THE FREE THINKER

Amazing Gigi…...

The veins and cracks of the wood depict the thinker perfectly.

Beautiful light color detail and texture. Awesome !

Nice Work micmac…

love the wood effect and the ghostly image of the thinker, well done

wow fantastic micmac !

wow is brilliant – love it to bits…

double wow,
really love this effect!

very clever micmac…. well done.

Oh COOL!!

Such a brilliant work. Fantastic job.

Nicely constructed.. Love the adjjoining of thrse toom really adds depth

All I can think to say is WOW!!!!! Very Impressive!!! Kim

This is one fantastic image. Very unique and well executed.

Very creative and unique.

How original is this! I am amazed at what some of you artists can create! The ideas are endless, & it’s one thing to have the best equip. etc. but at the end of the day you have to have a ceative mind to go with it all.. just excellent micmac!!!

You are such a creative Gal ! I can see this on the cover of TIME !!!! Outstanding!!!

Perfectly aligned and magnificently imagined.

Holy flippin wow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This is radical and I’m trying to comprehend it but I have a lil bit of a wine buzzzz in compacitation(i dunno what that word means or is)........but any way, I love it!

Marvelous work of art!

This is so cool, I really like the effect, It’s so haunting )

Wow Gigi, this is amazing!!!

the flow of lines in the wood…even the positioning of the eye and ear, match the face so precisely…wonderful work gigi!

Brilliantly conceived. Stunning work.

Very clever Gigi… You’ll have to teach me how to do this sometime…

Wonderful work gigi – the grain of the wood seems to follow the lines of his face

Brilliant, you have matched the wood and his face perfectly.

great idea, perfect

I don’t know how you did this, but it’s truly wonderful
j

Excellente manipulation – tres beau travail…

Fantastic work.

Superb and unique!

FAscinatiing image Gigi…

Actually looks like a wooden carved statue…

So skillfully done ….!!

amazing work.

Amazing…..!

An amazingly eyecatching image …. creatively brought into being.

Fantastic!!

GIGI this is sooooo special!!!

Superb creativity. Excellent work

really effective treatment. well done

The wood seems to be such a a natural “fit” for the portrait, Gigi. I love it!

fantastic

I really love this.. Micmac.. Such a clever girl…

I’m speechless Gigi . . . amazing in every way!

This is just incredible! Wonderful and imaginative work.

awesome,,how did you do it

Very creative work! Beautifully done!

This is amazing… well done

So creative. The textures of the wood work so well with the portrait. So how did you accomplish this beauty?

awsome, great imagination to you too

Magic!

Another great image!

Just love the way you have blended these together! Looks fantastic!

Well done!

WOW doesn’t even come close to how well you have done here..this is awesome…

L’ajout des textures et l’éclairage produisent un effet saisissant.

this is fantastic!! very nice work!

this is amazing!! beautiful idea.. well done!! =D

amazing piece!

wow..that’s amazing work..very creative !!!

excellent

Etonnant et magnifique

fantastic!

Wonderful! Perfectly put together :)

I want to thank everyone of you for those beautiful words..x

excellent creation – love that textured feel on that portraited face… very well done!

wow!..i love this one.,...excellent!

Excellent work the grain follows the face so well. 10/10!.

Thanks a a lot.

Beautifully created!!

Thanks Ravenor

Very nice work!

Thanks Mark.

Whoa! Interesting.

Thanks Mister,I’m glad you like it.

this is just awesome. I don’t know what to say about it really other than that. GREAT work.

Thanks Michael.

super micmac – especially the way you’ve got the wood echoing the contours of the face.
really nice

i like this !!!!!!!! this is my thing

Thank you Viviane

Thanks Trevor for the nice visit.

Fabulous image

Thanks Avocet

you have used photoshop to the full. just love this.

well i have learned sonething today

impressive!!

Thanks Karolina.

Outstanding Gigi, awesome image!!!!

That is a really cool image..the character of the wood interwoven and adding to the character of the man

Thanks Ken

Excellent work!!!

Simply Brilliant!

love this piece its fantastic and a bit creepy and otherworldly

Thank you Symmetry,Classicperfection and Sirenhill.

amazing work my dear!!

How beautiful!

Thanks Xenia,thanks Ellen

Very well done! caught my eye right away

Another brilliant work micmac! He looks like “father nature” or the old man of the forest..(how I imagined him to be) Well done on a stunning artwork!

