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Published: 2006-04-18 18:03:11 +0000 UTC; Views: 14612; Favourites: 543; Downloads: 532
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The Queen Bee has been cleaned up and updated for your viewing pleasure-- I have edited the prints so they are more lovely, with the printed frame around the image and the titlebelow the Queen. Now the 8x10- all the way through the extra large prints have the color adjusted and the lovely border.FULL VIEW is really a must....
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I like print because I love this time period, the color red, and how it reminds me of one of my favorite songs by Anne Lennox "Walking on Broken Glass".
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i love that song! the video was a little odd, but still beautiful. i do listen to a lot of annie lennox. thanks!
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really really nice I like the concept and the result
is it oil painted ?
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yes, she's done in oils! thanks
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You photographed this?? - What kind of camera do you have? - My scanner is crap, but so is my cam.. and I sometimes wonder (a lot actually) what's the best to do, camera or scan.. and I haven't decided yet!
- btw, it's a fav!!
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i have a nice-but-not-high-end digital camera, it's a Nikon "coolpix" 4100 ... it is not actually the best thing for what i want, but it was a gift from my parents a few years back and i can't afford the super-duper artist digital cameras... it lets me get pretty good reolution, and i am figuringout the way to make it get "true" colors (generally i have to take it outside for really good colors). but it works OK!
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Okay, thank you! - 'Cause you're "photos"/paintings look really good, so you must be doing something right!
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Wow i love it!!
I invite you to enter The Maiden in Lost Land Contest with a creation , you'll have fun creating!
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wow this si great!! very creative
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this looks absolutely amazing, the colours, her dress and the composition, everything fits very well together, i love it
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Very beautiful work.
So many ideas and feelings are conveyed through one piece, all presented in an undenyably beautiful package.
I like thw work with color particularly, The semi-bland collors sorounding the bright red. As if to convey passion sorrounded by the mundane, that in conjunction with all the other wonderful imagry in the piece.
Excelent work!
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Again, your textures, palettes and saturations are wonderful. Exquisite imagery, lovely and fairy-tale disturbing. Even the background holds interest; the cumulative effect of all the slight distortions throws the viewer off. I'm glad to see a mask design (presumably) of yours, as well; Downey's designs are lovely, but I'd already seen them. ^-^ It pairs beautifully to the theme.
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already seen them? at the fair or on her site? anyway, this came before our collaborative effort, so yes, it's "my" design, sort of, it's a very basic theatrical mask with a stick
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I'd poked through her site. (I've had precious few chances to see anyone else's mask work in person, and certainly nothing so good as hers - I'd love to see them in real life, especially as her site has a tendency to be fairly temperamental through Mac OSX and Firefox, so I didn't feel I got a very good look... 
Your design is simple but doesn't lack detail, and it fits in with the theme and period (the braid edging and tassel are so believable - I believe a braid trim to be traditional, and I don't know how many real masks you've seen worn, but a little movement draws the eye, so the tassel seems so 'accurate'...) I'd like to see what you'd do in the medium, as I like your sense of taste and you have an interesting eye. (That, and you've got someone around who might let you see what they're doing. It really can't be very well 'taught,' in my opinion, at least in the handformed leather technique it looks like she uses.)
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i think she is mostly self-taught, and she offered to show me how a few times, but we haven't hooked up on that. it is a handformed leather technique, but she is now branching out into adding more things, like yarn and beads to make accents and stuff...
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There are some tutorials online nowadays (like ~Ranasp 's, for example) but when I got started there was absolutely nothing anywhere. I had to self-teach everything, as have most maskmakers I've ever known of. There are books and a lot of schools and workshops on how to make leather masks using a mold, but generally I like the spontaneity of handforming and the element of artist involvement. As far as Downey, I like her use of color and shading, if that's anything you think she'd like to hear.
As far as you learning, I simply like your style and think it'd be interesting to see how your sense of lines and dimension transferred into the medium ^-^ You might even do a collaboration or two directly on the masks. (Am I fangirling yet? I'll stop. x.x Unless you have anything further to say, of course. I've very much enjoyed this discussion, though, thank you!)
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sumptuous work. Detailed, lush, and layered with imagery and excellent technique.
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I can not stop looking at it. It's absolutely freaking amazing!!!
Brilliant, just brilliant!!
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I adore this, but is it symbolic that she's blindfolded? The color is wonderful and I could only guess that it was an oil painting?
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Oh, you lure me in only to shut me out?
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there are a lot of symbols. yes it is symbolic that she is blindfolded, and that there's a swarm of bees in the background adm she is standing in thorns and roses and holding a mask as well. but i'm not gonna go into it all right now, i'm afraid.
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thank you! (i wish i had a whole getup like that... minus maybe the standing on a thornbush part)
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Your Welcome 
Yeah me too, I just love her dress
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very....i would like to say beautiful...but thats not the word that comes to mind...... but impressive and inspiring are the most fitting words.
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thanks! i thinkit's beautiful (not to sound immodest) but mildy disturbing, i think it's got a macabre thing going on. glad you like it!
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well i like macabre somewhat.......does that make me strange^^
for example i love corpse bride,nigghtmare before christmas and brothers grimm and other such stuff.
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Incredible!!!! I loves it!
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This is terrific artwork Honey and I love the title, found you via twosilverstars! ^ - ^
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thank you! (i already thanked twosilverstars
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Welcome Honey ^ - ^ such lovely art x
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