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Assalamualaikum and peace be upon you. The vibrant digital paintings of alicexz are
fiery, emotional, and incredibly memorable.
The colors of her creations (mostly portraits of popular TV and Film characters) are unusually vibrant, which is remarkable considering how layered they appear to be. It’s sort of like what manga characters might look like if painted by one of the Dutch Masters.
And this artist exhibits just the right amount of quirkiness to leave us wanting
to know more: she has a penchant for painting redheads. But, then of course,
there’s a lot of red and golden fire burning through most her artworks.
Sherlock - Time Lapse Process Painting
alicexz’s amazing art has recently been extended by the artist into a whole other dimension.
Be sure to experience her marvelous live-stream time-lapse digital painting video, “Virtuoso.”
"Virtuoso" is a process video showing how her “Sherlock” portrait was created, step-by-step, on a Wacom Cintiq tablet. It’s an art+ music video that’s not only mesmerizing to watch, but one that can serve as an instructional resource for deviants and others. Watching the artist’s invisible hands brings to mind the Venetian painting from the Rennaissance, in which painters created compositions directly on the canvas, using layered patches of colored brushstrokes rather than line to define form. In this way they explored the relations of color, light and air on the substance of their subjects, replacing contour lines with transitions of light and shadow. They also used rich, saturated hues to imbue their paintings with a sort of luminosity. alicexz appears to have recaptured the spirit of the "Venitian Palette" and is now exploring new dimensions for the effect digitally, using only her tablet and her talent.
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| "Virtuoso" |
alicexz has recently come to the “devil’s crossroad” that many a deviant member of the
deviantART community has found herself or himself approaching with a mixture of exhilaration
and dread: She has decided to make the leap to supporting herself exclusively as a freelance
illustrator. She has been quite successful with her commissions and selling prints of her
artworks on deviantART, and she’s created a number of stunning, unique t-shirt designs
(see especially “Deliquesce”!) But this is nevertheless always a nerve-frazzling moment for
any artist. Surely the deviantART community will always be there to support her as she
spreads the flames of her digital paintings (and videos!) worldwide.
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| a study in pink |
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| elessar |
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| Irene adler |
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| Katniss |
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| leptocephalus |
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| "look at me" |
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| the better man |
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| the boy who lived |
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| hogwarts brawl |
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