Sister's Lament

18x24 finger smudged oil pastels on paper *no reference* Blue-Period influence

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Blue Mood

No reference used... I find myself more drawn to picasso's blue period, and that is what i was aiming to achieve with this piece. Done in oil pastels on velum bristol.

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"If i don't have red...

I use blue"-Pablo Picasso "Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions. " — Pablo Picasso "There are only two types of women: goddesses and doormats." — Pablo Picasso no reference. no red paint. :P Acrylic on Canvas

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Jaded-Lead

Thanks to Dollmommy for providing the stock photo.

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Love's Truest Language

"Flowers are love's truest language." - Park Benjamin

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"let them eat cake"

this makes me laugh. i kept toying with different ideas and finally settled on this idea. :D hope you guys find it as entertaining. its good for a laugh anyway. Check sbs for original source photo taken by myself.

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Drop Dead Gorgeous

yeah..minimal use of brushes...however,i won't deny that i used some. thanks to the artists out there making decay brushes for this sort of application. some hand painting and overlay...really quite simple manip.

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Come a little closer....

most of this was done with liquify. was done a while back, but i did some adjustments to it and added some coloring that i think really suits it. original picture in sbs. no outside sources used.

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Ice Queen

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Baby Its Cold Outside

thanks to xx Stacey xx @ dA for the model stock, and flashtucka@dA for brushes. my first attempt at this. there aren't too many tutorials out there to teach how to do this effect. seems they all repeat themselves. So i just mixed a few things from each of the tuts and added my own spin to them. ...

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What You Looking At ?!

Thanks a lot to ~AttempteStock.

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Portrait of an A.L.F.

Far past the distant galaxies on a planet yet to be discovered by earthly men, lives a race of interstellar life forms. They take shape in the form of a female humanoid, with no body hair. the bright pigmentation in their skin glows under ultraviolet lights, and during full moons season. This season...

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Sea Witch

my favorite character from the little mermaid was Ursula, the sea witch...This little lady may not be the vision Disney had for their witch, but....I think its more suiting to what i'd envision. According to wikipedia, the octopus person is known as a cecaelia. Read more on this here: http://en....

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Evil Siren

In the classic version of the siren, they were depicted as half bird, half woman. but after searching the link, i found that they were also depicted as evil versions of the mermaid, set out to lure sailors to their deaths. i took the concept of the siren and i made it my own. instead of a lovely ...

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Rock On

For my dear friend...we miss you so much down here. Rock on Brother Dugas.

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In The Flesh

a macro of tattooed skin..with some slight goosebumps. ;)

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Zbra chaos

I really didn't know what I was doing, so don't ask me about the content lol. Every comments and suggestions are welcome, but from tomorrow to this weekend, I won't be here, so I'm sorry if I can't respond or fix this image. So many things I did with this image, so undoubtedly, I had mistakes. Pl...

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Cake Mistress

well, yes..she has two noises because you need an incredible sense of smell to love the cupcakes :P again, I've been under my surrealism artistic fever...but, I'm happy with that :P credits and thanks: http://lady-vicious.deviantart.com http://mediamilitia.com http://fetishfaerie-stock.devian...

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Purple Gloves Do Fly

source only

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Super Terrific Robo Happy Hour

Source only used Have to see in high res the smaller one looks kinda funny.

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Lonely:(

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My beautiful city

Call it Lipscani, call it the Historic Centre (Centru Istoric, in Romanian), call it what you like. But the area of Bucharest described in this image is more or less all that’s left of pre-World War II Bucharest. What the war didn’t destroy (and it destroyed a fair bit: allied bombing ...

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House On the Hill

reminds me of one of them horror movie houses...the slasher or something... like some crazy person with a hockey mask on is ready to escape and slit my throat open. i had the creeps the whole time i was taking shots of this place.

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grain elevator lost to time

its common to see grain elevators along the stretch of roads between one small town and another in our part of the country...some still in operation...this one...abandoned after a new state of the art elevator was constructed in a town 10 minutes from this one.

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