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Published: 2005-01-29 06:20:29 +0000 UTC; Views: 574; Favourites: 23; Downloads: 39
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The main stock inspiration is:[link]
Wonderful Wingage:
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Fire! Fire:
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Tiger Tiger Burning Bright. Fearful Symetry by:
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Oh, and Head:
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Several of my own drawings used as texture
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Comments: 43
great work, lots of details. and while the texture repetion of texture is not recommended most of the time, in This picture, if fits perfectly.
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Yeah, the regularity of the background texture is really rather against the rules for typical art, bu it never even occured to me to break it up. That is something to consider, though.
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What a beautiful piece!
There's so many textures and it's very rich in color :3
Wonderfully creative use of materials
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Thank you so much for your kind words.
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You're very welcome! The piece was excellent.
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very impressive. love the detail, not too crowded, but every time you look there's something new.
very well intergrated, as well, most of the stock images i didn't notice were there until i saw the originals.
has a completely different feel to it from the individual images- real manipulation, if you ask me.
well done.
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It is a very long time for me to respond to your kind comment, but thank you so much nevertheless.
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very cool, very creative use of stock and texture
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It makes me happy to have you say so.
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Amazing. The colors are beautiful. I like how you did the "wings". How did you come up with the title?
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Thanks. The title is rather compliated. I often will start playing with images, and only after I am into it for awhile will the title occur to me. This one was like that. In the past Americans had a slur that they would apply to Native American Indians. They would call them Indian Givers. This slur was based on a difference in culture. Many Native American tribes just did not have the same notion of property as the European Colonists. My understanding is that this difference in how they viewed property resulted in situtions where the Indians would give gifts to the whites and later take them back.
There is religious imagery in thepiece too. The background and and much of the tatooing on the arm comes from a photograph of the Vatican throne room. In fact, you can find the pope on her arm if you look.
Then we have the skull superimposed over her head.
Ultimately the title is an expression of my attitude toward the idea of God. I am referring to God the giver in the same way Europeans referred to the Native Americans. He gives the gift of life only to take it back. While that angers me, I also am admitting that my anger and hostility may only be based on a "cultural" misunderstanding about the nature of property.
The whole thing is just a bit too "clever clever" and self-indulgent, but there it is.
doug
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THank you for the kind comment.
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Incredible. I gotta say that you've done well on textures as well as design.
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That's absolutely stunning! Nice use of a wide spectrum of stock!
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Thanks. This was one of the early pieces that convinced me of the divinity of photshop. Now it is part of my trinity...
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I thank you much. It is probably the best one I have done.
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oooooh, i see what you did with the fire!
i'd love to write more, but i hacked part of my finger off today.. imma photo it soon lol..
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i think this is a beautiful image
i love all the things you blended into this picture
it really is nicely done
and thank you so much for chosing my stock for this wonderful creation
it means a lot
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Thank you much for the gracious comments.
These photomanipulations are getting more and more complicated with more hand painting in each. This one is easily my best so far...
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this is very beautiful, even if you hadnt of used my stock i would have faved it ^.^
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Thank you so much for your kind remarks. I am really enjoying learning how to do this, but it is gratifying to have a few people like it.
doug
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explosive work...excellent!
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You are too kind, but I do appreciate it.
doug
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impressive manipulation, a very nice blend of stocks indeed
i noted the reference to Blake, are you a fan?
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Thanks,
Blake? Yeah, I guess I would say I am a minor fan. I love the watercolors. I have seen a few of them, although not the best at the Tate in London. A few of his poems are brilliant as well. The one about the tiger, the poem about Nobodaddy, and a couple of the Songs of Innocence.
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