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Published: 2006-10-28 16:52:52 +0000 UTC; Views: 2400; Favourites: 30; Downloads: 6
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This painting, and it's title, have a great deal of meaning and importance to me, which I don't think I will go into, you could probably guess pretty easily if you take note of the title, how the statures are dressed and what they are holding, and my mention of feathers further down.However, if you desperately want to know, note me and I'll be happy to chat a little with you about it
. You might notice that this is the same forest as The Lantern Forest , it's a hidden part and statues are it's guardians.
One would enter through here with a feather and follow the path to a glade in which the feather would be placed atop a rock or tree stump, whatever seems right, and one would sit and reflect.
Feathers are symbolic to me of something important that has been left behind.
Yes shut up, I do have an obsession with lanterns
I wouldn't have one tattooed on my leg if I didn't would I?
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whoa, colors are simply magnificent! it gives kind of warm feeling when one watches this painting.
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Thankyou! I'm glad you like it!!!
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Wow, very lovely job on this! The details of the statue are really amazing.
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Thankyou!!! ^_^
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Thankyou!! ^_^ I'm glad you like it!
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This is fantastic, I love the colours, which seem to hold half the mystery of the painting for me.
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Thankyou!!! I'm glad you like it so much!!!! ^_^
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love the mellow colours
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Thanks!! Glad to hear it!
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Very beautifull!! I love the colors you used...
*my english is not very good* so how do you say it....hmz...it's having a character i like.
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Yeah i understand
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WOW. Great colors. Very earthy feeling. Very beautiful.
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*loves it* Ah, I love the colors and the whole atmosphere here! And I'm also crazy about lanterns, I've got loads of them in my room...
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Hey me too! I have 3 lanterns hanging from my light now because I've actually run out of space to put them anywhere else lol. and I plan on buying more if i see any i like
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Hmm, I got a really long and beautiful one for birthday, but the problem is that it'll probably kill me if I hang in up in the middle of the room O.o I want a higher ceiling 
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ooooooohhh very cool
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You're on the art deprtment computers ARENT YOU??
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ummm nooo......(shit how does she know)........dam telepathy......must remember to wear foil on my head......yes yes Muhahahaha......
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Well actually the fact that you yelled "KAT!" and waved to me at school on your way down to the Art Department about half an hour before you posted this kinda gave you away
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Very pretty... I'll have to hear the story one day.
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Its not that interesting, just involves far too much explination to people who dont actually know me irl for an 'artists comment'
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Still wanna hear it. When we've got too much time and too few boyfriends to complain about.
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Yeah all one of them. I don't know how I keep up with them all!
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^_^ tis beautiful i really like it. you seem to use yellow and greens alot it works really well ^_^
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My favourite colour is a very yellow green at the moment lol. So that might be why, it relaxes me
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Aw man! Kat, there are times when I actually hate you cause I'm so frickin' envious of how talented you are! This is beautiful, darn you, and I love the textures and the blending from light to dark. I'm not going to ask what it means, I'm having much to much fun wondering and I think the mystery just makes it more awesome.
You're just too @#$!%#@ talented...
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Yeah thats one reason I havent given *my* meaning to it because I want it to mean whatever it needs to mean to someone else
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I figured as much! *adds to very short list of times Heather was right* It's purdy though, a wonderful job!
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In fact yesterday ~lord-kes-la and I were talking about it on MSN and he asked for my meaning and it was almost the complete opposite to his. 
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Eh, I prefer to let the little people in the back of my head fight over what they think things mean! Although Lord-kes-la could be right - it could be like one of those magic pictures, where you look one way and see something and look another and see something totally different!
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Ohhhhh pretty
Looks a bit freaky to be honest... is there some sort of image in the bright light or am I imagining that?
Also behind the black man is another sythe with a hand if im not imagining it - corssing the path with the other guy who looks like hes tending to the lantern but also seems to have a sythe - so is that a guard to this secret place? And why is he hidden?
The black guy at the front looks much more angry than the guy at the back - anything in that?
Finally - whats written on the plaque on the altar that guy is standing on - or is it just random symbols?
I really like this... I didn't even fave the dumbledore one or that massive thing in the art studio that won the prize that I keep drooling over ... but I think I'll fave this. Very nice Kat
Get well soon
Your friendly neighborhood Lord.
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LOL looser
Ok, so in the bright light you can just see a pathway leading on a curve around to the left, there are two thin (therefore probably young) dead trees and vines hanging between them a little like a natural guiding fence.
There are two guards in the background, yes. There's one almost directly behind the one that in shadows, not intentionally or whatever, if you were to take two steps to the left you'd be able to see it.
It's in pretty much the same position as the one you can actually see (which is behind the lantern not prodding it
The front statue just happens to be under more trees than the other two (note all the fallen leaves) so there's just more shadow on it, I spose if the other two were under shadow too they might look angry as well.
On the plaque is like a 'Welcome to Nebraska' type sign... except not Nebraska, and itβs not actually a state or country anyway lol. But you know a Welcome and beware sigh I spose. They're symbols that have been mostly worn away by the weather and covered by moss etc over time, so even if you were to read that particular dialect its in such a bad way now that it was be pretty damn difficult.
I'll never understand your faving system
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Forgot to actually add it to favourites ... now done ...
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i also love the moss's and lichen growing ON the statues. -that ahd to be said.
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I love moss
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I love that all though they're warm colour's they seem cold in this picture. The statues are my favorites. I love the way you've drawn the faces so anguler.
loose and lost feathers always make me think of the bird that it came from in to ways: Its either much happier without it or its dead. I'll pike them up anyway if thery're not plain ones- come birds butt? pfft, who cares. We'll all get the bird flu eventaully anyway.
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I tried to use mostly cold reds and yellows just to give the effect that it wasnt as welcoming place as it as once.
LOL Woot! Bird flu here we come!
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I really love the colours and style. You have depicted the guardians in beautiful detail. I also like how the yellow light draws your eye into the page, giving the picture depth. And the varying textures.
Purdy
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I adore you. I'd love to know more about your feather/lantern thing, but I see the symbolic nature of it all, either way.
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Hmm, mayble I should write a journal entry on them sometime lol
but in short, feathers are originally important to a bird, right? Keep them warm, keep them flying, keep them from looking like a plucked chicken etc etc. And when you find one lying on the grownd, that important thing has been discarded, weather it be it wasnt needed anymore, or wether it be that something dramatic happened and it was ripped out.
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Ah, I understand now. And you should.
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Wow this piece is awesome. I love how the trees frame the piece and I absolutely love the way you used light and color. The statue to the right is so awesome. Just everything about this compositionally is awesome! Great use of textures also, God I wish I could paint!
Kristen
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