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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She Roams The Moors by charlena
This is a special thanks to Deviant art stock photo Chobits_22_by_Lisajen_stock., and to / http://www.redbubble.com/people/colin/ / Colin Cartwright on red bubble for giving me permission to use their art for practice. Hope everyone enjoys this. :) this is the link to the original / http://www.redbubble.com/people/colin/art/1858706-2-smailholm-sunset / /
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SILENCIO by KEIT
2009
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SPECTRE ALBUM COVER by morphfix
DESIGN BY M.R.D.
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Twenty years ago every light, every electronic device, every power plant, nuclear reactor and even satellites went dead…for one hour. In one hour the world tore itself apart as something we had spent thousands of years trying to forget came for us. We ignored all warnings, we refused to believe it was true and in one hour everything that had taken generations to forget undid us and all our grand inventions. The survivors came to call that dark hour Nightfall, the day the world ended and Hell was born. Live now, in the final five years of the reign of mankind and see if you can survive the coming dark. Weigh yourself against a world tearing itself apart and come to know if you are lacking. Discover why we were once afraid of the dark. So this is how you pre-order a copy of Nightfall 2011: special Edition. The cover price is $45.95, but if you pre-order today, you can buy your copy for $30 USD. Once Nightfall is ready to ship, you’ll be contacted with the total shipping cost and once it clears, its off to your house and then into your gaming den. The special edition of Nightfall 2011 will not be sold any other way, this is it. The special edition includes two setting fiction short stories, 1 new playable species that will NEVER be printed again and of course, the adoration of other Nightfall players who don’t have your playable creature, the Half-breed Vampire. We will only be taking pre-orders for the special edition until July 26th at midnight (GMT -5) and Nightfall will ship August 1st 2009, pre-order customers will be contacted with the shipping cost between those dates to give them a chance to get their paypal payment in. Make sure you leave a customer note with your Paypal payment you make and input your valid shipping information with full name. Check out a preview here: The preview is loaded on Lulu, but if you’re having trouble with it loading, you can download it directly from my website HERE just be gentle on my bandwidth :P Also posted on the forums
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Ballerina by KseniyaTataKP
A4,paper 80g/m, pen Ballerina is featured in Back In Black Group
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I Will Never Meet You Again... by Gabriel Forgottenangel
I Will Never Meet You Again…No Place For Angels Here Anymore…
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Chicken Man by Mike Cressy
Black ink on lined notebook paper. / 5×7
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Ablaze by Nurhilal Harsa
Landscape, oil on canvas
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Casting of the Runes by LoneAngel
The sorceress speaks in whispers .. / she weaves the magic spell .. / she calls forth the runes .. / and from the flames they appear ..
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