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I've started painting again -
This is one of the paintings. I had a dream about this woman (I think I know who She is, too) in which I was out in a canoe at dusk on this glass-calm lake, and I saw Her dancing on the water in front of an island covered in dark pine trees. Fireflies were coming out, and even though it was dusk, she was surrounded by all these crows. They were circling around Her, doing ridiculous midair somersaults, alighting on Her hands and shoulders and taking off again. All I could hear was the sound of the water and the sound of their wings.
The crows aren't there, yet; they will be, though, in the end.
(I have a Thing about crows that I've been reluctant to fess up to, except to a few people. I used to run with an annoying crowd of teenybop pagans who laboured under the mistaken impression that only one person per group could claim a certain animal as a guide. I was 'forbidden' by two pseudogoths from talking about my love of corvids or my relationship with them because it threatened their idea of themselves as more specialer. Niche-monglers a-go-go. The control freaking went farther than that too but this isn't WHEN I WAS time. Suffice it to say, though, I miss none of these fools. I love crows and they like to tease me. XD)
lol sideways - you can see the detail of Her hair better. I wanted to capture the see of movement I got. She danced in the dream until the sun went down, and I had to go back to shore; in the dark I could still hear the sound of wings.
Detail of Her head and hand. The latter needs a bit of tweaking, it looks somewhat big proportionally. There'll be a crow on Her hand there.
There's actually texture to this thing; I did the outlines of Her in this searingly pink fabric puff paint on white canvas, then painted the canvas blue-purple and did the white on top. One of my profs taught me to work in negative like that as a way of relaxing and considering a different way to look at things. I like the method; I've done it a lot since.
A commission for a friend. This is me working in negative again. She wanted a night scene with a full moon and cherry blossoms; it's a bonsai sakura tree. You feed it tiny, tiny dead - no, no, now is not the time for stupid Tokyo Babylon jokes.
Again! This was taken with my desk lamp ON; it has a cool white fluorescent tube and an incandescent bulb in it. If I turns them both on I get something approximating white/sunlight. I can use them individually, too, if I want to do a painting that I know will be in a room with a certain light. For halogen I'd have both lights on.
Also, A FUN FACT ABOUT HALOGEN LIGHTS: as they get on in their lifespan, the light starts to take on a weird greenish cast. This will play MERRY MERRY HELL with your art. Because the light has a greenish undertone, you'll see pinks and reds as MUCH less intense than they actually are, and get a rude surprise when you take your painting into sunlight. EVERYTHING WILL BE PINKISH ORANGISH DOOMULAR DOOM.
Anyway--
THIS was taken with my desk lamp off. Warm-white fluorescents have a heck of a YELLOW light.
My essential tremor 1, the camera's shaky-hand adjustment 0. Mind, that's after ventolin. Which makes the shaky worse.
And ta-da. ^^
I have some sketches too but they're in dire need of cleanup, so - next time!
This is one of the paintings. I had a dream about this woman (I think I know who She is, too) in which I was out in a canoe at dusk on this glass-calm lake, and I saw Her dancing on the water in front of an island covered in dark pine trees. Fireflies were coming out, and even though it was dusk, she was surrounded by all these crows. They were circling around Her, doing ridiculous midair somersaults, alighting on Her hands and shoulders and taking off again. All I could hear was the sound of the water and the sound of their wings.
The crows aren't there, yet; they will be, though, in the end.
(I have a Thing about crows that I've been reluctant to fess up to, except to a few people. I used to run with an annoying crowd of teenybop pagans who laboured under the mistaken impression that only one person per group could claim a certain animal as a guide. I was 'forbidden' by two pseudogoths from talking about my love of corvids or my relationship with them because it threatened their idea of themselves as more specialer. Niche-monglers a-go-go. The control freaking went farther than that too but this isn't WHEN I WAS time. Suffice it to say, though, I miss none of these fools. I love crows and they like to tease me. XD)
lol sideways - you can see the detail of Her hair better. I wanted to capture the see of movement I got. She danced in the dream until the sun went down, and I had to go back to shore; in the dark I could still hear the sound of wings.
Detail of Her head and hand. The latter needs a bit of tweaking, it looks somewhat big proportionally. There'll be a crow on Her hand there.
There's actually texture to this thing; I did the outlines of Her in this searingly pink fabric puff paint on white canvas, then painted the canvas blue-purple and did the white on top. One of my profs taught me to work in negative like that as a way of relaxing and considering a different way to look at things. I like the method; I've done it a lot since.
A commission for a friend. This is me working in negative again. She wanted a night scene with a full moon and cherry blossoms; it's a bonsai sakura tree. You feed it tiny, tiny dead - no, no, now is not the time for stupid Tokyo Babylon jokes.
Again! This was taken with my desk lamp ON; it has a cool white fluorescent tube and an incandescent bulb in it. If I turns them both on I get something approximating white/sunlight. I can use them individually, too, if I want to do a painting that I know will be in a room with a certain light. For halogen I'd have both lights on.
Also, A FUN FACT ABOUT HALOGEN LIGHTS: as they get on in their lifespan, the light starts to take on a weird greenish cast. This will play MERRY MERRY HELL with your art. Because the light has a greenish undertone, you'll see pinks and reds as MUCH less intense than they actually are, and get a rude surprise when you take your painting into sunlight. EVERYTHING WILL BE PINKISH ORANGISH DOOMULAR DOOM.
Anyway--
THIS was taken with my desk lamp off. Warm-white fluorescents have a heck of a YELLOW light.
My essential tremor 1, the camera's shaky-hand adjustment 0. Mind, that's after ventolin. Which makes the shaky worse.
And ta-da. ^^
I have some sketches too but they're in dire need of cleanup, so - next time!
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These are gorgeous. I think the first one is my favorite.
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And thanks ^^ I'm really happy with how it's turning out. I wish the white paint would be more opaque - it's kind of a toss up, you either get good flow from the bottle and less opacity or the paint's the consistency of chilly molasses/margarine and covers well. Different paints have different opacity too, like a lot of reds and blues are see-through as hell, and yellows and earth tones aren't so much.
I'm getting used to playing with my paints again and learning how they behave, and it's fun. :D