Autumn roses faded love…
Oil on canvasboard. 2004. /
Skylands Manor, Ringwood, NJ
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Experiment with metallic blue paper and using my flash…
Another experiment with metallic blue paper as a background and the flash on my camera… haha, I guess it worked well. I never use my flash, so that’s why this is so experimental, hehe. It’s also the stamen of a hibiscus.
On Zazzle / On DeviantART Won a Today’s Best Award on Zazzle (second page, bottom row) Closeup of a picture I’m workng on – I liked this bit on its own, and I wanted to show a closeup on the details anyway. Very Sandman and Neil Gaiman inspired (specifically, the Endless – Mostly Death, but also Dream, Destiny and Desire), but not actually OF them. Some personal stuff in there – some emotional imagery, some pretty details that mean nothing. / The pain of caring and protecting something beautiful that feeds on you and hurts you. The paleness of being only a shadow compared to another’s light and glory. The power of darkness and being unknown, and the restraint possessed and never seen. And I just had a completely different idea for the background… Anyway, the full picture’s up to fours hours at the moment (and hasn’t been touched for awhile…), this bit… was maybe two hours. ArtRage 2.5 and graphics tablet
She rests among the mosses / A shrine of wood and wishes / In this quiet sunlit forest / She is peaceful, not forgotten. / Zazzle / DeviantART / - / a dryad-treestump maiden, who twisted into place, / my pencilling too messy, so wood flowed round her face. / And grasses grew around her, and roots twisted round her wrist, / and from the slender sapling behind her, rose a girl of leaves and mist. I rather liked the concept and the curvy way she posed, / so as soon as the tablet was mine again, a sketch on the screen arose… / It wasn’t quite abstract or anime, nor a gentle blushing bride / and so out of wood I carved her and let the paint decide, And the leaves spread out around her, as I sprinkled and I spun / And brown and green around her, the trees grew one by one. / The steps I saw quite clearly, but the details made me yawn / So I looked up ruins and flung dabs, until perspective was born. And moss and sunlight gathered and layers flowed and split / And the hours flew silently by, until I was forced to quit. / But the quiet woodland waited, and the headless idol watched / Until I woke this morning and added bark metallic and notched… And the trees sprang up behind, and the flowers crept over the steps / And the sun lanced through the trees and everywhere shadows crept… / Roses of orange and yellow were added on a whim / and in the offering bowl lies a lily blurred and dim. ‘Til at last I could not deny her, she had to have a head, / Although I tried to distract her by painting her fingers instead. / The shiny coins didn’t sway her, and empty was this wood, / until I shaped her a face and swept over her a hood. Then sprouted a few last flowers, and a twisting thorny vine / Along the lowest terrace, its thorns as dark as wine / But I’ve worked on this seven full hours and new ideas have grown, / So posting and moving on now, before my muse has flown.
Our Earth needs all our help. If we all worked together for humanity and the environment; we could collectively solve most of Earth’s problems. Proceeds from this work will be donated to the Philadelphia Mission. The mission / The link is: / http://www.philadelphia33.org/ This Christian based group is dedicated to raising money for the Philadelphia Mission who works with starving children in Africa
Last summer there was this crazy metallic green bee hanging around my garden. It was intersting because it hardly moved… I know it wasn’t dead because it walked around the flower it was on… but I went inside to get my extension tubes and a half an hour later it was still there. I don’t know what type of bug/bee it is… but I love it’s coloring! Enjoy!
Model: Natascha Canon EOS 20D dslr / Editing in CS3 / Enchanting Powerful Photo Manipulation / Dream & Fantasy Art / Behind the Mask www.daviezimages.com
featured in Globes, Sphere’s & Curves 06-20-2009 / featured in Group Incendia 05-27-2009 / featured in the group ! Inspired Art ! 03-03-2009 / featured in 100% 05-14-2009 MUSIC Golden years, gold whop whop whop / Golden years, gold whop whop whop / Golden years, gold whop whop whop Dont let me hear you say lifes taking you nowhere, angel / Come get up my baby / Look at that sky, lifes begun / Nights are warm and the days are young / Come get up my baby Theres my baby, lost thats all / Once Im begging you save her little soul / Golden years, gold whop whop whop / Come get up my baby Last night they loved you, opening doors and pulling some strings, angel / Come get up my baby / In walked luck and you looked in time / Never look back, walk tall, act fine / Come get up my baby Ill stick with you baby for a thousand years / Nothings gonna touch you in these golden years, gold / Golden years, gold whop whop whop / Come get up my baby Some of these days, and it wont be long / Gonna drive back down where you once belonged / In the back of a dream car twenty foot long / Dont cry my sweet, dont break my heart / Doing all right, but you gotta get smart / Wish upon, wish upon, day upon day, I believe oh