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taibossigai — Creation Story - Turtle Island
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This is a watercolour-pencil crayon painting I made of a spider and her web in 2011. In her web, she weaves the Creation of Turtle Island, which reads:Sky-woman left her home in the skies and came down to rest up on the back of a great turtle. All around the turtle was water, so Sky-woman asked the water animals to swim to the bottom of the sea to get some earth so she could make land.
The beaver was the first to try to swim to the bottom of the sea. He returned after a short time, out of breath and empty-handed. The fisher tried but also failed. The marten also tried, but came back and said the water was simply too deep. The loon tried next, but came back and said it was too dark.
All of the animals tried to fulfill the spirit-woman's request, but all had failed and were ashamed. Finally a small voice spoke up. It was muskrat. He too wanted to try to swim to the bottom. The other animals laughed at this, as muskrat was so small and they doubted his endurance.
Muskrat was undaunted, and dove under the water's surface. A long time passed. The smiles on the skeptical animals faded and turned into frowns of worry.
More time passed. Just when the animals were about to give up, the muskrat's small body floated to the surface. He had nearly died trying to get the earth, but in his tiny paws was a clump of soil. After restoring muskrat to health, Sky-woman took the clump of soil and spread it on the turtle's back.
She breathed on the soil, which began to grow. It grew and formed the land which we call Turtle Island. The waters subsided and the animals brought various plants to the Sky-woman. She breathed her life-giving breath onto them and the grasses, trees, and food-bearing plants lived.
She breathed onto the animals that had perished and revived them so they could roam the... (story ends here)
This original painting measures 9x12 inches. Available for purchase, please send me a note or message if interested.
Please check out my other artwork. I also have my website at ojibwe-art.ca
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I really like this artwork. The watercolors make it seem simplistic and something one might find in a children's book. I really like the story that's tied into it, it just adds more depth to it. By itself it's a very nice artwork all on it's own, though. I think the spider not being fully colored in is actually a good thing; it adds depth and more dimension. The spiral of the spiral web concaves and so does the spider's body.
Good job with this!
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Recently this year I have been having few arachnophobia attacks. I only learned this at work. We had a few spiders drop down from the ceiling and scare the piss right out of me. At first I did not even want to click on the thumb view of this picture. But I took the time to look at the picture once more and I saw the way it was colored. Not so creepy now! Thank you for making a spider not creepy looking <3
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This one is absolutely lovely and reminds me of something you might see in a children's storybook. I find children's books always have the most beautiful artwork. The colors are splendid and give the piece a nice warm, happy feeling. Usually one would associate spiders with danger but somehow this piece does not give the impression of anything dangerous or bad. The spider was painted very nicely and has great depth to it. The only thing I see that might be addressed would be the spider web that you can see through the spider's body. Other than that, just wonderful.
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Thanks very much for the lovely comment!
Ah, the see-through spider. This was a frustration of my own when I was painting it, that I could see through the body as well and no matter how many layers of paint I put on there it just wasn't dark enough. I didn't want to rely on another medium like ink or acrylic either. Learning point for next time I guess!
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wow. considering I am arachnophobia and have no reaction to this I think I love it just one that. None of the creepy factor in spiders but all the beauty and you made it so poetic.
I think you did a lovely job and can't honestly think of anything I would say could be done differently accept maybe sign it away from the edge so if someone buys a print or something a frame won't cover it. My grandfather always got on me for that growing up. 'sign it on the right side and make sure you leave two to three inches away from the edge or at least an inch for small(the dinky six inch paper) paintings.' I have to hand it to him though... he was right. I don't care what side you sign it on but I am of the opinion that if this was hanging in my home I would want room so the signature could be clearly displayed.
I appreciate the story with it, very much. It sounds like often old stories sometimes too. The sort people passed down through generations about how things began or how this thing came into existence. Sometimes those stories have truths hidden beneath the way they sound to us today and sometimes... they are exactly as fantastical as they sound. Either way they are a beautiful part of heritage and I thankyou for reminding me of that beauty.
