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Categories Traditional Art > Drawings > Macabre & Horror

©2005-2010 *wytrab8
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pencil on paper~2005

This is just a sketch of a dream I had about demonic paintings. Let me explain. I dreamt I was in an occult "art gallery" (it was just a front, the building actually contained a gateway to someplace 'evil'). There were two creepy, overly friendly ladies running the gallery. They tried to get me to sign the guest book but I declined. I started to get the feeling that if I looked at every painting the gateway would activate. So naturally I acted like I was looking. I did look at a few pieces... which is roughly what my sketch shows... some of the subject matter of the paintings. A bunch of demonic faces.

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!Mu-Shu-Fasa Sep 22, 2005, 6:59:54 PM
You're a real Salvador Dali Masterpiece ;)
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~mezla Sep 21, 2005, 12:10:39 PM
I hope you don't mind if I use scary Halloween words, but this is excellent... The detail on each of the faces is great, and makes it look really controlled (ironic word for a nightmare! I mean artistically).

And yes, the composition is good too—jumble, misalignments, and all! The rough framing by the more detailed faces at top and bottom is good, and at the same time the composition is still nicely asymmetrical. (If you don't mind my saying it.)

Any connection to the ladies in Disgruntled Tea?

And please tell me, why, why, why do I talk so much?
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*wytrab8 Sep 21, 2005, 1:25:35 PM
Thanks... I feel, for myself, that I captured the imagery well enough... but it's near impossible to take what was in my head, which was running on it's own motor, and re-create the exact look and feel of it for an audience. At least it helps me to remember the bizarre films playing in my head at night =)

No relation to the disgruntled tea ladies... that I know of. No birth records have been recovered, but I'm pretty sure they are not part of the bloodline. These ladies were crunchy-looking (like Co-op shopping crunchy) and older, the tea chicks... they were young, and had a 'friendly' vibe to them.

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“Anything essential is invisible to the eyes”
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~mezla Sep 22, 2005, 8:05:29 PM
Yeah, you've mentioned that before about the final product coming out different from the source material, or dream, or idea. No one, I suppose, is a camera, or even a tape recorder (no matter what you say!!), and you can't really buy paints in dream-colors. And as you said, "anything essential is invisible to the eyes", and a picture, after all, is something your eyes take in. But it's certainly quite the glimpse!

I will keep all this in mind the next time I go to the Co-op.
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~sweeterneatercontent Sep 21, 2005, 12:09:45 AM
You have very interesting dreams! lol. You're very lucky you can remember them though, I always forget mine when I wake up.

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"Nothing makes one so vain as being told one is a sinner" - Brian Slade, Velvet Goldmine
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*wytrab8 Sep 21, 2005, 8:10:17 AM
Ha, thanks. I promise I'm quite docile, I just have dark dreams... I'm ok to be in enclosed spaces with people :drool:

I have so many freakin' dreams, so I don't remember all of them... just the really good ones I guess :D

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dA portfolio: [link]

“Anything essential is invisible to the eyes”
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~Alptrauma Sep 21, 2005, 12:03:59 AM
Quite hideous! Must have been an exciting dream!

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*wytrab8 Sep 21, 2005, 8:11:00 AM
Haha. Thanks. It was definitely something

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dA portfolio: [link]

“Anything essential is invisible to the eyes”
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*tiamat9 Sep 20, 2005, 8:26:13 PM
Nice form and structure. I really like the style and technique. Very interesting looking composition.

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"A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on"-
William S. Burroughs

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*wytrab8 Sep 20, 2005, 10:09:27 PM
Thanks! 'Preciate the comment

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“Anything essential is invisible to the eyes”
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