My first composite of 3 Apophysis images layered in PaintNet. What do you think?
18×24 pastel on pastelboard. The original is sold. Presently 2087 views. This was taken from a photograph by Rita Groszmann with her permission. The cat was a resident in California at the time. For some reason, the piece almost did itself.. it was almost like I was watching it come together from another vantage point. Really enjoyable.. time flew!! Scientific Name: Panthera tigris / Size: Male Bengal: Head to tail tip 8.8-10.2 feet (2.7-3.1m); Female 7.8-9.4 feet (2.4-2.8m) / Weight: Male: 396-573 pounds (180-260kg); Female: 287-353 pounds (130-160kg) / Distribution: India, Manchuria, China, Indonesia / Habitat: Varied, including tropical forest, snow-covered evergreen forest, deciduous forests, mangrove swamps and drier forest types. / Diet: Deer, wild pigs, buffalo, antelope, and gaurs (wild oxen) / Reproduction: After a gestation period of 13-16 weeks, female gives birth to 2-4 cubs / Longevity: About 15 years (to 20 in captivity) / Population: Estimated at below 2,500 / Status: Endangered (information from The Big Cats ) Completed 1998 I FINALLY found the original scan of this piece.. and here you have it..
/ My ‘First Tree’ is officially published in the coffee table book Artists of the West / For information on purchasing a signed copy of the book, go to Carrie Glenn Studios Thanks! First Tree was Featured in Lifestyles Magazine as part of an article about the Artists of the West coffee table book I am also honored to announce my painting First Tree was a part of the Rialto Towers two week art exhibit in Melbourne, Australia in of July 2007 Acrylic and pastel on illustration paper. (1995) This is truly the first tree I ever painted, the need to paint and create was something brewing so strongly inside I had to do something about it. Yet my resources were very limited, I grabbed the only paint I had any access to, a can of my father’s black spray paint, I sprayed it into the lid of the can and used the only paintbrush I owned a cheep nylon brush from a water color kit and created. I then finished my work with the only two pastels I owned brown and black. / Necessity is the mother of invention, or maybe it’s that there is more than one way to skin a cat. (Sorry cat lovers) At any rate I grew up in a home with very few luxuries but I did have a passion to create, always, I had to feed the creativity. So this is a very special piece to me and I hope to you as well. Down through the dark trees, you came and saved me... For commissioned work you can contact Carrie at: carrie@carrieglennstudios.com and please visit Carrie Glenn Studios / CarrieGlennStudios.Com
oil pastell
Pastel drawing, photo and Apophysis layers
Pastel drawing and Apophysis overlay
This is a 16×20 pastel portrait of Tigger, one of the residents of Noah’s Lost Ark Animal Sanctuary. Original is unavailable. / His history is not pleasant.. he was kept in a small concrete enclosure for 9 years. After coming to the sanctuary he would lunge at the fence whenever a man would come near. He would also respond that way if the man happened to be holding anything in his hands. He really did not know what grass or kindness was until his arrival at NLA. / Regretably he died in 2004 from what they believe was a stroke. At least his last couple of years were a definite improvement over all those that came before. / I truly hope that another message comes through.. that these animals DO NOT MAKE GOOD PETS.. that’s why places like Noah’s are in existence. If people would just think before they buy that cute LITTLE cub.. life would be easier on all of us especially the animals. After all.. they didn’t ask to be in the situation they are.. and there are far to many unscrupulous people out there that are in it for the money.. / At least with education, we might make a little difference.. even if we save just one animal.. it’s a beginning!! / All proceeds from any sales will be donated to Noah’s Lost Ark Sanctuary for the care and feeding of the animals.