Lovely work. Beautiful colors. I can tell you put a lot of work into the letters that make up the spiral of the web too. Absolutely lovely. Gives lots of feels and thankfully none of those are 'omg a spider eeeeeek!'... because you know, I'm prone to that. lol
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Good to hear! I don't really like spiders either, but they are a respected animal in native mythology, and I like experimenting with different things, so I thought I'd give it a try.
Yeah, the signature frustrates me too. Many of my older paintings have given me grief after deciding to frame them. Some I gave up on and framed so you can't see the signature at all. I also like using the entire painting surface, although in more recent years I've started to plan better and make sure the image has some breathing space around it. Also, my scanner couldn't capture the whole piece (9x12", while the bed is letter-sized), and I lack the technological skill to piece together two images, which is why my signature is cut off as well.
Thanks very much for the kind comment!
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They are respected in many cultures mythology. Their are stories of them both helpful and not. I don't think my fear of spiders honestly cares. Been scared of them since I was little and I might have grown out of it but some asshole decided it was a good idea to have a four year old who already screamed when she saw a spider see 'arachnophobia'. A movie specifically about how these people go into the jungle to study animals and critters in those kind of hole in the rain forest where the further down you go the more poisonous the creatures in it are... a spider is brought out on someone's gear... ends up far from the rain forest in much the same way any creature unintentionally crosses, so it is actually realistic in how it could happen if a place like that existed... cross breeds with a similar not so poisonous spider you might normally find in a house or barn... and suddenly you have spiders that are biting people like any spider would but these people are dying... little old lady reaches to turn off a light, dies. And at some point the protagonist walks into a barn because of COURSE someone figured out that a spider came back with them and cross bred, and spiders come down in creepy fashion aragog style but smaller and more deadly and somehow much more scary for the fact that it only takes one bite from a tiny spider you might not see, bite you. I think the movie is fairly old, like 'the birds' old but... if I wasn't scared for life before that I certainly was after that. I may not scream when I see spiders like when I was a kid but... the sound that comes out if I don't control my reaction with an iron fist of sorts is rather pathetic and whiny but of course my better half doesn't need to hear it, all he needs is to see my body language and 'where is it?' If I am by myself obviously I have to take care of it by myself and I can do that but if I am not I entirely have no problem being as far away as possible from that spider as possible while someone else does it. Should have seen my reaction when a black widow took residence outside an old apartment I had right near the front door. That thing was huge. I was damn near crying and definitely made some ultra pathetic sounds while I sprayed it with poison. Children often played around their and some of the kids often came up and played ding dong ditch which was annoying but... black widows are poisonous enough to make you sick and because of a situation when I was a kid where one dropped down in front of me exactly like in the movie(we lived in an apartment complex where the managers were useless and mom usually got treatments for the place but the building got an infestation of black widows and I was walking out the door after the final sweep, you know, make sure you didn't forget anything and I was the last one out the door because I had forgotten my favorite book where I set it down and... well one came down in the middle of the doorway and... mom was back up those stairs before I knew it, apparently nothing moves a mom like the sound of pure unfettered terror from their child)... I have been scared shitless of those more than any other, though the fact they are in fact poisonous enough people often need medical attention and especially dangerous for old people or young children for the bites doesn't help, for probably the rest of my life since you know, I've been terrified of spiders in general and black widows specifically for most of my life. I don't think it is gonna go away.
So the fact this actually brought to life that feel of old legends without the whole 'omg a spider' effect is pretty miraculous for me. I don't think I can get over that even now. It has such a beautiful effect too. I never thought I would see beauty in a spider instead of my fear. That takes talent Was it the same for you while you were painting it?
