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Published: 2010-06-27 23:16:20 +0000 UTC; Views: 4480; Favourites: 134; Downloads: 0
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It would be three days before they made contact. Little did we know how different things would become...Why do aliens always land in the country?
Come visit us in NJ!
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If you watch movies lately, aliens may land/abduct people in the country... but they invade cities.Β They do a really lousy job of it too, just flying about and shooting random buildings.Β
Great picture.Β Awesome use of color.
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Thanks! Yeah I'll take a good old country road abduction over an all outΒ invasionΒ any day.
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Anal probing or the massive destruction of innocents... tough choice.
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I shed a tear every time a country bumpkin takes one for the team.Β Β
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I'm sure they do too.
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man i DIG this! it's almost like an andrew wyeth. gone creepy. AND scifi!
heh.
very cool.
ps
you know, wyeth was a little creepy at times anyway. right?
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Thanks man! I really appreciate it, the Wyeths (especially NC but also Andrew) and NCs mentor Howard Pyle are really huge inspirations for me. I'm itching to get back to some ancient astronaut/ufo related stuff soon. But of course, jobs dictate most of the art time. I need more sci-fi work.
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Thanks! Glad you like it.
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A real pleasure Chris, you're most welcome!
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your artwork is so of the scale awsome! 
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Thank you, I really appreciate it!
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I have nightmares like this sometimes, great work man.
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Thank you! And that's interesting, I have had a similar dream as well but it was a long time ago before I was interested in any of this. Just the craft though, sort of glad I didn't have to deal with the pilots.
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This is so beautiful. I love how your pictures all tell stories. This one especially. I love the contrast of her skirt with how gloomy the rest of the picture is. Huge fan.
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Thank you! It means a lot to me to hear that.
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You've obviously never heard about the incident at Grover's Mill in 1938. Martians landed in the middle of NJ and took out NYC before they were stopped. [link]
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Haha, this is true. Except its obviously a coverup. They weren't martians, but Zeta Reticulans. Oh, and there was a Reptilian piloting the saucer
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That ain't the way I heerd it! Rigellians with a chelonian pilot and a Dentrassi cook. Better watch that pilot, he's a bit snappy.
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look on the bright side, at least you have Megas XLR
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I don't know what that is haha, sorry.
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don't worry about it, it's a reference to an old cartoon from the nineties
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Haha, alright. I had the Ninja Turtle blinders on in the early nineties so I probably missed a few things.
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Haha, thanks dude. Much appreciated!
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Lol! This is awesome! I totally love the colors! Splendid job!
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Thanks! Glad the colors work for you, I tend to do grays and earth tones. And then the red adds a bit of the old 'How you doin?' (less effective without my fake thick NJ accent)
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The abandoned kitchen knife in her hand seems nicely prophetic ..
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Yup, never bring a knife to a laser fight haha. But I guess its better than nothing.
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True true. I was more thinking that she's not thinking of violence, the whole 'we come in peace' thing .. but the presence of the knife unthinkingly gripped sort of works as a metaphor for the human government's knee-jerk reaction and foreshadows a likely combat. Perhaps I read too much into it?
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You hit the nail on the head actually. I think that is human nature, unfortunately, that when we fear something unknown or someone who is different violence is often the result. Its the fight or flight mechanism. Kill it or run.
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Perhaps.. I think it is more the trials of leadership and power over so many people, without a proper guiding hand, that does it. Humans on their own who are responsible for their entire country, all the lives (and sadly economies) within, are more likely to snap and revert to basic instinct through the pressure.
(Personally I would say that is the reason that all leaders should rely on God when making their decisions, but I realise as a Christian that not everyone would share my view.)
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This is just disturbing. Then again, that's usually my reaction to an otherwise innocent woman holding a knife like that. Love the color contrast.
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Haha. Those ETs can change a person
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Was she abducted or something? The atmosphere of the pic suggests that she knows something I don't, and that she is in wait.
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The way I imagined it is something like she was in the kitchen baking up some edible bit of Americana (apple pie, casserole, etc.) when she was startled by maybe a strange sound or something out in the yard. Her first instinct was to grab the knife from the counter and run out to investigate. And thats when she saw them hovering above her cornfield...
then here we are, at the height of suspense haha.
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A bat maybe, but why a knife? This just looks way to forboding for what you described.
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Because she was probably using it to cut up vegetables or something when she was alerted to the disturbance in the field. Its a chef's knife. She grabbed the closest thing and went outside.
Knife just made sense given the context.
That said, a knife probably won't hold up to well against lasers.
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I guess I've just been conditioned to see anyone holding a knife outside a proper knife holding area as a potential serial killer.
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Haha. Yeah i think i'd be weary of someone just walking down the street like that.
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really good work, I like a lot, for the artistic work and composition.
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Thanks! I really appreciate the comment.
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Beautiful, i absolutely LOVE this! It looks so realistic, the shading and coloring are to perfection.
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Thank you! Perfection I don't know haha but that is very kind of you.
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you're welcome, and yes, absolute perfection
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