Arletta
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Arletta
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You will see this on another art site, under the ID of Eclectia. That is because Eclectia is me. So is DSWilde! Anything bad you read about either is only borne out of jealousy. * grin * Here is what the description says: I was inspired by a wonderful photograph of some stairs in France (you can find it in my favorites) to finish this piece. Took me several hours to complete – not quite sure how many severals but more than usual, I can tell you! I have many variations that now I must decide to toss or keep. This is how I end up with a room cluttered by disks! Thank you for the inspiration, handsome man whose name I forget! This illustration is for a story I started long ago, which has altered much over time, and so far is just something I amuse myself with. It is being considered to finally set it down all in words and to send it out into the world. I’m a little hesitant as once it is penned (so to speak) it will be permanently as written and. . well .. I guess all children must grow up and be what they will, even the ones we create in our minds and with our hands. Yes? and here is what the handsome man, whose name I forget had to say: *euristis:iconeuristis: Jan 9, 2007, 6:17:11 AM / wow! Thank you so much, your postwork is amazing! I’m honored! :hug: / — / You can answer me in French, English or Italian…as you wish / Portfolio: www.euristis.com / Personal (french): www.cerise-b.com Just so you know I had his permission to play with his stairs! / ...................................................................................................... The Mad Queen Ardeliah is from the land of Ordine, in the world of Ordem, in a parallel’esque universe. Or, if she’s not strictly from the land of Ordine, it is, at least, wherein she has/is reign(ed)
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Self portrait, abstract version. This, unlike most of what I have ever done, is pure photo manipulation. Digital photo, low quality, was trying for something diferent, and I got it. lol No, seriously! I was trying for something else, but I happen to like this result.
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Digital photo, self portrait, taken a year or more ago. Don’t remember exactly when, but probably in either August or December of 2006 or 2007. This was totally candid, no filters, no tricks .. it just turned out this way. I think the cameras batteries were low and it was moving slower than me, that day. That’s all I can think of, by way of explanation.
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This is me, sick and tired, and trying to think. I should submit this to myth and legend, as I am one, but there is nothing mythical about my illness. Well, it might be legendary, though! And, no, for the record! I do not have a mustache; that’s a shadow, which is the sort off thing that happens when a person has lips that are less thin than a pancake. Honestly!
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These are self portraits of me, as lovingly and gently demanded by linaji. She set what months most of them should go in. The rest I shall make up as I go along.
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This one isn’t a painting Pure photo manipulation and not a stroke, not one stroke, done b hand. I also took the photo, of me. Let’s see . after i took the photo, I … 1. Opened the photot / 2.Copied it to the clipboard / 3. Chose a painting, applied the spatula abstract alchemy to it. / 4. Copied the newly abstracted painting. / 5. Pasted it on the photo of me. And then it becomes a blur .. there was somethign about using the dockers filters, reszing and applying the object twice, ...copying .. applying “find edges” , soft edges, 100 percent and .. hmmm . know I used alchemy and color tone, and maybe brighteness,contrast, intensity – not sure about that, though. Eventually, after several bouts of playing about with the different filters and one photo and one painting, I clabbered the two main components together, re sized and signed them and voila! It would have taken me less time to make a painting from it, I think lol
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Self portrait of a partially Chinese wunderkin This involves some addition of fractals to a digital painting, along with some milder forms of photo manipulation (to get the proper edges in places). Self as Other: It may have escaped your notice, but I am not green-skinned and patterned with fractals. Symbolism: It reflects my Chinese heritage, what there is of it, and how it flows into my Irish and Cherokee heritage, what there are of them, as filtered through my Alaskan attitude. Please note, there is not actually anything Chinese about this painting, except a bit of the person who made it. Therefore, it is symbolic.
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I used to do a weird thing, when I was a child. Yes, only one! LOL No, really, it was weird. I would place my fingertip upon my lips, sort of inside the kiss of them as they would be a bit puckered up in that sort of way, and , well, you could call it sucking or you could call it kissing. I would basically breathe in and suck on them whilst pulling away – going up and down the hand, then the other hand. Why? I don’t know. It wasn’t always exactly the same, in fact, sometimes I’d just do one or two. It was comforting, for some reason. That is what I was thinking about when I was doing this. Many people have gotten the impression that I was trying to intimate something highly sexual with this self portrait. I wasn’t. I was just thinking of a little girl and her habits.
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Self portrait from 2007 The cleavage disturbs me, but I like the look in my eyes, tilt of head, fall of hair, etc. so I keep it around.
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Artist’s Comments / hmmm .. well, I mostly got that top for the sake of taking pictures, but .. I sure wonder where it’s got to now! yes it is glamour. Usually wouldn’t wear silk or make-up, you know? It’s a technique for sort of down-street glamour. Kind of like the way one dresses up by dressing down. Hence the choice of backgrounds. It is also a self portrait. (old comment, which made more sense at the time)
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Original comment: A wee little digital painting made with the inspiration of the photo I have entitled ‘Such Is Life’ that is currently either in Stock, somewhere, or in Scraps. I forget which! The title is a play on words, of a personal nature. I used to have an email/yahoo ID of Always_Beauty or something like that. I did not mean it as a conceited statement, but, as more of an opinion on the sanctity of life. It was often taken as meaning I was conceited though, and that’s one of the reasons I got rid of it. When I used to frequent a certain yahoo group, which shall remain nameless but which was where I first accidentally picked up the group of hackers, people would call me ‘Always’ because of that ID. This title, then, is a bit of a commentary on that, on people who are mean or rude in general, and how much importance must be placed on them – which is not much, since it’s just crap that happens, and only for now, really. And, of course, it means life is always like that, and, “Hey, Always: buck up! It’s just life!” more or less.