Oh I still have that issue. I can't handle not trying to use the whole paper when I do traditional art. Someone taught me to make my own canvas awhile back, supplies are usually cheaper than buying it and it is basically it's own frame... I don't always do that but... I have used that at times. I still struggle with the signature thing myself. Some people can put their signature very close up towards the center... me, I don't feel like my signature should be so close to center stage... so I struggle to find that happy middle ground especially since I don't like 'doing' the whole 'leaving space for the matting and frame' thing. lol I am guilty. My grandfather tried telling me that as a child and it is one of those things I still sometimes struggle with. Canvas helps. When I can't do that I have cheated and used a ruler... two inches in is usually safe. For my digital art... a guestimate and hope. So you know, I think some of us never really stop struggling with that. You would think it would stick but that was a lesson that didn't. My first instinct is to put my signature as far in the corner as I can get it. I don't even know why, I've just always been like that. I have to you know, not do that. lol Not as easy as it might sound. Its stupid hard sometimes. I have literally created a layer on my digital pieces, at times, just for my signature so I can move it over after I sign. Because it isn't something I do consciously and often I do it despite my intentions not to. I've had to get creative in my traditional art as well at times. So I don't have it all the way wedged in the corner where a freaking finger holding the page would cover it let alone a frame or stars forbid, matting.
And as for lacking the technological know how, honestly I think the way you do it is better anyway. But yeah... signatures... hehehe. Yeah... ive been trying to fix that since I was ten. I am pretty sure considering I am near middle age that... its just one of those things. Not everyone has that problem but... yeah. My grandfather always said though, leave two inches from the corner and both sides... I used to cheat so bad... I used a ruler. I seriously sat their and triangulated that bastard. I don't do that anymore but... I have other ways of making sure. Three fingers rule for me. Easier than using a measuring stick anyway. Doesn't work for digital media though... but works for traditional. Any tricks you have tried that have worked for you to solve that issue?
-Luna
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Ah, Arachnophobia. It started out scary, but by the time it got to the the ending it just seemed so stupid I started laughing. Good thing I didn't see it in the movie theatre! 
Yikes, my views might be different if I lived somewhere with poisonous spiders. At least Black Widows don't run around attacking things. Not sure I could handle living in Australia.
Even my last visit to Japan was in the fall, when all the spiders are at their biggest, was a little trying. My husband and I were doing a temple trek/pilgrimage & walking from temple to temple. I freaked out the first few times I saw the big Agriope spiders and walked trough parts of their web, but got over it after a while. We also saw a giant Hobo spider which ran into the house we were staying overnight at - it's leg span was as big as my hand and it was fast. It freaked me out when we heard it scrabble in the corner by the ceiling and heard it fall on the shelf with a thunk and lots of scratching - it had attacked another spider. Of course I tried to maintain a calm composure externally to avoid disturbing the other guests who were also watching this happen.
Needless to say I had a bit of a sleepless night. I kept thinking it would run over my hand or hide in my bedding, although the loud crickets, random cat yowling at 2 am, and deer calling/rutting in the forest didn't help! And yet we'll be going back this fall again to continue on with the journey, I guess it didn't disturb me that much!
Sometimes I view my signatures as an afterthought, and something that can detract from the artwork. But I guess it is like a copyright logo too. Two inches sounds really generous, usually I try to leave at least 1-2 cm, although it depends on the piece - sometimes it will nestle in right under the image, especially if there's a lot of white space involved. So, I guess just whatever looks good.
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haha, yeah. Probably good I didn't see it their either. We would have been kicked out. I was screaming so loud. Apparently my mother did the same thing when jaws came out and they saw it in theatres... the original jaws. geez I feel so old. She was no kid then either so... she never got to live it down. She was ribbed mercilessly for it... but then she ribbed them back because she stood, but they were just as freaking terrified at that part.
