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A commission I did for the husband of one of my high school English teachers
Its sooort of an interpretation of one of the lines from my favorite scene in this book that she let me borrow when I was in 9th grade (its still one of my all time favorites). If you can guess which book its from you are an awesome person!Haha, so this is supposed to be a gift from the commissioner to his wife, but then ~SailorPretty walked in while I was working and I asked him what he thought and he was like "it scares me." lol. Sadly I'm not that great at making holiday gifts, oops.
The bird is a Western Tanager btw, I had mistakenly thought the scene took place on the west coast of the Americas but its actually supposed to be on the east side, so boo for me XC Fun bird, though.
Arts (c) Me :B
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Comments: 153
Beautiful work, what medium did you use or is this digital?
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Its all done on photoshop
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I adore the sky.
And just wanted to say- I just discovered your comic, and it is WONDERFUL!
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awesome background!awesome wings!awesome pic!8D
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am i det only one seeing the "bat-sign" in the skies : P
beautiful bird <3 only it doesnt really look like it's pulling the worm, pretty sure it's the tail that does it.
you sure are skillful, its a wonderful pic
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Thanks very much! Yeah, the clouds do look a bit bat-ish... oh, and the bird is supposed to be frozen in place, not pulling
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Ah.
Cats Cradle it is.
Busy Busy Busy is what us Bokononists say when we know there are things more complicated going on.
I hope you reply to this, I don't think anyone else has known the book.
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Thanks! No, nobody else got the reference. The painting itself isn't very obvious and unless you've enjoyed the book recently the quote probably wouldn't spring to mind either..
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Ah! I love your comic! I read it all a week ago, and I only realized that it belongs to you!
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Aw, thanks! Glad you like it!
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I say it to explain my love and appreciation of Kurt Vonnegut, not to brag that I have a great memory. But I must have read that book almost a year ago now.
Fantastic painting, really.
I hope you have enjoyed some of Vonnegut's other works!
Good job!
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It reminds me of those balancing bird things.
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The more I look at this, the more it freaks me out. Nice!
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WoW! This looks great! I love how your art work is different all the time. What kind of Photo shop are you operating with eh?
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Thanks so much X3 I'm using CS2, with the default hard brush :3
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Oh craaaaap this is exquisite. I ADORE the icy textures <3
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Awesome, awesome clouds. The shapes and the colors and everything!
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The way you blend colors is so spot on, it never ceases to amaze me. I feel so bad for that poor worm!
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This is from a Vonnegut book right? He's my favorite author. I know I've read this book, but I can't remember which one it is...... *scampers off to look through all her vonnegut books*
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Haha, this is one of his books that I could never forget XD I've read it so many times...
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My favorite is Cat's cradle ^____^ I read it all the time. I was trying to remeber the name of one of his short stories a while ago. It was driving me completly insane >3< I could only remeber the plot (kinda, I read it a long time ago) so I got all of my Vonnegut books and looked through them. I found it though, "A Report on the Barnhouse Effect"
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Oh, well this is supposed to be an interpretation of Cat's Cradle! The part where everything freezes in an instant and all the tornadoes come down... I just added the bird in there because it related to the commissioner
I haven't read that story (I didn't know he had a short story collection)! I'll have to go look for it next time I'm at the library...
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he has two (that I know of at least) Welcome to the Monkey House and The Bagombo Snuff Box. Report on the "Barnhouse Effect" is in Welcome to the Monkey House along with "Harrison Bergeron" which I absolutly love. The other one has a really good story called "Thanosphere". You should read them if you get the chance ^____^ I'm off to re-read Cat's Cradle. I can't believe I couldn't remember that even though I've read it so many times ;_____;
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Oh, the dangers of Ice Nine. (I'm not clever, because I only found it out in your comments, but I love that book! Oh, Vonnegut. 
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:3 Its one of my favorite books! And thanks, I'm glad you liked it... you should draw some birds :B
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Beautifullyfully colored hon I shall fav and run coz I don't have a smart thing to say when I see a piece of art so perfect :3 byee
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Haha, awesome XD Thanks so much!
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Beautiful colors, movement, and of course, work! (again!)
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I'm loving the colors and the movement in the clouds. 833 Awesome job.
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Awesome piece!
Although, I'm not sure whether it's right wing is either semi-translucent or reflecting light 
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Thanks! I was going for transluscent... it's more obvious in higher rez, but I'm terrible at balancing details at various levels of zooming so it looks like its lighter arbitrarily XC
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wow, different from your other work, but you can still tell it's yours! Lovin' the sky there. Stormy.
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I think I know why it's scary; the clouds in the top-right look like a laughing, evil mouth.
Eeevill.
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lololol at first I was like, "haha why do they have random white hairs?" but then I read the comments and scrolled back up to take another look at it and NOW it looks like frost. um, not that I'm very familiar with frost anyway so that is possibly why I could not recognse it *australia*
the clouds are sososo cool though! the swirls and the colours and the unintentional batman symbol all look very cool.
Also the book sounds brilliant, I am going to hunt it down and read it.
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