Shelley
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Lynnette Shelley
United States
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Shelley Heath
Australia
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Shelley Spille...
Canada
334 creative works found
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A view of the fountain in Darling Harbour / / / / © Shelley Heath (aka Soul Creates), Copyright 2008, All rights reserved.
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The view looking up at the Coops Shot Tower in Melbourne. I love the contrast between the old and the new. / / / / © Shelley Heath (aka Soul Creates), Copyright 2008, All rights reserved.
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A close up view of the bark of a tree shedding. / / / / / © Shelley Heath (aka Soul Creates), Copyright 2008, All rights reserved.
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The spiral in this fractal reminded me of a cyclone and the swirling winds. / /
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The tree shed its bark to make way for the growth of another year / /
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Portrait of Mary Shelley - Caught Between the Moon and Candlelight (1797 - 1851)
by Barbara SparhawkMary Wollstonecraft Godwin Shelley, Writer, Poet, Shooting Star. Oil on canvas. / The author (at 18 years old) of FRANKENSTEIN. A woman of such profound personal courage, of stunning highs and lows, it boggles the imagination. Mary, I adore you. / A rebel who dodged convention, whose parents were famous free-thinker free love radicals, whose mother died giving birth to her, who was sent to Scotland at 15 for a good education, and who ran off to live with two of the most famous, revered, dangerous, and notorious wild-men poets (when poets ruled) Percy Bysshe Shelley and Lord Byron. It had to be like setting up housekeeping with Mick Jagger & Lou Reed. / Ostracized for romping through English tradition, she and Percy Shelley eloped to France, then moved into a castle on Lake Geneva with Lord Byron, proceded to practice Latin & Greek, write, live, and outdo each other. The very good looking bad boys were notorious for debts, affairs, abandoned children, sexually extravagant lives, and a trail of broken hearts. But they wrote gorgeously. Percy Shelley & Lord Byron remain two of the finest poets of the English language. / In what she called “a waking dream” teenaged Mary Shelley started to write Frankenstein, and published it finally under her own name, producing one more shock that an English woman could conjure stirring horror. She and Shelley traveled, changed countries like you’d change socks & became increasingly famous. Mary was pregnant many times, but six children miscarried, or heartbreakingly lived, to die as toddlers. One boy survived adulthood. She was in and out of depressions, trying to keep Shelley happy and produce her own original work. In rough Italian seas near LaSpezia, the accomplished sailor and non-swimmer Percy Shelley drowned. He was 29. Mary was 25, and felt her life ended. The extremes of drama that populated all their days astonishes. Lord Byron and a friend made a pyre on the beach to burn Percy Shelley’s corpse when it washed ashore. One of the two cut out Shelley’s heart (not an uncommon impulse at the time) and after arguing over who should keep it, decided to send it in a box, unannounced, to Mary. / At a time when women had limited rights, freedoms or possibilities, she turned her back on what she was told she must do, with gusto. What is, after all, an ideal life. She risked far more than her peers ever dared. She did not have an easy time of it. But she chose not embrace the comforts or society that would have driven her mad. It’s more than fair to say this woman really lived. Mary Wollestonecraft Godwin Shelley was dead at 53. ABOUT THE PAINTING: There are only 2 or 3 exisitng portraits of Mary Shelley, and one, painted by Richard Rothwell in 1840, was my reference. It is a peculiar painting of her, age 43. When tackling historical figures, one has to account for rigid art standards of the times. I tried to eliminate what might have been purely the painter’s imposition. Along with what I suspect was a purge of her wild history and monster story telling (making her nice, & vapid) he gave her features considered beautiful then: a long oval face, an extraordinarily high brow for heightened inteligence (same things the Greeks did with that full flesh at brow level) thin lips to prove a lack of avarice, matronly to suit her widowhood, and shoulders in such a drastic slope they deny a skeletal structure. (The Rothwell portrait is on Wikipedia under Mary Shelley’s name). All that seemed an exaggeration, his portrait does not look real to me. So I left in her high cheekbones, softened the oval and lowered the forehead a touch, gave her a fuller mouth, kept the deep eyes. I painted Mary Shelley as the 18 year old who wrote Frankenstein, with thoughts of ghoul and goblin fleeting across her eyes, sensing terrors to come, uncertainty in the present, having to rely primarily on herself, an active imagination, great mind and fabulous story teller. / I have her between the moon and candlelight because it seems to me that’s where she lived. / The Hawks Perch
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A spiral fractal created using Apophysis which represents the feathers of a peacock
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With this fractal I have used the same flame as I did in Journey to Happiness but applied a different colour scheme and it alters the whole mood of the image. / / / / / / All photographic, digital art and written materials contained in this portfolio are the property of Shelley Heath (aka Soul Creates). They may not be used or reproduced in whole or in part without written permission. This includes copying, duplicating, printing, publishing, reproducing, storing, or transmitting by any means whatsoever. Using this image or any other for any purpose and in any way, without prior permission, may lead to legal action / © Shelley Heath (aka Soul Creates), Copyright 2008, All rights reserved.
