Realisitc Pencil Drawing of a Tabby Cat sleeping in the sunshine on a board. By Asia Barsoski
Ever have one of those nights where you (abstractly) just “Couldn’t Sleep”?
Oil Painting by bec
Digital Painting
Baby girl is cuddled in yellow bed clothes soundly sleeping
2008 Copyright. All Rights Reserved to Mariam Muradian. This painting was directly inspired by one of the visions I had in the Native American “Deeksha” Healing/Blessing on New Year’s Eve. My eyes were closed. / I saw penetrating yellow light pouring and radiating out from behind my eyes. I was able to see things in a “Maxfield Parrish way” again. Now consider from whence I have come….. August 2006 I was given a drug to assist my heart; helping to end 40 years of continual “heart attack magnitude” chest pain and to keep me from slipping in and out of consciousness. It was a new, still somewhat experimental, drug on the market….aka “expensive”. In January 2007, after my 13th heart surgery, the drug was increased to get me past a difficult recovery. I began having elevating pressures in my eyes and pain like knives inside my eyes. Very rapidly I lost my peripheral vision, my color vision, and my central vision. My eyes had become extremely light sensitive; I was given the darkest glasses. This was in the middle of painting The Genetic Bill of Rights Painting Series. I had to sort my colored paints into shades of grey (which I fell into quite naturally from my formal art training); I continued to paint in color even though I could not tell you what color it was, apart from some incredibly intuitive color vibrations I would get; sometimes I could even hear the color. The signature piece of that series was painted when I had only a sliver of vision remaining in my left eye. / Because I had so little sensitive vision left, the Blind Society deemed it unreliable and trained me blindfolded. I painted the signature piece 80% blindfolded. It was a beyond trippy time for me!!! During this whole loss of vision, I had the Blind Society coming to my home to train me in skills and navigation. I was taught to use a blind cane. I learned to type and use voice recognition software. I was learning to cook by sound. One day I set out to get the mail: I was gone for two hours, had fallen into a bush, and returned with no mail in hand! I was so overwhelmed and challenged. After much painful testing, it was decided that the new drug was the cause of the blindness. I was left with a lousy choice and no guarantees from the medical community. In October 2007, I found myself a long way from home, down a road that I didn’t like nor was I sure I could reverse, go back to the fork in the road, and choose again. Morphine and the runaway bobsled to hell! So I stopped the drug! I began Chinese Tong Ren. / Miraculously, my sight returned, color too! My peripheral is still not as it was before the drug…..whose complaining?!!! Painting is like candy to me now; I was born with the gift, but now it means even more! My mind and soul are still playing catch up with all that happened. I do not understand the “taking” or the “giving back” of it all…..maybe it is for the comfort of others? I suppose the worst way to come away from such a trial would be with a “metaphorically myopic soul”? (I would like to hear your comments on my last statement, please. Write.) What we see can be such a distracting illusion to the essence of what is really there. Oddly, sometimes I miss the darkness. I remember the lessons of the darkness. As my Father would say, “I have made the circumference.” / Gratitude does not even begin to cover it!.... ~Mariam Muradian
Acrylic on paper 2007 / Original artwork sold
Acrylic on paper 2007 / Original artwork sold
Digital Art
digital art
Ink Drawing
View of the beach near Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore in Northwest Michigan. My favorite aspects of this photo are the fact that the entire picture is quite geometric almost like a pie graph. You can tell where the point of infinity is. Someone commented that point is too central. In my mind that was the point. I like how the dune to the right now looks like a giant wave of water about to crash.
This was a Christmas parade car with Christmas lights on it. It zoomed past these people, creating a silhouette.
Acrylic painting by Nicole Whitty
kissing me to sleep at night /
from Safari Shoot again
Colorful sleeping cat. /
“The best thing about dreams is that fleeting moment, when you are between asleep and awake, when you don’t know the difference between reality and fantasy, when for just that one moment you feel with your entire soul that the dream is reality, and it really happened.” Unknown
Canon EOS DIGITAL REBEL XTi / Date/heure original 2009-06-14 19:07:19 / Mesure de la vitesse de l’obturateur 1/200 s / Indice d’ouverture f/5.0 / Vitesse estimée ISO ISO 200 / Indice d’exposition biaisée -1.00 eV / Mode compteur Partial / Flash Flash did not fire, compulsory flash mode / Longueur focale 75 mm / Balance des blancs Manual white balance
Homeless in Paris
One of the characteristics I like about using digital methods to create art is that you can easily start using a dark colour or even “black”, most conventional art works start with a white page or canvas and build tone and shade from this white base. Its not that common or easy to go the other way and start with a very dark canvas and then lighten it. So this is just one of the attributes that makes digital art different and interesting. (Hope you’re still following this ?) This work is made up of several hand drawn elements.. brought together digitally which were specifically and individually created for this series of works. On their own they don’t really look much but when brought together digitally they work. There is also obviously scanned photographic and newspaper imagery in this series of images.. Obviously this is no particular location more a generic image of a city. Primarily this is a work about the city as a way of life.. the city as a myth.. its about what happens in the city.. and our ideas of a city. Viewed from space the city is probably our most obvious impact on the planet. The fortunes of the city are somehow synonymous with our fortunes as a race. (But enough of this serious analytical stuff.. lets have some fun and launch into the creative imagination.. whoooosh) It’s quite possible that beyond our planet someone or something is observing with interest the fungal like growth of our cities spreading out across the globe. “No one would have believed in the early years of the 21st c that human affairs were being watched from across the timeless void of space.... “ Sleep well.. This image was published in Frontiers of Neuroscience a journal that brings together the most important research on a theme in neuroscience. The magazine is distributed to neuroscientists around the globe and the website is read by over 155,000.
Canon EOS DIGITAL REBEL XTi / Date/heure original 2009-10-24 11:17:15 / Mesure de la vitesse de l’obturateur 1/400 s / Indice d’ouverture f/4.5 / Vitesse estimée ISO ISO 400 / Indice d’exposition biaisée -1.00 eV / Mode compteur Partial / Flash Flash did not fire, compulsory flash mode / Longueur focale 250 mm / Balance des blancs Manual white balance
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