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ยฉ Coral McBride --- Do not alter or use without my permission."Oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive." ~ Sir Walter Scott
A thief can only take what you own but a liar can take all that you are. Eventually the liar becomes so tangled in their web of lies that they can't break free. Lies can cause irreparable harm not only to the recipient but also to the person telling them and the bigger and blacker the lie the harder it can come back and bite you.
Created in Photoshop CS2 and painted using a Wacom tablet.
Thank you to the talented and very generous stock artists listed below:
Model is the amazing Amber Gangi:
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Background textures:
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Material:
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Spider:
Original Free from the Internet [link] overpainted and warped.
Photoshop Brushes:
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Comments: 234
Yeah most of the times you come the longest way with being honest. At least if you're not in politics
I try to be honest too, and if I don't understand an artwork I ask. (I've misstaken genders and such from time to time 
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I would make a lousy politician, probably bring the government crashing down 
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Well I grew up among liars so I had to adapt real soon or I woudln't have coped. There were always those stories and you never knew if they were real or not...
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I don't remember it ever happening, which says something about politicians
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Well my grandma had been to the US when she was young and she told one story more amazing than the other and only later in my teens did I find out that they were mostly just fluffy-fluff around a core of truth. She had shaken hand with a president-to-be and whatever.
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You Grandma was just embroidering, which isn't really lying, just making ordinary happenings, extraordinary. It helps to make life more interesting without harming anyone
It's the people who lie and cheat to prosper and harm other people who irk me. One irritating person I used to know, fainted to get attention. Everyone interrupted their life to look after her, get her to the hospital etcetera. Then she said that the doctors told her that she had cancer and everyone became upset and sat with her, helped her out etcetera and then found out it was all lies. She was a thief too. I feel sorry for the person who thinks that this is good attention.
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Well the thing is that she told things which had never happened, and I believed in them and it made me feel cheated. Because I told them to my class in school and so on, like "when my grandma was in the US it was like this and like that" and I relayed her stories and hand no idea that they weren't true.
And I knew a girl who used to fake-faint too. She wasn't rotten as your aquaintance seems to have been, but she was kind of an attention whore. She could go to the disco dressed up in 19:th century clothes and she was always in for karaoke and stuff when she got a chanse to show off. She was extreme, but I liked her.
Then she met this guy who was bad for her (and he was like 25 y older too) and I sort of lost contact with her, and next thing I heard she had got into wiccan stuff. And these days I have noooo clue what she's up to and it's a bit sad really.
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I understand how you must feel 
I think I could cope with your friend, extreme is usually interesting. The one I am talking about was a gossip, eavesdropping and snooping as well as lying and thieving. I absolutely loath gossip although I actually feel quite sorry for her like you do for your friend. Our choices determine what kind of life we will have and their lives may not have a happy ending.
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my teacher recognized my US stories for being bull, even if I, and probably most of the other kids, had no idea, and she thought I was the one making it up. And when she took me to the side after the class remarking about the importance to stick to the truth she didn't believe me when I said it was my grandmas stories. She had also talked to my parents about my "a bit too vivid fantasy to be healthy" and urged them to talk to me about it, and it had taken them a while to regognize the stories as my grandma's bull. 
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How sad 
Just from your description I gathered I would have liked your friend....nothing wrong with a tad crazy
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Well I'm not sure my grandma really understood, she was always the kind who "pulls the rubber border" as we say in Sweden. ยด
And I hope my friend got a great life in spite of that bloke - who might have been a treassure of gold who knows, I never met him, I only heard about him and was like "eurgh" when I heard of that age difference.
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Ah well, if she didn't understand then we can forgive her
I would have "eurghed" myself. A bit too much of a gap for my liking.
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Really nice concept and execution! 
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Thank you for the lovely comments, so glad you like it
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awesome manip Coral.....those spiders will be very pleased with their catch too.....
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I deliberately included only male spiders
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I best go back and look closer....I didnt notice that part...
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It's a bit hard to see the fine details on this low res version, much easier on the original
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This is an excellent piece of art ...
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wow,,such a creative idea Coral, lovely work..love it!!
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You are much welcome!!
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Excellent manip Coral! Luv the original concept!
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Thank you kindly Jefferson
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