20.5×32.5 soft pastel on felt matboard. Original unavailable. Presently 3097 views Nanook was one of the lucky ones.. Noah’s Lost Ark got him when he was a mere cub (he’s quite a big boy now.. over 300 pounds) and has lived there his whole life. Would you believe, he has allergies? Come spring, he gets a big congested and gets some very special treatment because of it.. but he’s a happy boy. / I truly hope that another message comes through.. that these animals DO NOT MAKE GOOD PETS.. that’s why places like Noah’s are in existence. If people would just think before they buy that cute LITTLE cub.. life would be easier on all of us especially the animals. After all.. they didn’t ask to be in the situation they are.. and there are far to many unscrupulous people out there that are in it for the money.. / At least with education, we might make a little difference.. even if we save just one animal.. it’s a beginning!! / All proceeds from any sales will be donated to Noah’s Lost Ark Sanctuary for the care and feeding of the animals. Completed 2003
Pastel drawing, scanned peacock feathers and Apophysis overlays
Pastel drawing, scanned peacock feathers and Apophysis overlay
A1 Canton Paper, ink, pastel, charcoal and conte. 623 views as of 21/11/09 Arletta from the Pay It Forward Group: ““First of all, I love the colors; second of all, I love what the turbulence in the hair represents – the emotional content of the piece. And, I don’t know, it’s beautiful. I’m not an art critic! But, to me, this piece is so full of frenetic energy and the want hiding behind it.” This is a colloboration with Amy, I will post her picture she did of herself here….. Amy This is my muse “Amy”, today I did this drawing of her…I completed it in one day..it is Charcoal and Pastel….I will download the picture of me in the studio today, even though I look horrible…so you can see me at work. This is my 7th drawing for the year. First semester you have to complete 6 pieces so I have done well completeting NO. 7. ! / This is now been done in a drypoint etching print..here it is ….
I got sick of beakfaces and lizards momentarily and decided to paint some fishies – literally, goldfish…I’ve applied patches of gold leaf to their little heads. Despite being distracted by Eurovision I managed to finish it this weekend!! This one will probably be at Brunswick St Gallery in their small works show, June 6th. About 20×20cm, watercolour, chalk pastel etc on canvas. These enlargements are bigger than life size:
Pastel drawing and Apophysis overlays
tempera and pastel on mdf / cm 80×80
Oil pastel drawing and Apophysis overlays
Pastel drawing, scanned peacock feather and Apophysis overlays A Dream Within A Dream Take this kiss upon the brow! / And, in parting from you now, / Thus much let me avow- / You are not wrong, who deem / That my days have been a dream; / Yet if hope has flown away / In a night, or in a day, / In a vision, or in none, / Is it therefore the less gone? / All that we see or seem / Is but a dream within a dream. Edger Allen Poe
Tiger! Tiger! burning bright / In the forest of the night, / What immortal hand or eye / Could frame thy fearful symmetry? / / In what distant deeps or skies / burnt the fire of thine eyes? / On what wings dare he aspire? / What the hand dare seize the fire? / / And what shoulder, and what art, / Could twist the sinews of thy heart? / And when thy heart began to beat, / What dread hand? and what dread feet? / / What the hammer? what the chain? / In what furnace was thy brain? / What the anvil? what dread grasp / Dare its deadly terrors clasp? / / When the stars threw down their spears, / Ans water´d heaven with their tears, / Did he smile his work to see? / Did he who made the Lamb make thee? / / Tiger! Tiger! burning bright / In the forest of the night, / What immortal hand or eye / Dare frame thy fearful symmetry? / / William Blake (1757-1827) It seems fitting to use this famous poem by William Blake, in context with this pastel I did of these two, currently in a game park just outside Johannesburg, South Africa. Another threatened species, thanks to good old dumb mankind.
Pastel drawing and Apophysis overlays Under the wave it is altogether still, / Alive and still, as nourishing as sleep, / Down below conflict, beyond need or will, / Where love flows on and yet is there to keep, / As unconstrained as waves that lift and break / And their bright foam neither to give or take. from The return of Aphrodite by May Sarton
This one is half sketch, half finished piece of work. It was done quite a while ago when I was experimenting with some chalk pastels, and watercolor pencils. It’s a little sloppy, the drawing of the little girl is a wee bit wanky, but I sort of dig the colors… So there’s something… I guess… Maybe… No?
projecteurs… on tourne ! / sorry it goes with the title and I don’t know how to translate this all yet… a little help… a shamrock in the role of a butterfly ^^ - / / Homepage feature (have to find the date it was) / 1 sale | 41 favorites | 990 views / / DSLR Sony A100 | DT 18-70mm Sony lens 3.5/5.5 | macro ring attached / 2 incandescent yellow bulbs / edited in Sony RAW for colors -> basic camera settings + curves / / this is part of Variance Collections (variation of colors from a same picture) / - / Copyrighted work / - / /
Pastel drawing, scanned peacock feather and Fractal Explorer overlays Let me not mar that perfect dream / by an auroral stain, / but so adjust my daily night / that it will come again. Emily Dickinson
So many things to do, so many lives, so many fragile hearts! Colorex watercolor and Sennelier pastel on Lanaquarelle 300 lb. paper. 76×56 cm.
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