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Acrylic on canvas / This is my first attempt at truly abstract painting, the blue signifies the “blue mood” and each brush stroke ,the many people afflicted by this horrible illness.The figure, well I think he speaks for himself… but his transparency is the feeling one has when his/her spirit (soul) has been removed. Which is how it feels to have clinical depression. I have added this painting to the Women’s appreciation group…even though clearly it is an image of a man…as there are so many millions of women all over the world who suffer from depression. I found I was unable to paint it as a woman ,as it was too close to my heart. I have been a sufferer all my life..and my daughter is also afflicted with this terrible illness… I’m trying to raise awareness…so that others will not have to suffer needlessly. I have written an article on “Coping with depression” / the URL is http://www.enrichedhealth.com.au/media/coping_with_depression.php / Feel free to bubblemail me if you need more information..and support. warmest wishes, Wendy
Mixed Media / Acrylic on canvas / This is my first attempt at truly abstract painting, the blue signifies the “blue mood” and each brush stroke ,the many people afflicted by this horrible illness.The figure, well I think he speaks for himself… but his transparency is the feeling one has when his/her spirit (soul) has been removed. Which is how it feels to have clinical depression. I have added this painting to the Women’s appreciation group…even though clearly it is an image of a man…as there are so many millions of women all over the world who suffer from depression. I found I was unable to paint it as a woman ,as it was too close to my heart. I have been a sufferer all my life..and my daughter is also afflicted with this terrible illness… I’m trying to raise awareness…so that others will not have to suffer needlessly. I have written an article on “Coping with depression” / the URL is http://www.enrichedhealth.com.au/media/coping_with_depression.php / Feel free to bubblemail me if you need more information..and support. warmest wishes, Wendy
There’s nothing quite like the feeling when it’s dark and raining and one of your shoes is filled with water. And why only one shoe? What…
PRETTY & SMART – Detail from an oil self-portrait on board, by Albrecht Durer. / A German painter, engraver and mathematician. Famous for his print series: / Apocalypse / Passion of Christ / Knight, Death, & the Devil / Melencolia / Four Horsement of the Apocalypse / The Rhinoceros. Third child in a family of eighteen children, of Hungarian father, German mother. Traveler and student, goldsmith, Durer became the most successful publisher in Germany and abroad, owning 24 printing presses at one time, incredibly famous in his early twenties. Painter, watercolorist, etcher, woodblock print maker. / He published the “Nuremberg Chronicle” in1493 with over 1800 woodcut illustrations. He didn’t think painting could earn him enough money (still true five hundred years later), and turned to printing. / Scholar, intelectual, and successful businessman, his engravings and prints affected the giants who came after him: Raphael, Titian, and Rembrandt.
Taking the time learning software is – well gotta think of it like nny other kind of learning i guess… / though… there was the block I had last year… / after an horrific eviscerating humitliation diguising itself as a relationship, I couldn’t paint for three months – see the piece Ms Poli and also for the STORY about the… girl…. Kissing Miss Poli I ended up hacking a role playing game on my PC – to the point where I made an utterly convincing version of myself, and my best friend. And my cat. I was not using a modelling editor I was working in in pure code and then just running the game again and again to see what the characters looked like. / 60, 80 hours a week. more. i don’t even know what languages I was using. No idea. / Very weird. I am at heart, somewhere disguised by the er biceps and er so forth – truly, deeply, passionately… a NERD… oh yes, a dungeons and dragon playing, computer building hacker. I just fit all the artist sterotypes and, apart from the former, none of the nerdy freak ones. / When I was trying to find the texture files to get the right kind of coat to match the cat that I so adored. I FINALLY thought – dude. this may wel be insane. SO – I took the time to learn some more photoshop stuff and used my digital 12 meg cam PROPERLY, allowing me to upload a full 12 meg image of this piece. I suppose I should delete the other one but I can’t… the