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    Quote Originally Posted by MystyrMystyry View Post
    Certainly looks like an aura Max. I like the blue glow on the swan.
    Glad you do!

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    I'm at a bit of a loss - I was working on stonewall textures to fit a couple of castle ruins - but they still don't look right even after hours of fiddling. On their own (just as textures) I'm happy, but they won't apply properly to complex shapes, making everything look splodgy grey. So I'll have to get back when I've worked it out...
    I've been feeling like that. For example, I can barely decide which colors and shapes are more satisfactory, so I come up with a choice and just try to live with it

    A humble mixture of collage and brush experiments, entitled "Hoofs on another Earth:"


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    That's so pretty, Max! Horses are happiness making.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Varenne Rodin View Post
    That's so pretty, Max!
    Thank you!

    Quote Originally Posted by Varenne Rodin View Post
    Horses are happiness making.
    They are!

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    That's quite intriguing Max, with good colour and composition too, and I see you've found some spooky trees from somewhere (segue).

    I've been swamping with spooky trees and marsh gas mist:



    And the towers in a previous image have evolved to a more elaborate version, now powered by diamonds (?)


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    Those are stunning, Mystyry! I want to visit those places!

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    Thanks Varenne, but are you sure about wanting to visit them? I try to create places that scare me (actually my inner child - I used to have these waking nightmares when I was really little about horrible dead places, lifeless toy-like and people-less landscapes). On a few occasions I was taken to places that were actually creepy and frightening, and some dreams became muddled with reality. There was a new suburb being created somewhere and the roads were wet dirt (I didn't know they'd eventually be paved) inside the house we visited was all hard edge horror and the adults were blah blahing. I went out into the street alone. It was cold and treeless. There was this eerie high whistling wind like ghosts speaking. I've never heard anything like it since except in nightmares. That and other strange memories haunt me to this day.


    Sorry - I seem to be in a yabbery mood

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    No, I love it. Talk all you want. I'm stuck at home today waiting for a delivery. My house is spotless clean, I've done some fun hobby related stuff. Overall I am bored bored today.

    I like your story about the creepy house and street. I would still visit your pictures if I could, even if things were scary. At least it would be a break from the norm. I like scary movies, scary books. Fictional ones, mainly. I'm a strange person, probably.

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    Got some fractal brushes!

    Last edited by MystyrMystyry; 11-28-2011 at 05:25 PM. Reason: Art thread!

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    Quote Originally Posted by MystyrMystyry View Post
    That's quite intriguing Max, with good colour and composition too, and I see you've found some spooky trees from somewhere (segue).
    Thanks!
    For the trees I experimented with a few tree brushes I've been collecting. It's not the only creation I've come up with by means of these brushes... seems I'm a sort of tree-person

    Quote Originally Posted by MystyrMystyry View Post
    I've been swamping with spooky trees and marsh gas mist:

    (...)

    And the towers in a previous image have evolved to a more elaborate version, now powered by diamonds (?)

    (...)
    I think both are pretty awesome, as well as the above fractal piece. I once rendered foliage by means of a Mandelbrot fractal. Then there's the Fern fractal, for rendering... ferns

    Quote Originally Posted by Varenne Rodin View Post
    Those are stunning, Mystyry! I want to visit those places!
    Me too, especially the spooky marsh! It reminds me of that old TV show... The Swamp Thing.

    Quote Originally Posted by MystyrMystyry View Post
    Thanks Varenne, but are you sure about wanting to visit them? I try to create places that scare me (actually my inner child - I used to have these waking nightmares when I was really little about horrible dead places, lifeless toy-like and people-less landscapes). On a few occasions I was taken to places that were actually creepy and frightening, and some dreams became muddled with reality. There was a new suburb being created somewhere and the roads were wet dirt (I didn't know they'd eventually be paved) inside the house we visited was all hard edge horror and the adults were blah blahing. I went out into the street alone. It was cold and treeless. There was this eerie high whistling wind like ghosts speaking. I've never heard anything like it since except in nightmares. That and other strange memories haunt me to this day.


    Sorry - I seem to be in a yabbery mood
    Quote Originally Posted by Varenne Rodin View Post
    No, I love it. Talk all you want. I'm stuck at home today waiting for a delivery. My house is spotless clean, I've done some fun hobby related stuff. Overall I am bored bored today.

    I like your story about the creepy house and street. I would still visit your pictures if I could, even if things were scary. At least it would be a break from the norm. I like scary movies, scary books. Fictional ones, mainly. I'm a strange person, probably.
    We are the obscure triplet of the thread. Very much great! If I am to choose, I prefer to keep being strange, although it's a feature that has triggered certain comments by some of these "normal" persons... bah!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Maximilianus View Post
    We are the obscure triplet of the thread. Very much great! If I am to choose, I prefer to keep being strange, although it's a feature that has triggered certain comments by some of these "normal" persons... bah!
    I like that, Max. Poor normal persons. Strange can be fun!

    Mystyry, I was going to comment on your dream (I understand. Art forum). Perhaps you could send it to me someday. Your fractal picture is outstanding. It makes me think of 2001, or hyperspace, or string theory. It's neato.

    I just finished a sculpture of Spike Spiegel. Hopefully I'll post pictures of it tomorrow.

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    Spooky tree brushes never occurred to me Max. I could've saved a lot of time if I'd been thinking along those lines...

    Thanks Varenne I can't wait.

    I wanted to try something with the fractals (always experimenting) so this is a Fractal Borealis in An Artica (take your pick)



    Actually I think I prefer them as bump textures:


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    First one looks like a portal to another dimension after crossing an icy sea, and the second one could be the other dimension itself. That's how I perceive them at this particular moment

    Experiment with blending modes and blur-created glows. A spontaneous mixture of images and effects, not really intended per se, since it took only a few hours to conclude:


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    These are so beautiful! Both of you! I am blown away.

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    Wow~! I've been gone for a few days, and There's two mighty artists keeping the thread alive! Max and Mystyr, you and your works are Awesommmmee! XD

    @Mystyr: I guess you can say I have much to do and that's what's making me bored. XD Ad it's also due to me being too picky. If I don't feel like doing it, I won't. That gets me in deep trouble sometimes...
    Find your dream and stick with it...or your life will have slipped past in a whisper with you still on the bottom.

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    Spike Spiegel from Cowboy Bebop...







    Sculpted in premo polymer clay over a multi-gauged steel wire skeleton. His hair is black shaggy mongolian faux fur. He is blushed in acrylics and oils.

    There are lots more pictures of him in my albums.

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