Deviant Dimanche 7/21/13

I love carousels.  And all theme park rides.  Especially the ornate old ones.  I love period lingerie.  And all lingerie.  From Opheila-Overdose.

Vanity Fair

More lingerie, and that shabby chic interior!  With a dark twist.  Love it.  The blonde looks like a Rapunzel or even a fair Rosalinda.  By Usagi-Tsukina-krv.

Fashion Usagi

Color! Magical Animal!  Personification! Apoplexy!  By ZiyoLing.

Colorful Wings: Peacock

Deviant Dimanche 7/7/13

This Sunday's theme is not Disney princesses.

Anastasia is a great princess who was not by Disney.  I love Cos-play, and dressing as a character is so much fun.  This is a great costume and the photo itself is great.  By EnytheOne.

Anastasia

Another one is the Lady Amalthea.  This woman is the princess, the questor and the freakin' magical animal.  Serious triple dip of roles.  This lovely image is by StressedJenny.

I have yet to see Red Riding Hood done as a true children's tale.  It is a bit grown up, and this Hood owns that.  Good, strong composition and a neutral palette hi lighted with her signature red.  By girltripped.

Deviant Dimanche 6/30/13

Starting off this week is a photomanip by Ruud van Empel, originally found on Juxtapose.  I love the face rising from the water like a nymph or young Vivian.  The color saturation is intense and stark, and crazy lighting that is difficult to pin down.

World #35 2010

A lost girl in a colorful setting, bazaar like, just waiting for the old ascetic to stumble up and offer something.  FeiGiap (site) presents a scene on the brink of change, of personal challenge, the Turning Point, or a badly veiled metaphor for puberty.

000

Last is a work from Sergio Lopez  selected from his recent spread on Empty Kingdom.  This work really made me think of a nymph, grooming in a grove with her sisters on a sunny afternoon.

Belle Isis

Deviant Dimanche 6/23/13

I have the idea to once a week to round up individual pieces I have found through the week on various art sites such as DeviantArt, Society6, YouTube and Behance.  Tumblr will get it's own day on Tuesday.

To set the mood I'm going to start with a music video.  Lyrics are focused on individuals, but focused on global scale with responsibility themes.  Plus, Spiderman can totally be seen as a modern fairy tale.

First up is a piece by FictionChick of DeviantArt (fiction-chick.com). It's a fabulous photo manip with epic Rococo elements used to express the saying 'head in the clouds' (who hasn't heard that one if they are into art?)  I especially love the paper crane birds flying about, adding to the sense of unreality the the mixed perspective starts.

Head In the Clouds

Next is an illustration by Yuko Shimizu of Behance. (http://yukoart.com/)  Elements of past, future and myth combine to create a figure of epic proportions.  I see elements of the sea hag or evil queen here.  The tech elements may turn some off, but I have always subscribed to Clarke's third law,  "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."

The Melancholy of Mechagirl Book Cover

This is by Nacrym of DeviantArt.  (heyoga.free.fr)  Water colors always tend to give an ethereal feel that is reminiscent of enhanced reality of fairy tales.  Plus the epic romance of the subject is implicit.  Add to that the aristocratic clothing of no particular period (correct me if I'm wrong, I don't recognize it,) it's a almost throwing it in your face.

When the snow melts into rain

The next piece is by Myoe Win Aung and I found this piece on an Empty Kingdom article on him.  We  have the ethereal quality of the watercolors again this time on a single figure, striking in it's solitude and warm color on the cool background.  Very easy to see the figure as a protagonist heading out on their quest.

Rainy Day At the Temple

This photo manip by La--Boheme  is a bit darker and shows the price of failure.  The pirate woman makes me think of the tester, the mysterious figure that gives the choice.  The grittiness of it is hyper realistic, another example of reality magnification like When the snow melts into rain.

 

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