comment mean too much to me. Ex-girlfriend, my hand is the link. This is the heart of that text: / I did it on the train to university when I was in second year, around 1998, I think. I love this piece. It is definitively unusual. I invented the face though it looks like one of my ex girlfriends, Sarah Mennie. I should track her down, though I believe she lives in Adelaide now. She was the most beautiful girl I have ever seen. Anywhere. She was an alcoholic, and more mad than I was. There was something utterly gentle about her, and she loved me so hard, so deeply. I remember when I was coming down from a manic drinking bender and I was having an intense anxiety attack (two of the LEAST descriptive words in the english language – when you are having an anxiety attack you are convinced you are dying. It is one of the most horrible things that I have ever gone through, an unstoppable avalnache of fear – anyway:) - And she held me so tightly and started crying too. I know she loved me, perhaps more than anyone else in my life. I didn’t catch her beauty in this piece, but there is something of her in the eyes, some doomed gentleness. Ah well. I cheated on her. I was manic and 21. I was a bastard. I am sorry, yes. Sorrowful, yes. Oh, Sarah, I still think of you. I hope you are ok, I hope that you have lived. That you have stopped drinking. That you are happy. Whew. Now to see if my lame poverty indueced sucky dasl will hold out for the upload. Thank you, thank you all… your comments help me and give me hope in hell (I am presently in the one day a week of respite I manage to carve from the week. Has been a fortnight of torture this time though. Yeh. I have this day. I do. Paul
A homage to Dürer: with a magic square. Mixed media: slides which are photographied one “panaview” (ancient material!!!), photograph of my “cubics”, digital collage with other photographs & Melancholia of Dürer. Digital artwork presented At Hypegallery, gallery Moskau Coffee of Berlin, Oct. 28 – Nov. 18, 2006. I’ve used this image in background of my “cubics” too = “Jeux de construction – Part II – “ * / - Featured in the group Experimental Photography and Editing / - Featured in the group ImageWriting 359 views at 28 november 2009
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The day becomes sad, everything becomes dark, the feelings come from deep inside, then suddenly you feel the melancholia. The image was edited to be a little dark and the tones where bit mixed so that the feeling in the photo gets stronger. All the editing was done in 16 bits/channel, saved and tiff and wdp (for archive), for sending to RedBubble the image was saved in progressive jpeg w/ 3 scans and at maximum quality.
A photo from my project “Latvian Landscapes”.
- “Melancholia Hors Propos” was featured in the group ImageWriting / Thanks to the hosts / ...
- “Melancholia Hors Propos” was featured in the group ImageWriting / Thanks to the hosts / Anne-Marie Bokslag / & / Cora Wandel - “Faux-polaroids – Travelling (42)” / - “Melancholia Hors Propos” / were featured in the group Digital Lomo ,Cross Processing,Faux Polaroid and Alternative Photography / Thanks to the hosts : lightdancer79 / RMRPhotography / & / Brian David Braun * for choosing my images ! :) All the best :) / The New year beginns fine ! Thanks again ! :) PB
A piece I did for Crusades Entertainment. Originally it was to intended to be Billy Tucci’s character Shi, but I think it just works as its own image.
This is an homage to Bev Langby’s Paloma/After Picasso . This was created for the Pick an Homager, Make an Homage challenge in the Let’s Pay Homage group. This was a lot of fun to do. It was done with layers upon layers of textures in the background with lots of blending modes, and then the outline of a lady on top of all of that. Hope you enjoy this, as I was definately inspired by Bev’s work. Hop on over to her profile and check her’s out too :) By the way this is completely digital and done with a pen tablet. Voted 7th in the top 10 of the DRAWINGS/SKETCH’S ONLY- This is for ARTIST who SKETCH challenge in the Bits and Pieces group Received 10th place in the top 10 of the textures challenge of the ‘You Big Softy’ group
sometimes I’m really amazed at how life mirrors art… / . / . / . / . / .
Digital recreation of Albrecht Dürer’s engraving Melencolia I
Melancholia….overcomes me viewing images which show interior of the ancient times…... Done in PI, based on my own resources and a free texture from the “Lost And Taken”- site.
My body is tired today / and slumps / with the weight of thoughts
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