Watercolors
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Bobbi Lynn
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watercolor
United States
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Here’s yet another take on the Polaroid camera.
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Pencil + Photoshop Another version: w/o background, with more colors, and darker lines. / Detail /
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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:
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pens, pencils, markers, watercolors a similar drawing / available on t-shirts here: http://www.redbubble.com/people/olechka/clothing/586733-2-sphera
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You know that kiwi band, straitjacket fish? I mean, straitjeckutt fush? This creature is badly behaved. 30×30cm, watercolour, pastel, ink, metallic pen, iridescent pigments on canvas.
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SCYTHIAN DREAM / Sky forever / Constant movement / Undulating grasses of celadon and bronze / Pods shake and rattle, seeds release / A handful of beads tossed to the wind / Swirling wind / Blinding sun / Storms cross great distances in brief periods / A people wander / Crossing the steppe with their herds / Battle crazed, wild as their swift compact war horses / Metal and gold smiths, they know secrets / Masters of fire they meld and coax raw ores into fantastic living forms / For a brief period they rise / In their season / Powerful unpredictable impetuous fierce inspired / And then like all things, pass away / Melting into the grasslands taking horses and secrets with them / No fences, no borders / Central Asian steppe meets Celtic forest / Triple spiral greets the sun Text copyright Helena Nelson – Reed
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Mixed Media for my boyfriend. / 2008
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In the bestiary there’s also a garden. It’s walled off though, so the beasts can’t trample it! I loved painting the undulating fin shapes of this piece, so I had to do another. 15×30cm, watercolour, chalk pastel, ink, conte, iridescent pigments and copper leaf on canvas. In this one you can see the shiny copper:
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My first piece finished in 09! Another octobeast from my series – here’s another one Watercolour, chalk pastel, ink, conte, metallic leaf on canvas. / He has golden suckers!
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What time is it really? Which way are we going? Time looms over us all, hanging right in front of our heads…. / Was completed in watercolor and gouache media on Arches cold-press 180lb. paper, circa 2007.
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The Sophia, in Jewish mysticism, was the personification of the female counterpart to god. She epitomized wisdom, and was looked upon as a deity that was elusive but could be searched out and found. The name Sophia itself is Greek and means wisdom, being the root in such words as philoSOPHY, SOPHIST, etc. Later religious groups, like some early christian sects, debased her as a heretical figure- her wisdom being superficial and of a false kind. / I personally like the idea of a female godhead, and in this enlightened age I thought it well to represent her in my own style and art. I looked to other female goddess roles for inspiration- Demeter, Minerva, Diana, etc. There seems to be an overwhelming degree of identification with the most popular- and powerful- female deities with the earth, with life, and with death. Of course in the real world woman do carry much of this burden- or blessing, however you look at it- like childbirth, and the stereotypical nurturing roles, etc. Men like myself are able to be brats and run off from our duties with family and home and life, pursuing silly things like war and death and the ‘sporting’ lifestyle. / The Sophia in this painting resides at her place in the cosmos- at once beautiful, stoic, matriarchal and proud. Flower petals symbolizing life fall from her fingertips, but there is brevity in this gift. The skull at her feet is death and the inevitable end of life, yet the skull remains after all else has decomposed; a permanence to this cycle. Accepting this truth and understanding it’s beauty can be enlightening and a release. Original painting was completed in watercolor, gouache, and some acrylic on Crescent illustration board, circa 2007.
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Watercolor This painting is a private commission, the daughter of some friends of ours. She loves fairy tales and dressing in beautiful costumes, animals, and helping her father in his garden. She’s a mischevious and intellegent person, and I see her as being faerie – like. So I painted her this way, trying on a faerie wreath of leaves and butterfly wings, a crown destined for the May Queen. Ive written a little about the May Queen, below. May Day was once a day celebrating the wedding of the Maid Marion and Robin Hood. Together they symbolized the Lord and Lady of the Wildwood: spring’s promise of fertility and future abundance in field, farm, and woodland. A little girl would be chosen to present the May Queen with her blossom crown. Here, a bridesmaid tries the crown on for size, embodying future generations and roles they’ll soon enough play for real. The May Queen represented earth’s new promise, purity, fertility and abundance. May Eve (Beltain) was not only trysting time for mortals, but celebrated by the Fey, and acknowledged by Saxon and Celt alike. Come May Eve, the queen was crowned and the great marriage celebrated. Homes were decorated with blossoms and hawthorn, mimicking the new life visible in farm fields and meadows. The May Queen is related to Roman goddess Maia, whose name means spring and the time of increase and growth. The feast day of Flora, Roman goddess of flowers and fruit, was celebrated a few days before May Eve. text and image copyright Helena Nelson Reed. Please don’t use without permission.