Thanks Whippedmama

Hmn i think everyone else has already used the words that first spring to mind to complement you on this work….. so i will just have to go along with the general concensus…. wow amazing clever and brilliant!

COOL!

Very effective use of layers!

Wow, fabulous work !!!!

WoW ! WoW ! WoW ! I am most impressed !!! Fabulous work !!**

Thanks Bluerabbit ,thanks Varinia.

wow….this is so unique and intriguing…...your message is beautiful, too….i really do like this!

Amazing art-work ….............

AMAZING…...........Enough Said

incredible!

WOW! the comments probably already have said it! fantastic!

my god it took me forever to get to the end of the wonderful comments lol now i just want to say this is just BRILLIANT…......lol

Thank you so much.

very imaginative. nice.

Thank you Anthony

Lovely job you’ve done here – the textures match the facial features so well!

WOW…This is really amazing…and a tad frightening—but he’s definitely contemplating something. ;)

very clever.

Beautiful

My favourite, really most engaging and intriguing

fantastic work !

Brilliant!

Thanks Gitti

Very creative artwork, well done!

this is just brilliant – love your style here – GENIUS! :o)

Very unique, excellent!

wOW,VERY CREATIVE. This is awesome.

the flow of lines in the wood…even the positioning of the eye and ear, match the face so precisely…very effective use of layers. Luv It!!!!

Nice abstract; but powerfully insightful word. Wonderful combo. I no longer feel alone in my quest to help Mother Nature help herself.

Awesome, creative work and intent

This is so nice.

Lovely.

Awesome work! Love the idea and the treatment of it!

he’s like a wise old man, with great character lines, thanks to the wonderful tree! Fascinating merge of man and nature – beautifully done :)

just love this! so imaginative and creative. Beautiful work.

Thanks FireRabbit,Louise and Urik.

thats awsome

clever image! i like alot!

Wonderful image Gigi, and beautiful thoughtful words – If only we all thought a bit more!

Wonderfully creative work!

My goodness, what a stunning piece! Excellent work!

Excellent!!!! in image and thoughts ~ a vivid portrait for your words ~ so very well done

Very unique!!! I love it!!

I just read your little statement about the image and I couldn’t agree more. That is what I hope to do in a little way with my photography. Great Job!

Amazing textures – great work micmac :)

An image close to my heart. Humans connecting with the earth.
Well done.

Amazing image and editing, good one.

Thanks Retro and Travis

Masterpiece micmac…. Bravo!!!

oh my god—do the comments ever end here.
I’ll be back to scribe. thank you Gigi

Good points. Also feel that the control we place on others and ourselves is stopping us from ever being free in thinking or body. Whilst we feel a need to control we are fearing any loss of control and this fear paralyzes many of us.

Being a controling person I ‘ve learned by gardenning that I can’t control a thing.I was afraid of to much wind, rain , sun and trying controling my fears, I give them to much power and I kept them alive.Nature is just perfect like humans with their storms,their tears and their deep emotions.Thanks for sharing your thoughts Tony xxx

this is so spiritual and meaningful to me,when people would talk of god,and how they packaged god, i,d always point to a tree, and say how can you comment on the mind of god, when you can,t even make a simple thing like a tree, we are in awe of our being here, if we,d only look, we have a free ride for a few years in paridice, why not be free, and just? love being here, and stop wanting it all, lovely art! work micmac

Yep lifes been great since I’ve given up big chunks of controlling…frees up so much time to enjoy other things…. and the tree is still my favourite structure. Great Image by the way :)

Powerful image! Definitely conveys the importance of listening and contemplating what the earth has to say. Your words are so right and you definitely have a talent to transfer your words into a stunning visual!

Wow…took me forever to get to the bottom of your page :) Beautiful and inspiring work!!!

I just came back for another quick look and this page of comments runs from England to Canada.

Excellent work. The composition is outstanding.

Awesome work, just beautiful!

Wooooooowwwww Gigi!! Wooowww… je n’ai pas des mots… c’est incroyable!!

this works amazingly well

that’s just great. I love that the distortion of his cheek is expressed in the shape of the wood.

This is brilliant!

Someone else who does overlays, yay! Love to see how others are using this process. Isn’t skin a marvelous canvas for nature’s texture?!

really deep ! love it

You are very talented…this image has so much feeling…!

