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As i'm tied-up getting some commissions done i thought i would post some stuff from my dA gallery this week - some fractals, fantasy art, op-art, fine-art, illustrations etc....i'll move all non-anthro art to my scaps in a few days after posting....sorry for delay on new anthro pics...soon....
A few months after finishing Thulsa Doom i drew this.
Done in a few weeks intead of years.
Here the technique i learned was wedded to a greater sense of feeling and composition. If you don't know the story of Orheus check this link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orpheus
i drew this as a gift for my best friend's mother. So this is taken from xeroxes, and edited to fix flaws in the xeroxes.
my friend was also an artist and we had a friendly competitiveness to better our art, we did a lot of collaborations. His mum was very cool and came to appreciate the Art Nouveau and Symbolist artists we were into...So it was sort of an image of the artist as god/mortal in search of Psyche/soul...About a year and half later my friend was diagnosed with a rare cancer...Chemotherapy was rather primitive back then...A weakened blood vessel in his lung burst and he died before they could help him.
He was dearly loved by friends, girlfriend, family...it was like a bomb had exploded in our lives...Like Orpheus we had our Psyches sent to the underworld...we couldn't bring him back by looking behind, but if we looked ahead we could see the vision he had of Apollo, the sun...Orpheus was Apollo's mortal form, so to speak...The sun and future were still there, and he would be with us always, as long as we didn't look back.
A musical/poetic take on Orpheus:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2dgMNm64Mg
And yes the leaves and clouds were supposed to look primitive, harkening back to Greco-Roman and Indo-Arabic styles.
11x14 crowquill on cold-pressed Bristol Board
dec 79
Larger size at dA:
http://lachland-nightingale.deviant.....09022&qo=4
A few months after finishing Thulsa Doom i drew this.
Done in a few weeks intead of years.
Here the technique i learned was wedded to a greater sense of feeling and composition. If you don't know the story of Orheus check this link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orpheus
i drew this as a gift for my best friend's mother. So this is taken from xeroxes, and edited to fix flaws in the xeroxes.
my friend was also an artist and we had a friendly competitiveness to better our art, we did a lot of collaborations. His mum was very cool and came to appreciate the Art Nouveau and Symbolist artists we were into...So it was sort of an image of the artist as god/mortal in search of Psyche/soul...About a year and half later my friend was diagnosed with a rare cancer...Chemotherapy was rather primitive back then...A weakened blood vessel in his lung burst and he died before they could help him.
He was dearly loved by friends, girlfriend, family...it was like a bomb had exploded in our lives...Like Orpheus we had our Psyches sent to the underworld...we couldn't bring him back by looking behind, but if we looked ahead we could see the vision he had of Apollo, the sun...Orpheus was Apollo's mortal form, so to speak...The sun and future were still there, and he would be with us always, as long as we didn't look back.
A musical/poetic take on Orpheus:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2dgMNm64Mg
And yes the leaves and clouds were supposed to look primitive, harkening back to Greco-Roman and Indo-Arabic styles.
11x14 crowquill on cold-pressed Bristol Board
dec 79
Larger size at dA:
http://lachland-nightingale.deviant.....09022&qo=4
Category Artwork (Traditional) / Fantasy
Species Unspecified / Any
Size 995 x 1280px
File Size 231.9 kB
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