HOME | DD

theancientofdays β€” Elaihr

Published: 2008-12-27 19:03:17 +0000 UTC; Views: 1370; Favourites: 64; Downloads: 0
Redirect to original
Description About a year ago, I asked if I could paint her, and today I finally got around to it. Unfortunately, she doesn't hang around DeviantArt much anymore, so I don't know whether she'll get to see the finished work - she's even removed all of her deviations.
Anyway, today was a teaching day and I taught Stella a bit about painting monochrome portraits. She painted Brad Pitt and I painted the lovely Elaihr. This is watercolour, 9" by 12" - another of my series of portraits of fellow DeviantArt members. ^_^
Related content

theancientofdays - Savannah

theancientofdays - Batheing Beauty

theancientofdays - Garbo

theancientofdays - Madeline

theancientofdays - California Girls

theancientofdays - Beth2

theancientofdays - Megan14

theancientofdays - Beth

theancientofdays - Jennifer

AzurLazuly - alex kingston

kenmeyerjr - Tori-Yes, Anastasia

SpaceStar - Fall

reesmeister - Kate Beckinsale Portrait II

sha-arts - Tori Amos

LORETANA - Frozen moment

eiger3975 - My friend, Miho

Ginofullstoryandpics - Joni Mitchell

MariaBruggeman - Madonna - Ray Of Light
Comments: 87

Artlegend-ISIS [2011-07-15 08:45:31 +0000 UTC]

Hello, I'm Isis
this water-colour painting is fantastic; the yellow blue monochromatic colour-scheme's excellent, and I love the fact that is portrait is not in a face-on school photo position. This is in Very good taste. Its unfortunate this artist removed all her pieces, was Elaihr a good artist? At least she has a great pose.

I was kind of wondering if you could critique this painting I did, it was a final project for art class, called 'Inuendo' with acrylic on canvus. It will be very appreciated if you can
[link]
Thanks

πŸ‘: 0 ⏩: 0

ZooYork108 [2009-04-22 00:00:44 +0000 UTC]

Very pretty - unique portrait style.

πŸ‘: 0 ⏩: 1

theancientofdays In reply to ZooYork108 [2009-04-22 10:41:02 +0000 UTC]

Thanks very much! ^^

πŸ‘: 0 ⏩: 0

TattooRyss [2009-02-22 07:24:30 +0000 UTC]

Very beautiful! I sure hope she gets to see the finished product! How lovely to have your image painted by such a wonderful artist!

πŸ‘: 0 ⏩: 1

theancientofdays In reply to TattooRyss [2009-02-22 08:21:04 +0000 UTC]

Thank you! ^^ She sent me a note a few weeks ago saying how much she liked it, and that really felt good. I'd wanted to paint her for a long time but I think I was a little intimidated by the masses of blonde hair - blonde hair is pretty hard in watercolour.

πŸ‘: 0 ⏩: 1

TattooRyss In reply to theancientofdays [2009-02-24 06:06:53 +0000 UTC]

Lol, I bet! But, I don't think anything is beyond your reach!

πŸ‘: 0 ⏩: 1

theancientofdays In reply to TattooRyss [2009-02-25 11:12:28 +0000 UTC]

I think flowers are beyond my reach. Seems like every schlub in the world can paint flowers but me.

πŸ‘: 0 ⏩: 1

TattooRyss In reply to theancientofdays [2009-02-25 20:09:22 +0000 UTC]

Pssshhh! I saw those irises! They're beautiful!

πŸ‘: 0 ⏩: 1

theancientofdays In reply to TattooRyss [2009-02-26 09:16:39 +0000 UTC]

Oh, them! That's different, somehow.

πŸ‘: 0 ⏩: 1

TattooRyss In reply to theancientofdays [2009-02-26 10:52:44 +0000 UTC]

Mmhmm, I see, lol.

πŸ‘: 0 ⏩: 0

Razkall [2009-02-12 22:05:01 +0000 UTC]

Absolutely gorgeous! Her hair kind of reminds me of mine (cept that mine looks a bit more exploded XD)

πŸ‘: 0 ⏩: 1

theancientofdays In reply to Razkall [2009-02-13 08:57:50 +0000 UTC]

"Exploded". You know, I'd personally be thrilled if my hair looked exploded - it looks like it got exploded right off my head right now.
Thanks! I thought the oranges went pretty well with her because she's so blonde - yellows just don't show up very well.

