Watercolor and Ink Paintings

Arts and Drafts festival went really well, it was fun as always. I've painted a few small painitngs specially for this occasion and these two watercolor and ink paintings are the last two from those paintings.

I especially like the profile, it's an experiment gone right. I did enjoy doing other paintings with these lines, but lately it just wasn't cutting it. I wanted to use them for something new and so I did. I haven't even hoped that it would end up as well as it did, but alas.

While at an art show I have talked to a few people that inspired a couple of Tatyana skids, so the insanity of that character will continue.

You can enter to win prints of both the flower and the male portrait.

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Bonus entries (bonus entries will not count unless you have done one of the above) are:

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In the Middle of it all is Love, Abstract Watercolor Painting and Crazy Kitteh

 

Here comes my second video, In the Middle of it all is Love, plus a little bonus kitty love.

I wanted to poke fun at putting cute adorable animals in the videos and using sex just to get more views. In order to make fun of it, I went ahead and filmed my little kitty friend. He tried to eat me in the process, but it ended well. I ended up getting a lot more views in the first day then I did with the first video. Somehow I think it's because it had "cute kitten" as one of the tags. Surely after Monkey was done trying to kill me, I went ahead and talked about my art, to be more specific, about one painting about love. 

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Apocalypse update: Oh, yes the Jews never had those who enslaved them as slaves and there are people living on the land that used to be Babylon. Since the bible predicts these things and they haven't happened yet, there can't be the end of the world just yet. Interesting, I totally forgot about all the predictions the bible made that haven't come true yet. Well, we have a little over 5 month for it all to happen. If it all does happen and the end of the world will come, well... I guess I'll have to accept my defeat. If all these predictions don't happen and the end of the world comes, then God is a liar and I would still have to accept my defeat because I really don't like the end of the world idea. And if the end of the world never happens at all, then I'll go ahead and scream into the faces of everyone who believed in it "I TOLD YOU SO!!!"

Fire Butterfly Jewels and a Giveaway

Wanted to leave a quick note about another giveaway I have going on. This one is for one of my letters. It's on Fire Butterfly Jewels where all of it will be nicely taken care of for me, so I'll just quickly retire and get back to my painting... the procrastination will kill me one day...

Almost forgot, the apocalypse... I think pastafarians are starting to loose, because it was way too hot today. and yes, I actually had to water my plants today since the rain never came. It's so humid out, I really wish we had some rain, but alas, Yahweh decided I should suffer for my sins and bake alive. Must be because I worship animal idols. 

Giveaway of Painting Joy and My First Youtube Video

It is finally done, my first youtube video is up and running. Hence the giveaway. As I promised a while ago, it's up for grabs.This Painting would normally be $50, but since I love you guys so much...

The rules are simple, for each entry leave it's own comment here on my blog. Make sure I have some way to contact you (email, etsy shop, twitter, Facebook, YouTube, some place I can send you a message if you win). I will draw the lucky number once my YouTube channel hits 500 views, so the faster it'll happen, the faster the painting will be sent to the winner. The ways to enter are many.

Mandatory:
Subscribe to my Youtube channel and comment on the video. (1 entry) 

Additional:
Follow Armada Volya's Art Corner and From the World of Art (1 entry each)
Favorite Armada Volya etsy shop (1 entry)
Follow me on Twitter (1 entry, please give name in the comment)
Like my Facebook Page (1 entry, please leave name in the comment)
Post about this giveaway and the video on twitter, Facebook, and/or blog (1 entry each, give links in your comment)
Join my mailing list. Email me at armadavolya@ hotmail.com with your mailing address. I don't send emails more then once per month and I don't send mail more then twice a year. Information will not be sold or shared (2 entries, one for email address, one for mailing address. Be sure to leave 2 separate comments)
And just because I really love the print I got, visit Jessica Lopez's shop and tell me what item you like the most there

The winner will be picked using www.random.org
Good luck.
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Sorry guys, forgot to do my usual apocalypse update, so here it is for both days. Yesterday- more of the same. Today- there is no rain, it's horrible, all day it was really hot and then there was no rain... now I'm going to have to water my plants myself... now that's very close to the end of the world as far as I see it.

