Practising the Dark Arts
Featured Work
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Storm Lover by Adara Rosalie
/ I created this image image using Photoshop. It is a mixuter 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 elses work, they work hard to create their art!) Images used can be found: / deviantart.com 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.
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Reclining in Vaduz by egold
They say every young woman dreams about a prince, prince from the fairy tale… / May be this lady is also dreaming about prince… the Prince of Liechtenstein… / “Reclining Woman” (Ruhende Frau) 1993 / by Fernando Botero, Vaduz, Liechtenstein. /
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10,000 Days (Wings Pt. 2) by Lloyd Harvey
Medium: Acrylic Paint on Acrylic Paper / Size: 12” x 16” / Description: Based on the fourth song on the Tool album of the same name, 10,000 Days is the second part of the Wings For Marie set. It was completed in early 2009. Because the song itself is surrounded in so much personal meaning to the singer, the piece was trick to approach. I wanted to try to convey something that was respectful and tasteful. The song is about the singer’s dead mother who, suffering from a long standing illness that left her wheel chair bound for 26 years (10,000 Days), was a devout Christian. The singer himself is an atheist and expresses his hope that he is wrong and that there is an after life, there is a heaven and that his mother deserved wings for what she went through. In my piece, I depict the Christian view of Death but instead, he is a psychopomp, a run of the mill ferry man of souls. I wanted to show a visual representation of what the singer was hoping for. A being, waiting for his mother in the after life, to take her up to heaven. Original For Sale: £200 Contact me at lloydharvey@shrunkenheaddesign.co.uk / www.shrunkenheaddesign.co.uk
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Vicarious by Lloyd Harvey
Medium: Acrylic Paint on Acrylic Paper / Size: 12” x 16” / Description: Based on the first song from the Tool album 10,000 Days, Vicarious was completed in early 2009 and was an attempt at a more surrealistic style. I don’t watch a great deal of television anymore. In recent times I have noticed that there are a lot of people who do nothing but work then go home and stare at the box. This is fine in some respects, I’m not here judging those. But one thing that stands out to me is society’s obsession with the misery of others, violence and strange. It bares a stark likeness to the Victorian fascination with the side shows in carnivals. People who never miss and episode of a soap opera or even delight (subconsciously) at watching grim events on the news, are tapping into vicarious voyeuristic behavior. In my piece, the mountains of televisions represent portals in which we, as humans, stare through into strange worlds. Original For Sale: £150 Contact me at lloydharvey@shrunkenheaddesign.co.uk / www.shrunkenheaddesign.co.uk
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Jambi by Lloyd Harvey
Medium: Acrylic Paint on Acrylic Paper / Size: 12” x 16” / Description: Based on the second song from the Tool album 10,000 Days, Jambi was completed in early 2009 and is a loose interpretation on the band’s original meaning of the song. In my piece, I explored the idea of the Third Eye and wanted to twist it a little to give it a darker edge. The Tool song is about a sultan who lives an opulent life style, I wanted to try an depict what would happen to a person of that status if they attained a false sense of enlightenment. If one was to become enlightened, or so it is believed, one’s third eye would open in the center of the forehead. So, if one was to become ill-enlightened (its not a real word but it works) then where would the third eye open? ahem Also added to the fool’s punishment, his real eyes burn out and the eye-tongue causes irreversible madness. Original For Sale: £150 Contact me at lloydharvey@shrunkenheaddesign.co.uk / www.shrunkenheaddesign.co.uk
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Addiction... or destiny of an antiques collector. by egold
Addiction (noun) / 1. The state of being enslaved to a habit or practice or to something that is psychologically or physically habit-forming, as narcotics, to such an extent that its cessation causes severe trauma. / 2. The condition of being habitually or compulsively occupied with or or involved in something. It’s about my addiction, addiction to collecting antiques. As any other addiction it takes you all, you don’t see anything around except antiques. You live in your own world and recognize only your treasures or things you need. / Like a mollusk you live in your shell, getting out just for short time, to catch something and get back to your habitation. When you, shell-fish, staying alone, you as The Merchant of Venice, Shylock can look at your treasures again and again, count them through the hours. So… addiction to collecting is a sickness, some kind of disease… but so pleasant disease. Thanks to: / skydancer_stock from deviantart.com for the “collector” / pacsaman from deviantart.com for the beautiful female image; / Lorivintage55stock from deviantart.com for the “jeweled elephant”;
