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New York Family Room Traditional enclosed family room idea with a dark wood floor, multicolored walls, a standard fireplace, and a wall-mounted tv.
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The trap is set, now all that is needed is the victims.I have converted the photograph to black and white to highlight both the spider’s thread and the profiles of the lamppost.Location: Estamariu, Alt Urgell, Catalonia, Southern Europe. Fine Art Prints
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Inktober Day 2: Mindless/Crow Idk, I wasn't really feeling this one. There's a few things I could go back and add but... I think I'm done for the day. #inktober #inktober2019 #mindless #crow #moon #lantern #snow #fall https://www.instagram.com/p/B3IIxyUlIql/?igshid=aqix8xb42112
Lantern
by violetsdaisy
When Atem had been offered a second chance of life by the gods and sent to earth to remain by his partner’s side for the rest of his days, he had not expected to find Yugi nearing twenty-six and shoulder deep in adult life.
He especially didn’t expect their connection to be severed.
Upon finding a book in Yugi’s closet, he conducts a plan to spark it back to life.
Lantern
by violetsdaisy
When Atem had been offered a second chance of life by the gods and sent to earth to remain by his partner’s side for the rest of his days, he had not expected to find Yugi nearing twenty-six and shoulder deep in adult life.
He especially didn’t expect their connection to be severed.
Upon finding a book in Yugi’s closet, he conducts a plan to spark it back to life.
Boise Landscape Natural Stone Pavers Design ideas for a mid-sized asian partial sun backyard stone landscaping in winter.
Swordtember stopped filling the function I wanted it to, so I'm combining the last 20 prompts into 10 combinations. Here is the first.
Day 11 - Neon + Lantern
Traditional Porch Minneapolis Here is an illustration of a sizable traditional back porch with a fire pit and an added roof.
DC Metro Kids Room Example of a mid-sized transitional girl light wood floor and beige floor kids' room design with green walls
Deck Covered in Columbus Mid-sized arts and crafts backyard deck photo with a roof extension
Natural Stone Pavers - Front Yard Photo of a large traditional front yard stone flower bed.
Patio Brick Pavers in Minneapolis
Example of a large mountain style backyard brick patio design with a fire pit and no cover
Great Room - Transitional Dining Room
alright, this one has a descriptive title so I'll just lead with it here "As They Walked The Lantern Lit The Roses" which has the double meaning of implying that carrying light next to these roses causes them to glow, which explains why they stand out so nicely. also, I don't usually intend to imply that her antlers glow, but a lot of the time I need them to stand out from whatever is going on in the background, such is the case here.
so this was the one where I was like, oh right, the wolves aren't evil, they're just wolves, they have a different viewpoint and it's a wolf one.
this one was also made to address the technical problems of This One, as you can see I upped the detail everywhere and took time to light the trees with texture, futz around with all the dang roses, and put stars in the sky. some of my strengths are in my use of obsessive texture and this is a good example of allowing myself to indulge that urge.
what else can I say about this piece? oh yeah, the wolves are usually not male. (not that it matters, but this has been an issue when people want to see psycho-sexual themes in my work, which I do address, but not all the dang time in every one) it's a bit of a play on the idea of "Bad Bitches" or "Mad Bitches" or "Bitches Be Cray-Cray" whenever I am using them. and this one in some ways is about being at home with my sister, who supports my creative work, but she is very critical of all of my deer-girl series.
the gesture of placing a hand on the shoulder of a large dog is a very natural one to me in my life and the fingers that dig into the fur is one of my favorite details. they are on an adventure together and that contact plus the eyecontact is a show of trust.
The Moths Were, As Always, Fatally Curious.
linoleum block print, edition of 3, May 2012 for my BFA show.
this is actually the last large Deer Girl print I have made, it is for a transition to another chapter in her story and because of this it doesn't really fit within the established antler-chronology (she has two antlers, loses one, grows new tree-antler, tree antlers bloom) presumably antlers fall off and grow back new. presumably I'm not that interested in being able to lay these all out end to end and saying here, this is the story, this is how it goes. it's better for everybody if I keep it a mystery.
I have told one person the proper order for all of the prints and the plot of the story thus far, that person was my BFA show partner Chris Popek and it was because I had every print I had made right there and we were figuring out which ones were going to go where for our show. also I think he asked nicely. such things could happen.
anyways, the title obviously has a double meaning of the moths we can see immolating themselves on the lantern, and a potential decision by Deer Girl to go explore the lighted cozy looking town. oddly enough I modeled the town on Bellingham even as I was graduating and preparing to leave.
when I had my show up and I was taking my tun minding it, this very cute old couple came in and chortled happily at all of my work and decided to buy this one because they liked the title so much.
you can't really see it from here, but all of those stars have five points. all of them.
Lantern.
12" by 15" linoleum block print, edition of 4.
(in retrospect I should have made as many as possible of this because it's pretty popular) this was meant to be a set of four (as these are a cut quarter of one of my usual blocks) that tied up the story a little bit, showing objects that are left behind or incidental to the various storylines of the whole deer-girl thing. I got as far as the lantern and the antler, I partway carved a seashell necklace on a rock with a starfish, and the bones of a rabbit being nosed by another rabbit would be the logical fourth one I guess, that or maybe the bowl the tree people own with four frogs swimming in it.
it is a set of two, because I ran out of time at the end of the year, I may carve and finish it anyways because I still have the blocks for the two I didn't print. (note to all'yall who may be worried about the exclusivity of my editions, I threw away all of my blocks after I graduated because they were gross and oily and I had no place to keep them where they would not seep vegitable oil all over everything, one more thing I like about acrylic ink)
moths to a candle flame, it's such a bad idea but it's so pretty, to navigate by the moon of your life and not the moon of the sky, and then it burns you up. so artsy and poetic no? such a classic, all of the item-series show items and animals interacting, and they are really just simple little things.
so many stars though.
stars are a big thing for me. when I was a kid (and still) I really loved my glow-in-the-dark stars all over my ceeling and walls of my room, ever since I got to go on a semi-camping trip to the wilderness and saw what the sky really looks like away from all the danged light pollution I have been fascinated with the milky way. although I am not particularly interested right now in recreating the look of actual sky, I want that kind of Narnian feel of the familiar and unfamiliar at once. stars from a different sky. and I want that look of wilderness and inhuman landscapes and being able to see all the stars is a mark of that.
and then I carve them out, all five points, one at a goddamn time.
it's one of those things people don't tell you about being an artist, inspiration may be the spark that starts you, but your time and energy are the coal you have to burn if you want the steam engine of your artistic vision to reach the shores of proper physical fruition, and not crash on the unmerciful shores of conceptual art.
also, you have to train yourself to be receptive to inspiration, all the skill in the world does no good to nobody without that 2am magic.
Bathroom - Traditional Powder Room A classic powder room design illustration