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Post by Fire Monkey on Mar 30, 2011 17:32:47 GMT -6
I have always felt that everyone needs a secret place they can go to get away from it all - so, here's one for people to enjoy - a strange place where anything might be true.
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Post by Reilley on Mar 31, 2011 8:11:05 GMT -6
I love Photoshop and tweaking the difference filters, this was always one of my favorite pastimes. Great pic, looks both Japanese and alien at the same time.
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Post by Brigid Briton on Mar 31, 2011 11:35:12 GMT -6
Wow, Tim, this one is kind of scary. It makes me think of the recent tragedy in Japan. The light colored area in the middle that looks like a crater makes me think of a nuclear reactor melting down, threatening to take all the rest of the fantastic landscape and the building with it. This wouldn't be my "secret place" to hang out! It's so interesting about interpretation. I know that your intent was something far different from what this picture stirred up in me. Great job! I feel a poem brewing! Brigid
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Post by Fire Monkey on Mar 31, 2011 12:31:14 GMT -6
I love Photoshop and tweaking the difference filters, this was always one of my favorite pastimes. Great pic, looks both Japanese and alien at the same time. This is not a tweaked photo - I don't do photo tweaking. This is a painting [as in, done digitally but created by 'painting' lines, etc, with a mouse rather than a brush] - the texture is also drawn to create the 3D effect of brush strokes in a thick paint which leaves ridges and troughs - well, every ridge and trough was drawn by me on a separate layer over the picture and then saved as a separate file which I then used as a texture map. No filters [well, the texturizer is technically a filter but as I draw my own texture which is unique to this one picture from scratch it doesn't quite could as the same] ;D
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Post by Fire Monkey on Mar 31, 2011 13:06:14 GMT -6
Wow, Tim, this one is kind of scary. It makes me think of the recent tragedy in Japan. The light colored area in the middle that looks like a crater makes me think of a nuclear reactor melting down, threatening to take all the rest of the fantastic landscape and the building with it. This wouldn't be my "secret place" to hang out! It's so interesting about interpretation. I know that your intent was something far different from what this picture stirred up in me. Great job! I feel a poem brewing! Brigid Well that is very different from what I had in mind ;D I was going for heavy mists and cloud in rugged mountains which caught the sun in such a way that they almost glowed with the light - but that's ok - every image sparks thoughts in people, I do the same thing with songs often where I know that the song is about one thing but to me it becomes a song about something else because of how I see things. To me, if my art or poetry touches someone and creates images in their mind, then I count it as a success. ;D
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Post by Brigid Briton on Mar 31, 2011 15:17:05 GMT -6
Down, it’s all melting down, thousands of years of cherries blossoming, cedars soaring, sunsets sunrises a culture a people a world.
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Post by Fire Monkey on Mar 31, 2011 17:59:55 GMT -6
A deep and sad thought ... My mind was actually not on Japan at all when I painted this, but I have thought about Japan a great deal since the quake and all. I have wondered at points if this could be the end of a country - a chilling thought yet a couple of points it looked possible and still might be. As it happens though, my mind was on China, not modern but ancient, when I painted this. But that would only be clear to someone who had looked at a lot of Chinese art and Japanese art so they could see the differences - hey, it could have been Tibetan - a lot of similarities in mountains, buildings and art styles. ;D
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Post by Brigid Briton on May 2, 2011 9:30:22 GMT -6
Hi Tim,
I'm bringing this back since there really hasn't been a lot of reaction. It's such an intricate, mysterious, and alluring "painting"---I just get the idea a lot of people haven't seen it since my poor old hibiscus has been sitting on the top of the heap for such a long time!
Here's hoping more people will see it now!
Brigid
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Post by Callisse J. DeTerre on May 2, 2011 11:42:32 GMT -6
Thanks for bumping it up, Brigid. This is beautiful. And Tim, just thought you should know, I recognized both the Chinese influence and the fact that this was "hand-painted". The first I know because I admire eastern art and culture. I felt it even before seeing the building which hides in the mountain mist. The latter, not because of our ongoing discussion, but because I've never seen Photoshop tweaking produce the detail and ethereal quality that you have here. Nice image. I didn't have such a dark reaction to the scene as Brigid but the deep tones do give more of a heavy or foreboding feeling than a light, serene feeling.
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Post by Fire Monkey on May 3, 2011 4:09:07 GMT -6
I can see how that might be [the foreboding feeling] but for me personally I have always loved deep, thick fog - I personally find it freeing - and I love the night. So I associate fog and dark shadows and such with a quiet calm and generally contemplative feeling. It is interesting seeing how different people react to an image.
I too have always loved the oriental art and culture - in my case traditional Chinese culture and art holds a special interest though I do have an interest in Japanese art and culture as well.
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