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Published: 2012-04-26 17:51:24 +0000 UTC; Views: 22418; Favourites: 1197; Downloads: 23364
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Watercolor-painting + markers
I worked for about 10 hours on this picture! I really hope you like it! 
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Your painting is quite beautiful and it is obvious that you put a great deal of work in it so I think it deserves a thorough viewing.
1. The colours are amazing. I can only congratulate you for the intensity and their well-defined contours both when there are actual contours (the headpiece) and when there are none (the blood from the gills or her lips). Having had quite desastrous experiences with water-colours myself I appreciate the excruciating care you must have taken here. I also like the nearly strict confinement to two colour-schemes: blue and red are a very interesting and striking choice and nicely balanced. They make the picture swing back and forth between cold and warm (maybe even life and death?) and add a great deal of movement to it. It's very interesting that you have taken the woman's and fish' usual characteristics and reversed them so that the woman is the cold part with her blue tones in lips, eyes, headpiece, skin (I refer to the greenish undertones of the neck) and clothing whereas the fish is full of life and warmth. The only flaw I can see in the colouring is the ear which is, in my opinion, a shade too much greenish-yellow. One doesn't see it on first sight but once noticed it's there. It breaks away from your well-definedness and the colour-scheme too much and makes it look like a foreign body. Maybe covering it up more with the fin next to it would have helped.
2. The amount of details in this work and their composition is awesome. I will restrain myself to those details I like most. The headpiece for one is beautiful but I especially like the shine you put on the pink and green gem. The same shine is on the bubbles and the blue pearls. To be honest, I was sure at first that this was alterated with CG. My favourite detail (if one can say it is) are the koi's fins and its scales. You did wonderfully there. I also like the patterns on her dress and in the general background.
3. As for the underlying story this pictures tells I like that she is no mermaid yet but aspires to be one. She still breathes air and the slashes at her neck aren't gills although they are in the right position. Her crossing over from human being to mermaid/fish is mainly carried by colour (especially the paint on her forehead reminds of some kind of Zebrafish) and symbolism. Apart from her face the only red part of her are her "gills" through which she is loosing blood. Therefor by loosing blood she becomes (in the logic of this picture) warmer and more fishlike a.k.a. her insinuated death as a human being causes her re-birth as a creature of the sea. I can't place the worm, since I am not sure if the koi is preparing to eat is but I like the subtlety of the whole composition.
4. As for visible flaws I have already mentioned the off-colouring of the ear. A logically mistake is the blood streaming from her wound - as she is underwater it should billow in a cloud, although that would have brought the wound right into the foreground of the picture. The koi's tail-fin is, in my opinion, unluckily placed. As I said above the picture is full of movement but with the tial-fin's flick to the right edge a lot of its dynamics is channeled right out of the picture whereas with a flick to the left it could have been used to lead the viewer's sight back to her and so creating a cycle of cold and warm, death and life.
5. About the rating: I am not sure what is meant with "Vision" and "Impact", so if possible, I will only rate "Originality" and "Technique" - both with 5 stars. I am very impressed with this whole work and appreciate the colours and the fact that it was made with traditional materials, which basically means a lot more care in painting since there are less possibilities to erase mistakes.
This is indeed a great piece of work and I thank you for sharing it.
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im really speechless.... i think that is the most comprehensive and beautyfuliest critique i ever get....
Thank you so so much my friend for that!! It really means a lot for me!
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Thank you and you are very welcome!
I think a thorough critique is the best an artist can get and having had too much of those "I love your work"-critiques myself I know how frustrating it can be when only the obvious and really good parts of a work are mentioned but not subtle meaning or less awesome parts.
As I said, your work is very good and I loved the challenge to give worthy praise to it.
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and you did a verrryy good job my friend!!
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Wow, I'm so blown away even at first glance. Amazing and close attention to detail. Simply stunning and beautiful and sends a great message and tells an epic story. I just love the colors in your style. It's like they pop out at you as if you were veiwing this in 3D. It just looks so... life-like. My eyes tended to swerve over to the bubbles in a second glance. A very nice amount of luminocity and blur. I can tell that there was a great amout of hard work, dedication, and effort in this piece and should have overall approval.
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Thank you sooo much for your beautyfull critique my friend!!!
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You're most welcome.
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Yes I was waiting for something from you and I was happy and excited to see this. As usual its beautiful stunning with the right amount of blood and wounds to not take away from the calmness of the piece. The fish hook earings with worms are very interesting i have never seen anything like it. (I think worms are awsome and I have fish hook earings myself e.deviantart.net/emoticons/b/b⦠" width="15" height="15" alt="
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Thank you sooo much dude....
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You're AWESOME work is featured here! [link]
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Beautiful, love the use of colour! Feel bad for the little sea horse speared through the eye attatched to the hook being used as an earing though XD
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This is beautifully detailed and just amazing
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Wow. The fish looks like it's gonna swim right outta my screen.
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I love your technique and your wild imagination! <3
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...you find the collection here [link]
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Hello
Your beautiful work has gotten selected to our weekly traditional art poll (What goes into our feature folder. + the top 2 winners every week gets to participate in best of the month)
You can find the poll here: [link]
Have a wonderful day!
High Quality Feminine Art
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i <3 <3 <3 it!!! it looks sooo beautiful, especially the fishie and the head piece!
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p.s
der fisch hat voll das sΓΌΓe gesicht !
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Talimee's critique is quite thought provoking. After reading it, I thought of Neil Shubin's book Your Inner Fish, subtitled: A journey into the 3.5-billion-year history of the human body. The fish, the gills and the fact that it feels partly in the water and partly out (the blood as Talimee noted) - evokes the water to land evolution. I don't think I would have connected all this without her thoughtful critique.
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I forgot to mention how great I think it is! I've faved it, of course!
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Hey thank you really much... i wish that someone wrote this...
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You're welcome!
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hey thats pretty nice my friend thanks ^^
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It's always a pleasure friend, keep up the good work ^^
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My favorite of all your paintings. It is truly gorgeous and original.
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WoW this is so beautiful [link] great job can you tell how did you do it? im not gonna make the same i want to do something else so please if you dont want i understand
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She looks like a mermaid from Moghal empire......
I simply love her nose
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