lord / I believe all the way / Come get up my baby / Run for the shadows, run for the shadows, run for the shadows in these golden years Theres my baby, lost thats all / Once Im begging you save her little soul / Golden years, gold whop whop whop / Come get up my baby Dont let me hear you say lifes taking you nowhere, angel / Come get up my baby / Run for the shadows, run for the shadows / Run for the shadows in these golden years Ill stick with you baby for a thousand years / Nothings gonna touch you in these golden years, gold / Golden years, gold whop whop whop / Golden years, gold whop whop whop / Golden years, gold whop whop whop / Golden years, gold whop whop whop / Golden years, gold whop whop whop / Golden years, gold whop whop whop / Golden years, gold whop whop whop / Golden years, gold whop whop whop / Golden years, gold whop whop whop / Golden years, gold whop whop whop Incendia and Apophysis
Mixed Media and Acrylics, on foil FEATURED in ‘Sunflowers’ June 2009
This was created for my birthday on 13/June,lol / Gemini / The Twins / May 22 to June 21 / Third sign of the zodiac, mutable, air sign. ruled by / mercury….possible start of a series Traditional / Gemini traits Adaptable and versatile / Communicative and witty / Intellectual and eloquent / Youthful and lively On the dark side…. Nervous and tense / Superficial and inconsistent / Cunning and inquisitive Correspondences for Gemini : / Element – Air; Symbol – Twins; Metal – Quicksilver; Color – yellow/grey; Ruler – Mercury; Stones – Diamond, Agate, Topaz. / I hope all you Gemini’s enjoy. And all you others too of course. / / / Big thank you AnnaMarie for this truly awesome poem / Gemini by Anaisnais / With a fondness of life, / jest and pleasure / You’re a lover / of unmeasurable attention as ever / In the third sign of the zodiac / known for storytellers / Of elements Fire and Air, / masculine considered / Diurnal or day orientated, / Physically or mentally related / Primarily focusing / on spirituality and activity / Being adaptable, eloquent, / versatile and lively / Youthful, witty, logical, / spontaneous, communicative; / All thes bing positive traits / are held back by the negative / For you’re changeable, inconsisatent, / cunning, nervous and inquisitive / Restless, superficial,tense / and gossip – well you’re talkative / You hate to be stuck in a rut, / or being left alone / Love novelty, variety, / anything unusual or unknown / Working multiple projects at a time / you’re addicted / Disliking mental action, conventional learning,m / being restricted / Gemini’s inclined to direct energies / into the world around them / Anatomy – rules arms, shoulders, / lungs and nervous system / A strive to learn persevearance / and culture depth / Subjects are lovers of language, / poets, bard, or wordsmiths Thank you Anna-Marie for let to share this beautiful poem here. 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.
No 9 in a calendar series of dying roses blended with photos of metalic textures. Landscapes Trees Cards EOD Rusty Flowers Architecture Macro CatchAll DM
Embossed and Painted Foil FEATURED in ‘Live, Love, Dream’ July 2009 / FEATURED in ‘Alternative Christmas Images’ July 2009 / FEATURED in ‘Art & Dis(ease)’ October 2009 / FEATURED in ‘Art in Math’ October 2009
No 10 in a calendar series of dying roses blended with photos of metalic textures. Landscapes Trees Cards EOD Rusty Flowers Architecture Macro CatchAll DM
A profusion of roses intwined on a shimmering stem of metal
A cream rose after some rain, with a gold finish – processed in CS3. (As usual I have a number of versions … how does one know when to stop?!!)
featured in Globes, Sphere’s & Curves 10-27-2009 / featured in EMI-the Group 10-17-2009 / featured in Dimensions 10-12-2009 / featured in Art in Math 10-08-2009 / featured in Back in Black 10-08-2009 / featured in Group Incendia 10-07-2009 / featured in The World as We See it 10-02-2009 First design with the latest release of Incendia! It keeps getting better ALL the time!!! i so LOVE it!!!! :) /
featured in Globes,Spheres&Curves 10-28-2009 / featured in SOLO-EXHIBITION 10-19-2009 An exquisite flower opens, in I Belong to You by Desirée Glanville, to reveal a / huge silvery perl– certainly a priceless treasure. Its antithesis, a gazing ball, / popular in Victorian and modern gardens, is suspended above it. Perhaps / hinting at the subliminal message, the gazing ball mirrors a very real world with tree, water, and sky; / rather than the ideal fantasy that we see before us. / Tiny remnants of petals float in the blue, luminous atmosphere. Desirée has repeated their skeletal / veins in the lower petals of the central flower; so that we know the air is filled with petals pulled from / the larger one. Was this a “He Loves me, he loves me not” scenario—a child’s game with Daisies that / gets replayed in various intonations when we are adults? The video accompanying the piece is a track, “I Belong to You”, from British alternative rock band, / Muse, from their album, The Resistance, released in Europe mid September 2009. / Remembering that the ultimate key to unlock the mystery of Glanville’s art is in the paired music, / it’s of importance that the song and lyrics regard one who travels half the world to tell their muse “I / Belong to You”. / Mid-song, from