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Diamonds
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Liam Diamond
United Kingdom
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Riding on a Float, Gay Pride Parade, Summer 2006, New York. Featured / MAJOR EVENT – Photography/Journalism Featured / The Woman Photographer SOLD Copyright
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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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Confuse your opponent and take their mind off their cards! / . / Check out my page / . / PINHEAD INDUSTRIES / . / / . / Neon Rubix Remix / . / / . /
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Snowdrop or pordwons?
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Canon rebelxt sigma 17-70
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Taken with a Canon EOS 400D and a 100mm macro lens / A simple water drop on a rose petal and PS flood plug in / /
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This tiny raindrop reminded me of a diamond glistening in the sun. /
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3809 views (25 Nov. 2009) 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 Beatles – Lucy in the sky with diamonds (River Iver – Uxbridge, Middlesex, UK) Featured on RB Home Page on 27 Jan 2009 Also featured in the groups: The Feature Fraternity on 31 Jan 2009 Amazing Orton Effect on 30 Jan 2009 HDiR on 3 Nov 2008 and 27 Jan 2009 Inspired Art on 6 Dec 2008 and also became the group’s Avatar for December .
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Little pug. Tongue out, head tilted, trying its best to understand this crazy world.
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This waterdroplet looks like a diamond or ice in the way the light is hitting it and reflecting off the tiny bubbles inside. I personally love the color of this one. Another top favorite. / This is one of my flowers in my center piece on my dinning room table. / Hope you like it / Nikon d80 / 18-55mm nikkor macro lense / 55mm length / f/4.8 / 1/35 / iso 250 sold as card 12/23/08
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History of Jewelry As decorative objects, jewelry is usually made of platinum, gold, silver and other precious metals often set with precious and semi precious stones. Jewelry is also made from various non-precious materials like glass, corals, wood, enamels, ceramics, bronze, copper, lead, gun metal, fedders and bone fragments. Since prehistoric times, jewelry has been worn by women and men on many parts of the body including the neck, head, wrists, waist, fingers, ankles, nose and ears. Archeology provides us with significant information on the jewelry of ancient times. For ancient Egyptians the most popular ornaments were signet rings, elbow bracelets, diadems, necklaces and bracelets made of stone or glass beads. The jewelry articles found in burial tombs provide us with vast information on the history of jewelry making in ancient times. The most important finding – Tutankhamen’s tomb discovered by Howard Carter – was filled with hundreds of priceless objects of egyptian art. In the burial tombs of Mesopotamia and the Near East, dated thousands of years BC, archeologists have discovered large quantities of jewelry made of gold and silver – rings, earrings, pendants, crowns and diadems. The similarities in design and style to Egyptian art, found in different parts of Mesopotamia and Persia, points to undeniable evidence of the interaction and trade between people in this part of the world.In the same period and until 400 BC Greek and Roman jewelry showing striking similarities – rings, earrings and necklaces were made using chains or wire links, with thin foil formed into leafs and ornaments. Stampato was often used as well as enamels. In later periods, mosaic was widely used in jewelry such as brooches, pins and bracelets. Gold coins connected together to form necklaces were common in Greece and Italy, as well as cameos of sea shells and corals. During the Etruscan period 700 and 500 BC, most of the jewelry was imported by Mediterranean merchants. Stampato articles were the main element which was later refined by Etruscan craftsmen to a higher degree.During the medieval period jewelry continued to exhibit the Roman artistic tradition with some regional variations. Articles made of precious and semi-precious metals were often inlaid with thin sliced colored gems, especially garnets. Enamels, the animal motif and the cloisonne tradition began to reappear in various parts of the continent. The most popular types of jewelry during this period were brooches, pendants and pins of religious motifs, mainly crosses inlaid with gems, enamels and pearls. Emblems increasingly became an important addition to a woman’s dress. Jewelry continued to evolve during the Renaissance period of the 15th-17th century and began to establish itself as one of the most important parts of fashionable clothing. The jewelry of this period is characterized by rich gamma and distinct classical architectural elements. Enamels, pearls and precious gems of different shapes began to play a much more important role in jewelry fashion. In the 17th and 18th Centuries, diamond jewelry became popular and jewelry began to express changing trends in fashion. The popularity of diamonds was on the rise thanks to the invention of a revolutionary new stone setting technique – the prong setting, which multiplies the brilliancy of a diamond. At the same time, along with precious metals other metals such as gun metal, cast iron, copper or melhior (german silver) were used in jewelry manufacturing. Engraving and stampato, along with gems and multicolor inlaid gold, were often used in mass production. Sets comprising a tiara, ring, earrings, and necklace or pendant became an important part of a woman’s outfit. At the end of the 19th century, jeweled accessories became very popular. Small snuffboxes, jewelry boxes, perfume bottles, watch cases, dresser accessories (combs, mirrors, brushes, scissors, etc., often finished with enamels), mother of pearl and egg-shell pieces were manufactured in Europe by artists such as Carl Fabergé. The beginning of the 20th century was characterized by the beginning of a new era in jewelry making. René Lalique, the French glass and jewelry designer, perfected the art nouveau movement first invented by Louis Comfort Tiffany. René Lalique’s stunning creations which featured nature themes using semiprecious gems, plick-ajour enamel, carved ivory and colored glass, are displayed in many museums throughout the world. At the same time, state of the art objects made of sterling silver began to emerge throughout Europe and the United States. In the 1920’s, Art Deco, another popular movement, was introduced in France. Art Deco incorporated geometric shapes not only in jewelry, but also in many aspects of decorative art.