Also... camel spider. Whatever you do don't look it up. It will help nothing. someone showed it to me years ago. All I could think was how if I ever got a chance to travel the world or something I was never EVER going to any place in which that thing existed. OK, so some people make it bigger but their is actually a genus that really can run really fast and really is a really big spider... though technically they don't actually consider it a spider... but the extra two legs don't really matter to me when you have something that is poisonous like that. Some people try to say the brown recluse is related to it... you get all sorts of crazy stuff. The crazy stuff with give you less nightmares than the honest truth, that their are over 50 different kinds and some of them are in the US though I have never seen one(jumping spiders are a bit freaky, people also call them wolf spiders because they're coloring and the whole fuzzy thing they got going on)... there are plenty of arguments though that the camel spider isn't an actual spider but truth is, to most people who are afraid of spiders it doesn't matter, many of us this carries to things like scorpions as well, similar and very poisonous things some more than others(especially if you have a household member who is allergic to them). I don't think the semantics about how many legs they have matter and I think more legs and more poison and pinchers and more ways to be even more dangerous than most actual spiders... honestly just kinda is why it doesn't really matter. It's similar and generally dangerous. So, since people have in the past hazed me about it, if someone tells you to look up a camel spider I would suggest you don't. The first one I found when I did years ago was a variety across the ocean in Africa I think it was, not sure which country... the thing can come up to a persons knee when it stretches out and if it bites you, your very likely going to die. In the unlikely event I ever travel anywhere not here... I will never ever ever go anywhere their is a spider that big, whether it is actually technically a spider in genis or not. I don't honestly think it matters when their is something that big that can kill you. Some people try to make it look bigger and scare people... because apparently they find that fun... but the legs have to stretch for it to be that big. Still... I don't want to be on the same continent as something like that. No offense but... that is one of those 'nope' moments. Here... you have to worry about scorpions though, some aren't as dangerous but then you know, even the mildly poisonous ones will often sting in groups. My better half found out he was allergic to them when he and his wife of fifteen years(she passed away some years ago) got a hotel room and apparently their were scorpions in the bed... not the sort of thing you normally run into but it can happen. They made a nest of it. He layed down all tired and one stung, then suddenly he was stung a bunch of times. Luckily they were common brown, unluckily he was allergic. With scorpions most aren't like the ones people are afraid of, its that if they feel threatened that attack in groups unless it is just one stationary scorpion which if your seeing it in the house, probably isn't the only one. Anyway... people get scared of that stuff and I don't particularly think that is bad. Fear has a purpose. It makes you take precautions. My stepson is fearless. He only stays away from things we teach him to stay away from... and that means each individual thing needs to be explained otherwise he is going to touch it. I don't want to imagine the heart attack if he pulled something like he did with the ant in astralia and it wasn't an ant. He thinks everything, every bug he finds, is an ant. My only consolation is that because I took some entemology and know what an ant bite looks like, I know it was likely an ant bite and that he has a very mild reaction to ant bites, which is good, his dad gets a rash with it which isn't so good, it's not as bad so it's good. It's the same type of minor reaction I get. No poison so no spider. Spiders, even if it's not strong enough to hurt us most of the time(well more with most species) their bites usually happen differently... I have probably bored you enough already and I am probably at the time I am about to start going through diagrams so... ha... I should probably stop.
Yeah, black widows are bad enough to cause some issues. Infections, my grandmother nearly had to have her foot amputated when she was young after a bite. Because of the infection from it, it's harder for the body to fight than some other spiders. Brown recluse is more poisonous than they are though... however both are bad around kids. Kids or elderly are always more susceptible to the effects. Some people, even adults, get sick from it but typically it's not something that kills you. Scorpions you probably are gonna die or close to it without treatment, from the venom alone.
Where I live their are enough poisonous things in this state. I would rather like to think with as careful as I am about those things I would probably die going to Australia. I swear, everything their is practically designed to kill you it seems. Here their are places some things are less common and it's not like you run into it every day in most places... Australia is like 'oh look at this poisonous thing in my yard hahahaha' I would die. I would scream and I would die. The heart attacks from my stepson wanting to touch everything alone would kill me. The other day I asked him. 'how did you get that?' 'I scared an ant and it bit me' and I was like... 'on your face?' 'uh huh' 'what was an ant doing on your face?' 'I wanted to give him kisses like lucky and then he bit me and I squished him'(lucky is a cat and he knows that 'kittie kisses' are when a cat nuzzles you with their face) and I can't imagine how that would play out in any area where poisonous things are common. So far I have managed to live in places during my life where scorpions aren't as common... and I've never had them nor do I want them... but... here that is a possibility people live with. If you live out by the mountains and whatnot your likely to get snakes in your yard or something but otherwise it's rare. In Australia... it's like... they have people who go out to remove crocs from peoples back yards... their is an entire department for dealing with JUST dangerous wildlife. Preservation of such is their too but... their are people whose sole jobs are dealing with poisonous things that get where people live or close to it... their aren't many places in the world that are quite that bad. The ant bite was gone within hours. I would die if he tried that with something less harmless. Australia is one of those places that like most poisonous things in the world is pretty to look at but you won't ever catch me going their.
