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Robincanada — Homage to Georgia
Published: 2007-07-31 22:17:03 +0000 UTC; Views: 1673; Favourites: 33; Downloads: 36
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I picked up the deer skull at a yard sale. All the other stock used is my own. This is my homage to Georgia O'Keefe. She is the all time master of skull and flower paintings.Related content
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personally i think it woulda looked better of the blending of the bg was kept to the skull only that way it doesn tlook like it was a texture placed over an image, the quality of the manip though is nice, its clean and crisp, and no jpeg artifacts
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actually, you may have a point there - I'll try re-working it in Photoshop - thanks for the feedback!!
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This is a very haunting but lovely image!!!!! Very Very nice!!!
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Beautiful piece! The pink and brown colours, and life and death imagery are very complimentary. Great texture too!
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thanks, this is one of my personal favorites.
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You certainly did a good job blending the skull and the background.
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Very nice work! I like the concept of a flower above the skull, great!
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As soon as I saw this, I KNEW it had something to do with Georgia O'Keefe. I've been looking at her work recently for my own art work, including bones. I think this really portrays the style of her work, well done
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very cool, Georgia o keefe is a great artist. I love her flowers!
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This picture is crazy, I like the mood to it. Good work, very interesting.
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Oo, its quite creepy.
I remember being completley petrified by those sort of skulls when i was a kid. They had an entire wall of those at a local museum and i refused to even walk into that room.
However, that was a long time ago, and i actaully think this looks cool. I like that it looks so old.
Also i like the flower, its beautiful.
Like both the skull and the flower. However, i can't really see the connection between the two of them. And i don't think they fit together. At least not like that. They look so... separted.
The combination skull and flower could look good, if they were more.. woven(is that a proper word? excuse my bad english) together.
But thats just my opinion. Really, i know nothing about photomanipulation and its one of the artforms that i have most trouble understanding, so maybe im not the right person to critique.
Anyway, sorry for taking so long before i commented.
Cheers.
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Did you ever read Stephen King's Dark Tower series? That was the first thing that came to my mind when I saw this. The rose is the symbol for the Dark Tower in our world, and the skull reminds me of the place of bones where the Gunslinger palavered with the Man in Black, who told him all about the Tower and Existence and an infinity of worlds. Art is never so much what it looks like as what it brings to mind, and what it brings to mind is different for everyone. This has the ability to immediately transfix and transport, and for THAT, you get a 
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ahh - yes, I read it a very long time ago. Your thoughtful comments are very much appreciated. When my art can bring forth such responses, it makes me very happy.
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Love the editing in this, makes it all flow really well together. extremely beautiul.
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i love the contrasting images of life and death. it's a very interesting piece, and the colors and just vibrant enough.
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it definately reminds me of her work, i like the background texture, and the way the horns frame the flower.
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i love her work i had to work with her style. and she is just something else
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The rose is an interesting touch. I like the filter, also.
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Kind of macabre, but it's a really neat photomanip, again. You do great work!
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It's difficult to comment when everything has been said already, but despite the obvious look of death, it remains quite a peaceful image.
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Pretty cool, i had to do the same thing for art class=] we were reading on georgia o'keefe...or however you spell it.
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Excellent composition. If I wanted to put a flower anywhere near a deer skull, that'd be exactly where I would put it.
I've always thought that deer skulls looked creepy. I remember when I had an art teacher that brought in an old cow skull that still had 'meat' on it, namely the snout. It freaked me out every day.
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hmm, a skull with snout attached, sounds yucky - all my animal skulls are "sans meat"
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Hmm... it's like the skull symbolizes death and the rose symbolizes life, like a cross between life and death. Am I right?
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Holy smoke! Is that a photo? It looks like a painting or collage by Dave McKean (I believe it was), the guy who did all that art for Neil Gaiman's "Sandman" series. I like it! Very 'goth'.
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Thanks for your perceptive comments in the thumbs forum: "Contrasts the images of darkness and death, in the deer skull, with an image of fragile beauty and life, in the rose."
It's a genuine pleasure when someone "gets" a piece of artwork you have done. Many thanks!!
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My pleasure. It's not often one sees a piece of real depth here on deviantArt, heh.
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this is great ^^ i love it. I have a bunch of animal skull si have aquired but i just am not sure what to do with um yet 
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Yes - animal skulls - some people love them - some people hate them... I love them!
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then u are my type of person ^^ I just recieved an Impalla skull from some friends that work at a taxidermy. I love it ^^ but some of my other friends see it in my room and look at me with questionmarked faces
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Ah, yes... I can't understand why some people are not fascinated by that stuff - to each his own, I suppose...
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wow! I love how this picture looks..it's so westerny xD
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lol, you bought a deer skull? if it's just for this I understand.
interesting mix of "ew...skull" and "ooohh...rose"
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ha ha - I go to yard sales and junk shops and I pick up all sorts of strange and marvelous things to make art with.
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