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August 22, 2008
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Oil painting. 60 x 80 cm
title: "Don't blame the canvas"
org.title: "Ikke skyld på lærrete"

I cut a gap in the canvas with a real knife
where the blood is pouring out.

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Critique by *EricKuns Apr 9, 2012, 9:02:50 PM
A genuine Surrealist offering from this young artist. This unique work gets much less attention than her dragon and fantasy type works (this one has 87 favs, as compared to one of her fantasy animals having over 900), but I’ve seen hundreds of dragons for every one artist/rapacious-flower-monster. Look at the mouth on this thing! It’s part purple flower, as in Audrey II from “Little Shop of Horrors” – “Feed me Seymour!” – and yet the head also reminds me of an oyster, a squid’s cone, and a dinosaur. The creature has no eyes and just lashes out at the canvas, as thick, viscous fluid drips from its mouth. Despite its apparent voraciousness, it’s a strangely beautiful beast. Maybe I shouldn't meddle too much, but I've encouraged this artist to do more of this sort of work instead of her much more popular fantasy work.

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~ShannC Dec 28, 2012  Hobbyist Traditional Artist
awesome!
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~elen89 Dec 28, 2012  Student Traditional Artist
Thank you :aww:
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~Sasiadragon Jun 2, 2012  Hobbyist General Artist
From my view, she's not blaming the canvas. She just want to paint and don't know how. See, she's smudging the blood? I guess my imagination is special, but that's how I see it. It's great, though! Special and unique, and it's also very bizzare. These bright colours looks wrong for a such dark creature, but on the other hand, not at all. She looks somewhat ... sick, I think. Is it some kind of darker shadow or demon of someone? Her shadow looks quite normal and makes me think she is.
Now that I noticed the shadow, I like it even more. It suddenly reminds me of the opposite of those shadows that looks like something scary at night. The shadow looks like a woman with a ponytail, maybe also a scarf, but normal ...
In many ways, I like this kind of painting way more than the dragon ones and scenes with animals fighting and so on that you see everywhere, because you can keep dragging more out of this.
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~elen89 Jun 3, 2012  Student Traditional Artist
Thank you :)
It's fun to hear all the different things people seen in this painting :D
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~olejny May 3, 2012  Professional Traditional Artist
Revelation!
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~elen89 May 4, 2012  Student Traditional Artist
:)
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*CanicularDays Feb 26, 2012   Traditional Artist
Wow, this looks absolutely amazing! I really adore the use of colours and light, it has such a lovely and unique look to it. Beautiful work!
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~elen89 Feb 26, 2012  Student Traditional Artist
Tusen takk :)
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*CanicularDays Feb 26, 2012   Traditional Artist
Bare hyggelig! :)
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*EricKuns Feb 1, 2012
I dig the mouth and the stuff dripping from it. It's actually weird, and not just trying to be weird.
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