Winter Lace Series

A new year's resolution was to study negative space in order to improve my compositions. A lovely winter sunset and trees provided ample inspiration.

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  1. BearuhMarch 8, 2006 at 10:23 PM

    Very pretty. Thank you for the nice comments on my blogger. A wacom is this:
    http://www.wacom.com/graphire/index.cfm

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