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Published: 2008-03-10 20:31:19 +0000 UTC; Views: 1208; Favourites: 26; Downloads: 0
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Description ' ... you put my heart in your cage. Why don't you let me free? Please ... '

The last manipulation I did is some time ago, but finally I was able to do something new.
I'm very proud of it.
After I made the background I tried to blend in different models, but I didn't like anything that I've done. So finally I decided to realize an old idea I had once with the caged heart. (I wanted to take a photo like this ... I hope I can do this anyway (sometime).)
The heart is a balloon ao don't wonder that it flies.
The raven stands for the freedom of a bird, death and femininity.

This one I want to dedicate to a friend of me. He doesn't know it and I'll never say him that I dedicated 'Caged' to him. But he inspired me to do this ... so it's for him even if he doesn't know it. (I don't even know if he would like it.)

EDIT: Today I had the idea for a series. Do you know 'The Twelve Brother' from the 'Brothers Grimm'? (Or the 'Seven Ravens'?) In this two stories brothers transform to ravens. I wanna combine this two stories with the '7 Deadly Sins' and the '5 Sins'. I think this will be very hard to do. But at the end I want that every one of the 12 pieces with the ravens stands for a deadly sin or a sin.

This one is Avaritia - Avarice. I choose Avarice for this picture, because the raven wants this heart so badly that he even would accept his death. (Because he will sink together with the cage.) He won't let it go and the heart can't escape even if the cage is open. The raven wants to have it, because the heart is beautiful, not, because he needs to have it.

The '12 Ravens' Series:
Ira - Wrath - [link]

Credits
Abbey: ~FoxStox
Sky: =night-fate-stock
Water: ~SheisprettyStock
Cage: !pbstock
Bird: ~Peace-of-Art
Heart: ~darkrose42-stock
Wave: *redheadstock
Spiderweb: ~anaRasha-stock

© Natascha Helbling

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Comments: 8

guntaj [2014-06-27 12:16:52 +0000 UTC]

Hi! I'm the the editor-in-chief of a literary and arts magazine and we are currently looking for an artwork for the cover page of our next issue. I really liked this and it kind of goes with our theme , so if you are interested, please get back to me at miracle.ezine@yahoo.com as soon as you can.

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AutumnRaindrop In reply to guntaj [2015-01-04 03:37:10 +0000 UTC]

Hello, I'm very sorry for not answering sooner. I'm not really often on deviantart anymore. But if you ever want to contact me again about an artpiece you can send me an email at taesche.helbling@sunrise.ch. Sorry again.

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bof-chan [2008-03-10 20:51:49 +0000 UTC]

That's awesome! I never understood how you did that...is it just a picture, or did you draw it?

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AutumnRaindrop In reply to bof-chan [2008-03-10 21:00:48 +0000 UTC]

It's one picture made out of several photos.
I searched stock photos, cut them out and put them together in photoshop so that I finally got this picture.
There are many very good photomanipulaters here in deviantart. Do you know =Princess-of-Shadows or `LuneBleu or =night-fate ? Here you can see some very good tutorials about how to do photomanips: [link]

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bof-chan In reply to AutumnRaindrop [2008-03-10 21:46:32 +0000 UTC]

No, I don't know those people. But I do know...i think one person who does that. She's really good at it.
I'll check those people out, though. ^^

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bof-chan In reply to bof-chan [2008-03-10 21:47:43 +0000 UTC]

Oh, I'm sorry!! I do that a lot...
But OK, I'll check it out ^^

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bof-chan In reply to AutumnRaindrop [2008-03-10 21:44:28 +0000 UTC]

I don't know those people, but I know :deadlybutterfly: She's really great ^^
I'm not sure if I spelled that right xD

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AutumnRaindrop In reply to bof-chan [2008-03-10 21:46:16 +0000 UTC]

Yes I know her too She's really amazing.

You can take a look in my journal shoutbox, there I've many great artists of different categories

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