Watercolors by Amanda Amend
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by Amanda Amend
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Our greeting cards are 5" x 7" in size and are produced on digital offset printers using 100 lb. paper stock. Each card is coated with a UV protectant on the outside surface which produces a semi-gloss finish. The inside of each card has a matte white finish and can be customized with your own message up to 500 characters in length. Each card comes with a white envelope for mailing or gift giving.
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Amanda Amend captures the mystery behind the everyday in luminous watercolor. Often described as atmospheric and ethereal, the subtle qualities of her work are balanced by a powerful, disciplined use of color, values, and compositional choices that reflect unique perspectives. The artist recently discovered her passion for watercolor, and she is largely self-taught. Her educational background is in music and linguistics rather than in studio arts, however those disciplines have given her the analytical and practice-oriented frameworks from which to master watercolor's difficult techniques. Further, the structures of language and music provide a conceptual basis for understanding visual composition, and these careers have taken her...
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Gordon Collins
I think that you have met your goal of high lighting your leaves with your use of color. Always remember that an artists worst critic is themselves .
Amanda Amend
Yes, isn't the negative space essential? And that's what I was trying to capture in this painting-- the sense of light coming through the leaves, silhouetted against the negative space.
Gordon Collins
I like your composition with the negative space , In nature the negative space is what adds character and depth.
Gordon Collins
Beautiful piece , I like your choice of color.
Amanda Amend replied:
Thank you, Gordon. Please take another look at this painting, because I uploaded another version. I wasn't quite happy with the composition of the last one-- there was an area of negative space that I didn't like, so I painted another. I'm working on yet another right now-- still exploring the composition of the leaf clusters.