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The Rag DollShe built her home in tear drops
And gave her heart to the sky.
She tied up leaves
Around her sleeves
And pretended she could fly.

One morning in mid Winter
On a day that felt more like Spring,
She opened her ears
To the sound of tears
And imagined she could sing.

Overhead the birds would sweep
In sunshine or in rain.
Part of a crowd
They were happy and proud
And ignorant of her pain.

With a final farewell to teardrops
She climbed the tallest tower...
In her silent voice
She made her choice
Knowing freedom was in her power.

With her gaze up to the heavens
She felt then only peace,
As she took one step more
That trailed

Life and Death of Puppet GirlOnce there was a puppet girl
Who lived close to the beach.
She wanted to go down to the sea
But it was always out of reach.

In her room by night and day,
Imprisoned by her strings,
She'd wait and sleep and sometimes pray
For the news the sea breeze brings.

One morning when the sun was shining
And the birds were flying high
She heard the distant sound of crying
That was carried through the sky.

The sound of this then grew louder
Until it filled her room
Until her drooping wooden head
Was steadily filled with gloom.

"Why won't this crying stop" she said
"Why won't this go away?"
"I want the crier to drop dead
And not disturb

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I have discovered that I'm rather intimidated by large colour palettes and appear to end up doing these "single colour" pictures way more than I should... gotta work on that >_>

Anyhoo, hugely inspired by paintings of Sir Frank Dicksee and John Collier.

Many many hours on Photoshop CS2 and my bf's Wacom Intuos 3

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, kiriban winner

(p.s. the compression has done some really weird things to the details, I worked pretty big for this picture so what you're seeing is about a 5th of a original size)

p.p.s. I will post up WIP pictures and details in the Scraps gallery sometime tomorrow, keep an eye out!

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Submitted on: August 7, 2009
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~GaolBaunAlba May 21, 2013 New member

Stunning, who was it based on?

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*vampeer1 Apr 25, 2013 Student Traditional Artist

amazingly beautiful!

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~RowsElisa Apr 16, 2013 New member Hobbyist General Artist

Incredible!! She's beautiful

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*SeventhFairy Mar 18, 2013 Hobbyist Digital Artist

beautiful

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~make-me-meaningless Dec 19, 2012

Wow, she is really beautiful, and you're amazing

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~Storytellertobe Dec 16, 2012

Fantastic picture, wonderful realism and life in this picture. Very well done!

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~richardP1991 Dec 12, 2012 Hobbyist General Artist

did you use acrylics or oils?

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~ysgraithe Nov 26, 2012 Hobbyist Artist

Absolute perfection. well done.

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~PandorumMaximus Nov 17, 2012 Hobbyist

Absolutely gorgeous! Beautiful work and the coloring is perfect !

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~lamperouge0 Nov 17, 2012

Interesting dress– is there any particular styles you based it off?

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