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myth: creation of the desert by ~furiana:iconfuriana:

Categories Traditional Art > Paintings > Fantasy

©2005-2009 ~furiana
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Crisp, clear detail is visible in full view, so I won't be posting a detail.

:) Maybe I'm jumping the gun, but I think it looks finished. ^^* I'll be entering it in Grambo-Nitro's contest, found on his userpage here: [link]


Acrylic on canvas. (Cropped and watermarked in Paint; no other editing.) © Furiana

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~Grambo-Nitro Aug 3, 2005, 11:29:45 AM
this is definitely close enough to finished. it is an excellent painting and i actually think that it is fine the way it is. it has a sort of dreamy feel. well done.

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~furiana Aug 4, 2005, 8:55:25 AM
:jawdrop: :blush: Thank you! And thank you for the fav! ^^*

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~hiddenreality Aug 4, 2005, 8:32:53 PM
I really like this. Now just a quick question and i may be reading to far into this but is it supposed to be mother Gaia craddling the eartha as she watchs it being destroyed (I saw destroyed because of the burn mark at the north pole, i'm figuring global warming). I really love how the earth turned out and the atmospheric clouds are really nice but I think the woman could use a bit darker shading, my opinion. Keep up the great work.

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One cannot truely live until insanity is embraced
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~furiana Aug 4, 2005, 8:47:57 PM
Well, that wasn't exactly what I had in mind, though I can see it too. I was kindof wondering if it looked like the sun watching somebody nuke the Earth. :)

The woman represents the sun -- thus the lack of shading; I was trying to make her nothing but light. The myth, as it goes, says that the sun ventured too close to the Earth out of curiosity; the place she/he/it scorched eventually became the desert in which the storyteller lives.

Of course, it's ART, and Gaia is a good interpretation too. >^^<


Thanks! :)

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~woktiny Aug 28, 2005, 3:43:20 PM
it struck me as odd, because at first it seemed the character was *craddling* the earth, with would be a warm, Love, thing to do, but then at second it seemed as though the character was *burning* the earth, which of course would not seem too Loving. but then who are we to understand the deeds of deity?

reading, I now see the aim, looks like Africa to me.

neat concept
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~furiana Aug 29, 2005, 8:01:15 PM
"The path to hell is paved with good intentions," I guess. ^^*

Thank you! I love hearing what people think of my work. ^__^

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~woktiny Aug 30, 2005, 11:24:54 AM
reality is an interesting thing, isn't it?
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~theamazingauthor101 Feb 26, 2008, 2:21:21 PM
Wow, this is a really interesting picture. And I mean that in a good way. It's beautiful and being a big liberal, I see a lot of links between this and glabal warming.

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