Practising the Dark Arts
Featured Work
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Pendragon by Lynnette Shelley
Pen and ink dragon on gold background
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The Scorpion Queen by Nvision Ink
Model: Laurel Rae / MU & Hair: Mutany Industries It is very real…Concept by: Laurel Rae
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bottled dreams no more by navybrat
bottles: 4 of my photographs / feather: on loan from a dove…. / glass textures: from my window pane / smoke: a pack of Marlboro reds / face: www.fahmy.tk / all combined together with a touch of digital painted elements / to unleash these bottled dreams / PS CS4 / work time: 3 hours © 2009 jokiargu creations / All rights reserved / thank you for viewing my heART!!!
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Conscious by Ash Sivils
Conscious Creation Date: 7.10.09 Con·scious (kŏn’shəs) / adj. 1. Having an awareness of one’s environment / and one’s own existence, sensations, and thoughts. 2. Mentally perceptive or alert; awake 2. Capable of thought, will, or perception 3. Subjectively known or felt: conscious remorse 4. Intentionally conceived or done 5. Inwardly attentive or sensible Model: Courtesy of Marcus J. Ranum Credits: elisafox-stock / amptone-stock / Fairiegoodmother Ash Sivils © 2007-2009 No Derivative Works — You may not alter, transform, or / build upon this work in any shape way or form unless you / gain a waiver from me, not a representative. You may not / import, export, print, redistribute or claim as your personal / work. You may not sell this art or assign right to others, all / images are copyrighted please respect those rights.
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All She Wanted Was an Unbreakable Heart & a Spine of Tungsten-Steel by Selkie
Self-portrait * ...and maybe a bloody vicodin.
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Immortal Invitation by shadowzone
Model Kieran O’Reilly / from Melbourne Band Catwitch
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Madonna de Canon by Selkie
Selfportrait in Mirror – Honolulu, 2004 One of my very first self-portraits – far too small for sale due to my ignorance and digital camera that was out of date 2 years before i got my hands on it :)
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Storm Witch by Adara Rosalie
THE WITCH UPON THE HILL (At least I hope that you will enjoy this poem that I read in a book) Her eyes are black, the midnight sea, / Her hair, a sooty cloud / Her voice, the winds of fantasy / Her heart like fire, and proud I could not help but watch her / As beneath the moon she danced. / She whirled, she cast, she conjured / She sang a mystic chant She soared into my sould that night / The starry sky her wings / She whispered secrets in my dreams / And spoke of sacred things Im my mind, she entranced me / Her kiss was magick-laced / Her touch, it left me trembling / And craving her embrace The Skys obey her every wish, / The elements, her commands, / She wields a power over me, / My heart lies in her hands For her I’d cross the universe, / For her I’d swim the sea, / But what could an Enchantress want / With a simple man like me? She came, and said “I love you, / And likely, always will.” / My heart, I pledge, forevermore / To the witch upon the hill. / I created this image image using Photoshop. It is a mixture of Images that i layered and manipulated to create this image. It is an original concept created by me. / I would like to thank the contributing artists that allowed me to use their beautiful stock images. / (Always ask permission first before using or stealing anyone else s work, they work hard to create their art!) Images used can be found / Field of Poppies by: ~Tadobi / Model by: johnrey54
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Mannequin by egold
Mannequin (noun). / Dummy, lay figure, manikin, artificial person, model of the body, “little man”. The word comes from the Dutch/German word “manneken” , literally meaning “little man”. “Mannequin” is the French form… I always knew that artificial people have their own secret life, hidden from our eyes. Like among us their life is a challenge. Everyone wants to achieve something, get a first place in life competition… But it’s a long line of competitors on that way and only one wins the first prize – the place in shop-window. May be it will be the best in line… may be not… Thanks to 57mannequins from deviantart.com for this “little man”. / The middle mannequin – from last Christmas window decoration of Bergdorf & Goodman store in New York.
