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PRINTS ARE AVAILABLE!*Using acrylic mediums is a dangerous path to tread, and it starts seductively. One day you're eyeing the gel medium and thinking "Well...that might be kinda neat...just for some texture brush strokes, nothing crazy..." and the next day you've got an armload of wild stuff with mica beads and lava rocks and ceramic stucco and you've sacrificed your comb to use as a rake to make textures, because hair comes and goes, but art is forever!
I blame Liquitex. Liquitex is a pusher.
The reason this is particularly dangerous is because most of my work goes up on-line, and you lose vast amounts of the texture when you scan. You cannot tilt your head and see the way that the light reflects off the almost wood-pulp texture along the top and sides (Liquitex "Blended Fibers" medium) or see how the top of her jacket and shoulder is actually three dimensional and comes off the board an eighth of an inch or so (Golden Heavy Gel Matte.) But que sera, sera...such is life.
Anyway, I just wanted to fool with these mediums a bit, and so I did a small portrait of a pale rabbit woman, loosely inspired by Terri Windling's sketches of rabbit girls.
12 x 16, mixed media on clayboard, originals is for sale (and cooler in person!) and prints are available for $10 and $20--send a note or visit [link] to order!
*Sorry for the blatant plug, but people keep not reading all the way to the end and then asking, forcing me to desperate measures. What egg?
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Comments: 76
Hello there!
I have FEATURED your work here [link]
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so fantastic, the colors , expresion and details, awesome
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i have been listening to the song "white rabbit" for a solid hour now and this was a great piece to stumble on.
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If you're interested in delving deeper into the textural aspects of painting, take a peek at Eugenia Pardue ([link] ). Her work is a reaction to the digitized art world, and as such is entirely textural.
(I am absolutely in love with your palette, by the way)
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Never get tired of looking at your site. Thank You for the feel good!
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nifty colors and textures, and the ears are awesome, but the right hand appears to be smaller than the left. intentional?
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Why would anyone not read all the way through your comments? Your artist's comments have a life of their own and are almost as entertaining as the art itself. XD
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I really, *really* know what you mean about acrylic mediums. I spent an hour in my local art shop gaping at the sheer awesomeness of the things, and if I wasn't so broke right now I'd have the whole collection...
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I'm tempted to buy a print of this and give it to my dad for Easter, if my rent check doesn't bounce...
Gorgeous work! I know exactly how dangerous it is to explore interesting new media like that, too. One minute you're doodling with a nice ink brush, the next you realize you've spent over $50 on different jars of colored ink, various brush sizes and types...
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One little thing. That she's holding the egg makes it look flat. If her hand curved more, it would create a better 3D feel.
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this is a remarkable and creative twist on a rabbit
magnificently drawn
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That is beauuutiful! Very soft. Would love to see the texture in person.
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Lovely... really. I wish I could see the texture... especially since prints won't capture it either.
((On another note- que sera, sera (I believe) means "whatever happens, happens." and "Such is life" translates into "C'est la vie".
Provided I didn't mangle and murder my french.
Just thought you'd want to know... and I'd mention it, since I love both phrases and now you know! *cute music from Learning Channel plays in background*))
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"I blame Liquitex. Liquitex is a pusher."
Seriously. Liquitex owns my soul. >.> It's deffinately concerning. I mean, before you know it, you'll start seeing "98% of teenagers have tried Liquitex. If you're one of the 2% that hasn't, put this in your signature."
Someone should do something about it. Like Truth. They should do commercials to raise awareness.
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Um, this might be a weird compliment, but I like her nose best...
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Anyway, the image holds a lot of its original tridimensionality... like picasso said, colors have itself a volume that grows according to their light "radioactivity".. for instance, the area between the chin and coat neck holds an inmense "height" jump to it... great
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Very cool... I wondered if you had some texture on there, you can kindof tell with the scan. A fitting picture for easter perhaps?
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I've always enjoyed your work, but this reminds me so much of 'White Rabit' by Jeffison Airplan so much 'And if you go chasing rabits... and you know your going to fall....'
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Eggcellent! Sorry, couldn't resist. I have been burned by the Liquitex-man, too. Still, in the scan it adds a cool embossed effect to the BG.
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That thar lady's got bad sinuses and really big ears...
--Ray
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Absolutly awsome, I still havent gotten ahold of some acrylic-ink, and now you've found another spiferific medium to play in.
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I know what your saying, i work in acrylic a lot and have similar problems, still looks great
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Liquitex, I know, I know ... when I first started painting miniatures, I had a few tubes. And then more. And then more. I couldn't stop, and suddenly I had a few dozen.
Most of which dried up when I waffled on painting for a couple years (sniff snuffle)
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Lovely color scheme, the pale white is lovely with the textured russets and indigos of the background.
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I work in an art supply store. We SELL that stuff. I'm an artist (everyone who works there is.) We get a killer discount.
I know the treachery of texture mediums.
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So, is this a cross between the Easter Bunny and Mary Magdalene?
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Wow, loving this new texture! If it looks this good on deviantart the original must be awesome.
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Funny... a friend just arbatrarily told me to "Follow the white rabbit." Then a short while later, you post this up. Hmmmm!
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uh oh guess what I bought for the time time today?
acrylic mediums
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I like it a lot. It's a real pity, though, that we can't see (or feel) the three-dimensional texture which you describe.
Eggs? How about Terry Pratchett's:
"Truth! Justice! Freedom!
And a Hard-boiled Egg!"
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She's very cute, but her hands are, I think, too small.
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Beautiful textures, even if they are flattened by the scanner.
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Love the textures--That's one of my favorite thing about Liquitex. It might sound weird, but I love touching dried paintings... Leaving heaps and valleys to catch the light.
Almost peaceful...but the red in the backround is too firelike. Almost tense. Very interesting!
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YAY TEXTURE! Love this one so much...give in to the evil of texture - it clearly makes good art through you!
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I loove the image!!!
...i also love acrylics,I have always prefered them over oils.One of my professors quit being "friendly" with me once I had a long discussion about why I liked them better-they disagreed(and thats ok with me),its just my thing,lol.
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Those are some nice textures, even if you claim a lot is lost in the scan.
By the way, what kind of scanner do you have? If I tried that with mine, the slightly raised portions would be clear, but everything else not completely flush against the glass would come out blurry.
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That bit of fooling around worked very well.
You could say it's a bar of soap and..... Nope, not going there.
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Man, you really do make acrylics look like oils. How the heck do you do that?
And there's that darned egg again! Agh!
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