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Published: 2006-11-05 19:56:21 +0000 UTC; Views: 3743; Favourites: 79; Downloads: 25
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An illustratration for a new magazine.Topic:' Hotel mama', about 'children' who stay home with their parents at an older age. The interaction between both parties. This is the last illustration.
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Hi... Thanks, especially when you say it in that Irish accent! LOL
Have a great weekend, Kelly
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Thank you Pecetta for featuring me!!!
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cool and original work!
thank u for the fav on my photos! ^_^
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Thanks! 
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well i have nothing to say really, everyone has said it all right? well, i hope i don't stay home too long... i'm 19 and i hate the thought of being here to long.
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Hehe 
I'm 25 and i still live at home... but i totally get what you mean. I wish i was already living on my own, but cause i went to collage and graduated last year, it's not possible financially. So now i'm working hard to save some money.
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You're welcome.
---AK
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Wonderful image and the idea...everyone has to get his wings one day~
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Thanks! Yes, everyone has to stand on their own feet at one point.
Hehe, to the fear me, for i'm cute!
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Welcome~
Tee hee hee..I like your signature as well...it reminds me of a book I'm reading right now. "Kafka on the Shore" by Haruki Murakami- a cat said almost the same thing to one person.
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It's really an interesting phrase. Cause I do believe a lot of people strive to be someone theyβre not and sometimes loose their self in the spectacle of it all, but on the other hand our name doesnβt really say a lot about us. We have been given it with birth, but it could have been just any other name.
Itβs our actions and thoughts that say something about us, not our name. Although some may argue with that statement.
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I agree with you~
Yes..I think that we are all gradually losing ourselves trough the different ways of our lives. It takes a lot of will, thinking, and dreaming to stay true to oneself. And yes..names don't mean anyhing...sometimes it's really strange when you hear someone calling your name..and you don't feel like that's you..and don't turn around~
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I'm not sure I totally agree, I don't think it's a question of dreaming. It's a question of what is most important to you; to belong to a group or to spend more time on your own. I don't believe you can really conform to a group and stay really true to yourself. You always have to adjust to the others till a certain extent. Which I donβt mean you arenβt real within a group, but I do believe that people sometimes need to be on there own and take time to reflect.
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Hehe, what I meant, was that the dreams are a part of us, but many people tend to push them aside, forget about them trough time. And that's how you lose the colours of the world around you, everything becomes more less, gray. But that's another theme.
But yes, you do have to compromise between the groups and yourself....and then it all depends on how much you appreciate yourself and value your way of thinking. And I don't think the groups are bad either-you can learn new things, realize you have talents for something you never thought you did.
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There is a point to what you say and dreams are idd a great motivation to keep going when it gets harder.
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One of the most striking images I've seen in a long time - and it's beautiful on top of that. Very well done. I hope you will be doing regular illustrations for the magazine.
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Thank you! I'm glad you like it. I haven't heard back from them since friday. I don't know if that is a bad sign. We will see.
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Well, if you don't get this one, I'm sure there are other jobs out there for an illustrator of your talents and imagination.
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hehe, thank you for saying that!
Do you ever do exhibitions or commissions?
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I do portrait commissions, mostly. I just started painting about 2 months ago, and I haven't really tried my hand at any painted commissions yet. I have not yet done any exhibitions, though that is a goal that I hope to accomplish within the coming year. I just have never had time to really work on art. I've just had to squeeze it around everything else. Now, I have some time, and it's my hope to use this time to really start building something in the art world. It's difficult though, because I really don't know what I'm doing. I'm not educated in art, and I'm living in a foreign country. I guess I have to figure out how to use those facts in a constructive manner rather than letting them drag me down. I'm trying to start out with pencil commissions - it's what I know, and it's usually fairly straightforward. I find that people who like pencil drawings usually appreciate detailed photo-like drawings as well ("I thought it was a photo!" is a huge compliment from people who appreciate this kind of work), so it's easy to please without NEEDING to be overly creative. I would also like to try my hand at illustration for children's books, as well as whimsical murals, etc. Time will tell how it will go.
