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Not Quite A Lion by `ursulav:iconursulav:

Categories Traditional Art > Mixed Media > Fantasy

©2009-2010 `ursulav
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This was a technical experiment, loosely inspired by the collage work of Chris Berens. I did the initial underpainting digitally, printed it out on my snazzy printer, sealed it to board, and proceeded to beat the hell out of it with every medium at my disposal, trying to see what worked. So it's Very Very Mixed Media...inkjet, pastel, acrylic paint, acrylic ink, india ink, color pencil, blended fiber medium, paint pen, watercolor, silk paint, and anything else I had laying on the studio table within arm's reach. The end result is not quite what I had envisioned, but I think it might be going somewhere, if I ever have time to follow the experiment to the end.

It's not quite a lion, but I'm not sure if it knows that.

Anyway! Original for sale, prints available, and you can order those at the snazzy new Red Wombat Studio at [link]

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~JuniperBonsai May 15, 2009, 4:42:04 PM
Adorable. <3

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~FilthHammer May 15, 2009, 4:42:56 PM
Now that's something. Very interesting concept.

Thanks for sharing.
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~FCLittle May 15, 2009, 4:43:08 PM
I like this very much.....I also very much like the extensive use of so many mediums to achieve it....
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=Paullell May 15, 2009, 4:43:51 PM
I like him!!

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*taklayyankovic May 15, 2009, 4:46:37 PM
Haha, he reminds me of our outside-cat that just got shaved. >_>

Very interesting concept, and I love how you just beat it up with anything you could find. You're so daring, and the current end-result looks fabulous for what you did. I'm sure if I'd done that it would have ended in disaster. :XD:

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=Ferelwing May 15, 2009, 4:47:19 PM
Aww!!

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*APFurtado May 15, 2009, 4:47:59 PM
I've been following your work for a while now, which I discovered, initially, though Digger. I'm not sure if I ever commented; I may have with the Gear World stuff which I like quite a bit but, this one really spoke to me...enough to step out of the shadows.

This is very cool.
I'm inspired by your experimentation. :)
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~Pointy-Eared-Fiend May 15, 2009, 4:50:18 PM
Your wild everything-mixed-media work makes me wonder what you'd do with some of the weird digital media stuff we carry at the art supply place where I work. Golden (acrylics brand) makes it... you paint this primer on stuff you couldn't normally run through a printer (cheesecloth, aluminum foil, or acrylic paint skins, anyone?) and suddenly... it takes printer ink.

The possibilities for someone who goes crazy with both digital and traditional media... it boggles the mind. O_o

Of course, it's possible you already know about this and I'm preaching to the choir. XD

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~ForestSpiritAiia May 15, 2009, 4:54:20 PM
Sleepy eyes lounging on a phantom walrus rock. He may not be a lion but I agree, I believe that he thinks he is.

I'm impressed at just how well all your media experementaion worked together. Usually when I play like that I end up with a horrible muddled blob that looks like it crawled out of a ninteen eightys horror flick.

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~Servitor2152 May 15, 2009, 5:06:42 PM
Looks like a . . . lumpy tumor-lion-squirrel atop a patchwork mushroom-cake that's sitting atop a frog statue?

That's my interpretation, anyway. *shrug*

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