πŸ‘: 0 ⏩: 1

Razkall In reply to theancientofdays [2009-02-13 17:31:17 +0000 UTC]

πŸ‘: 0 ⏩: 0

milbisous [2009-02-03 02:23:08 +0000 UTC]

She has left DA? But she is pretty, very nicely painted

πŸ‘: 0 ⏩: 1

theancientofdays In reply to milbisous [2009-02-03 09:33:00 +0000 UTC]

Aw, thank you so much! I did finally hear from her, and she seemed to be pretty happy with it. It's a shame she's left because she was always so friendly and nice, but I guess the "real world" was calling...

πŸ‘: 0 ⏩: 0

extraordinary632 [2009-01-10 21:52:47 +0000 UTC]

Looks great!!!

πŸ‘: 0 ⏩: 1

theancientofdays In reply to extraordinary632 [2009-01-13 11:08:05 +0000 UTC]

Thank you very much! ^^ I just hope that one day she'll get to see it.

πŸ‘: 0 ⏩: 1

extraordinary632 In reply to theancientofdays [2009-01-13 18:05:43 +0000 UTC]

I'm sure she'll be flattered.

πŸ‘: 0 ⏩: 0

Dabull04 [2009-01-06 22:09:32 +0000 UTC]

This is stunning Chris, and by the way the blue Background, personally i love it

Sorry i've been quiet at the moment, got so much happening around me

I'm worried about you picture now as i haven't heard anything from you.
I received your card and i thank you so much Chris

πŸ‘: 0 ⏩: 1

theancientofdays In reply to Dabull04 [2009-01-07 10:30:19 +0000 UTC]

Thanks very much! I like this one, too - I've never used these colours before, and kind of like the way they stand out. ^^

I've been pretty quiet, too. I sent you an e-mail yesterday saying that I was planning to close the gallery, but Pepper talked me out of it (she's worried that I wouldn't actually work if I was at home all the time). So we'll just have to figure out how to keep it going.

πŸ‘: 0 ⏩: 1

Dabull04 In reply to theancientofdays [2009-01-07 10:56:28 +0000 UTC]

Oh i'm so sorry to hear things are like that Chris, I'll not go on to much about it hear so i'll mail you later

πŸ‘: 0 ⏩: 1

theancientofdays In reply to Dabull04 [2009-01-08 09:55:45 +0000 UTC]

Well, it's just another hurdle is all. I've jumped higher hurdles than this one.

πŸ‘: 0 ⏩: 1

Dabull04 In reply to theancientofdays [2009-01-08 10:38:19 +0000 UTC]

I e-mailed you last night, i,m aware of the change in what you are now doing but the e-mail was answered to what was said. I'll note you later

πŸ‘: 0 ⏩: 1

theancientofdays In reply to Dabull04 [2009-01-10 20:13:50 +0000 UTC]

Big day for sales today...I suppose I tend to panic over nothing. I seem to assume the worst.

πŸ‘: 0 ⏩: 1

Dabull04 In reply to theancientofdays [2009-01-10 23:15:43 +0000 UTC]

I'm so pleased to hear that

πŸ‘: 0 ⏩: 0

Malm [2009-01-06 02:54:30 +0000 UTC]

i really love this one. She looks like the goddess of the sun or flame or whatever you want to put it. Still, this is beautiful

πŸ‘: 0 ⏩: 1

theancientofdays In reply to Malm [2009-01-07 10:30:40 +0000 UTC]

^^ Thank you so much!

πŸ‘: 0 ⏩: 0

karemelancholia [2009-01-02 01:10:49 +0000 UTC]


Congrats!!!
I've featured this creation in the December Visual Art Features.
This feature is in the news : [link] .
Please check it to view other's art and fave the news article if you like it!


*** HAPPY NEW YEAR! ***

Je te souhaite tout le bonheur du monde!!

I wish you all the happiness of the world!


Kare.



--
| deviantART en Français! |
Looking for a Contest? They are all listed here : [link]

πŸ‘: 0 ⏩: 1

theancientofdays In reply to karemelancholia [2009-01-02 10:24:03 +0000 UTC]

Wow! Very nice work - an excellent bunch of choices. Thank you so much for allowing me to be a part of it! ^^

πŸ‘: 0 ⏩: 1

karemelancholia In reply to theancientofdays [2009-01-02 15:18:17 +0000 UTC]

You're welcome dear!!!
You deserve it!!



