First furry world war? Nice picture by the way.

Actually now I look at it, this is after a world war, and the destruction has happened now nature is reclaiming what is hers.

Could very well be!

didn't even realize you were mulefoot.

Who didja think I was? *grins*

someone I was watching, I noticed the picture not the name.

Also I think to edit my idea, it's after a major conflict which destroyed the basis of civilization it now must rebuild but there are several in fightings amongst the people that used to be unified, few places to go, as you said no plcae to hide. I see the elephant with the gun in the foreground showing there is still plenty of conflict abound and possible a fire in the backgorund signifiying a former city/village?

Awesomeness! Entirely watercolor?

Entirely watercolor.
And thanks!

Unforgiving medium is unforgiving. You weathered it well.

was so pretty in person.

Thanks!
I want to do more like these but I don't know if I have the patience.

You know, despite what the history books say about the "Cold War", a lot more was going on. It certainly was not 'cold'.

-Korkan

Three cheers for captain obvious!

Yay for trying to be a prick to an old comment I had forgotten about!
I bet you feel good about yourself now, huh? Gee, I wonder if you're gonna tell me I'm the weakest link, 'goodbye', because holy shit I haven't heard that one in awhile. You must have gone to college to come up with such wit and knowledge.

-Korkan

/glee/
not at all. I was neither going to call you the weakest link, nor did I attend college.
My course of education was through the US army and the abandonment that resulted from that experience.
Rather than be told what these things are,.. I went to see for myself.
I applaud you trying to spread your own 'awareness',.. it just struck me as ,.. 'wow'
Wherein a beautiful glance down into a world of no national or community identities,.. your first and most telling response is to associate it with the star spangled stain of your own political misgivings from fall out from a war you have only known through popular media.
How much more there is out there for you to encounter and bear the burden of it's knowing.

Check out Liberia (from the post american civil war to now)
Check out the phillipines from the intial pacification to the machete party polotics of the eighties and nineties.
Check out the fast and furious in your own back yard.

Vietnam themed?

Actually, meant to be post apocalyptic.

Apolaypse Now =3

Whatever the story, it would make a good mini novel i think.

Someday, perhaps.

Very very nice! Magnificently creative...
`V*

Thank you! That is deeply appreciated.

Beautiful. FA's image-size constraints don't do it justice, I'm sure. I'd like to see the painting in person.

You could have at the AC artshow :)

Thanks for the invite to the drum circle, by the way. That was quite fun.

I was stupid and waited until Sunday to see the art show. Waited until 10 minutes before it closed. I'm a silly silly gnoll.

Quite glad you enjoyed the drum circle. Hope to see you there next year.

Thus reminds me of a DC hero. something the last boy on earth I think it was called.

Gosh I love all the colors in the sky and water. It brings the mood of this picture a little hopeful, than it would if it was night time.

those steel rays got *bent*. wow. I'm sure not even the wrecked airplane in the river could have caused such deformation upon impact.

All the hidden poisons, all the failing machinery, the slowly dwindling number of slugs, lynx teaming up with pigs, and still a few little ones get to get born. Treading a lot softer over the earth, I take it.

The bridge reminds me of the end of Mad Max 3, where they fly thru the ruins of Sydney, and the Harbour Bridge is burned out in the center like that one is....


Also: Amazing work as usual!

Thank you! I haven't thought of that movie in ages. I need to look at that scene now.

Marvelous work. The loose, wet paintwork and intense colours make this a joy to look at and give it an almost dreamlike surreality. I love the juxtaposition of such visual intensity with the signs of extreme violence well-past and subdued character action.

The photograph came out beautifully but it still doesn't do it justice. This is a gorgeous piece to behold in person and I hope everyone went to the art show to gaze upon it as well as your other pieces.

I don't think I did a good enough job of verbalizing what I like about this piece. I always get a bit nervous and hurried talking art with artists, but there is a certain intensity that you attribute to your work that grabs my senses and assaults them, in a pleasantly stimulating manner. Your choice in color pallets and your acute sense of layers and composition is what does it. There is more then just the visual strokes and colors.

This isn't a representation this is an elaboration and accentuation. You took the best elements of that photo and kind of manipulated and accentuated them. I pointed out those areas in the painting that really grab me, the mountains, the bridge, the water and the plane. They are -powerful- elements. As much as I love the three characters in this image, you did such a strong job of emoting through the landscape, that if you took the figures away, the painting would still hold its power. The figures add a more representational element, an easier read to the "story" behind the piece. But you did such a good job with the rest of it that it still would hold that power and message without them.

OK... hopefully that bit of gushing there better expresses how I feel about the piece and exactly what I liked and why. I do really love it and I know it was a labor of love and took a lot of time and dedication to do such a piece but.... DO MORE! Please. =) The time you spend on this shows, and my love for it is directly proportional (at least I think).

Thank you for that very detailed critique. I'm glad you like it. Don't worry about having said enough in person. For one, there was never any chance to really sit and look at it and think. There's so much to look at.

As far as composition goes, I felt like I was taking a major chance because intellectually, I feel like I broke the basic rules.

Sometimes breaking the rules is exactly what the situation requires.

BIG LOVE for traditional media!! I adore watercolors.

This is such a striking image, and it definitely tells a story without cramming it down the viewer's throat. I like that you leave it to the viewer to make their own story around it.

Thanks. Its always entertaining to see how it diverges from my own.
Thank you for those great compliments.

i see a couple of experiments that turned out very well, big fella.

Yup. Its all part of the process and in the end, I'm basically pleased.

reminds me of Half Life 2: Episode 2!

But with fewer antlions :)

and less toxic stuffs. OH! and minus one Dr.Freeman XD

Great work.

Thanks!

Plain and simple, "shit happens."

Good stuff.

It does.

Thanks!

This is beautiful.
One day.... you just wait.

Thanks!

Just wait for what?

War, death, famine, plague. The the whole world will be as beautiful as this.

One might say that it is,... depending on your perspective and proximity to the interesting third world spots.

when we visit ill set down and do some something that is not pencil work, :P
insane awsome as usual - the power and feeling in this just reaches out and grabs you sucking you in towards the story- im strongly reminded of that pic of nude asian girl running after the napalm was done (At least I think it was napalm)

Oi, that's quite a stunning image you made.

I do wonder, what was the inspiring photo?

Thank you. And the following very pleasant, very pretty photo inspired it...
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/1335641/

ah thank you X)

I see the bridge there, quite good depiction

Not a very accurate one. In hindsight, I wish I'd made my bridge a little more fine boned.

well, one learns from experiences yes? X) I bet your next ruined bridge would look different :p

It will look far more...ruined :) Actually, it was hard to find images of wrecked brides of this type. The actually tend to fail very differently.

that is quite true. Just like buildings. One ruin doesn't look like the other. X)