Oh I am not so sure you wouldn't hear a girly scream from hell if that had been me in that room in japan. If I was silent in that situation it would probably be that irrational fear of disturbing the spiders and making myself seem a threat to them... not because guests. I can handle most spiders here... but anything over the size of a dime and I am most likely going to scream like a little girl. My poor dear would probably offend someone squishing them or something... not sure if that is the social norm in japan or if it would instead offend someone but I definitely understand why the villains that are spider based characters from Japanese anime's exist... that spider... I would be screaming. Mostly I can handle your average tiny house spider here... they are small. Tiny even. It gets to a certain size and I am going to squeak and point and my other half is going to smash it because trapping it under a glass and taking it outside isn't something he has the coordination to do... though I kind of feel guilty when they get squished. It's kind of weird I guess. I don't want to kill them but they need to be away from me... so... mostly I manage to ignore them if they are small enough... but something the size of my hand? ha. I would probably die of fear, which is entirely possible(not likely but possible). Mostly I can deal with it, even with bigger stuff here I manage to keep composure... if its in a glass cage I don't scream but... if it jumps at me I make no guarantees on that front. lol
Something that big... I don't even think I would let Gene near it to even TRY to squish it... I mean at that size the thing can do some damage... hair spray... would that even work on something that big? It was my tried and true way for years. Doesn't poison stuff around it, but it still kills the spider. That being said, if it would offend someone... don't try it. Bad idea to offend people in a foreign country. Still... I don't think I could have done it. As much as it often isn't entirely apparent that I am terrified of spiders... because with anything here I can keep composure... something like that I wouldn't even be able to lay down. I would just be in this comatose starring match with wherever it was. I mean, its freaking big enough to make scratching sounds! I would just be their all paranoid because obviously I wouldn't have known the other spider was their to begin with either. Just sitting their like 0~0... And in the morning they would probably find me all zoned out still watching in absolute terror. The only thing that big here is a tarantula and generally they aren't native and are only kept as pets, something no one in my household will ever have. Because I refuse to be reduced to a terrified mess over it and also because my better half would also never allow it, he himself doesn't like the idea of it... and also knowing how terrified I am of them he wouldn't.
In retrospect I wasn't allowed to have a guini pig growing up because my grandmother was terrified of rodents. So maybe everyone has something like that. For a friend of mine it was snakes. Her dad had this intense fear of snakes(not that her mom didn't find them creepy but she didn't let out that particular sound at the very idea of them somehow getting out of their enclosure if they had gotten one, which was mean to describe to him knowing his fear was that bad) so... she wasn't aloud to have a snake for a pet. Everyone is afraid of something.
Yeah, all things considered I hear japan is a beautiful country. I can honestly say though I am less likely to visit if I ever get the chance.. simply because japan has really big spiders.
Yeah, and yeah it is like a copyright logo in a way, your claiming your work. Copyright laws don't actually mean you have to have it, it's just sort of insurance where you pay ahead of time to defend it if someone else tries to steal it... basically. I did a paper on it in college.