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Score by egold
Score (noun). / 1. A usually numerical record of a competitive event; / 2. The act of securing an advantage, especially a surprising or significant gain; / 3. A grievance that is harbored and requires satisfaction; / 4. The written form of the composition for orchestral or vocal parts; / 5. The music written for a movie or a play; / And many other definitions in our life… Life is a competition. And in this competition, in this game with a name LIFE everyone has a SCORE. Sometimes your score is even more important than you. For some individuals your score is only a characteristic of your personality… Look around and you see what’s going on… Here is the mirror. It doesn’t like you and says: Get out, don’t look at me! Here are the people. They don’t like you and say: Get away, you’re damaging our landscape! Here is the person. He doesn’t know you and not talking to you. He has no any interest to you because he doesn’t know your LIFE SCORE… But somewhere are different mirrors, and different people, and different person. They will be able to see the most important things in your personality. And they will say: How wonderful are you, stay with us… Just find these people – it’s not so difficult… Life… competition… game… numbers… score… What’s more important than you, yourself, for yourself, and all around you… Thanks to: / 57mannequins from deviantart.com for this “little man” / thatestock from deviantart.com for the “torso mannequin”; / Falln_Stock from deviantart.com for the antique piano from the Texas museum. / The middle mannequin – from last Christmas window decoration of Bergdorf & Goodman store in New York
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Horsing around... by egold
Everywhere in Vaduz can be seen great art pieces. This city is a museum of modern sculpture. / Here are "Tre Cavalli" (2002) statues of horses by Swiss born world famous artist and sculptor Nag Arnoldi in front of the Vaduz Town Hall. / Nag Arnoldi was born in Ticino, the Italian speaking part of Switzerland, in 1928. Following his artistic training, he was awarded a diploma of theatre costume and dress design in Milan. Exhibitions devoted to Pablo Picasso and the German expressionists helped Arnoldi develop his own personal artistic vision. Painting, graphics, ceramics and glass became the means used in a relentless quest which found its ultimate expression in sculpture.
Recent Work
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The Space Between Words by Geoff Coleman - Conceptuals
Another from the series I did with Duncan and Joshua – they had very sore face muscles by the end of this shoot. Beauty dishes just behind them and to one side. Models: Joshua and Duncan / Photography: Geoff Canon 1Ds MkIII / Tv: 1/125 sec / Av: f/10 / ISO: 200
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Just saying Hi is now featured in HORRORAMA /
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Autumn gaze by lhandlott
digital art/photography
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A flower given to me... by lhandlott
(Watercolor/rose photograph/collage/oil painting/vector art/digital drawing/digital painting) Hoping to see my daughter i dedicate this to her…Love you Ashlyn where ever you are. In the sight of love my precious / The innocence, the awareness / Even a shade can be hurt / Even a shade can feel the pain Devoted till I last / A story so tragic / Weakness and rapture / I fade can you see me? / I’m lying (there) forgotten / Take my Hand Forever And Ever… e.f.
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baby, bolt & the ouija board by laurenrabbit
The board is ten years old and the most disturbing thing I have ever made.
