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The Himalayan legend saysthere are beautiful white birds
that live completely in flight.
They are born in the air,
must learn to fly before falling
and die also in their flying.
Maybe you have been born
into such a life
with the bottom dropping out.
–from "In Flight" by Jennifer K. Sweeney
Digital collage
Cornelis de Vos ~Girl at a Virginal c1625 [link]
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Comments: 31
One may ask : Are her parents golden eagles ?
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The placement of that one feather is perfect …. singularly perfect.
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I'm glad you noticed! I must have fiddled with it for ages, trying to get the placement right. In the end, I put a grid of thirds over the picture, and put the feather right at an intersection point. (The joys of Photoshop!)
Journal on design grids is here: hogret.deviantart.com/journal/...
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I just trust my eye, if it looks right, it’s right.
But I know what it’s like to fiddle with a piece for hours!
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Is there a word for something both beautiful and sad? Because that's the word I need to describe this. Lovely, yet melancholy.
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She has a lonely, brave fragility about her.
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I always visit the pages of those who comment on my works, and I am glad I did this time.
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Thanks for the generous comment! I construct my backgrounds out of multiple layers of photographs and textures (sometimes as many as 15 layers of varying density and opacity) - some of my own, some purchased from outside dA. I like building up a sense of depth and density - partly as a result of my start in traditional collage where backgrounds took days and days of inks and paints and different techniques!
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thanks for your comprehensive response. All your work pays off.
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Oh, this is spectacular. The composition is absolutely perfect...
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Such a delectable, jewel-like effect! Quite extraordinary.
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What a gem of a compliment! Thank you kind Sir Runcible.
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'Twas my pleasure. It is such a gem of an artwork.
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..nice and curious the words of Sweeney.
an amazing result of reworking a painting of 1600
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The poem was a lovely discovery!
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You are so generous with your compliments - thank you!
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deserved congratulations, your collage works are unique on deviantArt
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Lovely! Your style reminds me a bit Claudine Hellmuth's earlier collages (the ones she did when she was not so well-known... nowadays you can't even see them anywere unless you have her book at home 
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That's a huge compliment indeed! Claudine Hellmuth started me off on collage, and I own both her books. It's been interesting to try to achieve the traditional collage effects using Photoshop.
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That is such a coincidence: way back then, I started on collages, etc because of Claudine too! I came across her on the internet, NOBODY knew her then. I even wrote to her asking about her techniques, etc. (and she very generously shared a lot of tips with me). Then gradually she became pretty well-known and changed her style but I still LOVE her earlier works and yes, I do own both of her books too
Anyhow, as I said, love your collages.
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