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November 2013

Done by so many others so I suppose it was inevitable in the end. Earth, wind, fire and water, now conceptualised by yours truly as well, Loulin-style.

How do you define and element which you can’t see, or hear, or taste? I pondered over this one for a long time. Ironically this one also took the least about of time to finish. Birds and butterflies and gusts of wind have been done so many times. I wanted to come up with something else. Then I thought: weather is pretty much exclusive to the sky, and in the different clouds we read the weather as well as the winds.

Technical stuff: Watercolour + minor addition of coloured pencils. Size: about an A4 - approx.29x21 cm / 11,5x8,5 in. Time: approx. 6,5 hours, NOT including preparing the paper and the hours of just waiting for paint to dry.

Earth: loulin.deviantart.com/art/Elem…

Fire: loulin.deviantart.com/art/Elem…

Water: loulin.deviantart.com/art/Elem…

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DeepWoodian [2013-11-26 16:42:49 +0000 UTC]

How indeed if one is not going to give it a humanoid form. Not an easy question by any means but clouds are very much connected to weather and sky (as is wind) so I think that it's a good (and natural ) choise.

 

I seem to notice a little bit similar composition with each of these. The elements are arching around the center. Yes? 

 

 

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Loulin In reply to DeepWoodian [2013-11-26 17:47:45 +0000 UTC]

One of the more important art lessons I've learned is to never put anything in the exact middle or exact centre - but yeah, you're right, all four elements are shaped around a circle. It's a´bit less obvoius with Wind since clouds doesn't have straight clean edges and due to the fact that I tried to make use of the negative space instead.

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