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Verdokai — Unattainable
Published: 2009-02-20 11:04:13 +0000 UTC; Views: 2219; Favourites: 19; Downloads: 0
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UPDATE: I don't like changing pictures like this, especially if I've already got comments on the picture, but after a few hours (2,5) of sleep I realised I wasn't finished with this picture after all. Now, this is the finished version, a little bit better scanned, even though this time, the colours are a bit off >_O Ah well. You can't always get what you want. Watercolours and colour pencils anyway. /UPDATEThis was not an easy picture to scan, since it looks best from a little distance, as shown in this picture here: verdokai.deviantart.com/art/Un…
Make up your own backstory for this.
EDIT 11/7/2010: drawinks drew THIS !!!
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Thanks! I've been considering revisiting this theme someday. Or at least make an updated version of this painting - it's only a year old, but it feels older 
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Well it still looks nice, old or not. And if you do decide to paint another I look forward to it.
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... and six years after this conversation, I did paint a new one
verdokai.deviantart.com/art/Ma…
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Wow that's great, I'll take a look. Thanks for taking the time to tell me!
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Up on a marble pedestal
She's beauty in pure form
Contrasted to her humble servants, all of them weary and torn.
Like the whisping silken threads of this lovely seraphim
Everything moves and everything turns, the world dances at her whim.
Like so many others, like so many others, a puppet turns to the sky
With an quickly beating heart. he approaches her with hopes high.
Frozen in that moment, a soft coo escapes her face.
Her laugh is subtle, ripping, killing
putting a puppet in his place
Forever in that moment, unharmed, and yet unsustainable,
He has forgotten all hopes of attaining that which is unattainable.
Forgive me, your artwork drove me to poetry. Thought you might enjoy it.
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Well, this was surely surprising, if nothing less - but thank you for sharing 
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A strange, if not socially awkward endeavor, but very few pieces of art actually combine true beauty with that sense of foolish hope and futile dreams.
The idea of deceptive, yet radiant beauty isn't touched on far enough at all.
So I should thank you, it really is quite a work.
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You're too flattering, I think
But thank you, it really means a lot to me.
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Perhaps yes, a bit too flattering. I was in a flattering mood.
BUT, it did give me the idea for that poem and I thought you might enjoy seeing it.
Great job!
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The contrast between them is really nice and the atmosphere of the picture is very dreamy (lighting and shapes). I like how she looks - her pose, dress, face and ears. Looks somehow carefree to me.
The picture catched my heart because I so like fairytales 
*fav
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Thank you! And I too love fairy tales, which is the main inspiration for this little 'series' of pictures
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You know, poetry is the same as every art - you can learn the form pretty well if you practice it, what you CAN'T learn is the idea, the soul of it. Looking on your pictures and the clues you wrote to the story - You HAVE the essence of it, everything you have to do is write and write and write to bend the words into fine shapes...
Which doesn't mean it's simple. I play with words long enough but am still horrible
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I'm not sure our views on art forms are the same (I would have to disagree somewhat with that statement) but thank you for your compliment anyway
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As said on MSN, I like this one
Nice use light and dark and a really nice motif as well
I really like her dress... and those soft branches and all, yes.
It looks really nice
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Thank you! I'm hoping that if I make prints of this that are a little bit smaller than the original, they'll look better though
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That skirt has a life of its own. The bloody things going to whip up and kill them both, snap his head off and scatter her all around that pretty scene
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Well, that's one interpretation...
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Yuppers. The fun horror one
On a completely unrelated note, have you watched The Mist yet? If not do so. Now that's a horror movie with some educated thought and premise behind it (in regards to how people behave when you push them of a precipice)
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I haven't, but I might. I think we have it laying around somewhere... and I do want to watch it after I found out that they run away -from rescue- and shoot themselves right before the mist starts to fade and rescue arrives...
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But I thinks it makes for even greater comedy
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I suppose.....though I never really thought of this one as being funny in that corny horror way....or scary really. Just an interesting exploration of human response. The story, no quite a book in its own right, is really good to. That has no ending though
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I'll make sure to watch it after I've seen all the Halloween movies me and ~Wursu are currently watching
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Let me know when you have....assuming your brain doesn't rot out before then
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Of course it won't! Michael Myers is HILARIOUS!
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You know, I really like this one. Poserna är spot on (speciellt robotens, kroppsspråket säger allt helt utan hjälp av ansiktsuttryck <3), there's something really nifty going on with her skirt, and there are sparkels! Men framför allt har den liksom ett slags ljus och en kombination av färger och kontraster som jag gillar väldigt mycket - sådär lagom dramatiskt, intressant utan att det är jobbigt att titta på. It's a certain -athmosphere- jag alltid gillat, i brist på ett bättre sätt att uttrycka det. Färgerna, ljuset och kontrasten <3
Idén är väldigt fin i sig också, och jag personligen tolkar det ofrånkomligen sorgligt, because I like it that way! -darr-
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Det finns inget sätt det kan sluta lyckligt på - for he can never reach the sky, and she must never touch the ground. If nothing else, when she leaves with her lantern, he will be engulfed in darkness once more.
She is his only light - and this is the only moment she will shine for him.
... et cetera. Jag kan visst komma på en massa bakgrundsbullshit till den här 
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Det är en bild med mycket potential för fina backstories, helt enkelt.
REJOICE indeed
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[link] <- men den är snyggast som IKON
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That's why you're the IRON GIA-ohwait...
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But you DO like it big, don't you? -charm- You said so yourself.
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Yeah sure. The bigger the better. More is more!
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You may not be Henwi, but I'm beginning to suspect he might have a Henry for YOU.
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...if he has, I am glad he's purely fictitious. -heh-
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I know I sure am. Although there are a whole lot of real Henry's out there, at least we know ONE who's not
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Yeah, and that's at least something.
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Its wonderful, lovely composition, lovely feeling and lovely colors. You are getting amazingly good
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I also have my own, och den är så fiiiiiiiiiiiin. Jag är helt och hållet förälskad i den knäande roboten. Uttrycket du lyckats få fram genom kroppshållningen är... wow.
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