Ancestors Spirits, Small Watercolor Painting

I just remembered about this set of small watercolor painting I did last year. I hang them on the wall and forgot all about them. This is from my Ancestor's collection. I have vases, pencil cups, sketch cards, pins, this set plus two larger acrylic paintings all from this collection. Erie Horror fest is responsible for this collection. I was one of the vendors last year for the independent horror movie festival and since I don't really have any horror art, I wanted to have something that would be somewhat horror, but retain my style. I ended up using simplified version of my abstract lines with faces. As a result I got cool ghostly, creepy faces while using more or less the same style. I had a problem finding frames for these, the sizer and shape it too different from what most people work with. My answer to the problem was to make some myself. It's actually not so much a frame as a cool looking back that can be used to hang them on the wall. What I did was basically braided strips of paper from magazines and newspapers into a shape I wanted, and glued the painting onto it. I then covered the surface with a shiny, protective layer of sealant and called it a day. The problem I ended up having though is the price. Because of the braided paper I ended up spending way more time on it and it spiked up the price. Not many people are willing to pay a lot of money for such a small painting. After they weren't sold at the first show, I hang them on the wall to keep them safe and sound and was actually somewhat happy they didn't sell. They look great together, create a larger piece that way. Because I made some of then hang sideways, they look much better when they are all next to each other in a shape they are in on this photo. All good things must come to an end though, I don't like having the same looking walls year after year, I want a change. So, here is what I was planing to do. I'll post them on etsy and if they sell, great. If not... I don't know... I might donate it for some good cause or give them away, or just give them as gifts to my family and friends.

Oh and a quick update, world is standing,  weather is rainy and we got lightning and all, but it's nothing unusual. A few weeks ago we had a roof fly of off a building next to ours, and that was before the end of the world began. From what I hear nothing really changed in the world, just the same old polluted Earth. It's OK though, we have platy of time, the end of the world is supposed to end in 2012 after all. Can't wait to see what happens...

C is for Creativity, Rustic Alphabet

C is for Creativity from the rustic alphabet that I have drawn and colored. I wanted to make the whole alphabet in matching ornate style.
This letter can work on it’s own or can be combined with others to spell out names, words, or quotes.

Fire of Passion Pen and Ink on Watercolor

Fire of Passion is an ink drawing in combination with watercolor.This is the second piece from underwater collection (Peace of Mind) is the first. I decided to have different color of the skin for this character then in the Peace of Mind and purple and dark blue was the combination I settled on. I wanted lips to stand out and colder colors of the skin allowed it. Orange and brown hair are not only fiery colors but they are also the color of corals which goes with the underwater theme.

Original Ink Drawing  $100

  8.5x11 print $20

Pen and Ink Fantasy Drawing, Inner Peace

Inner Peace is done in color ink. I first colored the back ground with watercolor paint and drew everything else with pen. This drawing is the first in a series of portraits of women living under water. In this drawing I wanted to capture inner peace that I myself often feel when drawing or simply sitting in the woods by the river with out a worry or thought. This fantasy drawing started as an experiment and turned into a successful series of drawings. I'm planing on drawing related series of drawings in a different setting, so it was a very successful experiment in this respect. When I sat down to draw all I knew was that I wanted to draw, but had no idea what to put on paper. After looking through magazines I finally got inspired. I took a few references of the pose from the magazine and combined it in a sketch. I decided that this was a perfect opportunity to use my color ink set, so instead of coloring using watercolor I used ink. I decided that for underwater theme wavy line approach to inking would work well. Plus it's not the kind of inking I usually see, so introducing something new in this drawing was an added benefit. The underwater towers were born after I already finished the face. I knew I couldn't leave the back ground blank, so I started brainstorming possible backgrounds and eventually decided old looking towers would combine well with the overall theme of serenity and peace. I decided that cool colors and the peaceful water will help underlining the feelings portrayed in this drawing.

Original Painting $100

  8.5x11 print $20