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Spring Petals by =Kyena:iconKyena:

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The third addition to my season series.

This time Spring.
Some throughts I had while painting this:

Spring has to fight her way out of the grasp of Winter before she can fully blossom.
Thus the webish cocoon thing at the bottom of her dress.

The dress itself is supposed to mimic a caterpillar at the bottom and the floating veils should sympolize the transformation into a butterfly (probably a bit too much symbolism and suger hmm?)..

I added the cloudy weather because April belongs to Spring and I really hate the moody character of that Month..you can have sun and the next time clouds coming in and rain for hours..

Some other things which are personal to me have been added as well but I am not going to bore you with that :) (the things that made me chose the color scheme above all).

I used a smiliar picture of myself for the arms and hands (didn't help much though - I shouldn't have chosen that pose to start with...) and all different kind of butterfly pictures and flowers (mainly of chinese cherry trees and Magnolias (spelling?))
No references for the clothing or anything else

Hope you enjoy! :)

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*Mistresselysia Aug 9, 2005, 9:54:14 AM
Simply beautiful. As a digital painting newbie, this is what I aspire to! :+fav:

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=D-NA Aug 9, 2005, 10:00:35 AM
Yay, it's finally done! Glad you stopped teasing us with the WIPs.. ;P

Her hands turned out really awesome :D And I love the blurred petals.. they give the picture a more alive feeling. She is so beautiful <3

I love symbolism in pictures, because it really gives pictures a lot more depth. I wouldn't mind if you shared more about the painting, but it's okay if that stuff is too personal for you :aww:

It's just really, really awesome... the colours, the flow.. everything!

By the way, my birthday's in April... sadly enough, my mood changes as fast as April weather does =/ Oh well...

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~Furgur Aug 9, 2005, 10:02:18 AM
Very beautiful painting..I think you are one of my favorite digitalpaintingartists here on Deviantart...I love your flowers that you have painted in the picture and the whole picture has good movements.
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~CalimaX Aug 9, 2005, 10:03:02 AM
Woot! You won the battle with her hands! :D

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~georgeamaral Aug 9, 2005, 10:05:27 AM
simply amazing

your colors are fenomenal

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*keight Aug 9, 2005, 10:11:08 AM
Nicely done, Tascha. Please forgive me for possibly sounding unenthusiastic. My back hurts so much today that it is difficult to think tidily. No painting for me today, darnit.

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~Attalus Aug 9, 2005, 10:18:34 AM
Gorgeous! I can see the chrysalis quite clearly, now. I like the purple because early spring is coolish even here in Texas. Her arms and hands are stunning. Extreme foreshortening is so difficult, becuse you cant use shading, etc. That blurred great petal coming toward the viewer's right eye adds a lot to the action of the piece. :+fav:

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=SparklyDest Aug 9, 2005, 10:23:20 AM
This is just too lovely for words! So, I shall stop trying to find any to use. :+fav:

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~LightOfTears Aug 9, 2005, 10:37:25 AM
I love how everything appears to be glistening in the background, like the plants are wet with melted snow or an early april shower.... so beautiful! I love that shade of pinkish-purple color. Everything is awesome... it's really neat how you added the out-of-focus magnolia (I think you spelled it right...) and petals! It adds so much depth. This is so awesome. I can't wait to see Lady Summer! :hug:

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*Maidith Aug 9, 2005, 10:37:26 AM
Exzellent gemalt! Die Farbgebung ist sehr hübsch und die unscharfen Blütenblätter im Vordergrund geben dem Bild richtig Tiefe... :heart: Die allegorische Figur ist auch sehr schön. Ist das Bild schon fertiggestellt? Die Hände sehen mir noch ein wenig unfertig aus ^^;
Aber ansonsten 1a.

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