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crocoite
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The start of a Sweet Home rhodo...
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| Posted: Feb 06, 2013 03:05 Post subject: Re: Steve Sorrell's 2013 Artwork... |
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The finished article...
Rhodochrosite with quartz and tetrahedrite from the Sweet Home Mine, Pincushion II pocket, Alma, Colorado. Original specimen is 9.6x6.2x4.2 cm. Water-mixable oil on black card.
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Schwertner
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| Posted: Feb 06, 2013 06:30 Post subject: Re: Steve Sorrell's 2013 Artwork... |
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| lightnig red, strawberry- and raspberry-red, erotic red, a feast for the eyes
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GneissWare
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| Posted: Feb 06, 2013 08:52 Post subject: Re: Steve Sorrell's 2013 Artwork... |
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| crocoite wrote: | | The finished article... |
Very nice Steve. It definitely captures the Rhodochrosite-ness of the specimen.
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crocoite
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| Posted: Feb 10, 2013 06:38 Post subject: Re: Steve Sorrell's 2013 Artwork... |
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Another classic mineral species underway. This is the initial wip of a wulfenite from Tiger, Arizona...
More to come...
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Schwertner
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| Posted: Feb 10, 2013 07:17 Post subject: Re: Steve Sorrell's 2013 Artwork... |
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| tender yellow ..
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crocoite
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| Posted: Feb 11, 2013 05:16 Post subject: Re: Steve Sorrell's 2013 Artwork... |
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The finished piece - calcite on wulfenite with mimetite, Tiger, Arizona.
Water-mixable oils on black card. Only two pigments used.
Photo taken in daylight...
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Schwertner
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| Posted: Feb 12, 2013 07:48 Post subject: Re: Steve Sorrell's 2013 Artwork... |
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| Really three-dimensional and perfect! The tender yellow changed into tender orange - daylight is very important.
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crocoite
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| Posted: Feb 13, 2013 02:21 Post subject: Re: Steve Sorrell's 2013 Artwork... |
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It's funny, it should be a little more yellow. It seems to be one of those colours that doesn't reproduce well!
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crocoite
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| Posted: Feb 13, 2013 06:30 Post subject: Re: Steve Sorrell's 2013 Artwork... |
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Pakistan brookite WIP...
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crocoite
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| Posted: Feb 15, 2013 07:49 Post subject: Re: Steve Sorrell's 2013 Artwork... |
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Brookite on quartz, Kharan, Balochistan, Pakistan final. Water mixable oils on black card.
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Schwertner
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| Posted: Feb 15, 2013 11:07 Post subject: Re: Steve Sorrell's 2013 Artwork... |
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Nice and well done Steve. I think you will take a photo of your artwork at daylight tomorrow?
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Brunhild
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crocoite
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| Posted: Feb 15, 2013 16:01 Post subject: Re: Steve Sorrell's 2013 Artwork... |
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Thanks Brunhild.
Here's a photo taken outside this morning...
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crocoite
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| Posted: Feb 23, 2013 04:54 Post subject: Re: Steve Sorrell's 2013 Artwork... |
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Blue kinoite and colourless apophyllite-(KOH) from the Christmas Mine, Gila Co., Arizona. The largest apophyllite crystal is only about 0.8mm across. Water mixable oils on black card.
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Schwertner
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| Posted: Feb 23, 2013 06:49 Post subject: Re: Steve Sorrell's 2013 Artwork... |
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| Nice blue, well done Steve!
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crocoite
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| Posted: Feb 28, 2013 06:46 Post subject: Re: Steve Sorrell's 2013 Artwork... |
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A new wulfenite, San Francisco Mine, Mexico. This photo taken with flash. I will take a daylight photo tomorrow...
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| Posted: Mar 01, 2013 02:46 Post subject: Re: Steve Sorrell's 2013 Artwork... |
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Here's a photo taken in daylight...
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Schwertner
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| Posted: Mar 01, 2013 06:26 Post subject: Re: Steve Sorrell's 2013 Artwork... |
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| I like the window-wulfenite. Very well done, Steve.
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crocoite
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| Posted: Apr 07, 2013 00:35 Post subject: Re: Steve Sorrell's 2013 Artwork... |
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This is number 5 out of 6 for a commission work (the wulfenite above was the first). Erythrite, Bou Azer...
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trtlman
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| Posted: Apr 07, 2013 13:20 Post subject: Re: Steve Sorrell's 2013 Artwork... |
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Great works, :)
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