Eldorado..

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Love the way you have captured the knight and his horse. Lance maybe should be longer?

Posted by Tom Owen on Wed 30 Aug 13:56:21

I like it. How do you visualise Eldorado? Your way is best, a few suggested shapes and glorious colour and the viewer does the rest. The horse and rider are so well done.

Thanks Tom and Lew for the comments. I think Lew that Eldorado is a personal concept, as you say, best left to the viewer's imagination. Myself, , I see it as chasing a dream, rather than a place which again is a personal thing to see as you will. El Dorado , when split into two words rather than one, means "The Gilded One" in Spanish.

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30/08/2023
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"Over the Mountains Of the Moon, Down the Valley of the Shadow, Ride, boldly ride,’"The shade replied,—‘If you seek for Eldorado!’ Had a sudden desire to illustrate my own version of Edgar Allan Poe's poem. Another old friend from school days.

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Jim Morris

I've reached 83 (84 in September ) years young and love to paint and draw. Watercolours are my preference used also with line and wash. I paint or sketch something most days of whatever takes my fancy. Glad to have found this site. I don't feel I have a set painting style but I tend to go for…

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