While the rest of the species is descended from apes, redheads are descended from cats / Mark Twain I don’t know how many girls you dated, man / But you ain’t lived ‘til you’ve had your tires rotated / By a redheaded woman / It takes a redheaded woman / To get a dirty job done Bruce Springsteen During the Spanish Inquisition flame colored hair was evidence that its owner had stolen the fire of hell and had to be burned as a witch Bees are thought to sting redheads more than others Redhaired people never can make good butter. The butter always has a slight tang about it / British superstition The red-haired of both sexes are more libidinous and mischievous than the rest / Jonathan Swift in “Gulliver’s Travels” If you pass a redhead in the street you are to spit and turn around / Corsican superstition There was never a saint with red hair / Russian proverb Only two things are necessary to keep a redhead happy. One is to let her think she is having her own way, and the other is to let her have it / Unknown
Where everyone knows your name… / / / / / / / / / / / / / / /
Redheaded musicians throughout history…. here is a closer look at some of the work…. More zomboy shirts here: / / Ooooooz Chimp / / Say Hello / / Droid Jump /
This piece was recently part of an exhibition. The original artwork has slight texture in her hair. Enjoy! :) Original -SOLD Medium: Acrylic on stretched canvas. Slight texture. Matt Varnished.Sides painted black. / Size: 510×405x38mm / Date: July 2008
Model: Ivory Flame So as there are 3 images I can now call this the red series. This reminds me of a De Lempicka painting. Holly is such a fantastic model who made this a wonderful and productive collaboration
Model is Deanna Freeth / MUA is Elska Both can be found on Models Mayhem Taken with a Canon 30d / 18-55mm lens / 1/125 sec with Elinchrom studio flash
Model – Stephanie Oops! I forgot to post this one from our first shoot. She had to remind me about it a little bit ago. Better late than ever.
Model – Allisa
Acrylic on canvas / Size: 24×24 inches / Price: $2000 (Aus)
Self-portrait (Anyone who actually knows who Cherry is without Wikipedia gets a lollipop). Long Live Punk Rock, Baby!
Sofia is my friend who is so beautiful inside and out!
Kiomai, the fire queen. Kiomai, by the way, is greek for “I am on fire.”
Model-Stephanie Clark /
Jennifer Buehrer, a fellow redhaired photographer, irish and beautiful. I had to have her infront of my lens. The results? purely beautiful (comments appreciated) Nikon d40x camera, Vivid settings, edited in Lightroom
18×24 acrylic on canvas Thought it would be fun to do some goddesses in a kind of pop realism style. This is the Gnostic goddess, the feminine half of God and the mind of God, or the Divine Wisdom. Red Bubble homepage 10-6-09 close up of Sophia: / Check her out on a red tee:
9×12 pastel on Sennelier paper I have been in such a creative slump this summer, it would take an intense goddess like the Morrigan to get me out of it. Macha is an ancient Irish mother aspect of the goddess Morrigan. There are many tales of Macha amongst the Tuatha de Danann. In one tale she is a warrior queen with red hair, and in another she beats a horse in a foot race while she is pregnant then curses the men of Ulster to suffer labor pains. Though these tales could be of different women, they are all connected to the same goddess. / The Morrigan of course is the Celtic war and battle goddess usually connected to Ravens. She ushers fallen warriors to the Otherworld. In the ancient world where war was so prevalent we can only imagine how the Raven was viewed as it feasted on the bodies of the dead. There was a reverence and a fear at the same time. / I often ponder the role of the dark goddess in myth. She is obviously the embodiement of scary, but sometimes we have to be scared “to death” to overcome our fear of death. In the ancient world people seemed to accept that the Morrigan was a part of every person, our shadow self. In the modern world we are more apt to deny our shadow self and repress our Morrigan. Eventually she will always come out, we might as well face her and accept her as a part of us. / Morrigan is also a fate goddess, often connected to the Washer at the Ford. She is seen as an old hag washing the clothing of the men who will soon die. She weeps as she washes the clothes, as if she knows that the reason the man will die is because he has denied her. He has denied his shadow self, and now she has to come out to take his life. / Macha is here to help us remember our darkness, to bring it into the light of consciousness, so that we can transmute it into creative energy instead of unconscious destruction.
9×12 pastel on Tiziano paper I can’t seem to get “Tangerine” by Led Zeppelin out of my head right now. “The Living reflection of a dream”. What kind of woman inspired those words? Some songs just get lodged in your head and stay there for days and days. Tangerine video link
The red headed stranger rests on the bench, absorbing the natural beauty of the surrounding river and cliffs. Photo taken at Starved Rock State Park in Illinois.
This is the last one of Holly I will be posting….thank goodness I hear you cry. This is just what the title says….simple beauty. Thank you Holly.
These are the last images from the Holly shoot. This does remind me so much of Botticelli’s classic painting, which I was lucky enough to see in Florence. I’m so happy with the full series.
again, self portrait with the older red locks i used to sport oil on mat board (30×40) (2006)
back when i had orangey red hair… i’m the only one who ever poses the way i want them too… i’m not conceited water-based oil on canvas board (2005)
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For people so often ostracized in society, they are still looked at with both awe and wonder – illustrated in the vast amount of carrot top photographs there are!
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