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Cougar on Snowy Ledge by =Nylak:iconNylak:

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©2005-2009 =Nylak
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My christmas/winter holiday card for this year! Yay! I decided not to procrastinate this year. Go me.

If you don't know me, then you don't know that I design and paint a christmas card for my family to send out each year; this is my 6th or so year doing so.

Anyhow. A cougar. Looking over a ledge. I think I saw a photograph that I based it off of; I painted this off a coloured pencil sketch I made some time back. And yes; this picture is freakishly small in reality. The cougar's face is about the size of my thumbnail. Talk about painstaking. Hence the lack of detail I usually pore over in most of my tempera paintings.

Done in tempera paint on 5"x7" pastel paper. Clocked at 7 hours.


EDIT

...Snap. A DD? How random is this? o___o; No, I'm serious, this is really weird. This painting isn't that great. >__>; Uhm. Thank you? XD;

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Given 2006-04-23

Cougar on Snowy Ledge, a lovely snowy scene brought to you by ~Nylak is executed in exacting tempera paints. (Suggested by *teutelquessir and Featured by `oedalis)

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~mirokusgurl Oct 17, 2005, 4:56:34 PM
This is a beatiful picture, I love cougars I'm going to add this to my fave list!

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~aluinn Oct 17, 2005, 5:07:28 PM
:jawdrop: that's amazing!! i've been missing the little devwatches from Nylak :snuggles: ;) Gorgeous painting :)

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~digitalparadice Oct 17, 2005, 6:53:31 PM
gosh... im ever so jealous of your nature painting ways...

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~MochaCat224 Oct 17, 2005, 7:04:23 PM
wow.. no way! that so awosme! =) magnificent.

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~KingMarlebon Oct 17, 2005, 8:33:09 PM
Wow! That looks great!

I think the expression implied by the eyes is a bit exaggerated. =/ I've never seen cougar eyes like those before. But if that's the way you wanted it, you've done a really good job =D. The trees in the background within the fog were done really well.

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=Nylak Oct 18, 2005, 4:18:47 PM
Yeah, on all my greeting card illustrations I always do the animals with personified/almost cartoonish eyes and faces, usually enlarging the eyes and accentuating the facial markings to exaggerate the expressions. I never use it in any of my other paintings, but people have come to expect it in my card designs now. XD

Thanks for the comment. =3
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~Riddick10 Oct 20, 2005, 7:52:52 PM
this is cool, i recentally saw a mountain lion when i was with one of my friends on his uncles land, it had two cubs, it was quite exciteing lol. Nice job :thumbsup:

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*teutelquessir Dec 13, 2005, 1:02:05 PM
This is incredibly beautiful. And tempera... wow! You've got quite a talent for it!

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~MushroomMagic Apr 22, 2006, 11:26:41 PM
beautifully done

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~DJ-Mech Apr 22, 2006, 11:32:43 PM
Very nice, I like this painting!

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