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Descent into Hell by RavenSoul
This is as close as I have come to date to depict a nightmare of Christ’s descent to Hell. Believe or don’t believe, but Im showing you a small glimpse of my dream. Thanks for viewing. Sincerely Vonne Harrowing of Hell / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Roman Catholic / There is an ancient homily on the subject, of unknown authorship, usually entitled The Lord’s Descent into Hell that is the second reading at Matins on Holy Saturday in the Roman Catholic Church. The Catechism of the Catholic Church states: “By the expression ‘He descended into Hell’, the Apostles’ Creed confesses that Jesus did really die and through his death for us conquered death and the devil ‘who has the power of death’ (Hebrews 2:14). In his human soul united to his divine person, the dead Christ went down to the realm of the dead. He opened Heaven’s gates for the just who had gone before him.”[6] As the Catechism says, the word “Hell”—from the Norse, Hel; in Latin, infernus, infernum, inferi; in Greek, ᾍδης (Hades); in Hebrew, שאול (Sheol)—is used in Scripture and the Apostles’ Creed to refer to the abode of all the dead, whether righteous or evil, unless or until they are admitted to Heaven (CCC 633). This abode of the dead is the “Hell” into which the Creed says Christ descended. His death freed from exclusion from Heaven the just who had gone before him: “It is precisely these holy souls who awaited their Savior in Abraham’s bosom whom Christ the Lord delivered when he descended into Hell”, the Catechism states (CCC 633), echoing the words of the Roman Catechism, 1,6,3. His death was of no avail to the damned. Conceptualization of the abode of the dead as a place, though possible and customary, is not obligatory (Church documents, such as catechisms, speak of a “state or place”). Some maintain that Christ did not go to the place of the damned, which is what is generally understood today by the word “Hell”. For instance, Thomas Aquinas taught that Christ did not descend into the “Hell of the lost” in his essence, but only by the effect of his death, through which “he put them to shame for their unbelief and wickedness: but to them who were detained in Purgatory he gave hope of attaining to glory: while upon the holy Fathers detained in Hell solely on account of original sin, he shed the light of glory everlasting.”[7] While some maintain that Christ merely descended into the “limbo of the fathers”, others, notably theologian Hans Urs von Balthasar (inspired by the visions of Adrienne von Speyr), maintain that it was more than this and that the descent involved suffering by Jesus.[8] Since both John Paul II and Benedict XVI have lauded the theology of Balthasar, and because some do not see a precise doctrinal position of the Church on this point, some maintain that this is a matter on which differences and theological speculation is permissible without transgressing the limits of orthodoxy.[9] View Large Here
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Potted by Ash Sivils
Potted Creation Date: 1.31.09 Showing At Studio 83 In Nashville, Tn Model: Rammkitty-stock / Sticks: IWS-stock / Lady Bug: Sourcow / Flowers: vallendesterstock / Textures: amptone-stock Vines: Hand made – took WAY too long! / A lot of brush work, layers and time. Ash Sivils © 2007-2009 No Derivative Works — You may not alter, transform, or / build upon this work in any shape way or form unless you / gain a waiver from me, not a representative. You may not / import, export, print, redistribute or claim as your personal / work. You may not sell this art or assign right to others, all / images are copyrighted please respect those rights.
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not quite a tree nor its branches by mimi yoon
/ not quite a tree / nor its branches not quite the octopus / in its sea not quite that one kiss / of almost lovers but the tenderness / ready to grow and weave / and its foliage / and its language all in abundance… / / where or when / / o2.o8.2o1o / acrylic on canvas / very small / /
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Pink is the wrong colour for suicide… / 02/09/2010
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A LITTLE NIGHT MAGIC by Tammera
FOR THE HIGHEST GOOD OF ALL / AND HARM YE NONE LEST THREE TIMES THREE / BECOMES YOUR SUM Digital Art / Photoshop CS3 Special thanx to deviantart.com Stock: / Magical_Forest_STOCK_by_wyldraven / Crystal_ball_2_by_chop_stock / Jodi_Purple_Halloween_Witch_47_by_FantasyStock
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INFINITY'S GAME by Tammera
Through the looking-glass / They came and went / Not a moment did she think / Time could be bent She thought and she thought / And wondered some more / At all of the wonderments / That lay neath that floor Infinity’s realm / Gave her desire / To reach out and grasp / And take herself higher So she tip-toed around / The looking-glass mirror / And summoned intent / To take her nearer Nearer to whom / She was meant to be / Nearer to truth / In her own reality As she fell through / The looking-glass floor / Her soul flew past / Many a door She halted when suddenly / She blasted upon / The one meant for her / With no question of wrong Thus sealed her fate / At least this go-round / For this is passage / To her higher ground… This time around Digital Art / Photoshop CS3 Special thanx to deviantart.com Stock: / stock_image_yt_by_yannytokyo / Wings___Angel_5_by_markopolio_stock / looking_in_the_lake_of_dream_by_angelcurioso
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