Hello! I'm Melanie, a freelance illustrator living in Denver with my dog, Violet, who often has things named after her without realizing it.

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4th April 2012

Photo

I’ve been doing more work on my watercolor flower pattern - I realized that I could make the watercolor part look like watercolors with all the flowers outlined.  Removing the outlines made a huuuge difference.  Plus I changed the background color…I did really like the charcoal gray, and how it looked with the pink/coral/red flowers, but again it made the watercolor texture too hard to pick up.  I just need to add a few more flowers to the composition, and some more little details, and maybe change the color of the off-white flower (it almost gets lost in the background, sadly) and I’ll be ready to enter it in the contest!

I’ve been doing more work on my watercolor flower pattern - I realized that I could make the watercolor part look like watercolors with all the flowers outlined.  Removing the outlines made a huuuge difference.  Plus I changed the background color…I did really like the charcoal gray, and how it looked with the pink/coral/red flowers, but again it made the watercolor texture too hard to pick up.  I just need to add a few more flowers to the composition, and some more little details, and maybe change the color of the off-white flower (it almost gets lost in the background, sadly) and I’ll be ready to enter it in the contest!

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