My Squidoo Gallery: An overview of my paintings & art lenses

I didn't even know about the RedBubble features, but they seem to be very similar to deviantART's Daily Deviations. This painting was featured on the homepage on the 15th April, 2009.

You can buy it as a card on On RedBubble (and I ordered one - it's fantastic).
I don't seem to have made a poster out of it, but if anyone wants one, just ask. I do have some rather nice t-shirts on Zazzle though...

Phoenix Feathers Flying - T-shirt by Flynn_the_Cat
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and stickers!

Golden Feather Sticker by Flynn_the_Cat
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About Careless
The title is both about the phoenix itself, and about my approach to painting it.

Speedpaint of around two hours. A forcible break from jumping between commissions and gifts and prizeart and kiribans... (I wanted to just ...paint, to do something that I could stop doing when I wanted and not have to put aside to finish, that I could leave simple or work details into - my standards are getting much higher, I have a lot of mostly finished pictures now, for people (mostly) that I once would have posted but now cannot bear to, I see too much needing doing and I would be ashamed of having it in my gallery...)

So. Firebirds. A fierce, brief indulgence, an inspired glory of exhultation. And then freedom and rising renewed to return to other things.

Grasses are using the edge palette knife, background using flat and soft.
The phoenix was an experiment, the entire picture came out quite stylised and I added the stars as a counterpoint and to emphasise that. There were burning tree silhouettes but they looked scrappy and were unnecessary and cluttering, so I removed them.

And is the phoenix flying over the sunset, or is it setting a trail of fire and destruction...? Passing by in endless travels, rising newborn from a burning nest, or coming in to land and rest...?

ArtRage 2.5, graphics tablet

This photograph is from a Feb-March visit to the UK in 2009. It's of a waterfall on Dartmoor, Devon - one of my favourite places in the world. I went there with my uncle and cousins which was brilliant, as I got to see the moors again.

To my complete and utter shock this became incredibly popular (it was the 'free' bit that did it!) and recieved a Daily Deviation shortly after I uploaded it. Nearly a year later (about one month short) it has been favourited 843 times, downloaded 967 times, and viewed 7,572 times.

If you'd like to use this as a stock image for a blog background, general illustration or photomanipulation I ask that:

1. You tell me.
2. You credit me - that is, someone looking at what you've made can easily find out that the image was mine, and can also easily find the image again. Preferably a link.

All uses allowed (including prints, manips, as a reference) - as long as you actually use it for something of your own, don't just filter it, or post as is... (unless it's for a theme/background - but you can't just copy it and sell it.)
*wishes this was obvious to everyone*

You can find more of my stock photos here (same rules) and the images people have made from them here.

Most of the faces I've painted over the last two years. I put this together right after finishing the portrait of Slave Leia on the right, and was being all proud and fascinated at how far I'd come.

There's beauties and realism and abstract and errors and progress and colours for you all...It's not ALL of them - I took out the worst, to keep it nice and square (and because they were so bad ^_^) but it's most. Most are in my gallery somewhere - but there's a couple that aren't online (portraits of friends, or unfinished work).

If you want to see the original of any, just comment and I'll link you. And yes, all of them are in ArtRage

As you can see, not only have I gotten better at drawing faces, I'm drawing more of them... as many in the last 3/4 of a year, as in the two years before that. Funny parallel that.

I also picked up real pencils again, and you can see a lot more traditionally coloured pencil faces up there. There's a wider range of styles and subjects - manga, realism, caricatures (e.g. top right corner - drawn for ArchMage's Are You an Evil Genius Lens. There's more fanart - webcomics, Star Wars, Buffy - you can see some of my film and TV show fanart here.

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