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Gavin Diamond
Australia
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Diamond Music
Puerto Rico
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Hand drawn and rendered… Saint Death (also known as La Santísima Muerte, and Doña Sebastiana), is a religious figure who receives petitions for love, luck, and protection. Although the Catholic Church has attacked the worship of Saint Death as a pagan tradition, many people insist on praying to this figure for miracles. Those who pray to this figure are often seeking the recovery of health, stolen items, or kidnapped family members. Saint Death is often depicted as a female figure, dressed as a grim reaper with a scythe and scales; also she can be dressed in a long white satin gown and a golden crown. In this form, many devotees view her as a variation of the Virgin Mary. / Some believe the cult of Saint Death originated from ancient witchcraft; however, Saint Death may have his/her roots in pre-Christian beliefs of the Aztec Native Americans who worshiped a similar figure by the name of Mictlantecuhtli, the god of death, along with his wife, Mictecacihuatl. The Day of the Dead (El Día de los Muertos in Spanish) is a holiday celebrated mainly in Mexico and by people of Mexican heritage. Family and friends gather to pray for and remember friends and relatives who have died. Many people believe that during the Day of the Dead, it is easier for the souls of the departed to visit the living. During the period most people visit the cemeteries where their loved ones are buried and decorate their graves with ofrendas, or offerings, often including orange marigolds called “cempasúchitl” (now usually called “Flor de Muerto” (“Flower of the Dead”)). These flowers are thought to attract souls of the dead to the offerings. A common symbol of the holiday is the skull (colloquially called calavera), which celebrants represent in masks, and foods such as sugar skulls, which are inscribed with the name of the recipient on the forehead. Sugar skulls are gifts that can be given to both the living and the dead. Some people believe that possessing “dia de los muertos” items can bring good luck. Many people get tattoos or have dolls of the dead to carry with them. The artist recommends a lighter colour tee for maximum detail. A darker tee will hide the black line work.
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An untouched photo .I took that shot at sunrise,every little stars you see were made of ice and refklected the sun.My favorite untouched so far. / Same morning as Criss Cross and Glittering without the blue tone. / / / / /
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Self Portrait / © Jessica Walker 2009
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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. Just playing with Photoshop. Title inspired by a line from the poem “August Supper” by Margaretta Jacques.
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Obama in Diamonds
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Late afternoon, Lyrup flats between Renmark and Berri in the Riverland of South Australia. Afternoon shots whilst waiting for the sun to go down for a night time shoot. The clouds moved apart and left this diamond like section reflecting nicely on the still backwaters. Again a visit to one of my favourite places where these huge River gums stand defiant against nature, dead but not finished….... Canon 400D 18-55 lens, CIR Polarising filter. Three shot panoramic stitch in CS3 and converted to B&W in the same program.
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No person was harmed in the making of this image. However, millions have suffered because of this gem. Please, go HERE to learn more. Spread the word. Blood Diamonds / Blood Diamonds are gems, mined with great loss / Losing their beauty, for the deaths that they cause / A murky violent business, by the rulers of the day / Violating anyone, who dares get in their way Dying for diamonds, a powerful message to send / Whatever you try, greed always wins in the end / With the eyes of the World upon them, maybe they may see / Its time to stop this violence and set their people free ©Alex Oliver 2007 Make A Donation To Stop Blood Diamonds
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The waves in Diamond Bay, on the Sorrento back beach, VIC are so fierce and unrelenting. Canon 40D w/ EF-S 10-22mm / Focal length @ 10mm / Aperture: f/22 / Shutter: 1.6 sec / ISO: 100 / Shot taken 15mins before sunset
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spiders web clinging to a fence on a wet day
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more than 50 gleems here ( for the 50 things group <lol> / thanks so much : 840 views , 40 favorites , 81 comments.. updated this 07/07/2009 We were fishing, and the dock was gleaming. This water is the water without an edit, that was under this beautiful dock. It reminds me of liquid metal. silver….... with the sparkles of diamonds. Cape Coral, Florida 2007, the city that looks like a venice.. canal waterway Camera : Sony DSC P 200 Point and shoot / 1/160s / f 4.0 / ISO 100 Focal Length 15.1 mm As is from the camera. not a crop or drop of editing
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. dedicated to you… . . i’ve held the universe in my hands / and made some mighty kings cry i’ve traveled the cosmos / and painted it / in mauvy pink / with a splash of mossy green i’ve played eeny meeny miny moe / as the gladiators battled / to win my heart but i’ll glady abandon all i’ll erase the castles i’ve built / and their kings i’ll make you my only king / and will never make you cry i’ll repaint the cosmos / with your favorite dark chocolate / and honey / and liquor on the rocks i’ll sprinkle my stars / on lullabies that i’ll paint for you / every night i’ll undress my mask trace the landscape of my soul / it will lead you to heaven’s gate… let me come home… . . o3.o3.2oo9 / charcoal pencil on mi-tientes® paper (white) / digital / 9”x 12” .
