well here are some of my best watercolors so far from my february one-a-days. (the whole month, misses and all are on my flickr)
and if you haven't heard my soapbox before about vanitas, i'll try to sum it up briefly. vanitas means vanity, like the ecclesiates variety. as in, brevity in this life. it was a still life genre popular among the 17th c. Dutch. i'm perpetuating the genre by drawing and painting dead and dying things to remind me of the brevity of this life vs. eternal things.
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i like watercolours...
something about them. my dad and brother's main mediums were oil or acrylic... but when a watercolour comes around...i love the sort of translucent look...the not-sharp-edge(i dunno what i'm talking about)look to it.
these are neat.
it's good to be reminded of the brevity of life.
"As for man, his days are like grass; he flourishes like a flower of the field; for the wind passes over it, and it is gone, and its place knows it no more. But the steadfast love of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting on those who fear him,"(from ps 103)
nice color choices. i like the philosophy behind it too.
inspiring :)
These are beautiful - especially the skull. The color and light make it un-creepy but still symbolic. :)
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