Nymph
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Photomanipulation of an eye. Done in Photoshop. / This work was featured in the November issue of the German Advanced Photoshop! Read the Interview Nominated by Renee Dawson for the Pay it Forward Group. This is what Renee said about the image: “I can truly appreciate the time and effort it took to create this beautiful work of art! The detail and color tones are absolutely amazing. This is one of those image that you want to stare at for a while so you can absorb and appreciate all the intricate details that went into it!” Original source: Dryad by Lilyas
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Model is Missy / Makeup and Hair by Loran Bean / Assistant – Adam / Photography and Post by myself Comments are very appreciated. please leave one! I thought I might say a little bit about how we got these Ophelia shots. Missy is a VERY talented photographer friend of mine (to view her work, go http://missyjanek.deviantart.com/) and she has also modeled for me in the past. I thought she’d be great for this concept, so we started about 3pm yesterday. All was going well until she got in the pool and said “I don’t know how to swim!” So we struggled and propped her up with pool noodles and floaties and Adam even held her legs while she tried to stay afloat. I felt like she really was going to drown a couple of times! (We kept her in the shallow end, of course! and my dog was keeping watch as life guard.) For someone who had not really been in water before, I think she did a great job. :)
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The Selkie is a Scottish Water Sprite who splashes unsuspecting passers by from rock pools and lochs- she is mischeivous and alluring xx / Pen and Ink- Edding on Cartridge 3 sales to date- Matted Print and 2 Art Cards / ORIGINAL SOLD 2008 Featured in THE LOVE OF EERIE AND ENCHANTING ARTWORK May 2009 WINNER OF MYTHOLOGICAL LADY IN PAINTED LADIES GROUP JUNE 2009 / / / ORIGINAL SOLD 2008
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Title from Nirvana’s “Heart Shaped Box” / Self Portrait © Jessica Walker 2009
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All images from this series here
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Stock images by / deathbycanon-stock here and here / serp-stock / Stockcity
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Watercolor on board Ive always liked mermaids and used to peer into the waves hoping Id see one gliding inside the curl or playing with the sea lions. The kelp beds off the northern Californai coast are dense and home to all sorts of creatures, and any self respecting mermaid is going to adorn herself with the abundant shells and seaweeds flourishing in her environment. Mermaids are often depicted as sensual sirens who look as if they havn’t a thought in their beautiful heads other than luring innocent sailors to their deaths. Just as mortals have many natures, so do the seafolk. This painting is of one such mermaid who has better things to do then lay about on the rocks calling out to passing sailors. She has a sense of wonder and amazement because all around her the sea is alive with beauty. She loves her environment and is busy making necklaces and jewelry with abandoned shells and seaweeds (she would never boot a living animal out of its home or take its life for anything so selfish as making a new necklace to impress her freinds with). Below is part of her song, something I wrote to accompany the painting. I am the soft sigh of surf caressing sand. / The fluid, curling wave breaking upon sharp coral. / I am the rhythmic chant of the tides, / my perfume the salt fragrance of damp seaweed and far away lands. Ocean goddess and sea nymph, I am a daughter of the waters. / My world is a place of ever shifting, fluid realities. / I am swelling, invisible currents of sparkling light and mysterious shadow. Text and image copyright Helena Nelson -Reed. Please dont use without permission.
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© Aimee Stewart, Foxfires – please see my CC TERMS OF USE before considering using this image for any personal or commercial use. The Shell Maiden / / I come from the rain of sky and sea, caught / on the web of a shoreline daisy, braced low / and spinning in carnival delight with the / kiss of Pacifica’s mist. I come from the company of driftwood and seashells, bleached white as a wedding train waiting to be worn. The waves roll like a wedding march / announcing the union of land and deep blue dreams. / They bring a dowry of tangled vines and sand dollar spines, / and my heart says YES to this sailors treasure. I come from the flutter of dry seaweed, / no longer rich with Oceana’s brine, and yet / adorning the beach with seafoam flare, / like rice and petals clinging to the foot of a runaway bride. Bring me the delicacies of your wedding feast, snapped up in the yellow of a jealous lover’s bill, for I am treading softly here on honeymoon beds of ancient sand, / inscribing moon colored vows / on the framework / of whales. Aimee Stewart April 2nd, 2009 (Poem written at ArtFest 2009 – in Port Townsend, Washington while in the class instructed by Susan Wooldridge , author of PoemCrazy and Fool’s Gold ) Credits: / Model: Exclusive stock – MJRanum stock / Brushes / Brushes / All else, mine.
