Gianna's Visions

[cantdog]

Very lovely. Thanks for coming 'round, Gi. Very much appreciated.

 

[Gi_Venus]

Very lovely. Thanks for coming 'round, Gi. Very much appreciated.

Thank you cantdog

 

[Gi_Venus]

Dtps Leopard Prince 2

 

[ABSTRUSE]

Hey GI, I like your art.

 

[dizzylia]

Gi, these are wonderful. Thank you for sharing them all. I especially love the acrylics so far.

 

[Gi_Venus]

Hey GI, I like your art.

Thank you Abstruse, I need to get back into it...like music and many other things I never did find out my full potential.

 

[Gi_Venus]

Gi, these are wonderful. Thank you for sharing them all. I especially love the acrylics so far.

Thank you dizzy , my medium of choice are oils...but I cannot afford them. Acrylics were always a challenge to me...they dry sooo fast!

 

[eyeretinaeye]

Your work

Venus ......... Am not sure which your better with, your hand or a camera with a shutter. Your drawings and paintings draw so much from within you, would enjoy seeing some of yourself too .......... you are amazing

 

[Gi_Venus]

Venus ......... Am not sure which your better with, your hand or a camera with a shutter. Your drawings and paintings draw so much from within you, would enjoy seeing some of yourself too .......... you are amazing

Thank you so much eyeretinaeye((((Hug)))) The camera is a recent thing and my art I have not done in years. I am going to try the art again...I do not know how...I have too many interests and a child..Not enough time... My problem has been that I have never truly tested my potential in many things.....It is a theory I have about people in general...I think we all are full of vast potential that we never explore because of our limiting self talk. Laughing...for me that is the case. So I am pushing myself more...my focus is the arts, writing, painting, photography and music....grin...I have a lovely guitar named Aralyn(meaning - with music) Oh did I forget orchid growing, dancing and baking artisan bread? Am I chattering again?

 

[Gi_Venus]

The following two pieces are from a series I did...I was trying for a certain contraposto....sigh..I never got what I wanted.. I believe the pen and ink came the closest.

 

[Gi_Venus]

 

[Salvor-Hardon]

Gi,

thanks for posting such a great sampling of work. With the mix of flower studies and nudes, you strike me as a Mapplethorpe kind of talent but bridging many more mediums.

The oils of the contraposto is my favorite so far.

 

[Gi_Venus]

Gi,

thanks for posting such a great sampling of work. With the mix of flower studies and nudes, you strike me as a Mapplethorpe kind of talent but bridging many more mediums.

The oils of the contraposto is my favorite so far.

Thank you Salvor I probably had to work the hardest on that one...I did a series of drawings and sketches. Not quite what I was hopeing for. I am glad you like it...I almost did not post it. The painting and orchid growing go hand in hand for me...I bought my first orchid to paint one....I had it outside, the roaches attacked it during the night and ate the flower bud.....so I bought another...started reading about them and got hooked....smile...I have been in bondage to the care of some of my plants for 23 years. Grin...it is my theory of orchids...they find humans to enslave to their care. I mean..some use insect mating behavior to get pollenated. What is the stretch to humans? All kinds of people are out there hand pollenating orchids on each other. They use a symbiotic relationship with fungus to survive in the wild too. Very manipulative creatures....er.. plants.

 

[Gi_Venus]

Phalaenopsis Kuntrarti Rarashati ' Mini-quest' Can you say that? I can't. This plant is interesting in that it was hard to get the true color with my digital.....laughing.... maybe this is the true color and the camera picks up a spectrum not seen by the human eye... I took a lot of photos with and without flash...not a one captured the true color as seen by my eye. The color is actually a deeper purple than is seen here.

 

[cloudy]

Laughing Gulls in the Bahamas acrylic

I love this.

 

[cloudy]

Thank you dizzy , my medium of choice are oils...but I cannot afford them. Acrylics were always a challenge to me...they dry sooo fast!

My SO is an artist (paid, no less ) and paints with acrylics, but he paints ungodly fast.

 

[Gi_Venus]

I love this.

Hi cloudy I like that one. It hangs over our fireplace. I love the look of water. I have spent many hours down by the water. I used to fish for hours and hours, watching all the life around me...the wind on the water, raising ripples with gusts and mini squalls...or the calmer mirror like days where everything is amplified and doubled.....through the glassy mirror the fish swim lazily in ichythoid ballets of figure eights and circles ignorant of the world in their parade.

 

[Gi_Venus]

My SO is an artist (paid, no less ) and paints with acrylics, but he paints ungodly fast.

that is why i like oils...you have a lot of leisure time to ponder your project and the oils can blend so nicely.

 

[dizzylia]

Thank you dizzy , my medium of choice are oils...but I cannot afford them. Acrylics were always a challenge to me...they dry sooo fast!

Well, you do a wonderful job with them! I totally agree on the oils. My preference is colored pencil. Prismas preferred.

 

[Gi_Venus]

Well, you do a wonderful job with them! I totally agree on the oils. My preference is colored pencil. Prismas preferred.

Thank you dizzy I have never tried colored pencil....most of the early works were pencil drawings....I gave them away and destroyed the rest in a tempremental rage.....I am an idiot sometimes I really regret that. I smashed a guitar onetime too....I was so miserable with out it...Grin.... the impulses of youth.

 

[Gi_Venus]

White Peacock Butterfly Previously posted on the Nature Appreciation thread. I started butterfly gardening in an attempt to attract hummingbirds to the yard.....I found there was a lot of over lap...very easily done....a few nectar plants, a few host plants for the catepillars and.....Butterflies!

 

[cloudy]

Hi cloudy I like that one. It hangs over our fireplace. I love the look of water. I have spent many hours down by the water. I used to fish for hours and hours, watching all the life around me...the wind on the water, raising ripples with gusts and mini squalls...or the calmer mirror like days where everything is amplified and doubled.....through the glassy mirror the fish swim lazily in ichythoid ballets of figure eights and circles ignorant of the world in their parade.

Oh, I'm a waterbaby, for sure. I grew up about a mile from the pacific, and home now is a reserve on the shore of Lake Huron.

I'd love to see your take on some of the sunsets at Sauble. It's ranked number two in the world for sunsets (after Hawaii).

 

[Gi_Venus]

Oh, I'm a waterbaby, for sure. I grew up about a mile from the pacific, and home now is a reserve on the shore of Lake Huron.

I'd love to see your take on some of the sunsets at Sauble. It's ranked number two in the world for sunsets (after Hawaii).

oooo...smile..I would like that ...I love that time of day. I am totally ignorant, where is Sauble? A reserve? That has got to be nice.

 

[cloudy]

oooo...smile..I would like that ...I love that time of day. I am totally ignorant, where is Sauble? A reserve? That has got to be nice.

Yes, it's owned by the reserve where I live (Saugeen First Nations Reserve), but is accessible to the public - Sauble Beach. It's on Lake Huron, and is beyond beautiful.

 

[Gi_Venus]

Yes, it's owned by the reserve where I live (Saugeen First Nations Reserve), but is accessible to the public - Sauble Beach. It's on Lake Huron, and is beyond beautiful.

I love wild places.