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Original watercolor image scanned into photoshop and transformed into this, and then later these: / boundless / / tall tree /
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The labyrinth was a maze created by the brilliant engineer Daedalus for King Minos to hold prisoners from ever escaping. The Minotaur resided deep within it’s depths, later to be slain by the hero Theseus. Of course Daedalus himself later became a captive to his own creation. Since even he could not find a way to escape from his own construction, he devised wings of wax and feathers and string, and, along with his son, Icharus, flew from the confines of the labyrinth. Icharus, not heeding his father’s warning, flew on too high toward the sun, causing the wax in his wings to melt; and he fell to the earth, and his death. / The labyrinth has been observed in many cultures to be a metaphor of the depths of the human psyche. From the ideas of old Greece to medieval cathedrals to the modern ideas of the psychoanylist Carl Jung, the labyrinthean depths of our own minds may very well be of the very highest construction and capability, as well as our greatest obstacle toward true enlightenment and freedom. / Original work was created using watercolor and gouache media on Arches cold-press 180lb. cotton rag.
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Seeker of Truth available as a framed print, mounted print, card and poster. A seeker of Truth. / He will never find it. / But the dimmest of possibilities—he may himself become Truth. / Image copyright © 2008 Shanina Conway. / Copying and displaying or redistribution of this image without permission from the artist is strictly prohibited. Mixed media and a bit of an experiment, fell in love with the cobweb-like watercolours drips holding colour;)
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original watercolor 31 X 41 cm / 12.09×15.99 inches / 250 usd / can be shipped worldwide / payment via paypal
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The original was done in watercolor and gouache on Arches cold-press in 2005. / Good composition and likeness in this one. Oh, how I miss the punk rock girl….
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A little spin on the old story of Narcissus. Narcissus, as you may well know, was a quite lovely Greek youth enamoured by his own image. He pined away his days staring at his own reflection, eventually growing roots in the ground- punished by the gods for his vanity, he was transformed into the Narcissus flower. Of course this is the root of modern English words like narcissist and narcissistic. / In this work I wanted to spin that old myth in a different direction. As an artist I find myself working for hours and hours, days at a time on my artwork. When I rest from my painting I find myself staring at the result, intrigued by my own work. I love painting and I’m in love with my work. Now, it’s often said that art is but an extention of the artist. If that’s the case then it goes to follow that I’m a bit of a narcissist myself, albeit of a different sort. / The joke in this piece is that it’s a self-portrait. But I’m staring down at my work, which happens to be a Narcissus flower (Narcissus poeticus, to be exact), the work being but a different reflection of myself. / The original was completed in watercolor and gouache media on Arches 180lb. cold-press cotton rag, 2007.
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A digitaly manipulated photo to appear as a painting.The mountain stream helps substain life both below and above the surface.A stream’s ecosystem includes the area immediately around the stream—the damp banks and vegetation on both sides, the trees that hang over it, the air above it. And it includes the stream’s entire watershed as well.We should do what we can to help preserve these beautiful wonders of nature before much of its flora and fauna are gone.
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Another slightly deaf creature, like this one Watercolour, chalk pastel, ink, conte, iridescent pigments and copper leaf on canvas. In this one you can see the copper on the suckers:
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A Butterfly Watercolor painting 31cm x 21cm / 300g Here the evolution
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Fiiiiiiinally finished. A companion piece to this one I did a year and a half ago: I decided the other day that there was a distinct lack of blue paintings in my folio! Had to rectify the situation. He is approx 30cm square, watercolour/pastel etc on canvas. He has shiny silver leaf on his spikes too.
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watercolor rendition of belly dancer on arches watercolor paper, rough 300
watercolors – information provided by wikipedia:
Watercolor (US) or Watercolour (UK) (and "aquarelle" in French) is a painting method. A watercolor is the medium or the resulting artwork, in which the paints are made of pigments suspended in a water soluble vehicle. The traditional and most common support for watercolor paintings is paper; other supports include papyrus, bark papers, plastics, vellum or leather, fabric, wood, and canvas. In East Asia, watercolor painting with inks is referred to as brush painting or scroll painting. In Chinese and Japanese painting it has been the dominant medium, often in monochrome black or browns. India, Ethiopia and other countries also have long traditions. Fingerpainting with watercolor paints originated in China.RedBubble is a great place to find art, design, photos and writing from over 80,000 talented people.
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