A talk about Art

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Wednesday, December 13, 2017

Trapped in layers

The artist Alicia Tormey is an Encaustic artist who works with layers of wax long with other mediums.  For this piece she has trapped layers of a material (my guess is string) under layers of clear wax.

What do you think of this piece?  Is this something you would like to try?  What type of image would you create if you could trap thin pieces of material between wax?  What material might you use? 

140 comments:

  1. I would not like to do this. It seems like this takes a lot of time and patience and I know I dont have the patience to do this.

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  2. I like that you could have different perspective for what it is. It could be a flower or maybe a whole bunch of feathers. I also love all the different colors.

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  3. I like how it fades into a different color. and how it fades the orange and red and, it looks like a fun project to do.THe flower is a cool effect

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  4. I like how it fades inot different colors of the color wheel. The colors are good look on the tree

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  5. to be honest i'm not too sure what this is but it looks kinda cool. I really like how it all come together.

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  6. This had to have been very time consuming for her to do. She is very good at it as well. I think that it would also look cool if she made a feather like this.

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  7. This love this one. It looks soo real. It must've took her a long time to do. This is some real talent!

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  8. This love this one. It looks soo real. It must've took her a long time to do. This is some real talent!

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  9. I think this is really cool. I would like to make a nature scene. I would use strings and leaves to make it look realistic.

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  10. This is a very unique way to make a tree. I definitely haven't seen anything done in this style before. I liked it a lot.

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  11. The colors on this tree looks very nice i really like it looks good.

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  12. The color in this is very vibrant and intense so it makes things stand out.

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  13. The exactness of the painting makes it look like its real. It is a wilted flower lying on a page. Its crazy how they made it look so real.

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  14. It's so crazy how people can make art out of different things. It's unreal how someone can make this out of wax.

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  15. I really like how the trees have a feathery texture to them. Also I like how they use warm colors to also bring out a calm feeling. Also the tree reminds me of the ones in The Lorax.

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  16. IT's a picture of a tree, anyone can draw a tree

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  17. This art piece is pretty wack , it's only a tree, like c'mon man. Everything about this painting is wack and un-origonal . paint something you don't see every day , paint an alien smoking a cigarette while skate boarding in hell carrying a puppy.

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  18. It looks very cool. it looks realistic and would seem like itd take awhile to do.

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  19. very cool pattern. it is very cool. and challenging to do what thhey do.

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  20. This looks really pretty. I would want to try this.I wish i could to this.It really amazing.

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  21. I really like this work; I would like to try this. I would probably do my favorite flower a lilly flower. I would use oil pastels cause i really like the way oil pastels come out on paper.

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  22. i think that this is very cool piece of art. looks like it is challenging. i don't think i would want to try this because it might take a little longer then we would want to

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  23. It looks very cool. it looks realistic and would seem like itd take awhile to do.

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  24. this looks cool. i think i would do it but it seems super hard. it looks very challenging

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  25. this looks cool. i think i would do it but it seems super hard. it looks very challenging

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  26. This is very unique. I feel like it can be seen as a tree or a flower which is super cool! I also feel like this could have been very time consuming.

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  27. it is cool how they made it look like it is blowing in the wind and how it looks like its melting in the wind to

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  28. this is a really cool piece of art and i feel like it would be a really cool thing to try but if you mess up then you kinda half to work with it or just restart it seems like

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  29. To me this looks really easy to do. If I could do this than it probably isn't that good. But I do like the colors on it.

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  30. I think it looks good but it needs more colors to make it look more alive . Or even more details

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  31. i like how the artist is very creative

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  32. it is really cool. it would be a good challenge to do in class. but how did they do that.

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  33. This painting is actually pretty dope. The way the artist made it look makes it great.

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  34. i like this painting, its so simple yet so complex. its pretty darn neat. i'd like to have one hanging somewhere in the house

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  35. I think the project looks nice,but it seems like it would be a little too easy for us to do. It looks like a one of a kind

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  36. I think this piece is pretty cool. I would like to try this sometime, but I don't think it would turn out that good. I haven't really worked with wax before for anything. It would be something interesting to try.

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  37. I dont really understand what they were trying to do. I like how they put the colors together. Honestly I dont really like it.

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  38. It is confusing to look at and i would assume that it is hard to do. It probably isn't a project that we would do in art but it would be fun to try.

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  39. It Looks Gross. I don't like it. They should draw something happy.

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  40. This is very cool. I like how the frower was made with different layers of wax.Its very interesting.

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  41. This is awesome. I love all the layers in the flower to show a kind of 3D look

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  42. I really like this art it is very good I like all of the layers that they used on it. This looks like a very good 3D flower. I would love to have art like this in your house to look at all the time.

