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Below the Rust
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Published: 2002-11-25 16:15:27 +0000 UTC; Views: 752679; Favourites: 27090; 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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That's one nice surreal art, I studied surrealism in my 3rd year at college & I've got an idea how weird it can be & also how amazing. Yours is great, love the mood & style.
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can't believe it's painted...Looks totally digital...And the idea is just as awesome.Seen such beautiful art after a reallllyyyy long time! GREAT job!
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LOL I read it and you have no idea how friggin' fake these things are! XD I have read thousands, and NOTHING has ever happened. I think it's just people trying to get popular!
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Sh, sh, sh, shhhhhhh! SHUT UP!
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I cannot report her because the Help Desk will not accept that this is violating the rules. The uploader has to block her.
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This reminds me of a surreal take on global warming and the ice caps melting and all that shiz.
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This certainly deserves a Daily Deviation
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Oh, that is brilliant! I'm loving this! I love how there's a city underwater.
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This blew my mind i love all the detail to the stairs, bricks, water, and the whole picture. The colors are wonderful and it gives me a chill looking at the world under the water. Everything blends perfectly together and I'm in love with this.
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this is super cool. have you ever seen Uccello's 'The Deluge'? your picture kinda reminds me of it, what with the rusty kind of tone and dramatic perspective.
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Love your obsession with it, and that you keep touching it! Sounds so much fun
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Great piece! I almost couldn't believe it is a traditional art... No offense against those who use digital art or anything, I just find it way more difficult to paint traditionally, where you can't just step back when you ruin something. Even if you sketched and coloured it digitally beforehead.
Anyway, this is really beautiful. Not just the painting itself (by the way, I think it is great when you use that thin brush, even on this format; it adds a depth and entirety to the picture 
P.S.: I have no idea why, but that underwater world strongly reminds me of Atlantis. It's just the way I imagine that long-gone place... and when I look at the picture from this point of view, it gives a whole new, different and dream-like touch to it.
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This is really well done! I like the concept of a completely hidden 'world' beneath the water and even the mechanic trees. For something drawn/made/painted 10 years ago, it's unbelievably incredible! Not saying that art back then wasn't but the thought of someone uploading things of this quality back around the early years of DA is pretty cool
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nice job, and the little details are what makes this so life like, it is beautiful
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An absolutely fantastic painting, I absolutely adore you skills!
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It's good to do a lot of detail, even the kind no one cares to seek out. It makes the piece all the more believeable and amazing.
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Wow, it feels really lonely and forlorn. Very nice.
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This is amazing, the under water detail is unreal
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It's amazing and I feel different colors of emotions looking on it.Thanks!
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holy crap your art is amazing. i'm really glad that your dd brought me to your gallery
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I just want to favorite your paintings over and over again!
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holy shit... this is amazing... amazing enough this is probably going to end up as my desktop background sometime soon. Amazing job.
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I love this picture. It sort of reminds me of a tsunami. Its amazing how nature can be so devastating.
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man it's awensome o3o
there is alot of details dat make it look so deep and pretty mysterious
now excuse me i'm gonna dive...
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What a lovely painting! I must say the concept itself is so different and unique and the colors compliment the painting. WONDERFUL
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