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I dedicate this image to Arletta … just beacause she challenged my avartar – cockeral asking why my name is Duckworth and I had a different feathered bird and not a duck ! / So with this encouragement I have added my soap duck as my new avartar.. : ) And added as the first duck to the rubber duck group… Top ten in challnege for YELLOW GROUP Oct 2009
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Doubt it means the same thing as they mean in the song, but, nevertheless, it was inspired by the song Chop Suey Something about it reminds me of Mayans and Aztecs and all sorts of other Peoples of similar outlook – the picture, not the song. This is the result of prayer, which blossomed into something close to planning. I hope you enjoy! Is it how I feel? Well, yes, very much, in a way. I mean, with a bit of inverted perspective. it is how I feel, inside me, but, not necessarily about me. You know? Only, maybe, with another perspective, it is about me. You know that feeling that comes over you, sometimes – the wanting to hang with the cool kids, even though they are really jerks or wanting to keep the lover that’s bad for you, or wanting to get back together with the bitchy friend who dissed you in public feeling? Well, yeah, I am going through some of that -and, it is, in its way, a form of very self-righteous – I’m so much better than you think I am b.s. – social suicide. So, there I am, unfortunately, feeling that way, a bit, even though I am fighting it!
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If you haven’t’ read ‘Reggie The Evil Milkshake’ (and trust, me, you haven’t!), then you probably won’t get it. If you have read it, then give Augy back his computer and send me the file so I can edit it and make a proper novel out of it, you mucky rotten thief ! Thank you!
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For the group Doodle Do, primarily. Yes, if, for some reason, you just had to have a greeting card or 6 foot pint of it, I would do my best to oblige; but, for now, none of these are for sale as they are just doodles!
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Another shining bit of non-symbolic art, which is also not made out of ink and paper – even though it is certainly meant to be all of the above. In fact, this probably doesn’t even exist; you must be imagining the whole thing. Okay, that’s me and my impromptu, smart-arsed, pity party! This is pen and ink – sharpies being ink markers, thank you. It is on paper, and it is symbolic, but, I’m not going to tell you what the symbolism is. That’s really not the way it should work. Feminine Intent: should be obvious with the words – I am a person, capable of being heard and listened to. Capable of recirpocation, as well. For some reason, if you tell someone what you think, express concern, they tend to take it as an attack. Weird! Woman Appreciation and Freedom in Words: Should also be obvious via the words in the image. I hope! Thank you
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Another piece made, originaly, with The Scribbler, and then altered with Corel Photo-Paint.
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Made from the photo ‘Giant Headed Minx’ which is of me This is pure digital manipulation of the photo – not a shred of digital painting, though I did use some of the painting alchemy settings. Well, okay, I did actually use a “brush” tool to darken certain bits of one of the layers. So, I guess there was a shred of painting, but, that’s it! And, the title is because people on MCN keep telling me how / ugly I am.
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Just a wee doodle of a wee lady with a wee crown, on her wee crown! Speaking of which, we watched ‘The Prince and the Pauper’ this afternoon. It was quite long. Not sure just how long, as many stops were made for people to run and go pee; after which, Mom would rewind about a minute (at least) and then restart the show. Which brings me to the thought of rewinding. It was on a disk, so, obviously, it was not unwound or rewound, during the playing of the movie. Dad often complains about people calling typing at each other “chatting”, but, he does not complain about rewinding a disk being called rewinding; even though, in both cases, they are inaccurate and archaic descriptions of activity. Anyway, it was a pretty good movie, though the children’s laughter was more than a little disturbing. This doodle really has nothing to do with that, except that the one reminded me of the other. It’s just an unassuming doodle, done some wee while ago, and rests on its own merit.
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Finished just now (8:36 am on 6/29/2009) as a digital self portrait, mixed media digital as it combines photograph, drawing/painting, and filter work, layering, etc. It’s a strange feeling, as it was done of, and from, a photograph of me; but, I don’t look at it and go “Look! There’s me!” Actually, I look at it and think “I wish I could look like that!” Well, except for actually human, and not just a rendering of someone. lol You know what I mean! I think this is the way a person looks through the eyes of a lover, maybe Softer, sweeter, gentler, but relatively recognizable and accepted. In fact, that they are accepted is probably why everything is softer, because the edges are there still, but the bite is gone from them. In this case, this is more how thinking of a certain person, when I believe they care for me, makes me feel. I might, later on, upload the digital photo, as a separate piece, so I am not attaching a link to it, here and now. Trust me when I tell you much, much editing has occurred though; okay? >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> “Maidenhood, Once Bloomed” was featured in THE SISTERHOOD 32 minutes ago (11:13 pm 6/29/2009)
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It started out, this did, as a simple, fun bit of drawing on Art Rage 2.5. Later on, I went and edited it, over hours, through Corel Photo-paint 8. There was a lot of layering, using the alchemy pre-sets, some painting, some drawing. Twas a lot of hard work for one little eye. Glad I didn’t have to do the whole rest of the face, let alone the body, or I’d still be working on it! As to the symbolism, well, it is definitely a religious teaching that the eyes are the windows of the soul .. and that’s as far as I’m going in explaining. I don’t believe symbolism should have to be explained, so long as you, the artist, know that it’s there; but, I’ve gone and done it, anyway.
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