this British band, are French verses, sung with such emotion to melt the soul. / They are borrowed from Camille Saint-Saëns’ opera, “Samson and Delilah”. / Delilah sings these verses to seduce Samson, in a famous aria in Act II, “Mon coeur s’ouvre ta / voix” (“My heart opens itself to your voice”, or commonly “Softly awakes my heart”). / Ah! réponds à ma tendresse! / Verse-moi, verse-moi l’ivresse! / translated: / Ah! respond to my tenderness! / Fill me with ecstasy! / It’s uncertain, here, whether Desirée is presenting the side of the muse as a reaction to the / overtures, or the perspective of the one presenting overtures of tenderness to their heart’s desire. / It could be either or both, probably determined by the perspective of the viewer. / This is where fine art brings the viewer in as co-artist, to complete the work. Desirée seems to me / to have accomplished that spiritual merger here. / Either way, Desirée has input in the matter. Remember the gazing ball in the garden. It never lies. / Despite our fantasy and what we want things to be, there is also reality to deal with. * featured in* SOLO EXHIBITION 19-25 Oct 2009 / featured in I Got the Music in Me 10-12-2009 / featured in Abstract Digital Art&Writing 10-05-2009 / featured in The World as We See it 10-04-2009 When these pillars get pulled down, / It will be you who wears the crown, / And I’ll owe everything to you How much pain has cracked your soul? / How much love could make you whole? / You’re my guiding lightning strike I can’t find the words to say, / But they’re overdue, / I’ve travelled half the world to say, / I belong to you Then she attacks me like a Leo, / When my heart is split like Rio, / But, I assure you my debts are real I can’t find the words to say, / When I’m confused, / I’ve travelled half the world to say, / You are my mu- (Ah! Réponds à ma tendresse, / Verse-moi, verse-moi l’ivresse, / Réponds à ma tendresse, / Réponds à ma tendresse, / Ah! Verse-moi l’ivresse, / Verse-moi, verse-moi l’ivresse, / Réponds à ma tendresse, / Réponds à ma tendresse, / Ah! Verse-moi l’ivresse, / I belong, / I belong to you alone) -use, / I can’t find the words to say, / But they’re overdue, / I’ve travelled half the world to say, / I belong to you Incendia, Apophysis, Photography &PSP
featured in The World as We See It 10-05-2009 Lonely is the night without you / Just as lonely as the shepherd without sheep / And where flies the falcon, / In the high sweet air / Without hunting this Sprane Valleys deer She wears softness as a gown / She spreads magic all around / Her feathers still untouched / She takes but nothing and she gives so much She flies on strange wings / She flies on strange winds / She brings strange things / She flies on strange wings She takes off when she desires / Silence grows on her lips / She can bring you so much higher / She spreads love on all her trips, yeah She flies on strange wings / She flies on strange winds / She brings strange things / She flies on strange wings Woke up this morning / And this feeling came to my head / To fly with her from sky to sky / ‘Cause my mind seemed to be dead / So I floated up towards her / On my mutilated wings / But all the blackness sings against me now / It’s the lady of the strange wings She wears softness as a gown / She spreads magic all around / Her feathers still untouched / She takes but nothing and she gives so much She flies on strange…........... / / created with Incendia & PSP
featured in I Got the Music in Me 10-12-2009 / featured in The Sisterhood 10-09-2009 / featured in Light in the Darkness 10-08-2009 / featured in The World as We See It 10-07-2009 There is no other to compare with you / You’ve got me darling, giving all heart that I have in you / You show me feelings that I’d never find / But those feelings ain’t complete when you’re not here all the time Oh baby love, early in the morning / You come creeping in my mind, oh baby love / Oh baby love, early in yearning / Ready for your touch, oh baby love (you) Give me reasons to be a fool for you / But I don’t care ‘bout foolish pride if it’s concerning you / I’ll be your slave, yes I will, give me your command / You can order me to stay and all do all I can Oh baby love, early in the morning / You come creeping in my mind, oh baby love / Oh baby love, early in yearning / Ready for your touch, oh baby love 3x Bridge: / All I do is think about you baby love / All I do is think about you baby love / I want your love, I need your love, give me your love Come on Solo There is no other to compare with you / You’ve got me blinded, blinded, blinded / (I’ve) given all I have for you / Feelings, feelings I’d never find / But those feelings ain’t complete when you’re not here all the time Oh baby love, early in the morning / You come creeping in my mind, oh baby love / Oh baby love, early in yearning / Ready for your touch, oh baby love Baby, baby, baby, baby, baby, / Baby, baby, baby, baby, baby Super mine pretty mine ooh ooh baby love / Ready for your touch 3x Oh baby love… I’d walk a million miles on the milky way, yeah / Just to get into your arms, oh baby love / You know I’ve got to have your love, right now, yes I do / I don’t ever want to loose your love Created with Incendia, Apophysis & PSP
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