Yeah, two inches. I didn't even try getting into digital art of any kind until I was well into adulthood. I did a lot of acrylic and oil paintings, colored pencils... grandfather always wanted me to get more into the more watered down water color types but it was never deep enough for me in color... and I did quite a bit of pastels, some pottery(though that one I don't really think I ever did enough to honestly be truly skilled at but I was passable at least... still kinda crap but passable crap-you could tell what I made and it functioned if I made a bowl or vase basically, passable but... still not exactly skillfully made). Learned lapidary work with grandfather... silverwork though never mastered it(could never afford the materials to practice)... some different crafts and whatnot, made a train track with my grandfather once, basic woodworking photography from grandfather(the kind that involves NOT editing the crap out of things but rather lots of patience and sometimes planning)... tiled some floors and helped design the room transition patterns for the doorways... took welding in school and did some stuff with that... learned a different kind of welding(the kind that specifically goes with making jewelry and working with things like silver, where instead of melt it together you use something you put in their, instead of to melt it, to fuse it much more delicately, draw it together basically... I'd been winning all kinds of art contests since I was pretty young and when grandfather tried to get me to use paint on the computer with a mouse mind you... I really hated it and never touched it after that...
Funny what necessity does to a person. I couldn't afford any materials for a few years and I needed to learn something... so I learned digital art. Eventually I got a drawing tablet so I didn't have to use a mouse. I was terrible at first...
Anyway, the area of the signature is kind of in tandem with that. See, if you consider if someone might frame it, you want the matting not to cover. I guess it's not as important now with matting not really being used like it once was but... my grandfather taught me that to leave room for the matting. I tend not to leave that much room but... I also remember and if I know someone wants to use matting ahead of time when they ask me to do something, I am going to most likely be very careful with it, because for matting you need a good 3-three inches depending on the matting(though standard you usually only need two). That is why he taught me that. With traditional art where I often used paper and not canvas, sometimes my grandfather would frame a piece if he felt it deserved it. So he always wanted me to leave enough room for the matting. This one piece I won a contest with, he continued the leaves that went off the paper with the matting. It really took another dimension to it. He was really good at it, pretty much really good at anything he set out to do actually. Apparently at some point he was a cabinet maker as well.. I swear that man has been and done just about everything... well maybe not everything but a lot. green beret(specifically sniper, its an air force one, yeah they have snipers and yes to become spec ops you have to be really good and he was apparently a record setter at the time)... and then if he could make it, he was going to learn how. I am nowhere near where he is as far as the sheer amount of different things that man can do but... my stepson has this habit of 'mommy make it'... also had to tell him not to break things just to try and have me fix it. 'I can't fix everything' was also a fairly eventful point where lots of crying was involved because he broke something that couldn't be fixed the way it broke... and besides i'd fixed it so many times I don't think I could have fixed it again anyway. He wanted to watch me fix it, and not everything can be fixed. He apparently thinks I can do just about anything... but nah. My grandfather on the other hand... that man mastered a lot of crafts in his lifetime. Now here is traveling and teaching lapidary and silverwork classes, barely touching if at all many of the things he has learned and traveling the country... my grandfather is kinda... like that. He is a bit of a hard to read person though so if you don't know him he can be fairly hard to read... actually it can be a challenge sometimes even if you do know him really well.
