Balloon
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A few years ago, Mildura hosted the World Hot Air Balloon Championships. I headed up there for a few days to enjoy the event. Travelling with the competitors was great as I got to see how quickly they measured the weather conditions and set up their balloons. About 80 balloons were raised at about the same time, many of them side-by-side like this, in a rush to take advantage of the best wind conditions. Not only were they pushing against each other on the ground, but the balloons would also bump each other in the air, it was really an amazing sight.
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I just couldn’t pick my favorites, I love bright colors.
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This image was featured on the Redbubble Home Page! Thanks Redbubble! Pastel painting on Kitty Wallis sanded pastel paper. From a photo shopped photographic reference shot I took of my daughter. My daughter and model dragged me along to an antiwar march in DC this past St. Patrick’s Day, March 17, 2007. Best parade I was ever in on the day! That march really influenced my work and “Lucy” was painted a month after the experience. The photo reference was taken at Kent State University when we were visiting my son for homecoming. My daughter was standing on the hill where the shootings had taken place in 1970, I saw the shot, and captured her as she really was, crazy Halloween top hat and the balloon she’d Christened “Tuesday” with a sharpie marker. I reversed the puffy white clouds in photo shop to create a smoky haze of “War Is Over” clouds. The white outline around the figure was a remnant of the photoshop effect. I liked the surreal quality of that so I kept it for the “LSD” Beatles factor. The piece is framed in an old 70’s frame and studded with plastic rhinestones. ;-) “Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds” Additional information from my myspace blog: I’ve been getting some questions about this piece, I suppose because it’s a bit of a departure for me. More surreal or psychedelic than my usual work. Part of that is intentional as a reflection of the nature of the Beatles tune which influenced the work. John Lennon always denied that the song referred to LSD, and was really inspired by Julian’s childish drawing of a girl flying in the sky. Appropriate that this pastel is inspired by my daughter’s personality. It shows her progression toward adulthood, which is the underlying theme of my White Album series. This work began as a candid snapshot of my artsy daughter at 16. We were visiting my son at Kent State U, Ohio, for Homecoming. She was really wearing the cheap top hat around campus that day, she had gotten it for her Halloween costume. The Kent Homecoming committee were passing out the balloons and she took one, and for some reason decided to name it “Tuesday” and wrote that on the balloon with a sharpie. It was a windy day with large puffy white clouds, and she was standing on the hill where the Kent State Massacre had occured. This is an important detail about my thought process for the piece, as the tragic event happened in May 1970 – the year the Beatles broke up, and around the time John Lennon began his life with Yoko and did the Baggism, Bed-In and “War Is Over” song and campaign. I saw the shot that day as she stood on the hill, and my daughter held the pose for just a moment. She hates when I take her photo – but she’s so damn quirky and cute I can’t resist! I got down low to have only the sky for a backdrop. Her expression is actually more resigned exasperation with me than anything deeper. Somehow her signature stoicism works. I played with the image in photoshop and liked the sky reversed, with darks where the whites had been. The blue sky turned the opposite on the color wheel, “marmalade” colored. The white outline is a remnant from the photoshop effect I was using, and since she was backlit in the original photo, I thought it was cool, and again, a bit surreal. The balloon was really blue, but the effect reversed that, too. It’s not meant to be realistic. I had just watched “John Lennon vs. the US” at the time and thought I’d add the words “War Is Over” to the balloon, as a flashback to the 1970’s and a hopeful premonition for today. “War is over Tuesday” may have worked as well ;) My daughter is an activist against the war and while she doesn’t like her likeness here, she does like the message. The flowers on the balloon could be a reference to “cellophane flowers of yellow and green towering over your head” but that didn’t occur to me til today :) My friends have been interpreting this piece in different ways. One wondered if the balloon is her hallucination. Another says the clouds are post-war colors. I like that. ~ A
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Blue Balloon: One of us does not belong… / Condom: Sure I do I go to parties / Blue Balloon: Thats a different kind of party! / Red Balloon: Why are you all sweaty?
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“I’ve dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they’ve gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind.” ~ Emily Bronte
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Sales of this Design? – 1 sale so far :) / Flying Machine / by Karin Taylor / from the ‘Inspired Series’ / / Mixed Media / ink, chalk pastel, charcoal, acyrlic, mediums / silver, gold, bronze and rose metallic acrylics / adobe photoshop My most recent work, this piece was influenced by the ‘gliders’ in my family who have taken to the sky recently. My husband, my son and their friend Erich are all involved in a local gliding club…and always suggesting I paint an aeroplane lol I thought, there’s no way i can do that! / But i found a way, after lots of thinking on the subject to incorporate a sort of flying contraption i designed myself into this piece. My girl is onward bound and it’s semi-self portrait i guess you could say…altho most people don’t see the resemblance to me….she is a lot younger, perhaps how i would like to be thought of lol Also inspired by my lovely and ever patient friend Christine / a fabulous friend and textile artist, her threads and yarn and tactile things have affected me on an immense scale, so that all my work these days is imbued with these elements….although there is no actual wool or thread in the painting, i have used these as inspiration for her scarf and hair detail. The khaki overalls are what i wear when i’m painting, with a white singlet in summer, or a jumper in winter…...i am yet to find a hairdresser who could accomplish this hairstyle for me.. the little parrot represents conscience, a little voice that knows right from wrong….this is an idea loosely taken from a movie i saw a while ago ‘The Golden Compass’ I dedicate this painting to Christine, as she has listened to all my crazy ideas, and very carefully encourages me or points out things that may help, and i don’t know where i’d be without her…..thanx Chris :) Patchwork and patterns, repitition, daisies, journeys, serene expressions, genuity…..