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  43. This had to have been very time consuming for her to do. She is very good at it as well. I think that it would also look cool if she made a feather like this.

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  44. I thought this piece was very cool and unique. I would definitely give it a try but I'm not very artistic.

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  45. This kind of art I think is so special. It is different than other thing which is what I think art should be about, variation

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  46. This is very very intresting piece. This would be really fun to do. At least to try it'd be really fun i think.

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  48. I think that the painting looks beautiful and that the painting must have been very time consuming because its excellent

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  49. To me this looks really easy to do. If I could do this than it probably isn't that good. But I do like the colors on it.

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  51. I wouldn't like to do this project. It is too boring to me. If I am painting something I prefer to use more vibrant colors.

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  52. This is very a very beautiful piece. I think it'd be fun to do a project like this. Very cool and unique.

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  54. this picture is really cool. I like how the is has the veiny affect. It is the a cool piece i would try to do it.

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  55. This is very interesting. It is a lot of work to make watercolor art look nice. I like this a lot.

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  56. I dont even know what this really is but it sorta looks dope. It almost looks like a tree in the fall.

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  57. This one is pretty cool. It looks like it must've been very time consuming. You can see like every part of it which is super cool. Makes it look like its real.

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  58. I thought this was very cool. The wax is very cool and is very interesting. I think this would take a lot of time to make.

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  59. I think this is very cool. I would love to do a project ike this, but I wouldn't even know where to begin or what to do. Although, I would like to see what would happen if you used bubble wrap.

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  60. I think this art piece kinda looks weird. I wouldn't want to do this. It does look like it took some time to make tho.

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  61. I really like how many layers they added to it. It look like a tree that is blowing away in the wind. There is no way I would have been able to do this.

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  62. I really like how many layers they added to it. It look like a tree that is blowing away in the wind. There is no way I would have been able to do this.

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  63. I think that this looks like a fun project to do. But i don't think that we would have time to do this in class

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  64. I like how the different colors give the picture more detail like the purple-like color in the stem look like veins. I think it would be very hard with the wax not to drip things or smear it.

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  65. I think it would be a fun project. Id love to give it a try in class. The only problem is i dont know if id have the pacients to wait for the wax to dry

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  66. This is really awesome. I like the fade in this. Its also very cool because it is made out of wax!

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  67. This project is extremely rad. The vibrant colors fade out and looks groovy. I would totally dig this project.

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  68. I think that this is a really cool concept. I would love to do something like this myself. I love all the texture in this piece.

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  69. This looks pretty cool because i bet it took a lot of time and work to do this.

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  70. I don't understand how someone can sit there for hours and paint something that simple and boring but yet make it look complicated.

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  71. I don't get it. I just don't understand, how people can not see what is obvious here. It's a representation of life. How life starts so simple. You're parents have this straight line for you and then you turn 18 and life starts to unravel. The end.

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    1. dang man time to right some poetry

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  72. This piece looks very simple, but at the same time it looks very complicated. I love the texture look. But I don´t think it is something I would want to do.

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  73. The exactness of the painting makes it look like its real. It is a wilted flower lying on a page. Its crazy how they made it look so real.

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    1. It's so crazy how people can make art out of different things. It's unreal how someone can make this out of wax.

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  74. It looks like it would be a tedious process to get all of the string to be in the right place. It wouldn't be a quick project it would probably take a while but its neat.

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  76. This creation is super cool looking. i am a big fan. It would take lots of creativity to come up with the idea for this technique. looks like something fun to try

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  77. This is a very unique way to make a tree. I definitely haven't seen anything done in this style before. I liked it a lot.

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  78. It is vary different. it how long dose it take to do that would be fun to in class.

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  79. THis is a vvery different form of art and i would be very interested in doing it. yarn is a type pf medium we do not always think of using

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  80. This creation is super cool looking. i am a big fan. It would take lots of creativity to come up with the idea for this technique. looks like something fun to try

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  81. This love this one. It looks soo real. It must've took her a long time to do. This is some real talent

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  82. I don't like it too much but its pretty cool. I would of made a colorful bird not a flower.

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  83. I wouldn't like to do this project. It is too boring to me. If I am painting something I prefer to use more vibrant colors.

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  84. it looks like it would be a tedious process to get all of the string to be in the right place. It wouldn't be a quick project it would probably take a while but its neat.

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  85. this is really cool and i would like to try tis some time

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  86. This is a really nice follower I like it how it goes together and how the colors mix.

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  87. This piece looks very simple, but at the same time it looks very complicated. I love the texture look. But I don´t think it is something I would want to do.

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  88. This is very a very beautiful piece. I think it'd be fun to do a project like this. Very cool and unique.

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  89. I don't understand how someone can sit there for hours and paint something that simple and boring but yet make it look complicated.

