More from the Lightscapes Set We were at a picnic when I needed the loo and being me I took my camera to just incase… and I’m glad I did as this was just around the corner!
Charcoal and charcoal pencil drawing, on a gesso base, on smooth watercolour paper, of a female nude. / This drawing was voted into the top ten of the Pencil Drawing Group challenge Pencil Drawn Nudes, and winner of the Dirty Filthy Art: Charcoal group challenge ‘The Girls” It was also featured in Dirty Filthy Art: Charcoal, and ‘Beauty of The Human Body’ and was voted into the top ten of the Painted Ladies challenge ‘Painted Fairy Lady’ / It was voted winner of the Painted Ladies challenge ‘Drawn to Her’ and voted into the top ten of the Pets and People challenge ‘Limited Palette’ and the Painted Ladies challenge ‘Drawn to Her ~ 2’. / This drawing has been viewed over 6700 times! / /
A black and white with vignetting version of my image of Port Fairy Lighthouse. This is one of my all time favourite photographs so I thought I would share it. It was taken on a point and shoot about 3 years ago so is not available for larger prints. The flowers in the foreground of this photo have a story of their own. The bulbs of the irises were planted by the first lighthouse keepers in the garden of the long since ruined keepers house. All that remains of the house is a portion of the garden. The iris bulbs come up every spring as a reminder of what once was. Colour version is also available. This is how it looks in card form: I have this image on my wall using a black matte and charcoal frame which looks absolutely amazing and sets off the black and white image well.
From the series Fairy tales
A dandelion with drops of water
Sales of this Design? – 1 sale so far :) / / Mary Banksia Fairy Design available in shoes at Zazzle / / / Mary Banksia Fairy / on brown paper with white acrylic gesso / and black faber castelle felt pen, banksia leaves for wings / and pandandus palm for her dress Mary ate too much bush honey, which explains her googly eyes! / Mary Banksia Fairy TShirt
Featured in Halloween and Inspired Art groups Original is Acrylic on 9×12 canvas board- Inspired by the song ‘A Beautiful Lie’ by 30 Seconds to Mars. I was watching the music video for “A Beautiful Lie” by 30 Seconds to Mars, and was really touched by the intro with the Eskimos. (If you haven’t seen it yet, the link to the video is below) The band is really breaking grounds by putting this environmental awareness stuff out there. (It can make or break your career in the music biz) I also thought that the director/photographer for the video was a genious! It’s such a captivating and stunning video, the shots of the scenery is amazing! So….I downloaded the CD. (It’s one of my faves right now….GREAT music!) Without the video to distract, I listened to the song with my eyes closed, as I knew this one would work for my next painting. (This is kinda part of my process right now. LOL) The little electric sounds at the beginning and end of the song made me feel like I was either falling into space or just into the dark oblivion. Empty, alone, fragile…..that’s where the background came from. IT’s a deep deep blue almost black – I added the parts that kind of spin out from the inner circle to show that things are spinning out of controll and that you’re spiraling down into the depths of something. Once I had the background done, I went back to listening to the song while the paint dried. This time, I saw that poor poor faerie was the one falling into nothing. This is when I decided to keep everything dark – whites blacks and grays – because I knew there would be an explosion of red. The white and gray leaves came next. I felt like the gray wasn’t the right color, but thought it might look better after adding the trunk and branches. So, I went with a solid black for that. I chose the black to keep with the dark theme, but also because it would really stand out in some parts, yet kind of fade into the background in other areas. (A Beautiful Lie – this is a beautiful tree, but is it really there?) This is when I hated it and wanted to trash it and start over! Instead, I stepped away from it for 2 days – came back refreshed and decided to add in the red & silver. I did the silver to throw in a brighter color to balance the piece a bit, but to also show the etherealness of the faerie. The faerie has fallen and was basically held by the tree. Shes fading into the background and there are spots of her silver body throughout the piece. She’s kind of becoming everything around her. I very much believe in reincarnation and life after death. (Which is also why the pose is almost like the crusifix.) It’s kind of a play on organized religion and what we’ve been told about death in general – It’s all a beautiful lie! :) The red was chosen to symbolize blood. This makes the viewer pose some questions – is it all blood? are those blood splatters or wings? are those blood spots or flowers in the tree? All in all, it’s a play on reality – what’s really there? what isn’t? Is it all just a beautiful lie?! “Lie awake in bed at night / And think about your life / Do you want to be different? / Try to let go of the truth / The battles of your youth / ‘Cause this is just a game It’s a beautiful lie / It’s a perfect denial / Such a beautiful lie to believe in / So beautiful, beautiful it makes me…” Full lyrics / A Beautiful Lie Video / 30 Seconds to Mars *This image also goes along with the poem Something Wicked by autumnwind as part of a collaboration for the Halloween Art & Writing Challenge in the Halloween Group *
Model – Tash Williams Shot on location in Adelaide in 2006 using Polaroid Viva Colour and a Colorpack 80 camera. Was a test shot and a bit of a fluke but it has since become one of my most popular pieces. Go figure. Copyright 2008 Harmony Nicholas
This is a photo of my niece that I shot before I had a digital camera. I scanned the photo, added it over and image by CruelDreams that I edited in ps by using the channel mixer, dodging, burning, cloning and added text. Took a photo of a butterfly and selected each wing section separately and cut and moved them into position using transform. Adjusted the opacity of those layers to give each wing section a transparent appearance. Painted with the airbrush tool on a lower opacity over the wings to make the colors tie in with the costume. Also used the airbrush with warm color to add the effect of light coming from her wand illuminating the darkness around her and added touches to her and her wings where I felt the light would hit.
