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Published: 2002-11-25 16:15:27 +0000 UTC; Views: 760925; Favourites: 27097; Downloads: 49401
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Dusk's falling on my decadent reality. My everyday landscape keeps drowning, I'm a microscopic orange stain in a rusty universe. I hope you'll come tonight... Surprising thread of my thoughts, my guide and lover, let me cross again the dark frontier of my fantasies! So close but uncertain to reach, this blurry paradise hides behind my eyelids.Release me... and I'll fade like a drop in the infinite ocean of a dream.
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details and making of at zancan.fr
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'Below the Rust' is actually my biggest painting (it is 1.2 x 0.8 meters wide), and the one I have spent the longest time on. Five months, doing an average half-time work. The fact is that I can't help myself doing those small details that nobody can see. Using a 1-hair brush on a canvas that wide is totally insane!
This is only oil paint on canvas, but before starting to paint I made many sketches, and even a colorized version with photoshop (to set up the right colors).
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this is inconceivable amazing and beautiful.
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I like the idea that all we need to do is scrape off the ugly outer coating of debris that life has left on us, and we will find the shiny beautiful surface of what we once were again. In fact, we never really left what we were, not if it was something real.
Now I need to go find my wire brush.
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Your works are amazing. Especially this one.
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Just wow, this is wonderful. Makes me think.
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This is definitely my most favourite in your gallery. But others are stunning too!
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So beautiful artwork and very interesting idea. I like it!
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Wow! I luv it 
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I feel like i'm going to fall inside the painting !! I love it
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i love the concept and the colour scheme.
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I keep coming back to see more of the details!
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It's simply perfect. Your work has another view about the things and it is realy beautiful and well done.
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This piece is nearing ten years old, and I'm sad that I didn't see it sooner! This might actually be my favorite piece ever on dA. Coherency is lost on me right now; I'm a sucker for perspective and damn-- the perspective, the colors, the general atmosphere of everything. This picture is, I think, what I've been searching for since I joined dA. I can't thank you enough for sharing this with the community. <3
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Wow.... is all I can say.....
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Holy chit! Nice, beautiful work!
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Your dedication to your work is seriously inspiring. I feel quite guilty about any and all ...... laziness I've ever shown my work. Published and non. I don't have to tell you how wonderful your painting style is etc. You already know all that. 
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This looks like it belongs in the cover of a sci-fi novel, maybe by Joan Vinge or Storm Constantine.
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I love your work, I wanted to invite you to be a part of artundiscovered, I think your work will do really well on the site.
Hope to see you there
www.artundiscovered.com
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Cool!!!! LOVE your gallery.....wish i can paint......
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This reminds me A LOT of the espidoes where Xena goes to China O_O
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That's a few types of awesome all at once! I love the transition from Medieval and biological and underwater to modern and mineral and dry. The perspective shifts as well, almost as if the water were distorting our perspective. Or is it the air that distorts it? Thanks for the insane attention to detail. It's hard to appreciate the individual strokes even at high-res, but certainly the total effect is...beyond my ability to describe.
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This is a truly epic piece of work, I bow to you!
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The idea for this is amazing.
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I appear to be just another sheep saying how good this painting is.........but it would be wrong to pass by and not express my delight every time that i view this picture.
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I'm sooo impressed by your artworks! Your eye for detail, color and that sense of mystery... I love it!! I do wish I could paint like you
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That's pretty cool
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this is ridiculously beautiful. i love it <3
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This is lovely and marvelous
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this is soooo epic, the techniques are great and the idea ist just wonderfull <3
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love this!!!! OMG, SO creative! ^ ^
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