--
| deviantART en Français! |
Looking for a Contest? They are all listed here : [link]

πŸ‘: 0 ⏩: 0

misschaudhry [2008-12-30 15:22:04 +0000 UTC]

wow, beautiful

πŸ‘: 0 ⏩: 1

theancientofdays In reply to misschaudhry [2009-01-01 12:30:51 +0000 UTC]

Thank you so much! She's such a pretty young lady - I wanted to make the colours really stand out. ^^

πŸ‘: 0 ⏩: 0

ultimatedogluva528 [2008-12-30 02:06:27 +0000 UTC]

How beautiful! I hope she gets a chance to see it! Great job, as always!

πŸ‘: 0 ⏩: 1

theancientofdays In reply to ultimatedogluva528 [2008-12-30 09:44:23 +0000 UTC]

Thank you so much! It's a little unusual for me to go so brilliant on the colour, but I thought she kind of called for it, really. I sent her a note, but she's been offline for almost three months now, and I've lost her address in the computer crash...

πŸ‘: 0 ⏩: 0

density-tmr [2008-12-29 18:50:14 +0000 UTC]

This is nice - great use of many tones of the same colour.

πŸ‘: 0 ⏩: 1

theancientofdays In reply to density-tmr [2008-12-29 20:28:59 +0000 UTC]

Thank you very much - isn't it funny how striking beautiful people make such good subjects?

πŸ‘: 0 ⏩: 1

density-tmr In reply to theancientofdays [2008-12-29 21:35:06 +0000 UTC]

Absolutely.

πŸ‘: 0 ⏩: 0

Duchess-Hunter [2008-12-28 20:34:49 +0000 UTC]

Great mastery of the paint. It flows beautifully. It reminds me of the painting in "Ever After" by Leonardo Da Vinci of Drew Berrymore's character. Awesome job.

πŸ‘: 0 ⏩: 1

theancientofdays In reply to Duchess-Hunter [2008-12-28 23:00:38 +0000 UTC]

Thank you very much! Very kind of you to say.

πŸ‘: 0 ⏩: 0

makitaki [2008-12-28 17:51:01 +0000 UTC]

oh so pretty! watercolor is such a hard medium- but you seem to be able to control it so well

πŸ‘: 0 ⏩: 1

theancientofdays In reply to makitaki [2008-12-28 18:18:53 +0000 UTC]

Thank you very much! I had a really hard time with watercolour when I started out because it wanted to "do it's own thing". I think half the battle is just in controlling it within its own perametres. For work that requires detail, I've found that working on dry paper helps a lot. ^^

πŸ‘: 0 ⏩: 1

makitaki In reply to theancientofdays [2008-12-28 18:21:56 +0000 UTC]

i think watercolors can be such an amazing medium- with such unique results compared to other paints. unfortunately i have never been able to get it to do what i want- and it ends up a muddy mess thats why i'm especially impressed when i see great watercolor artists

πŸ‘: 0 ⏩: 1

theancientofdays In reply to makitaki [2008-12-29 11:15:31 +0000 UTC]

I make plenty of muddy messes, too. I try not to paint wet-on-wet very often to avoid it. I usually work in "sections" of the painting, allowing one area to dry while I start on another. It seems to work okay.

πŸ‘: 0 ⏩: 0

amateur1314 [2008-12-28 11:23:25 +0000 UTC]

....Die. ):

πŸ‘: 0 ⏩: 1

theancientofdays In reply to amateur1314 [2008-12-28 11:42:33 +0000 UTC]

D: What did I do?

πŸ‘: 0 ⏩: 1

amateur1314 In reply to theancientofdays [2008-12-28 15:36:39 +0000 UTC]

>8U EVERYTHING.

πŸ‘: 0 ⏩: 1

theancientofdays In reply to amateur1314 [2008-12-28 17:50:09 +0000 UTC]

D:

πŸ‘: 0 ⏩: 0

H-Heather [2008-12-28 07:54:40 +0000 UTC]

omg this is beautiful! I really hope she gets to see it! I can't imagine how hard it would be to paint in a yellow/gold tone either! amazing

πŸ‘: 0 ⏩: 1

theancientofdays In reply to H-Heather [2008-12-28 10:55:06 +0000 UTC]

Thank you very much! This one was unusual because I generally just paint monochrome work right out of the tube. But here, I mixed burnt sienna, red, and yellow all together and discovered that the colours seperated pleasantly while I was using them. It was really kind of fun.

πŸ‘: 0 ⏩: 1

H-Heather In reply to theancientofdays [2008-12-28 21:35:49 +0000 UTC]

ohhh, i see! It created such a nice affect too

πŸ‘: 0 ⏩: 0


| Next =>