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Deviantart doesn't like this file, I've been trying to submit it for months.

This was a painting I did last summer. In a way I really like it, because it's neater and more difficult than anything I've produced before. Plus it was lovely to paint - using my new paints and paper and working under a skylight listening to lots of folk music.
On the other hand, I overworked the skin and the lighting didn't really pull together in the end. meh - the next one will be better! I also know the pose looks a little forced but I actually liked that and kept it deliberately. To my mind it's an illustration not a realistic rendering and I wanted to keep some ambiguity about what's going on.

Stock reference from the lovelly *pinkpaint-stock <3

Painted for "still" from the 100 themes challenge
Ideas whilst I was making this were a mixture of things, but mostly to do with that greek myth where two lovers are in a meadow and the girl gets bitten by a snake and dies. The guy is so upset he goes to hades and spends his whole time playing lots of sad music, until I think he kills himself. Fun times. Also, influence of Ophelia. And of East O' the Sun, West O' the Moon when the castle disappears and she wakes up alond in a dark forest surrounded by flowers. So it's entirely up to you whether she is dead or sleeping or poisened or whatever.

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Time: Beaucoup de hours. Probably around 12 hours.
Materials: Cotman watercolours and a couple of windsor and newton ones. Inadquate paintbrushes. I can't remember the name of the paper sorry but it's really nice, NOT grain stuff. Well, not super expensive but not cheap and I love working on it.
Music: Folk mostly! So add Seth Lakeman into the influences
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*KassidiKeys Mar 26, 2012   Digital Artist
Hello, I've given this piece a feature over here ->[link]

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Ophelia thou art fairer than the rays shone fourth from the morning sun, across the dewy emerald grass. And a thousand pixels of light more lovely than a daughter of emesene turn the green into a glow. As if the world shone fourth from the heavens.
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:icondemoiselledreamer:
So breathtaking that I honestly can't think of any other words.:heart:

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~greenfroggies Feb 4, 2012   General Artist
Very flattered, thank you.

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:iconcorradocandido:
I like it,very romantic
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:iconzimriver:
Beautiful I love how you use colors
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:iconsebastian-o-malley:
I was just going back through my favorites (to spice up a powerpoint presentation for a biology class...) and I absolutely LOVE this picture! I could just stare at it for hours, it's so peaceful looking. It definitely made the cover of the powerpoint, hope you don't mind :/ fasdifnawrjdgkfjbhaiudfbnkjnfvds I love it. I'm so jealous of your watercoloring skills! :D GOOD JOB. <3
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:iconnaenew:
Mmmm this painting gives me the warm fuzzies! :heart:
the first thing to come to my mind is that it's twilight in the meadow. enjoying the solitude of laying surrounded by the fragrance of wild flowers she falls into a deep sleep the conjurs dreams of a fraiy land... :D
then i look again and notice that the white spots on her chest and hand show that she's laying under a tree with only spots of sunlight seeping in. :)

i just love everything there is to love about this piece. I love the colors and softness, the textures and her pose seems quit natural really... :D
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:icondreamarian:
:iconloveblueplz:Hi! I've featured your work in my journal!:iconrosablu:
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