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Crow with Fireworks by `ursulav:iconursulav:

Categories Traditional Art > Paintings > Animals

©2004-2009 `ursulav
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I'm not sure of much in life, and it seems occasionally like I get less sure all the time. However, I still cling to at least one deeply held conviction--namely that if crows could use matches, we'd all be in a world of hurt.

Watercolor/acrylic ink, 4 x 10, another narrow little piece, as I continue to fool around with those mats and ways to stylize birds so that they're...um...cuter. (Not that some of 'em aren't darling already, but y'know. I think I'm a little scared of birds. I live in fear that they will either beak me savagely and cause me untold agonies, or that their fragile avian skeletons will dissolve like wet toilet paper if I breathe on them wrong. So I keep trying to find a way to draw them so that I can relate to them better, which in typical Ursula fashion means making them look pudgy and a little smug.) Anyway! Original is for sale, visit [link] or drop a note if I haven't updated yet!

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~J-Master Sep 21, 2004, 5:01:31 AM
Feathers + Fireworks... not a good idea for this poor fellow !

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~marianus Sep 21, 2004, 5:03:06 AM
ha, first comment.
How will you make a cute bird like a crow cuter than it's actual is? I simply love those birds. And I love this one, too. And yes, it's very very good they can't use matches. But I'm pretty sure it's only a question of time until they figured it out how to lighten them. (please notice that female crows are much more intelligent than male ones. That's proofen by the Oxford university. :D)
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~biomek Sep 21, 2004, 5:06:20 AM
I love this one!! God where do you come up with them. Thanks always for sharing, you inspire and motivate me!! I reallly look at your techniques very hard to try and learn.
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~wredwrat Sep 21, 2004, 5:06:35 AM
Aww, just too precious! :D I like how you drew him here, I don't think I've ever seen a cuter crow. Look at his little feet! :poke: Now let's just hope he doesn't get his beak onto some matches..

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Step over the frame, live in the picture. ~T. Fogarty
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~MightyRavenscar Sep 21, 2004, 5:09:43 AM
This is probably my favorite by you. fantastic concept and even better execution.

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Inigo Montoya: You seem a decent fellow. I hate to kill you.
Westley: You seem a decent fellow. I hate to die.

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~statico Sep 21, 2004, 5:09:54 AM
hahaha lovely :aww:

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~BackyardBabies Sep 21, 2004, 5:12:04 AM
:giggle: awesome!

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~Trellia Sep 21, 2004, 5:14:02 AM
That's very cute! Did you deliberately make the fireworks look like the, erm, unusually shaped rocks in "The Valley of Wang?"

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~machine-guts Sep 21, 2004, 5:17:52 AM
My totem holdeth the key. :lol: Great one Ursula! I'll have to agree... if crows could use matches, we really would be in a world of hurt. :O

MGutz

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"And now I see with eye serene, the very pulse of the Machine." -William Wordsworth
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~perigryn Sep 21, 2004, 5:17:56 AM
With such a conviction, I cannot help but be amused. This piece is great, like so many others by you. The colours, all so vibrant, give the image a life that I rarely see in any other's works. The crow itself is great. Definitely looking capable of creating mischief. On it, the stump, and the foliage in the background, you put a great deal into the details that give it that little element of realism, despite the less real regard of the crow and the uncharacteristic fireworks lol. Your shading further enchances the depth of realism and colour as well. I'm hoping I make sense in all of this because I really do like this piece and I don't think I've commemted on your works before. Anyhow, great piece and a definite fave for me ^_^ Nicely done, Ursulav!

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