He taught me because while its not as common as it used to be, if something is going to be matted you need to leave room otherwise the signature gets covered. Often if it is done right you can get away with less if you tape it to the matting... but my grandfather never wanted to do that, always said it would ruin it if I ever took it out of the frame. I guess that was his way of saying he didn't want to ruin anything deemed special enough to frame. I'm not gonna lie though, it is a good policy even without framing. Leaves room so if the edges get damages your signature remains, their are lots of ways it applies where two inches is a good policy though it is generally more with traditional art than digital... mostly matting is often forgone with artwork. Still, it is also useful if the edges are damages, that was something else he taught me growing up, that the first thing to be damaged would typically be the edges and if your signature is too close that can go as well. He said if I worked hard on something I should make sure my signature remained on it as much as I possibly could though he was forgiving when I refused three inches because point blank it just obstructs the piece as far as I am concerned at that point. Ah... you should have been their for the 'should I get a gun' conversation after I was attacked... my grandfather was pretty insistent I get a gun and it be a certain model with high cal bullets and some really big kick back but I don't like guns, will never like guns, and have not so much as touched one since I was very very little(which ended in lots of yelling as my mother tore into my dad for letting his three year old daughter touch a gun and even having me hold it and point and shoot it... and kill a rabbit which I was inconsolable about because I guess I thought they were cute... can't remember all of why I was so upset... just I was still absolutely inconsolable when he got me back to mom and their was lots of yelling and he never brought it again though I wish he had then he might still be alive)... basically the kick back alone is something you build up to, I ran it by a friend of mine who knows about guns to at least the extent to know what is a good self defense for someone who was just starting... in the end I decided just to avoid it. They both had this idea of pushing me to take guns or build up quickly to use something I really wasn't comfortable using. I prefer blades and hand to hand, long staffs... believe it or not you can actually win against someone with a gun if you move quickly enough and in the right way... just wouldn't try it with automatic weapons from head on with them pointing it at you... but their are maneuvers for it. Not saying I am the best but... still my grandfather and the gun thing... I try not to bring it up at this point. I have no desire to kill people and what he wants... you don't point and shoot that without killing someone especially with those bullets. I mean geez. I think he got a bit overboard with it after what happened. Because I have physical issues that make me more physically vulnerable to attack if I am not standing up facing it... basically... if I'm attacked already prone I can't get out of it because of the issues with my spine and whatnot... so... I guess he wanted to make sure I could blow a hole in anyone who did anything again... but I have no desire to do that. I will however cut them. Deeply. Scare the living shit out of them. And threaten to remove any male anatomy. I will not however blow a freaking hole in them. I would rather anyone who attacks me live with the consequences of their choices.
I do apologize for any rambling and getting entirely off topic... its really late and I didn't want to leave you hanging any longer than I probably already have.
-Luna
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No worries, thanks for the reply!
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wow i really like the use of colour.
This has a nice composition as well.
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This is an interesting piece. The spider web is formed by words and seemed to spiral to the center of the web. This gives an illusion of a spiral tunnel of words, and the spider is reading the story as though it is getting more and more immersed into the story. The colourful background gives a feel of fantasy, and gives a vibe which I cant exactly describe. Surreal is probably the word.
If there is anything that can be improved on, it is either the web or the spider. I am not sure if the web is supposed to be flat or a funneling tunnel. If it is flat, then the spider should be drawn in a top down view. If it is not, then certain things can be done to increase the illusion such as the lines gets thinner towards the vanishing point , or the spiraling words gets smaller towards the vanishing point.
Good job! Overall an interesting piece and reminds me of Charlotte's web. Never watched that movie though.
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Thanks very much! The web is of course supposed to be flat, and the spider was intended to be minding the web from the side, as though on a tree branch or whatever the web is attached to. I find it interesting that you see the words as spiraling inwards (it actually spirals outwards).
Charlotte's web was a good movie, I recall watching it when I was child & would say it's worth a watch, even though it seemed very sad. I enjoyed the book and read it several times as well.
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I see... the spider kinda looked like it just stood there though. Maybe the front legs need some action. And about the words.... now that I look at it it IS supposed to be spiralling outwards. I was probably half asleep XD
I see. I remember seeing posters but never seen any clips of the movie.
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I know right? They are so vibrant and gleaming!
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Stunning work! I love the colours and the fact that the web is woven from the words of the story (I nearly missed that detail). You have done an excellent job on this one!
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Thanks very much! The words are quite small and you have to be pretty close to read it. I may play around with this idea again in the future, as I wasn't happy about losing bits of the story and technically running out of room to include the whole story.
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Your spiders and the webbs are amazing and fantastic! Also the stories that go with them
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Thanks very much! I think these ones are kind of underappreciated - not everyone likes spiders. Myself included! But I feel oddly drawn to them somehow, and as long as they stay in their web they're ok. Or jumping spiders. They're just cute.
But some native cultures talk of Grandmother Spider who weaves the stories. She's important to 'listen' to.
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