One of the best I’ve seen on RB yet. I think it’s wonderful.

This is extraordinary . I also use bark and trees as icons and this is
not only an exceptional image of nature’s beauty expressed in a brilliant portrait, but your narrative communicates a profound message. Outstanding work!!

very cleverly done! it’s beautiful.

You are a very talented, imaginative and creative thinker! Beautiful!S

Unique. I love the feel of this!

Impressive!

very nice art work

woooo very cool

This is simply amazing.

A real free thinker would need to have the quality of the wood…in a tree..adapting to circumstances…being elastic and eternal…but adapting to some form or underlying ruling creative movement…as Nature does. So the image is trying toportrait this quality in a man who shows the elasticity…doubfulness.. patience and reflexive mood needed for not being swallow by the turmoil of wishes-thinkings.
I love the result of this creation very much…it is enormously attractive and totally meaning for me.
Rosa

I wish I could write as beautifully as you ,thanks for sharing your impressions ,what you said is so touching …thank you Rosa…x

WOW!!!!!!! This is Amazing! Instant fav.!! I know u from competico. You do incredible work!

very nice mic where have u been mate

I took a deep breath and thought this is beautiful…thank you

Excellent effect, very well composed. Very thought-provoking and intense. I suppose it would take each person to a different place, based on perspective…for me, I find it very much like looking at a tree that my grandfather cared for and seeing him in it.

I love it!

This is amazing Micmac -I didn’t even realize it was wood when I saw it in the featured work!
The linear rhythms and contrast of textures work beautifully together.

FANTASTIC!!! love this

amazing – this is beautiful

perfect

Interesting piece…the description is wonderful too

Excellent work ....................... B.

Thanks B

AMAZING Work…......sooo well done!

Brilliant!! I hope to make sonething this good someday.

this just hightens my respect for artists great work.

ı love it so much, great work, excellent…...

Absolutley brilliant amazing i am in awe of your Work with these images.

Exquisite merging Gigi…......this is an excellent piece of Art…........and you are so right!!!

The technique you’ve used is extremely effective. Congrats on a really creative picture!

Sensational!!!!!!!!!!!

Outstandng Piece of Art truly beautiful:) Thank You

Good morning to you w/ many blessings:) beautiful work

You are so clever, amazing art!

Absolutely wonderful

great concept, fantastic outcome

Great concept. Nicely layered…

I always did like wood. I was drawn to this image.

Another excellent work. the quality is superb.

This is brilliant:)

wonderful!

wonderful wonderful. I love this. the way the forms of the two images flow together so perfectly. you do great work, both technically and aesthetically.

this is just great, excellent, ageless….

Oh Wow! this is incredible…I am so freaking moved by this piece, it has been in my head as part of a writing that just haunts me. This just hits me in all the right places with all the right emotions. Bravo

Excellent work. Fantastic job!

Great work!

This is brilliant and so deep. It really makes me look and look and look and think…. What a great piece of art!

beautiful and inspiring.

Well dear Gigi, It took some time, but here it is
the Free Thinker Would
Thank you for this devine inspriration.

The poem is so dedicated to you!

Wonderful work Gigi (and CC) – I love the bark (and the bite!!) – magical and v. deep.

I love it, wonderful work Gigi!

Great piece of work, love it

this is awesome! I would love too see this in a female form as well!! would be even better… a woman thinking… :-) great work!

Well I would have never expected so many comments on that pic,thank you all …x

very artistic and creative…great work!

the wood grain really does follow the contours of the face exceptionally well. what a fantastic composite Gigi. oh ouais, quand je m’obtiens ivre trouvez lui assez difficile de parler français de l’anglais encore moins, ou n’importe quelle autre langue. les amitiés les plus sincères.

Very creative and very beautiful:)

fantastic idea! and created so well! excellent!

wonderful layering … perfect combining of images

He’s petrified….................................................................wood! Nice work!!

Xcellent work !!!!

The displacement map is beautiful place

Awesome!

Excellent!

wow!

Excellent creative work!!

Congratulations on being featured artist Gigi – you are a truly inspiring RB artist

Everything good art should be, creative, thought provoking and aesthetically pleasing.

brilliant..

WOW its all been said! BRILLIANT! two thumbs up!

