What a wonderful delve in to surrealism. The elements have such convincing individual life that the piece as a whole is quite haunting. The work on the feathers really stands out to me, they are stunning.

--
^{This is more fun than I should probably be allowed to have}

thank you, that's praise indeed looking at the quality of your gallery

--
<sub>Art Director, UI Design
deviantART, Inc.


Denying gravity, and learning To fly.</sub>

thank you in return. Still on the road to bettering myself (aren't we all) and I do need to shed some bad habits, an exercise like this could really help me break free. I've always been impressed by your skill and imagination.

--
^{This is more fun than I should probably be allowed to have}

I would never ever say I'd reached a point that I'm happy with my skills. I still have so much to learn I don't feel I'm even getting my toes wet in the sea of possibilities. As for imagination... I think it's more that I get bored of one style and have to express myself in lots of different ways. I definitely think your skills and imagination are already way beyond mine

--
<sub>Art Director, UI Design
deviantART, Inc.


Denying gravity, and learning To fly.</sub>

Awesome image mate, I am really taken with it, Love the color and realism of it. It's a really powerful image.
David.

--
David Penney.
"Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter" - Oscar Wilde

Wow thats so striking. Beautifully painted!

--
BOOT TO THE HEAD!

this is very different ^_^

--
knowing that every time i do something, i do it a little better than before. that's what matters to me.

The piece itself is amazing. It's like you took a needle full of beauty and awe, and just stuck it in my urethra.

As for what it makes me think of? Well, I see the little fingers on both hands are bound, which makes me think of the silly "pinky promises" school children make. Then there's the one hand that's been torn off, and holes in the body; I assume this means that whatever promise two people mad each-other was broken, and as a result, so was their bond. The ants crawling in to one of the holes makes me think of how they carry crumbs of food away from picnic sites; a part of whoever had been hurt is missing-the "ants" are taking something from them. Then finally, the machinery/tubing at the top makes me think of artificial things and/or man-made objects; fabricated personas.

That is fantastic!
I think what I like most about this is the ants. They creep me out and make the picture even more surreal.

I am sure that whatever you had in mind as you painted this would dwarf whatever mundane ideas I could come up with as far as the symbolism goes, so for now I shall just stand back and bask in the glow of your talent. amazing.

--
*ArtistTradingCards*ATCfanatics~ClubACEO*ACEO-Addict
My stock: ~Zai-stock