From Classical Painting Atelier by Juliette Aristides

"Despite all appearances and talk to the contrary, we crave art that captures truth and remains powerfully and beautifully relevant long past the time of its creation. This sort of art is not just pretty or made up of hollow aesthetic beauty that changes with they eye of the beholder. It is not sentimental, for sentiment is fleeting. The sort of art that lives eternally is that which captures astonishing, spine-chilling, breathtaking beauty that heightens our senses and floods us with transforming thought and emotion. In this work, we hear a whisper from another world saying "It's all real." The ache to last means you were meant to last; the longing for beauty calls you because beauty marks a reality that actually exists."


I definitely recommend this book! Mine just arrived int he mail and it is fabulous!

it is funny to me that I look at most popular in "Traditional Art" and its 90 % cartoons!!!!


Not that cartoons are bad..in fact I like cartoons..but thats just not the first thing that comes to mind when I think traditional art!

Oh, and ANOTHER close up eye today! Let's start a tally!

I want to challenge those who chose the Daily Deviations to do just ONE day without

1. Exposed Breasts
2. Close up of an Eye
3. Pencil portrait rendered from a photograph

annnnd

4. A bloody girl


Think it could be done?

Girls + blood


isn't there enough violence towards women in this world? DO we need to see bloody females as DD's everyday?

as a daily deviation i am gonna puke.


can't we get enough of that...please!?

i just want to know..

why can't I get ONE freaking break?

why does it always have to be disappointment?