wow. amphipods! now who on earth would have thought of such a topic! very true observation however :)
I really love your colour choices in the last two submissions, and I was another of those admirers of the translucent girl although I didn't post a comment then. You do some very interesting stuff when it comes to "see-through".
Youcantryreachingme.. The background image is from a watercolor that I made some years ago. I had been to a graveyard in Cozumel, Mexico and took some pictures there of the above ground tombs. So the images are cutouts of a scanned picture of the watercolor. Thanks for asking and thanks for your kind comments. And thank you everyone else that leaves me comments, it's very encouraging.
ohmigod what's an amphipod? It's scary. I'm glad they are small. I suppose they are mites common to humans. Probably a hundred or so in my eyelashes, right? *shudder*
Your sense of color is really quite incredible, and I always find your subject so fascinating, the way you combine images so intriguing. Yours is one my favorite IF blogs.
hey this is nice stuff. This is my first time here and I already want to say that it is one of my favourite IF blogs. the transparent girl is brilliant. I also loved the penguins and space room. and like others I feel I have too ask, what the hey is an amphipod, although it certainly looks like the sort of thing that lives in numbers in my eyebrows. thanks for coming by and I will be back to see more. love scott
Scott, An amphipod is a tiny harmless creature that lives in the water. When I worked for an environmental consulting firm, I spend many hours looking at them, and other marine organisms through a microscope. I think that's when I made the original sketch, found it recently, colored it and put it into a collage.
dwolf - I live in little dull Durham.
Thanks for the compliments!
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Arthropoda Subphylum: Crustacea Class: Malacostraca Order: Amphipoda
I don't know how I missed this post last week! I like how you have once again combined images in a jarring but exciting way...although the amphipod is so huge compared to the house, it doesn't look monstrous, perhaps because the colors are so warm and festive. I love how you achieve a feeling of tranluscent layers in your work. The paintings seem to glow from within. BTW, I love your Darwin fish...
Jaimie: Jeezum. I've known you for 25 years and never gleaned that you were a Rasta from Haiti. I mean, as colorful as the post-Baby-Doc Haitian artists are, you are more so. Poor Haiti. The Island has been savaged by just about every imperialist wannabe nation in history. Yet its art is rich in color, emotion, and life. Its people are triumphant in music and dance and diversity despite their defeat at the hands of every army save Jamaica's and their suffering in a harsh economic climate. I know, in part, where the Haitian Artists draw their visceral inspiration from. From what life experiences do you draw your artistic potency?
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wow. amphipods! now who on earth would have thought of such a topic! very true observation however :)
I really love your colour choices in the last two submissions, and I was another of those admirers of the translucent girl although I didn't post a comment then. You do some very interesting stuff when it comes to "see-through".
Chris.
Just beautiful - such rich colours!
Nice use of color.
love your colours
Amazing beautiful painting as always!
Who would have thought a bug could be so beautiful!
uuuhhhh wonderful colors and very nice illo.
love those vibrant colors. charming amphipod and accessories!
I love the vibrant colour of your work. Really great stuff!
oh "nothing to write home about" she said. HA! as usual, it's lovely.
and what's an amphipod, some kind of dinosaur? (just kidding! hehehe)
I love the vibrant colors and translucency of it. Just wonderful!
right. now i'm intrigued by the aparent church building... what's the go there?
Chris.
Youcantryreachingme..
The background image is from a watercolor that I made some years ago. I had been to a graveyard in Cozumel, Mexico and took some pictures there of the above ground tombs. So the images are cutouts of a scanned picture of the watercolor.
Thanks for asking and thanks for your kind comments.
And thank you everyone else that leaves me comments, it's very encouraging.
ohmigod what's an amphipod? It's scary. I'm glad they are small. I suppose they are mites common to humans. Probably a hundred or so in my eyelashes, right? *shudder*
Your sense of color is really quite incredible, and I always find your subject so fascinating, the way you combine images so intriguing. Yours is one my favorite IF blogs.
Great use of colors and original tale on the theme for sure.
What did you use? acrylic? oil?
Anywa, beautiful.
hey this is nice stuff.
This is my first time here and I already want to say that it is one of my favourite IF blogs.
the transparent girl is brilliant. I also loved the penguins and space room.
and like others I feel I have too ask, what the hey is an amphipod, although it certainly looks like the sort of thing that lives in numbers in my eyebrows.
thanks for coming by and I will be back to see more.
love scott
I LOVE your stuff! Where in NH? I'm in Plymouth.
Scott,
An amphipod is a tiny harmless creature that lives in the water. When I worked for an environmental consulting firm, I spend many hours looking at them, and other marine organisms through a microscope. I think that's when I made the original sketch, found it recently, colored it and put it into a collage.
dwolf - I live in little dull Durham.
Thanks for the compliments!
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Crustacea
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Amphipoda
Fabulous "monster"!
I love the colourful view you have of the world and way you put things together to make them sing
I don't know how I missed this post last week! I like how you have once again combined images in a jarring but exciting way...although the amphipod is so huge compared to the house, it doesn't look monstrous, perhaps because the colors are so warm and festive. I love how you achieve a feeling of tranluscent layers in your work. The paintings seem to glow from within. BTW, I love your Darwin fish...
Jaimie: Jeezum. I've known you for 25 years and never gleaned that you were a Rasta from Haiti. I mean, as colorful as the post-Baby-Doc Haitian artists are, you are more so. Poor Haiti. The Island has been savaged by just about every imperialist wannabe nation in history. Yet its art is rich in color, emotion, and life. Its people are triumphant in music and dance and diversity despite their defeat at the hands of every army save Jamaica's and their suffering in a harsh economic climate. I know, in part, where the Haitian Artists draw their visceral inspiration from. From what life experiences do you draw your artistic potency?
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