The Aos Sidhe (pronounced “ess shee”), are a powerful, supernatural race comparable to the fairies or elves of other traditions. / They live in an invisible world that coexists with the world of humans. / The Gaelic Otherworld is seen as being closer at the times of dusk and dawn, therefore this is seen as a time special to the Aos Sidhe, as are some of the festivals such as Samhain and Midsummer. The Aos Sidhe are generally described as stunningly beautiful, though they can also be terrible and hideous. I cursed myself for walking too deep into the forest and missing seeing the sunset from the view point high on the hillside like i intended, but the evening rays brought colour to the forest like I wouldnt have imagined. / The forest is very much still in green, but the backlighting from the sunset has given such warmth to the leaves. As it was so late in the day, this is a 1 second exposure. other photos from the forests around my home / / Loki’s Forest
WOODLAND MAGIC SERIES Pen and Ink Drawing 1 Sale to date- Art Card ORIGINAL SOLD AUGUST 2009 This series is still in progress- Others in this series so far / Woodland Day Dream / Dryad / Woodland Charm / Woodland Whisper / Woodland Queen / Woodland Princess Woodland Nymph is included in this great display of framed RB Cards by Barbara Glatzeder- This pic won Mr.Baxters Buyers Booth Award Sept 09 /
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Original background pictures shot by me in Gloucester cathedral, many layers processed in cs3
All the Material in this Gallery is Copyrighted & May not be reproduced, copied, edited, published, transmitted or uploaded in any way without my permission. / © AnaCBStudio: Using this Image for any purpose without my prior permission, may lead to legal action. All Rights Reserved. Background: my own photographs. / Model: by Jessica and used with permission. / I would like to thank Jessica for letting me use her image.
version with text ‘Peace and goodwill to all’
Model stock : Mjranum
Acrylic and Oil Pastel On Wood. Here’s Ophelia transformed into a fairy princess in a land of enchantment :D Here’s wishing you all a An Enchanting New Year filled with special moments! :D You can view and buy my other “Owl Fairy Princess” creations from my Zazzle Gallery:
Come away O human child! / To the waters and the wild / With a faery hand in hand, / For the world’s more full of weeping / than you can understand… (William Butler Yeats)
My Website Featured in The Woman Photographer June 09 Imaginary Paper flowers / Paper flowers I linger in the doorway / Of alarm clock screaming monsters calling my name / Let me stay where the wind will whisper to me / Where the raindrops as they`re falling tell a story In my field of paper flowers / And candy clouds of lullaby / (Paper flowers) / I lie inside myself for hours / And watch my purple sky fly over me / (Paper flowers) Don`t say I`m out of touch / With this rampant chaos, your reality / I know well what lies beyond my sleeping refuge / The nightmare I built my own world to escape In my field of paper flowers / And candy clouds of lullaby / (Paper flowers) / I lie inside myself for hours / And watch my purple sky fly over me / (Paper flowers) Swallowed up in the sound of my screaming / Cannot cease for the fear of silent nights / Oh, how I long for the deep sleep dreaming / The Goddess of imaginary light In my field of paper flowers / And candy clouds of lullaby / (Paper flowers) / I lie inside myself for hours / And watch my purple sky fly over me / (Paper flowers) Paper flowers / Paper flowers Evanescence
This started off as a sketch for my Wonderland artwork series (it was going to be Alice and the Caterpillar- but the caterpillar gradually morphed into this dragon and I felt like doing a primarily pen-and-ink work this time around. So Alice was put on the backburner for a little bit and instead we have a little girl and her dragon friend set against a silver sky with a blue moon. One only knows what they could be talking about….. Original artwork measures 12.5×19 inches approx. and is for sale (email redeye@designbyredeye.com to inquire). Medium is primarily pen and ink, with some silver sharpie and blue marker in the background. On sky blue Canson Mi-Tientes acid-free art paper. View more of my artwork at lynnetteshelley.com
From my original acrylic on canvas painting of a mamma and baby owl watching over the forest at night. All is quiet except for the sound of the leaves rustling gently through the treetops. Copyright Susan Rodio 2009
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