I can identify completely with your feelings of being too young and therefore inferior. I have been criticized for that myself...on more than one occassion. I think it is difficult to sell one's self when people can sense that you don't think you're good enough to be bought. I would certainly like to see your work in a magazine. Art like yours makes an article memorable - at least for me. I always appreciate when I see art that can stand on it's own as art, yet very cleverly portrays the subject at hand. That kind of thing impresses me a lot.
Do you ever exhibit or hang work at galleries?
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Yes, it's a good idea to start with something you are good at and know well. When you have won their confidence, you can experiment more after you built up your credibility.
whimsical murals?
I totally agree with that, people really sense that when you feel inferior. You see it in the hesitation when I name a price. You actually see me thinking, who is willing to pay that for a print.
Thanks for the sweet compliment.
Yes I have exhibit and been featured in art magazines. Iβve done 6 exhibitions in a year time, 2 of them are still running. I have been very lucky like that.
I think I need to start to take myself more serious, before they will. Although some of them take me very seriously and believe in me as an artist, but it's a fact that I don't see myself as an 'artist'. I try to tell a point. Try to capture an atmosphere or a idea I have. I mostly work around social and psychological topics. It's what I want to offer. I don't mean to make a βbeautifulβ image.
Also there are so many artists and our community is overloaded with a profusion of images (good and bad ones), therefore I sometimes have moments when I realise that I have nothing original or different to offer? What I make can be as easily done by someone else.
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I certainly know that feeling - the one where you realize that there are a lot of artists, and yet people buy their wall decoration at IKEA. That feeling when you realize that you slave over an image that people might just glance past. That feeling that there will always be someone out there who can make a better image than me for cheaper. But hten, it's also important to realize that no one will ever make my images. If I don't make them, they will never come to be. Others might do similar things, but my images are as unique as my fingerprints. It's for that reason that I will keep making them, even if no one buys them. One think I like to do when I'm feeling down is just to walk into a local gallery. It usually doesn't take me long to cheer up after seeing how much really mundane and ugly art seems to sell, and how much the really interesting and beautiful art tends to sell for. It kind of refreshes my hope.
Congratulations on the many exhibitions. I'm still trying to figure out how and where I can have my first. My dream is to have a joint exhibition with my wife. We both have a lot to learn, but it's something to shoot for.
By the way, 'whimsical murals' simply means cute childish paintings painted on the wall of childrens' rooms. It's becoming popular to do that kind of thing in wealthier neighborhoods in the US according to my mom. I'd just like to give it a shot. It would be fun!
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You have a point there as well. Hehe, funny to say. I'll keep that in mind and i will even try that one day.
Thank you, like I said before, I have been very fortunate like that. It would be idd nice to be able to share that together as a couple.
Good to know, i didn't know they had a specific term for that. If you have to possibility to do that, you really should grab it.
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Thank you!
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Kellly... really good in colors... i really love it.. and you have to post the others too....
i go crazy about your concept...
go go go Kelly go!!!
hug
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Haha, you are so funny. I will be posting them soon, i'm still retouching a few things.
Thanks btw...
I love your new one as well. Really great visual and such beautiful use of color.
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welll not funny i really would they here
ps... the new one is an esperimenting... thanks
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I will be uploading them soon.
Well, i like it very much. Really impressed.
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but whys it in the photography section?...its more traditional art etc
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It is and it isn't. The composition is all photographic elements, but i work threw it with textures, sometimes close up from pictures or sometimes made manually, so it's a mixture.
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Ha ha I love the hand idea, it's a wonderful piece!
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Thanks! Did your children leave the house at an early age?
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Let's see he first left at 22, you know he's always been much more mature than I ever was!
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haha... isn't that always? LOL Just kidding. I just wondered cause of the article.
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