Fantastic work!!! Congratulations on being in the top 10 in the Surrealism challenge!

Fantastic work!

O This is amazing sweetheART ;] hugglez love it!

exceptional image, love the treatment done on this, his pose is perfect, outstanding job

Great image; although my first impression on seeing it was more of “Too much contemplation; incapable now of action…” ;)

ok first off…it took me FOREVER to scroll down all these fabulous comments so that I can make one myself!! LOL Much deserved. this is FANTABULOUS!

Excellent I have seen this before, did you win the Abstract face competition ?

Yes I did, well done.

wow! very well done!!

WOOT! congratz on your feature sweetheART ;} hugglez

absolutely brilliant micmac!!

Wow you did a awsome job on this and I love your writings about the planet and how are trees are like its lungs thats always why I get so upset when they are cut down for progress or whatever mankind feels they need to do to destroy them!!!!! Can you tell it really makes me mad lol anyway awsome work here!

Featured again, awsome…love this work Micmac…congratulations on being featured in the Digital Art Compilations group!!! Well done!

magic…no words are adequate

this is fantastic, thanku too for the insight

Your portfolio is true art. and a pleasure to go through and see all of it.
“THE FREE THINKER” is absolutely stunning work!

WOW, a really fine piece of art! wonderful work all around.

Outstanding piece of work!

This is stunning….so creative. Very striking.

Gigi, I just found this in your portfolio of work and don’t know how I missed it! Might have been around the time my mum had her stroke?
Anyway….I just wanted to say it has blown me away!

ABSOLUTELY AWESOME, AMAZING, CLEVER, INSIGHTFUL AND EMOTIVE!!!!!!

And with your beautiful dissertation of a description, it is also thought provoking. Which indeed is a good and wonderful thing!

I’m over the moon that it was selected for and published in “Gaïa the living planet”!!

Is there no end to your genius?

: )

The essence of true art. A job well done. How ‘bout combining a globe and a T-bone steak? (it’s just an idea).
Cristóbal

A real masterpiece.You have awesome talent and yes, I agree ewe should definately be more like trees!! A

I meant we should be more like trees!!

this is brilliant work ..wow wow … i know the micmacs well growing up in Amherst NS…nice to meet you….steve

Absolutely stunning!!! Instant fav!! I use picasa only, didn’t know you could do layering, might have to play a bit more with the program!!!

Agree… Clever .. and it works !

Thank you sooooooooo much. Will have to start playing now!

good job, inspiring

This is superb, excellent concept and effect

genius.

Gigi, another great image from you, and you express yourself well about the process you went through and your conclusion that the image represented to you a free thinker. This is a good example of being able to look at an image from the artist’s perspective. – Cora

Amazing!

Wonderful idea, strangely compelling, great title!

You have an incredibly creative mind. Your images are just amazing!

Wonderful work!!!:)

lovely!

quite genius really!!! seems you are in the flow.! your works are very refined and stromg!

Simple to create but an infinite imagination to even conceive it. Well done.

Congrats you are featured in Strictly Faces.

The timber flows so perfectly with the face! Favourite here!

This is so awesome! I totally understimated Picassa.

Absolutely fantastic! I really love this and i’ve never seen anything like it before!

Wonderful work, micmac – like you said, it’s like the 2 images were meant to fit together :-D

Excellent idea. I think this summer I’ll probably learn this technique from you, too. I can do it with other pics, but never thought of it using wood.

Wow, I like this, is so interesting, and unique. I think you have something in common with one RB member named “mtnman” ( he took a pict. of mountain rock and it looked liked a heart shape) You must visit his site to see it for yourself. :)))))))))))) Mingei

Fantastic!!

one of the best I’ve seen… great creative idea and got to love picasa !
a true piece of visual and thoughtful art…
my best, francis.

This is fabulous and so creative!!!

Excellent work! Love it!

I’ve always wanted to do this, I’m happy you described how. fantastic!!!

this is amazing..really love this piece

Very nice. I like the age of the man aligned with the aged wood. It is like it is giving us a glimpse of an old soul.

one of the best..I just love it

Tremendous concept, excellent presentation, Unique, refined, Enjoyed! paul

This is superb! Amazing image!

Oh my lord, your talent is amazing. What a stunning portfolio…I am in absolute AWE!!!

WOW….........great art!!!