I've noticed the same while scanning watercolor pieces. Makes me want to see a scanner designed for aquarel-scanning some day... She's a lovely lady, by the way. (:

My scanner is great at picking up the (not very thoroughly) erased pencil lines but not the ink. Sometimes it goes so far as to catch an erased pencil line on the reverse side of the paper but miss the ink line I am trying to scan.

I got one of those blue pencils that the scanner is supposed to not pick up at all.

Ha ha ha ha.

I am putting it down to my being technically challenged. In the case of the watercolours I think it's the bright scanner lamp. It just completely washes them out. Not sure what to do about it though.

I've had slightly better luck lighting my paintings well and having my husband photograph them, or having him use the fancy shmancy hi-rez scanner he bought for his photography. My little HP scanner just eats all the bright tones and subtlety when I scan my watercolors.

OK, when looking at the thumbnail, my first thought was 'it's Donna Barr!'

WONDERFUL i love each of them!~

Is the original available for sale?

I'm pretty sure this got sold at AC a couple years ago. I may still have a couple copies/prints of it.

Sign me up for a print, should you have one please.