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phoenixphyre ♀️ [1085628] [2004-09-07 00:21:37 +0000 UTC] "Fire can destroy and create....." (United States)

# Statistics

Favourites: 821; Deviations: 165; Watchers: 37

Watching: 74; Pageviews: 16552; Comments Made: 2908; Friends: 74

# Interests

Favorite visual artist: my friends here on dA!
Favorite movies: WAAAAAAAAAY too many to list!!
Favorite bands / musical artists: I'll listen to anyone once, whether I'll like them or not is another story
Favorite books: The Da Vinci Code, Redwall Series, Hannah Swenson murder mysteries
Favorite writers: B. Jacques, M. Albom, J.K. Rowling, J. Fluke, D. Brown
Favorite games: Clue, Cranium
Favorite gaming platform: a fold-out board
Tools of the Trade: just about anything I can get my hands on, and muses that needs to be tied up
Other Interests: fossils, folklore and mythology, drawing, reading, martial arts, writing, photography

# About me

Gosh, what can I say that's not already in my Devious info?

I'm more or less a Jill-of-all-arts, which means I love to dabble in just about anything art-related and am willing to try anything once even if I don't have the patience to keep working on it. During my long absence from dA (and, really, life in general) I've been working more on developing my own art style rather than working within the lines of today's popular art styles. There are still some goals I want to work toward, mainly learning to draw in a more realistic fashion, but beyond that I've learned to enjoy creating my own standards for my art and enjoying the process as much as the outcome. Welcome to my little corner of the world!

Inspirations: music, my two cats (Roc and Rohl), my religion, and my muses (yup, that's right, multiple muses)

Aside from art, I love writing fanfiction, writing in my journal, cooking and baking, exploring nature, reading, and practicing one of my three martial arts.

Some of my favorite "creativity" quotes:

"Art is not just a matter of externals, of appearances and form. Art is an expression of the artist's inner spirit. A brilliant, radiant spirit is what makes for a great artist."
-Daisaku Ikeda

"Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep."
-Scott Adams

"We are all geniuses. But if you judge a fish on its ability to climb a tree it will spend its entire life believing that it's stupid."

"Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible. I think it's in the basement . . . let me go upstairs and check."
-M.C. Escher

Current Residence: a hobbit hole on stilts
deviantWEAR sizing preference: anything but X-Small
Print preference: the smaller, the better . . . then people actually have to look at the pictures
Favourite genre of music: country, rock, classical
Favourite photographer: Ansel Adams
Favourite style of art: whatever I feel like working on that day
Operating System: all of my systems are working fine, thank you
MP3 player of choice: my RCA JET and my Phillips GoGear "Critter"
Shell of choice: the one I build around myself
Wallpaper of choice: something that makes me smile
Skin of choice: the one that's connected to me
Favourite cartoon character: Stitch, Lilo, and Mulan
Personal Quote: "What's the fun in being normal if everyone else is doing it?"