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  90. it is really weird looking. and really cool. it would be cool to do in class

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  91. This looks like it should be on a tree because of the leaves. But then you see the stem and it looks like a flower. The leaves look pretty cool on the flower I think.

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  92. I am a big fan of this peice. ot is so intersting to look at. This sort of art is appealing and looks to be fun to do. this is out of the box

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  93. this is very cool and it would be very hard to do

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  94. This is a really nice painting I like how the colors come together. And it's very creative.

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  95. I think that this looks like a fun project to do. But i don't think that we would have time to do this in class

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  96. I don't like feathers cause they feel gross. I wouldn't want to use feathers. The wax would take a long time to dry.

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  97. this art piece is unique in it's own ways, depends how you look at it .

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  98. I think this art piece kinda looks weird. I wouldn't want to do this. It does look like it took some time to make tho.

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  99. I really like how many layers they added to it. It look like a tree that is blowing away in the wind. There is no way I would have been able to do this.

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  101. I like how many layer they add. I think it would be a hard project to do. There is literally no way i would ever be able to do it.

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  102. I like the texture that the piece gives off. The artist seems to be skilled. It looks like a realistic flower even though its made out of string and wax.

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  103. I think it looks cool but it looks like you wouldn't be able to hang it up because the wax would unstick and fall off. I think that flames would look really cool like that because it looks a lot more natural than any flames that you can draw.(or at least I can draw).

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  104. This is such a cool art piece. I would have done different colors, but its really interesting in how many different things it could look like. I'm interested to figure out how they did this.

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  105. Its ok but i wouldn't spend my money on this. I could probably draw this with my own twist. But i wouldn't because i don't like it.

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  106. This is a very nice piece of art. The only problem is I don't think I would be able to get the colors just right. This is still a great piece of art though.

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  107. This looks nice and calm. It makes me think of the good things in life. I think it would look cool in a blue type of style.

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  108. this picture looks really cool. it almost looks like a tree but its not. Thats why its such a beautiful piece

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  109. This looks really nice and soothing. I kinda like this painting, but looks hard to do.

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  110. I don't really like this picture. The colors aren't bright enough and I feel like if I were to make a painting textured, I would use clay or layer paint. I don't like the look of this.

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  111. I like this piece of art it looks nice and pretty, but i would say it needs more color to it.

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  112. I really like how this piece flows in one direction and I love the colors

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  113. It is super pretty and I like it

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  114. It pretty cool and I like how it looks. It is definitely a unique piece of art.I don´t think I would try to do this though.

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  115. This is a really cool project. But it looks really hard to do. I would not have the patience.

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  116. I like how this project looks. I would not like to do this though because it looks like it is very complicated. I wouldn't want to take that long to do it.

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  117. This is such a neat painting. Extremely appealing in my opinion. Very textured and really good.

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  118. i think these are really pretty and complicated. it looks like it would take a lot of time, but i would like to try it. i like all of the details and colors.

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  119. I like the fall colors it has in it. It looks like it would be hard to paint. It would take to much time so I wouldn't be interested in doing this.

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  120. i still like this piece. tree paintings are just so

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  121. this painting is nice, but i don't think that it really stands out. If I saw it in the store I wouldn't even give it a second thought.

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  122. This art piece this really cool the way it looks like it is fading away looks really cool and it makes me want to try something like this

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  123. Th colors really go good together. The blending looks so good. Really cool and colorful.

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  124. I love the colors in this painting. It reminds me of fall.

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  125. This reminds me of fall. It is very subtle. It would be fun to try.

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  126. I think this is very interesting. If I could do this I would do a rose. I think it would take a long time.

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  127. I really like how many layers they added to it. It look like a tree that is blowing away in the wind. There is no way I would have been able to do this.

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  128. I really like this artwork. The name soothes it well. It looks like something I would hang on my walls

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  129. This looks really cool it has the warm colors like a fall. I think it would be an interesting project to try. I don't know how hard it would be or not.

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  130. This kind of just sprouts naturally and gives it an interesting tree shape.

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  131. This project looks really cool. But it looks really hard to do. Also I really like the texture of this project.

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  132. This looks very positive. I like how it looks. I looks like someone is blowing on it.

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  133. I like how this project looks. I would not like to do this though because it looks like it is very complicated. I wouldn't want to take that long to do it.

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  134. This looks very nice. I think you could really put some emotion into this project. I really like how the colors seem to kind of bleed. I would be interested in trying this sometime.

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  135. I like the color and the form that is drawn.

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  136. i like this piece it reminds me of a closoe up flower or the back of an eye

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  137. this is super pretty and interesting it looks a little ticky but I would still want to learn

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  138. I actually really like this painting a lot. I would like to try this myself but I don't think it will look that good.

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