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Kyena — Spring Petals
Published: 2005-08-09 17:51:46 +0000 UTC; Views: 42039; Favourites: 1295; Downloads: 4926
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The third addition to my season series.This time Spring.
Some throughts I had while painting this:
Spring has to fight her way out of the grasp of Winter before she can fully blossom.
Thus the webish cocoon thing at the bottom of her dress.
The dress itself is supposed to mimic a caterpillar at the bottom and the floating veils should sympolize the transformation into a butterfly (probably a bit too much symbolism and suger hmm?)..
I added the cloudy weather because April belongs to Spring and I really hate the moody character of that Month..you can have sun and the next time clouds coming in and rain for hours..
Some other things which are personal to me have been added as well but I am not going to bore you with that
(the things that made me chose the color scheme above all).I used a smiliar picture of myself for the arms and hands (didn't help much though - I shouldn't have chosen that pose to start with...) and all different kind of butterfly pictures and flowers (mainly of chinese cherry trees and Magnolias (spelling?))
No references for the clothing or anything else
Hope you enjoy!
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Comments: 236
Hey Hana! Damn I always forget to comment on your lovely submissions in the chillroom >_<
Thanks for the compliment
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VERY beautiful! I love the colors! They all work so well together. There's so much to see in this! The detailing is amazing!
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thanks for commenting and the watch
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This is cool. I really like the symbolism in it and the details look awesome. I really like the colors and her face is so pretty.
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This is so beyond awesome! I love all the symbolisms and details and I think you pulled them off perfectly! The magnolias are beautiful as is her morphing dress and I love the chosen colors! How could I NOT love this!
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Donna you are the best - thank you
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Love the butterflies
I will admit, when you firs started doing this piece I didn't like it at all, but i take back those thoughts, I think it's stunning now
hands look good, no idea what ur complaining about
Love the way you did the flowing of her dress, the bottom of the pic, with the flowers and the effect over the skirt looks beautiful
Nice work
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I was not happy with it at all when I started..but it improved on the process (thank god)
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really nice work :]
you are getting great depth in your pictures recently, I love it :]
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looks amazing, this one is the preetest painting of yours for my opinion
2 question:
1- did you used refrance for the face (i did'nt understand from the content if it's yes or no)
2- just from curiosity, henning helped you to get improve?
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1 - none in particular no
2 - well, we critique each others work so you could say we are definately learning from eachother - I guess. However we have extremely different techniques to approach a painting and different techniques while painting.
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This is simply magnificant! I love the detail in the entire picture. Simply beautiful.
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the close up flowers are just amazing , liked how they out of focus , i like to do that on my painting too
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It's very much inspired by how photographs work. Since my parents are photographers I grow up with in and out of focuse effects
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thanks - I am ok with how it turned out - I just wish I would have used a different pose. The foreshortening on the hands/shouder area is such a pain and almost impossible to shade >_<
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Beuatiful as always. I really admire your painting skills. The soft focus on the flower in the foreground really sells the piece in my opinion.
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Thank you very much
I am experimenting with in and out of focuse subjects currently.
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i like the way theres like twinkles of lense flare from the humidity that blurs the background, focusing attention to the things that are most important, surprisingly the purples and greens in this work really well together, i definitely like the symbolism though 
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Thanks for noticing! That was pretty much what I was going for. You know all the tiny glittering the trees and grass has during early mornings in Spring - from the humidity and the air smells fresh
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yes spring does have that undeniably fresh scent, it definitely comes through in this painting 
Hey when do you anticipate we'll see Summer (of this series)?
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uoh dunno..I have a lot of official work to do and catch up with
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yeah i bet, well anyway, good luck with it all Tascha
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yes spring does have that undeniably fresh scent, it definitely comes through in this painting
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Thats flippin fantastic, Kyena. Your technique has improved considerably i think. Especially now that you have floating objects like the leaves, the placement of the flowers etc. It gives such wonderfull 3 dimensionality to your works. I am very impressed.....
Congratulations on a fine effort Kyena
Marley
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Thank you so much Marley!
I am pretty much trying out new things. Above all totally different color schemes and above all on and out of focus elements to creat depth. Still much to learn but I already learned some new things while working on this. Now I just need to work bigger
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*GASP* I am so glad I put you on DEV. WAtch. I am watching you from now on because this, as well as all your other artwork, is AWESOME
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Glad you enjoy this piece Celeste and thank you very much for the watch
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Beautiful painting, so flowing and soft in colors. Great pose too, and I love the "winter" part because the texture is so neat. Great painting Natascha!
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Thanks Steph
You have no idea how many brush strokes that consists off tehehehe...
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wow, mein Kompliment zu diesem tollen Bild. Du wirst mit jedem besser!
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Ich versuch zumindest immer wieder was neues zu lernen
Danke Raphi
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WOW BEAUTIFUL! I love the colours and the sense of movement. Really great interpretation of spring! wonderful work!
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I like this pretty much.
Looks like you've found a faster way to paint - the only thing that desturbs me is the empty space at the right buttom, compared to all the stuff in the left corner (buttom) it looks unbalanced.
(Hope you get what I'm trying to say I'm badly tired today. :/)
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Yes I know what you mean - it doesn't bother me at all though.
I tend to downsize my paintings to thumbnail size to check the overall feel.
Thanks for the feedback though
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I think you made this piece interesting by blurring the petals and the flower that is closest to the viewer. It's a bit like a photogaph, and the whole effect just makes it unique.
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Thanks
I am currently experimenting with those effects to create both interest and more depth to my paintings.
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