'And She Begins Again...'

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She stares at the moon...
With the longing in her soul
Of the things she cannot reach...
With her wings;
She cannot fly...
And the empty boats
Sit silent,
And idly by...

©Nikarma

This was a three artist painting that I never got done (or even started) within my art 11 semester. My teacher said it was perfectly fine that I couldn't do it as part of the course, so she omitted it. I did it anyway, as it seemed really fun (reason why I couldn't do it was because I was working on something else). It turned out better than I expected.

This picture is a combined piece of three artists. As part of the assignment, I had to choose three different artists and take a picture from each, putting them together into one. This was completely painted in Photoshop, by me. I didn't

~The girl with the wing: ~Ikun (Lilith/Gotham Lullaby)
===Original pic's stock from *lockstock
~The planet/moon and clouds: ~Bakenius (Watching Over)
~The curtain, ledge, pillar, boats, and water: Tim O'Brien (Cover for Royal Diaries: Kristina, by Carolyn Meyer) [link]

In ~Ikun's pic, the girl doesn't actually have wings; it's part of her dress.. But I made them into wings for this. And it's not that you doesn't know how to fly (for my story)... it's because she doesn't want to leave. She wants to leave, but she doesn't. Okay? Okay.

This picture eventually made its way into the Open Minds, Open Doors art show in my city. Well.. it almost didn't make it. My friend, ~Bakenius, said it was okay if I used his picture, and I had mailed ~Ikun said it was okay too. There was Tim O'Brien left... and as he's.. how do I put it.... high up, as artists go? Hard to contact? I can't even find him on Google, jeeblies... I can find the books covers he's done.. but not any profile or contact of him. Thus.. I was one short of having proper permission to get it in the art gallery. My teacher said that one of the co-ordinators at the art gallery said it was fine, as I give proper credit in my artist statement. Another said no. My teacher managed to slip it in, when the no-lady wasn't there though. XD

Yesterday was the art show; 'twas fun! ^__^ Thus, two piccurs I managed to get in the art show. :3

Some of you on my watch list got to preview it too, ne~

Jeeblies... so much talking. I'm sorry. T_T

Last note (I promise!): This is actually the pic that caused me to upload like crazy onto dA suddenly.