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All images from this series here
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Pen and Ink Drawing 1 Sale to date- Art Card Cute products on my Zazzle gallery too, like these Keds Shoes and Mousepad….. / /
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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. This artwork was featured in Enchanting Powerful Photomanipulation, First Things, Outsiders, PixElations – The Art Of Photoshop, Sets of Two, and Dream & Fantasy Art Used as cover image for the It’s Magic challenge and won the challenge Placed 5th in the About The Light Within challenge Inspired by M. Night Shyamalan’s wonderful film Lady In The Water The first of a small series to come. Stock Credits / Model / Sky / Mountains – Public domain / Brushes from spiritsighs and obsidiandawn / Stock copyrights remain the property of their respective owners.
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A Little late night musing
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Self Portrait / © Jessica Walker 2008 More in the series: /
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for SYLVIA TAX her picture: / a PS CS3 work hope you like it my friend…...
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Part of the Ophelia series. / Model is Missy / Makeup and Hair by Loran Bean / Assistant – Adam / Photography and Post by myself Comments are very appreciated. please leave one! I thought I might say a little bit about how we got these Ophelia shots. Missy is a VERY talented photographer friend of mine (to view her work, go http://missyjanek.deviantart.com/) and she has also modeled for me in the past. I thought she’d be great for this concept, so we started about 3pm yesterday. All was going well until she got in the pool and said “I don’t know how to swim!” So we struggled and propped her up with pool noodles and floaties and Adam even held her legs while she tried to stay afloat. I felt like she really was going to drown a couple of times! (We kept her in the shallow end, of course! and my dog was keeping watch as life guard.) For someone who had not really been in water before, I think she did a great job. :)
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Inspired by my trip to central Australia. / She was once a saltwater nymph, Oceanid from the inland sea that used to exist in central Australia, she is now Naiad from the freshwater in the North. / she is wild and ancient.
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Rollerball on copier paper. Featured in All Things Black. / Featured in The Divine Feminine. / Tee featured in All Things Black. Here’s the tee :-) Inspired by this fabulous forest painting. In most introductions to Greek religion, the nature deities are briefly noted as minor gods in the pantheon, overshadowed by the towering personalities and presences of the Olympian gods. Yet a quantitative analysis, were such a thing possible, would show that the vast numbers of river gods, nymphs, and other local deities accorded divine status by the Greeks made them a constant presence in daily life. Greek authors focus primarily on the city and its festivals, yet most Greeks were peasants who lived in the countryside and supported the towns through farming and herding. The experience of this majority certainly included a much closer acquaintance with the gods of the landscape than our literary sources suggest. The category of “nature deities” is a modern construct. All of the Greek gods were connected in one way or another with natural phenomena, so in some sense all are nature deities. Zeus was a god of rain, Poseidon of earthquakes, Artemis of wild beasts. Even deities like Athena whose panhellenic personae were focused on the cultural rather than the natural sphere could be called upon in a variety of contexts to influence natural processes, such as stopping a plague or helping to ensure good crops. A number of lesser deities, however, were nature gods in the sense that they personified specific features in the landscape or phenomena in the environment. From ‘A Land Full of Gods: Nature Deities in Greek Religion’, Chapter 3, by Jennifer Larson Dryads (Δρυάδες, sing.: Δρυάς) are tree nymphs in Greek mythology. In Greek drys signifies ‘oak,’ from an Indo-European root derew(o)- ‘tree’ or ‘wood’. Thus dryads are specifically the nymphs of oak trees, though the term has come to be used for all tree nymphs in general. “Such deities are very much overshadowed by the divine figures defined through poetry and cult,” Walter Burkert remarked of Greek nature deities (Burkert 1986, p174). They were normally considered to be very shy creatures, except around the goddess Artemis, who was known to be a friend to most nymphs. Dryads, like all nymphs, were supernaturally long-lived and tied to their homes, but some were a step beyond most nymphs. These were the hamadryads who were an integral part of their trees, such that if the tree died, the hamadryad associated with it died as well. For these reasons, dryads and the Greek gods punished any mortals who harmed trees without first propitiating the tree-nymphs. Link to Celtic Druids / Phillip Freeman, a classics professor, discusses a later reference to Dryades, which he translates as Druidesses, writing that “The fourth century A.D. collection of imperial biographies known as the Historia Augusta contains three short passages involving Gaulish women called “Dryades” (“Druidesses”).” He points out that “In all of these, the women may not be direct heirs of the Druids who were supposedly wiped out by the Romans—but in any case they do show that the druidic function of prophesy continued among the natives in Roman Gaul.” From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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