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/ / © Shelley Heath (aka Soul Creates), Copyright 2008, All rights reserved.
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This image is a coloured version of Tesselated Nature / / Which was created using a cropped version of / Crossing Swords / / / / © Shelley Heath (aka Soul Creates), Copyright 2008, All rights reserved.
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This image is a compilation of two photos (silhouette of bird in tree and a sunset) with various filters added in Photoshop / / / / © Shelley Heath (aka Soul Creates), Copyright 2008, All rights reserved.
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The duck in this photo was asleep with one eye open and standing on one leg. The photo was taken at Baldwin Swamp, Bundaberg / /
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We wander`d to the Pine Forest / That skirts the Ocean`s foam; / The lightest wind was in its nest, / The tempest in its home. / The whispering waves were half asleep, / The clouds were gone to play, / And on the bosom of the deep / The smile of Heaven lay; / It seem`d as if the hour were one / Sent from beyond the skies / Which scatter`d from above the sun / A light of Paradise! Words by Percy Bysshe Shelley Painting using acrylics, inks, gold and silver leaf / 102×102 cm This painting is dedicated to Percy Bysshe Shelley who harmonies with the hues beneath the water. Samuel Barber composed music based on Shelley’s poems – Music, when soft voices die Vibrates in the memory. / Percy Bysshe Shelley 18th December 2008
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I am the daughter of earth and water, / And the nursling of the sky; / I pass through the pores of the ocean and shores; / I change, but I cannot die. / For after the rain when with never a stain, / The pavilion of heaven is bare, / And the winds and sunbeams with their convex gleams, / Build up the blue dome of air, / I silently laugh at my own cenotaph, / And out of the caverns of rain, / Like a child from the womb, like a ghost from the tomb, / I arise and unbuild it again. Words By Percy Bysshe Shelley Painting using acrylics, pigment, graphite and gold leaf / 102×42cm Music- Mahler Symphony No. 5 Adagietto
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This is a cropped version of my popular 3 O’clock I decided to upload a cropped version that was more suitable to the card dimensions.
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Fourth artwork in my animal ICON series. Original artwork measures 11×15”. Mixed media: Oil pastels, colored pencils, art pens, metallic paint pens, and metallic foil embellishments on textured dark purple watercolor paper.
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Fifth artwork in my animal ICON series. Mixed media: oil pastels, colored pencils, art pens, markers, metallic paint pens Original artwork is 11×15” on yellow watercolor paper. Original sold 2009
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Two zoomorphic geckos fit together like pieces of a puzzle on an abstracted background. Original image is 11×15 inches, mixed media (Oil pastels, colored pencils, metallic paints and art pens), on textured brown watercolor paper. The original artwork was on display/sale through September at the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia, PA, USA in conjunction with their “Geckos – Tails to Toepads” live gecko exhibition. Signed and matted giclee (archival) art prints are still available at museum gift shop as well as through my website at lynnetteshelley.com. To view more of my artwork, please visit my website at http://www.lynnetteshelley.com
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“Oh dear! Oh dear! I shall be too late!” Fourth artwork in my new Wonderland series based off of Lewis Carroll’s book “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” In this depiction the white rabbit races against time and against an abstracted background (rabbit holes), his pocket watch on his waistcoat. Original measures 12.5×19 inches, mixed media (oil pastels, colored pencils, metallic paint pen) on light yellow watercolor paper. FEATURED ON THE REDBUBBLE HOME PAGE AUGUST 21, 2009 / View more of my artwork at http://www.lynnetteshelley.com View My White Rabbit Tee! Click here
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Illustration for part of my new Wonderland series based off of Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. ””The March Hare will be much the most interesting, and perhaps as this is May it won’t be raving mad—at least not so mad as it was in March.” – Alice (from Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland) Original measures 12.5×19 inches and is a mixed media piece (acrylic, gold embossed decorative paper collage, oil pastels, colored pencils, sharpie, paint pen This is a scan so you can’t see the shining gold properly in this image, but it looks better in person. View more of my artwork at http://www.lynnetteshelley.com
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Aristotle once said the elephant was “the beast which passeth all others in wit and mind”. Unfortunately, they are now increasingly threatened by poaching and human intrusion into their habitat. The original artwork measures 19×12.5 inches and was created with ink pen and liquid copper leaf, with a little bit of colored pencil work around the eye. I used acid-free Canson Mi-Teintes paper in an Oyster color. View more of my artwork at www.lynnetteshelley.com
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Seventh artwork in my animal ICON series. Original artwork measures 11×14 inches, mixed media (oil pastels, colored pencils, gold paint pen, black marker) on blue canson paper. View more of my artwork at http://www.lynnetteshelley.com
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This postcard sized artwork is a portrait of a cheeky parrot. Measures 5×7 inches, mixed media (colored pencils, black art marker, and gold paint pen) on light orange Canson pastel paper. I thought I’d try a hand at doing some smaller artworks – which actually are more of a challenge for me as I am used to working on a larger scale. I want to also see if I can try doing some ACEO sized works as well in the future. View more of my artwork at http://www.lynnetteshelley.com
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