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Spiders web with frost. / Shot with a macro lens. Canon EFS 60 mm f/2.8 / Straight from camera. Featured in ‘Sets Of Two’.
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featured in Bryce&Beyond 11-07-2009 / featured in All Colors of the Rainbow 11-04-2009 / featured in Fractal Perception 09-01-2009 / featured in I Got the Music in Me 06-27-2009 / featured in Creative Cards 06-14-2009 / featured in Freedom in Words 06-11-2009 / featured in Color Me a Rainbow 06-11-2009 / featured in the group Globes, Spheres and Curves 03-07-2009 / featured in the group Peace Love & Happiness Hippies 02-02-2009 Remember when you were young, / You shone like the sun. / Shine on you crazy diamond. / Now there’s a look in your eyes, / Like black holes in the sky. / Shine on you crazy diamond. / You were caught on the crossfire / Of childhood and stardom, / Blown on the steel breeze. / Come on you target for faraway laughter, / Come on you stranger, you legend, you martyr, and shine! You reached for the secret too soon, / You cried for the moon. / Shine on you crazy diamond. / Threatened by shadows at night, / And exposed in the light. / Shine on you crazy diamond. / Well you wore out your welcome / With random precision, / Rode on the steel breeze. / Come on you raver, you seer of visions, / Come on you painter, you piper, you prisoner, and shine!* Pink Floyd Music fractals created with Apophysis / /
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Self Portrait / © Jessica Walker 2009
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CENTRAL PARK / Photo best viewed large. / / CENTRAL PARK in Ashland, Kentucky on a very foggy, misty morning, March 17, 2009. / / “CENTRAL PARK” made the “TOP TEN CHALLENGE” of MIST AND FOG / and was “FEATURED” in the group:MADE BY NATURE / / / / / / “CENTRAL PARK” was “FEATURED” in the group:LIVE AND LET LIVE / / / / “CENTRAL PARK” was “FEATURED” in the group:#1 ARTISTS OF RED BUBBLE / / / / “CENTRAL PARK” was “FEATURED” in the group THE SCAVENGER HUNT / / / / Ashland, Kentucky, located in the NE part of the bluegrass state, boasts a 47-acre (190,000 m2) beautiful wooded park! CENTRAL PARK was founded in 1854, with playgrounds and other amusements. In the spring of 1995, the pond was excavated, and later filled with water by September. / The original water lilies that were planned in 1937 had come back in full bloom. Several fountains were added in the center of the park, and numerous fish species were added. / CENTRAL PARK today features an ice skating area, three separate children playgrounds, several baseball diamonds, a volleyball court and a traditional bandstand. / CENTRAL PARK also hosts an annual, holiday light show, the WINTER WONDERLAND OF LIGHTS travel from all around the world to see thousands of Christmas lights of spectacular displays! Santa’s train offers rides around the park, and carriage rides are also available during the Christmas season. / Filled with striking, lush greenery, spectacular flowers, and towering trees, CENTRAL PARK is a “must-see” for anyone visiting Ashland, Ky! / / CENTRAL PARK’S “WINTER WONDERLAND OF LIGHTS” can be viewed at ASHLAND, KENTUCKY’S WINTER WONDERLAND FESTIVAL / For more information on “CENTRAL PARK” go to:THE VISITOR /
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Out in the early morning fog this morning, trying a little limited DOF work with some of the cobwebs covered in dew. Canon 400D 18-55 lens with three stage extension tubes. Shot taken alongside the open drainage works that crisscross between Millicent and Mt Burr in the Limestone Coast area.
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Mixed Media / The face was a photo, a portrait of the wonderful friend for her birtday… .I painted over it. I know it’s still a bit sketchy , I may refine it someday when I have free time though. For now I’ll just keep on working on contest commissions. / I hope you’ll like it ! / Please take care of yourself people, thank you all very much for your kind words ! Although I cannot reply individually to all of you now, your words really help me… Thank you :0) Available as a framed art print, canvas, mounted print and greeting card. / / All Origional art work can be purchased through the artist. —-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-——- Copyright notice: / All rights reserved. All images contained on these pages are © copyright protected by Mariska and any use of these images in any form without written permission will be considered an infringement of these copyrights.
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A3 size graphite drawing. / I used A3 size paper for this one which is 210gsm acid free & a nice smooth serfice. I never lealized how perfect ET’s face was till drawing her…..... Original…................ Sold
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