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(Please do not comment on the watermark; it's there for a reason.) Please full view: this is a PNG and devART's preview makes them look weird.At some point, likely any artist -- or for that matter, any person working with their vocation -- has felt this way: it's trying to kill you. Whether it is your art, your business, your social work, your genius invention...
It's a living, breathing thing inside you and outside you trying to drive you mad, work you sick, ravage and destroy your life. Myself, I feel as if I'm always scrambling to get to the top of some massive obstacle between me and the other side of my art, the side that will show what I know it could be if I could just GET there without losing my mind first.
Then later, it comes to me quieter and gentler, soothes me and seduces me all over again, and I will forgive it. I can't help it.
My art is trying to kill me, but I don't mind.
(Note: in some cases, art really does kill the artist. For example, Luis JimΓ©nez was killed by his demonic "Blue Mustang," which now lives on to regularly freak out folks traveling through Denver International Airport.)
Nupastel, water, carbothello pencil, acrylic, used paintbrushes and pencils. 11.5"x19".
Art/Image copyright Β© Kate N.Y. (me, ~dreor )
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Comments: 9
Wow, I feel like that every day in art class and being stuck doing still lives. This is perfect, nice job.
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Wow thats a wicked piece and I think we all feel like that. You had a great way of putting out there.
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I really love how in the thumbnail I actually thought these were people with like, spears etc comin' to get ya, and I zoom in and whoa XD
~K@
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This is great! I really liked both the idea and the resulting piece
And your comment is most interesting! I've never heard of Luis JimΓ©nez before.. Is this the piece you were talking about? [link]
(By the way, is it right to say "piece" referring to a piece of art? Please correct me if I'm wrong 
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Also, yes, it is alright to refer to a single work of art as a "piece." For example, I could say "I worked on this piece for so and so hours." Synonyms also include "work" and "object." Similar terms exist in music and literature, and for all three genres of creation there are often subtle differences in why you would use a particular word in context.
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Yep, that's the one. It's huge, and its eyes are a demonic red. In general it's not very well received by travelers.
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