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siguneThere is a first time for everything; in this case, I am offering my very first art rec. Since I discovered her work at SH Illusions, I have been an ardent admirer of chicxulub (who, I have just discovered, also goes by the name of ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
iron___bridge). I have traced her to deviantART, where all her gorgeous pictures can be found together in one album - mmmmm... I find that there is one painting in particular to which I keep returning, trying to find out what it is that draws me to it, and that is the one I want to rec to you:
Princess
G, no warnings; it is Eileen Snape in Spinner's End.
Pictures like those make me want to take up watercolour... (Actually I bought myself a box of them yesterday, fully intending to set to work once RL allows me to.) The effects are lovely and the colours great. I also love how the artist combines the paint with beautiful, clear line work.
There is something deceptively simple about this picture, probably because its complexities are so subtly done. The composition is brilliant, with Eileen in the margin and yet eye-catching because of the bright green of her dress and bright orange of the watering can. The idea of portraying her with that can, cultivating small bits of green in brick surroundings, is just great. She is not dominated by her environment, even if the dirty cloud from the mill's chimney looks ominous and threatening.
Oh, it's just marvellous. Go and see for yourselves.
iron___bridge). I have traced her to deviantART, where all her gorgeous pictures can be found together in one album - mmmmm... I find that there is one painting in particular to which I keep returning, trying to find out what it is that draws me to it, and that is the one I want to rec to you:Princess
G, no warnings; it is Eileen Snape in Spinner's End.
Pictures like those make me want to take up watercolour... (Actually I bought myself a box of them yesterday, fully intending to set to work once RL allows me to.) The effects are lovely and the colours great. I also love how the artist combines the paint with beautiful, clear line work.
There is something deceptively simple about this picture, probably because its complexities are so subtly done. The composition is brilliant, with Eileen in the margin and yet eye-catching because of the bright green of her dress and bright orange of the watering can. The idea of portraying her with that can, cultivating small bits of green in brick surroundings, is just great. She is not dominated by her environment, even if the dirty cloud from the mill's chimney looks ominous and threatening.
Oh, it's just marvellous. Go and see for yourselves.
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Date: Tuesday, 27 June 2006 07:43 pm (UTC)Eileen is fascinating, isn't she? At the start I imagined her as a Ravenclaw; I have switched her to Slytherin since. I look forward to writing more of her - I only have a tiny snippet so far.
It's true, she doesn't really look unhappy in the picture. I was sort of touched by the fact that she is growing plants and wears a dress in the colour of hope (or Slytherin, but I think hope because of the young shoots she has been watering). I read it as hinting to her feelings about her pregnancy.
I just can't get enough of that picture, and it is actually one of the rare instances in which I can identify and more or less adequately formulate what I like about an image and what makes it work for me.