Bragging on an Artist
Dec. 12th, 2007 04:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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Just in case no one looks at other people's friends lists, I have to do some bragging here.
This chick is incredible: Pia Van Ravenstein @ deviantart
I love her totem art, but I'm finding myself drawn to the Wandsuna series that's scattered across her gallery. They're compelling and disturbing all at the same time. I also really like the true-to-life herons - they're like Audobon, only better because they capture the birds' spirits instead of just how they look so birdwatchers know what they're watching. She is extremely prolific, so there's always something new over there. This is her actual website.
I also did something I'd almost never do... I commissioned a piece from her, which is featured in my newest icon :) It arrived today, and it is even more detailed in real life - the lines, the patterns of the hairs on the bear, little spirals & separate dots and color strokes. I was mostly curious to see what someone else who barely knows me would come up with... she saw a cardinal, which are the red feathers encircling the mammoth. I'm working on that. For some reason, all I think about when I see red feathers is my continuing battle with my period, but maybe there really is a little red bird somewhere in my totem pole, lol.
This chick is incredible: Pia Van Ravenstein @ deviantart
I love her totem art, but I'm finding myself drawn to the Wandsuna series that's scattered across her gallery. They're compelling and disturbing all at the same time. I also really like the true-to-life herons - they're like Audobon, only better because they capture the birds' spirits instead of just how they look so birdwatchers know what they're watching. She is extremely prolific, so there's always something new over there. This is her actual website.
I also did something I'd almost never do... I commissioned a piece from her, which is featured in my newest icon :) It arrived today, and it is even more detailed in real life - the lines, the patterns of the hairs on the bear, little spirals & separate dots and color strokes. I was mostly curious to see what someone else who barely knows me would come up with... she saw a cardinal, which are the red feathers encircling the mammoth. I'm working on that. For some reason, all I think about when I see red feathers is my continuing battle with my period, but maybe there really is a little red bird somewhere in my totem pole, lol.
