The Lost City 1

This is awesome stuff, has to be my favourite so far, the layering is surreal and that orange makes me feel kind of isolated. at first I thought those vertical lines at the top were hippy beads, what a contrast I found that to be…

Thanks kathleen. Your comments are really appreciated. I’m just going with the flow at the moment and trying out digital art for the first time. But I guess that really fits in with my printmaking interest/background. I still much prefer to feel the paper, tools and surface I’m working with though.

I love the richness of the red. This piece is a wonderful fantasy.

Love the colours and layering in this. Very impressive!

This is still my favorite of the lost city series, as it holds out much more mystery. It is surreal and full of unknowns. Dramatization of life and dreams, love it. The lone light is the ray of hope, drawing you in.

beautiful whirli – what program r u using- is it all painted or hand done or phot composites? tell me your secrets gal- spill heehee lol i love it even if u dont tell =

Jienn, all of The Lost City series are done from my original digital photos and layered/manipulated in Photoshop. I’m so amazed at the response I’m getting because it’s my first effort at producing artwork like this in Photoshop. Learnt on a very early version of Photoshop about 13 years ago, but really only did basic layers,etc. Always planned to use it for touching up heaps of very old photos of my ancestors, but haven’t started that process yet.

your work is so beautiful, but it is your base photography where the difference is hun, you sure will agree that when you begin with sound and beautiful imagery as the photographic basis then its somewhat easier to make surrealism work…..whatya think????

It helps to have reasonable photographs to work from, but sometimes you can take the good bits and pieces from photos that haven’t necessarily worked on their own, and turn them into something special with layers of bits and pieces from other photos. I operate very much by “feel” rather than perfection. I’m flattered that you like my images Jienn, and flattered by all the comments I’m getting from other people. I’ve never been one to display my work in the past – it’s mostly hidden in map draws and in the shed. But here I can be anonymous….......

I’d like to add my praise also for this piece of fascinating art. If this is one of your first pieces, I’m impressed. All the bits fit well together. The cobwebs look good.

Thanks mawaho.

Growing up and reading many books there was always tales of the Lost Cities.

Wow , you have climbed into my imagination and brought to life the theatre of my mind..

Amazing De je Vous.

Ronald

A comment like this coming from you Ronald is extremely flattering. I admire your work so much.
Thank you, Ronald, and thanks to all the others who have left such wonderfully encouraging comments on this work.

GASPS!!!! AMAZING!!!

Thanks kookylane. Your work is just sooo fabulous, so I’m delighted with your response to this.

This is beautiful!

FireRabbit, my comment above to kookylane applies just as much to your work, and the comment you’ve made to my work. You are both so talented, and I’d appreciate any constructive criticism coming from your direction to my digital images.

Can’t believe I missed this – love the colours and the complex layering of natural and architectural elements. Brilliant!

Ditto Graeme there!!! Well done on the sale Whirli :D

Thank you Graeme and Craig. Graeme, it’s good to see your excellent work back on RedBubble!

Whirlygig, this is absolutely wonderful, I can see why its been bought! Congratulations, and I hope its the start of many more sales for you!

Thanks Mel. I’m pretty excited about it, to say the least!

This is a beautiful piece, Whirligig!! May it sell many more times (and all your other pieces too!!!)... I don’t remember seeing this when you uploaded it. I must have been sidetracked by something else (so easily done here in RB).

Thanks georgiegirl. I hope we all sell heaps of work!

PS. I wore my cat T-shirt on Mothers’ Day – everyone loved it!

Congrats on sale – this is a fabulous work.

Great composition !

Mystery abounds, secrets to be uncovered and ages gone by to honour or not…! love it

Thank you Justin. Comment much appreciated.

Cathie, what a lovely, poetic way you have of describing this work. I am honored and pleased.

Hauntingly beautiful image. Combining elements of dreams and nightmares, menace and hope. Somehow I like it’s symmetry too. Excellent.

I love this work. What a great theme!

Thank you Brett and Lyn.

nice one! makes me feel tense but hopeful.

Your comment is appreciated Vansk. Thank you.

beautifully composed.

wow, thats really intense! i like the layers and how well they blend!

Thanks for taking the time to look and comment, JaniceElanor and Steven.

Awesome stuff!

I love this. I had a similar idea, and I was looking to see how it had been handled by other people, and this is amazing! Love it.

Thanks Mugsy and jenfinger77.

Hey…Whirligig…this is fantastic art. I’m getting such a lot of inspiration from what you do. I’m still crawling around as far as computer graphics go….but it’s something that really gets my juices flowing…as does your work. Awesome stuff.

I feel extremely honoured that someone like you should be getting inspiration from what I do! Thank you so much for that encouragement. Now I’ll really have to climb out of my slump and get on with trying to do something worthwhile.

This ia amazing. I can see that you are a print maker. It looks like a vision. Or like spiritual architecture. Really unbelievable. The rhythm, the lining, the textures, the colours: it is a symphony of visual beauty. Great.

Great work, it takes great vision to get great results like this.
Thanks for your comments on CRITICISM. Hoping to add a second article on sun/mon with a cunning plan. Your words were thought out and are considered. Thanks

FlyBoy, what a lovely, poetic comment!

Tony, I appreciate you stopping by to look at my portfolio, and your encouraging comment. I’ll be keeping an eye out for your second article.

I admire people as you, able to make an art work with collage, different bits and pieces; turning them, mixing them… I am totally enable to do this, and I really love this kind of “manipulations”

Unfortunatelly I have no time to comment, no time to visit many portfolios.. but I appreciate something important :
- the intelligent comments on different blogs and discussions,
- the work you do,
- the personnality you seem to have.
Truly appreciated.

Marie, you have really touched me so with your lovely comment that I now have tears in my eyes. Thank you so much for taking the time to say these very kind things. RedBubble really has a great community of people.

hey thanks for commenting on my work, this peice is one of my favorites its amazing, the way everything just seems to blend together especially the sunflowers, how do you do such spectacular work?

wow this is amazing ..!

Wow! Absolutely beautiful

Amazing piece of work

GOOD JOB,9.2

Haven’t looked at your folio for a while whirli, and I must say WOW!!! I love the cobbies in the corners, the red tones, everything! I must admit, I tend to have a few cobbies myself! Well done, keep up this brilliant work, you have alot of talent!

I think I like the archetectual structure to this one.
Well composed. I love it.

Fabulous!, I love the entire series…...

I’ve just realised, once again, that there are a whole lot of people I haven’t thanked here! Thank you all so much for your really lovely and supportive comments. I apologise wholeheartedly for not getting back to you sooner.

this is stunning work so creative very well done.
Thank you also for your comment on my work I was very pleased you like it so much.

very impressive layering

well we discover something new every day here on redbubble,having not being here before,its a pleasure to view.
the Lost City series are all great images,...now all you need is a story!!!!!

David.

great image lots of depth and layers – love it

Lots to see here. Intriguing.

This has so much atmosphere, layers of interest…an amazing image created Whirligig.

Such an awesome image! I love the layers and fullness of this image!

Thank you so much Deri.

And to all the others, thank you too. A very, very belated note of appreciation I know, but a very genuine one.

This is so fantastic! Love it.