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Saints of San Axolotl Echo birds are as common as muck, and about the same color. They’re found only in San Axolotl, where they scurry along the paving stones and under the tables of the street cafes, through trash-clogged back alleys and down the walks of rooftop gardens, looking for scraps and seeds. Once you leave the city, though, the echo bird population tapers off within five miles, and the only specimens anywhere else in the world have glass eyes and are wired to their perches.

Echo birds are not mimics. There are all kinds of mimics in the bird kingdom, from the pygmy mynah to the rare and savage Cassowary Macaw, whose repertoire generally consists o
The Dress Over the years, people have gone to truly extraordinary lengths in pursuit of fashion. A catalog of peculiar gowns would fill several volumes, even without getting into bizarre hats, wigs, gloves, codpieces, shoes, eyeglasses, and all manner of other demented accessories, and I will not so tax the reader except to mention a few highlights.

Dresses of strange materials are not uncommon. Among the oddest were the mycorrhiza gown of Milicent von Pratt, a wrap of finest fungal threads. This sensational outfit required almost two weeks to put on, requiring Lady von Pratt to paint herself with an agar and compost growth medium and lay prone in a f

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I sat down today and said "Okay! Gotta paint small, quick, cute watercolors for this show!" I picked up a pencil. I got the back half of a hadrosaur out, and my brain shrieked "NO! PAINTPAINTPAINT!", slewed around about one hundred eighty degrees and informed me that I would be doing a digital painting, in a heavily textured style, of Some Weird Thing.

"But--"

"PAINTPAINTPAINT!" There was a stylus in my hand. How did this stylus get in my hand? What is this mess? Did I make that? What time is it? Where did that six hours GO? Holy crap, I was supposed to do stuff today--PAINTPAINTPAINT--!

So. Um. Painting. It's a owl saint. What, you ask, is an owl saint? It's one of those there. Does it mean anything? I don't know, does it? All I can say is that I was trying to paint something, and I don't know if that's quite what the something was, but it's as close as I was able to come. People bemoan the difficulty of painting the pictures in your head, but believe me, it's got nothin' on trying to paint the pictures that aren't in your head! Trying to pry out the geometry of the face from the depths of my skull, and get it to look wrong, but wrong in the right way, was like trying to shuck an oyster with combination locks on it. But hey, at least the colors are nice!

Painting done digitally in Painter 7, took about eight hours, most of which I wasn't quite here for. Any time you do a humaniform critter on a chalkily textured background, the Susan Seddon Boulet influence is inescapable, so I'll just embrace it.

Prints are available. The small are $10, the 13 x 19 are a limited edition of 25, for $45 apiece. Send a note or visit [link] for details.
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Mood: Wow! ~libraryseraph 17 hours ago  New member Hobbyist Traditional Artist
I just want you to know that you're super cool and you've influenced me a lot.
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~DivineLightAngels Mar 29, 2012  Professional Digital Artist
Wonderful
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Mood: Wow! ~damnbho Nov 28, 2011  Hobbyist General Artist
woawww

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drawing is so much fun!
and life is just beautifull...
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~jamesconradallen Sep 27, 2011  Hobbyist General Artist
Very beautiful, in an almost surreal way

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~Applepoisoneer Aug 30, 2011
I would love this as a wall scroll print. It would look fabulous as one of those stain glass windows depicting churchical-stuff... yeah...
This is Brea by the way (short blind cynic)
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~Applepoisoneer Aug 30, 2011
I would love a print of this as a wall scroll. It would look so cool done in stain glass.
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~Ceilius Mar 2, 2011  Hobbyist General Artist
Owl saint is boss.

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Allow me to leave some courage wolf to inspire you to a blinding fury.
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Mood: Love ~raptoregg64 Jan 13, 2011
THIS IS AWESOME! I've been looking through your art for the past couple of days, and greatly enjoying the uniqueness of it all, when I realized something-
I forgot to fave/ add a comment on ANY of it. O_O
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Please forgive me! *kneels* All of your art is fabulous! Don't kill me for forgetting to comment on it until now, simply so I can have the pleasure of looking at more of it! *grovels*

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It starts with not questioning the answers
And giving up before you've begun...
The locks on the doors increases the pressure
And in a flash, your time is up before it's done
And you won't know how it can feel...
To feel at all...
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*Bummerdude Dec 26, 2010
The outlines caught my attention for a good while, and the color palette suits the image nicely. Well done!
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~Taren14 Nov 16, 2010
Looks like a she to me...but it's beautiful either way.

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Remember this: Even if you think you're an insignificant speck of light in the deepest, darkest, blackest corner of space, to God you're the brightest star in the universe.
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