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Model – Halohid Anyone in Adelaide should know this location. It sticks out like a sore thumb. / Naturally, I had to use it. It’s just so PINK! Copyright 2008 Harmony Nicholas
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!I could see the car approaching in the far distance and was desperate to have it in my shot, it seemed to be travelling fast and the Hot Air Balloon seemed to be travelling slow, as we were about to float across the road the car came ahead of us up the road. Click – GOTCHA. Oh yes I was in a balloon above this one !!!!!!!! / SHOULD DEFINITELY BE VIEWED LARGE! Would you like to ride in my beautiful balloon / Would you like to ride in my beautiful balloon / We could float among the stars together, you and I / For we can fly we can fly / Up, up and away / My beautiful, my beautiful balloon / The world’s a nicer place in my beautiful balloon / It wears a nicer face in my beautiful balloon / We can sing a song and sail along the silver sky / For we can fly we can fly / Up, up and away / My beautiful, my beautiful balloon / Suspended under a twilight canopy / We’ll search the clouds for a star to guide us / If by some chance you find yourself loving me / We’ll find a cloud to hide us / We’ll keep the moon beside us / Love is waiting there in my beautiful balloon / Way up in the air in my beautiful balloon / If you’ll hold my hand we’ll chase your dream across the sky / For we can fly we can fly / Up, up and away / My beautiful, my beautiful balloon THIS PIECE IS AVAILABLE TO PURCHASE AS A: / • Card / • Canvas Print / • Framed Print / • Laminated Print / • Matted Print / • Mounted Print
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Oil Pastel And Acrylic On Wood (With Minor Digital Enhancements) Ophelia wishes all of us a great new year in 2009 filled with hopes and promises, it’s time to usher in the new things in our life! This is an all-occasion card, for birthday greetings, party invitations, congratulations and of course new year greetings :D You can view and buy my other “The Old Has Gone, The New Has Come” creations from my Zazzle Gallery:
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For Meggie my inspired art series
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Thanks to: / model, Krista / make-up, Vera
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this is one of my whimsical paintings painted in acrylic then slighty brushed in ps its of a girl holding a bunch of heart balloons the text at the bottom says ‘love in abundance’ Copyright © Amanda Cass All rights reserved my images may not be reproduced in any form without my written permission /
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Thank you kindly for viewing & commenting Featured in pixElations-The Art of photoshop stock by: http://jlstock.deviantart.com & sxc
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Lost balloons on the Yarra River on a rainy day in Melbourne.
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Featured in Live, Love, Dream July 09 Higher and Higher Your love / Lifted me higher / Than I’ve ever been lifted before. / So keep it up, / Quench my desire, / And I’ll be at your side forevermore. You know your love (Your love keeps lifting me, your) / Keep on lifting (love keeps lifting me) / Higher (lifting me) / Higher and Higher (higher and higher, higher) / I said, your love (Your love keeps lifting me, your) / Keep on (love keeps lifting me) / Lifting me (lifting me) / Higher and Higher (higher and higher, higher). Listen: / Now once, / I was downhearted. / Disappointment was my closest friend. / But then you came, / And he soon departed, / And you know, / He never showed his face again. All right. / Ooh… / I’m so glad / I finally found you: / Yes, that one-in-a-million girl. / When I wrap my loving arms around you, / Honey, / I can stand up and face the world. / Let me tell you, You know your love (Your love keeps lifting me, your) / Keep on lifting (love keeps lifting me) / Higher (lifting me) / Higher and Higher (higher and higher, higher) / I said, your love (Your love keeps lifting me, your) / Keep on (love keeps lifting me) / Lifting me (lifting me) / Higher and Higher (higher and higher, higher). Jimmy Barnes
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canon 5dmkII 85 mm lens f2
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All work in this portfolio is © Stephanie Rachel Seely. / These materials (images and poems) may NOT be edited, copied, reproduced, printed, distributed, displayed, performed, or used in any way, in whole or in part, without my written permission. Please respect copyright and do not save or upload any images or poems to Photobucket, Flickr, Myspace, Facebook etc. These creative materials are NOT public domain. This artwork was featured in Friends Of RedBubble, Live, Love, Dream, Art For The World and Dimensions Some basic photoshop fun. Silhouette brush provided by xCassiex24.deviantart.com.
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Shooting from a hot air balloon, I had a perfect view over our flight companion. Capadocia in Asian Turkey is one of the most spectacular landscapes in the world, making it an ideal place for hot air ballooning. Handheld in Raw (24mm, ISO 200, 1/320 sec at f8.0). 5 files have been created from the Raw file (-2 to +2) and converted into HDR with Dynamic-Photo HDR. Visit my website Travelling Light for more HDR pictures (and others)
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