SciFi and Fantasy Art: Green Boy

How magical! This is truly beautiful,Laura

I love the colours in this and the trees are absolutely fantastic. Great work. x

Oooooooh ! I love these subtile graduations of greens and the details of the woods.

Wow! So little colours, so much "power". It looks like the forest is alive. I really love the way you did those trees. The fading distance effect worked out perfect too. Sweet!

The gnarly trees are good, but I like the little tree details on him the best, like his branch-feet.

This is really charming. I love the idea of a green boy as opposed to a green Man. And he looks so lively! I like that you used all the different shades of green--so appropriate

Lovely! I'm really impressed with the forest itself.

Late night studying for calculus and I stumble upon this. Great job. I really love picture done in watercolor, or done to look like it. They first caught my attention in grade school, in the big English literature books, in the poems section, especially those of nature (usually Robert Frost poems lol).

Anyways, I'm not very experienced with art or its terms, etc, so what you mean is that you took acrylics, and mixed a little water in to get a watercolor type acrylic, and then painted it on? In any case, this is a great piece of work, you should be proud. Watercolors (and affiliates) look so smooth and calm, like this, imo. Thanks for sharing this with us, keep up the good work, you have talent.

Laura Pelick replies: "basically yes, any type of paint that is water based (Acrylic, watercolor, gouache, and I think Tempra) can all be broken down into pigments that float in the water. Acrylic's bonded by other chemicals, and takes a bit of stirring to break it up, but it can eventually simulate watercolor. though, with the thicker paints (more opaque...) I like the results better than with watercolors. if you let a lot of it float in the water and dry, it makes such interesting pulls and rings and lines where it finally setled down "

WONDERFUL picture! I love the way you use color. I also love the way you depicted the young green man - the green man is one of my favorite mythological figures!

I really enjoy watching this piece. Very nice!!!! I really suck at commenting, but i could not pass up the opportunity to tell you that this is amazing.