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Mask... or between good and evil. by egold
Mask (noun). / 1. Covering for all or part of the face as a disguise or for protection. / 2. Some kind of behaviour for pretension to be, passing oneself of as, impersonating, simulating or posing as. As long time Japanese antique collector I took masks of old Japanese theatre Noh and Kyogen for definition of this word… The date of man’s invention of masks is unknown, their use is certainly several thousands years old. It’s a fact that masks in one form or another have made their appearance in every culture shows how important role they have played in a human life. With the development of dance and true drama, masks became less primitive and more artistic. Immobility of a mask, which seems such a disadvantage when compared with the living human face, makes about it a certain air of the supernatural and fantastic, that’s why masks are widely used up to the present day. Among the people of the world who still actively use masks, the Japanese are in many ways outstanding. Let’s go back to 14th century when theatre No and Kyogen begins his history and the masks of this show became one of the finest dramatic masks the world has ever seen. I try briefly summarize the characteristics of the Noh and Kyogen masks. Mask of Noh is a mask of tragedy, mask of the Kyogen is the mask of comedy. A typical present-day No performance consists of five Noh plays, divided of three comic interludes of Kyogen, both the tragic and the comic elements being heightened in effect for the best contrasting result. Good and evil in Noh drama reflects these both sides of real life… In real life you also making choice between good and evil. Many people wearing masks covering their real personality, as a artists playing roles not really belonging to them and as final result ruining the life of themselves or others. Make a right choice between good and evil, take a right mask or even take it off, throw it away and be yourself.
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Grandmother's house by Cliff Vestergaard
I would like to thank blackoutangel For letting me use the image a delightful hiding place Looking through an open door… / I do so one-der what’s in store. / At the same Time, I do see… / All the one-der in front of me Philosophy Lee
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face in the smoke by Alleycatsgarden
face in the smoke
Recent Work
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A Woman Scorn by Ash Sivils
A Sequel To Hope For Hell I had a very trying week/month Model courtesy of Marcus J. Ranum Resources Found On Deviantart.com: muisie / amptone-stock
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Messenger from the Inverted World by Kitsmumma
Best viewed LARGE
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The High Priestess by Evita
The number 2 in the Major Arcana / Trust in your intuition… all is proceeding according to your wishes
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Epi-Tat by Marie Monroe
End Times
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Custom and portrait doll work by uglyshyla
Info on custom and portrait doll work. / I have now added info on how to commission me for custom doll work on my website here http://tinyurl.com/qdoayk and I’m also offering the option of making you into your own Victorian ball jointed doll info on that can be found here http://tinyurl.com/prm4vh
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Enough Humans! Enough! by Gabriel Forgottenangel
Enough Humans! Enough!
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...Not often, and after I read something on Red Bubble that was soul-wrenching and written in a haunting prose: a conversation and actions running together in the most sorrowful and profound kind of absurd and loathing struggle, that I get caught up in the sheer momentum of the narrative and waiting bitterly to end this threatening nightmare… / So, with clear-eyed and compassionate acknowledgment of tragedies as they are, I have written this nuanced and ‘unjust’ piece with steely and bitter tenderness.. / This one is not for you; it’s for her and it is dedicated to all the Unseen Miracles that perished…to all The Unregenerate… Inspired by the Music of Jocelyn Pook’s Masked Ball
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Search Well and You Shall Find.
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Inspired by the Music of Dead Can Dance’s De Profundis – Out of The Depths of Sorrow
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Cosmic Consciousness: Love in Absence / Music: Inspired by Jean Michel Jarre’s Waiting for Cousteau
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Occult, religion, fantasy, magic and mythology
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