacher) so it's nice that someone sees it the wasy i did in the beginning. i really needed to here that from someone else who obviously has a great sense of composition. thank you again.

Andrew Beckwith 27 Mar 2007

I assume you, like me, just use a digital camera to put the pictures on the computer. At least, this looks like some of mine. I have to play around with an image editor to filter out the dark from the photo, but it comes out eventually. You need more lights when your photoing it, I'd say. It also helps to do a black and white in it in the editor too once you've worked out the darker background. Otherwise its a good image.

Artist Reply: you got it. between me and my 16 year old finally breaking down and reading the camera's instructions we clued into this and were able to do some corrections on stuff added later. live and learn i guess. thanks for the in-put.

helen tyralik 15 Feb 2007

lovely work

a moment of tranquility

by sheila stanley-powell

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