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Hi, I am Lily! I am starting with my older works here. This is a collage from 2005, combining a photo with a fractal. Original source: Seraphina by Lilyas
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featured in Exceptional Ekphrasis 05-03-2009 / featured in the Scavenger Hunt 04-14-2009 / third place in Album Art Challenge / featured in Psychedelic Art & Design *04-11-2009 / featured in Live, Love, Dream 03-21-2009 / featured in Album Art – The way it could have been 02-02-2009 / Featured in Fractal Frenzy 01-21-2009 / LINK TO MUSIC Picture yourself in a boat on a river / With tangerine trees and marmalade skies. / Somebody calls you, you answer quite slowly / A girl with kaleidoscope eyes. Cellophane flowers of yellow and green, / Towering over your head. / Look for the girl with the sun in / her eyes and she’s gone. Lucy in the sky with diamonds, / Lucy in the sky with diamonds, / Lucy in the sky with diamonds. Follow her down to a bridge by a fountain / Where rocking horse people eat marshmallow pies. / Ev’ryone smiles as you drift past the flowers / That grow so incredibly high. Newspaper taxis appear on the shore, / Waiting to take you away. / Climb in the back with your head in / the clouds and you’re gone. Lucy in the sky with diamonds, / Lucy in the sky with diamonds, / Lucy in the sky with diamonds. Picture yourself on a train in a station / With plasticine porters with looking-glass ties. / Suddenly someone is there at the turnstile, / The girl with kaleidoscope eyes. Lucy in the sky with diamonds, / Lucy in the sky with diamonds, / Lucy in the sky with diamonds, / Aaaah, / Lucy in the sky with diamonds, / Lucy in the sky with diamonds, / Lucy in the sky with diamonds, / Aaaah, / Lucy in the sky with diamonds, / Lucy in the sky with diamonds, / Lucy in the sky with diamonds. Lyrics: Lucy in the sky with Diamonds, Beatles fractals created with Apophysis*
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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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An experimental abstract piece using inked textures and simple geometric shapes (more commonly known as diamonds…). Enjoy. Detail: /
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10×14 watercolor on Arches rough finish watercolor paper. Original available. Daylilies comprise the small genus Hemerocallis of flowering plants in the family Hemerocallidaceae. They are not true lilies which are Lilium in Liliaceae. DescriptionThe name Hemerocallis comes from the Greek words ἡμέρα (hēmera) “day” and καλός (kalos) “beautiful”. The flowers of most species open at sunrise and wither at sunset, possibly replaced by another one on the same stem the next day. Some species are night-blooming. Daylilies are not commonly used as cut flowers for formal flower arranging, yet they make good cut flowers otherwise as new flowers continue to open on cut stems over several days. Originally native from Europe to China, Korea, and Japan, their large showy flowers have made them popular worldwide. There are over 60,000 registered cultivars. Only a few cultivars are scented. Some cultivars rebloom later in the season, particularly if their developing seedpods are removed. Daylilies occur as a clump including leaves, the crown, and the roots. The long, often linear lanceolate leaves are grouped into flat fans with leaves arching out to both sides. The crown of a daylily is the small white portion between the leaves and the roots, an essential part of the fan. Along the flower stem or scape, small leafy “proliferations” may form at nodes or in bracts. These proliferations form roots when planted and are the exact clones of the parent plant. Some daylilies show elongated widenings along the roots, made by the plant mostly for water storage and an indication of good health. The flower consists of three petals and three sepals, collectively called tepals, each with a midrib in the same or in a contrasting color. The centermost section of the flower, called the throat, has usually a different and contrasting color. There are six stamens, each with a two-lobed anther. After pollination, the flower forms a pod. Daylilies can be grown in USDA plant hardiness zones 1 through 11, making them some of the most adaptable landscape plants. Most of the cultivars have been developed within the last 100 years. The large-flowered clear yellow ‘Hyperion’, introduced in the 1920s, heralded a return to gardens of the once-dismissed daylily, and is still widely available. Daylily breeding has been a specialty in the United States, where their heat- and drought-resistance made them garden standbys during the later 20th century. New cultivars have sold for thousands of dollars, but sturdy and prolific introductions soon reach reasonable prices. Tawny Daylily Hemerocallis fulva, and sweet-scented H. lilioasphodelus (H. flava is an illegitimate name), colloquially called Lemon Lily, were early imports from England to 17th century American gardens and soon established themselves. Tawny Daylily is so widely growing wild that it is often considered a native wildflower. It is called Roadside or Railroad Daylily, and gained the nickname Wash-house or Outhouse Lily because it was frequently planted at such buildings. Hemerocallis is one of the most hybridized of all garden plants, with registrations of new hybrids being made in the thousands each year in the search for new traits. Hybridizers have extended the plant’s color range from the yellow, orange, and pale pink of the species, to vibrant reds, purples, lavenders, greenish tones, near-black, near-white, and more. However, a blue daylily is a milestone yet to be reached. Other flower traits that hybridizers develop include height, scent, ruffled edges, contrasting “eyes” in the center of the bloom, and an illusion of glitter or “diamond dust.” Sought-after improvements in foliage include color, variegation, disease resistance, the ability to form large, neat clumps and being evergreen or semi-evergreen instead of herbaceous (also known as “dormant” — the foliage dies back during the winter.) A recent trend in hybridizing is to focus on tetraploid plants, with thicker petal substance and sturdier stems. Until this trend took root, nearly all daylilies were diploid. “Tets,” as they are called by aficionados, have double the number of chromosomes as a diploid plant. Only one cultivar is known to be triploid, the brilliant orange ‘Kwanzo’ or ‘Kwanso,’ which cannot set seed and is reproduced solely by underground runners (stolons) and division. Usually referred to as a “double,” meaning producing flowers with double the usual number of petals (e.g., daylily ‘Double Grapette’), ‘Kwanzo’ actually produces triple the usual number of petals. (information from Wikipedia) Complete 2008
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