astonishing piece of Art

This is beautiful Andrea and well worth a fave.

Very very very beautiful artistic image !!

Very lovely work and a wonderful dedication to your friend

Outstanding work Andrea. God bless.

Amazing image Andrea! Your skill with this medium is quite impressive.

I like this one !

OH WOW Andrea. This is a really wonderufl creation. She will be so thrilled :-)

Superb drawing Andrea! :)

so lovely Andrea

great

Thank you very much Andrea for your wishes to me:))) ANnnd You are looking at me with 5 eyes, lol:))))))))))))? Do i need to say that i adore this drawing? do I? I can see a owl in the left also:) and again you put so much humanity in all this creatures! It is amazing! I can see them smiling to me and i feel connected:)) and much thrilled also, because you re-worked this fabulous piece to me! I love a lot this colours and the shades and it is incredible the fabulous way, how you used this mediums! YES, i wouldn't mind to have it in my wall:) ! Excellent creativity as always, Andrea, and i thank you from my heart:)

Your coping skills are outstanding as is this image. Like Anaber I can see a birdlike creature on the left.

It is lovely Andrea, love this, appeals to me!!!

This is an excellent piece of work, I would have this in a frame on my wall without hesitation, it really is my cup of tea. Do you sell much work?... if not, you should.

I love the fantasy of this, the creatures with their googly stares, the organic flow of the thing. But what really gets me going is your color, your shading ... it's gorgeous!

I like this work

Great artwork Andrea I like how everything wraps and curls around , by the way what were you smoking at the time.

With Ana, I'd love to have this on my wall too---only I'd give 1st preference to her. (She deserves it much more than I, and she really loved it too. I'm happy!) I love this style of yours. And with Tara, I love the color and shading: It makes an intense, very strong-presenced drawing. (By which I mean it has 'presence'. Strong presence in every form.) Your modeling at all the connection-points shows mastery (and of course I mean modeling in the old sense, not 3D). You use a lot of short thick strokes, but you create the feeling of smooth surfaces all the same. I mean you're really masterful at this; and your imagination---rolling different creatures and plants into one big metropolitan center---is as easeful as if you took it right out of your brain. This is marvelous, Andrea, I mean even the sphere alone is a terrific drawing. And I love the overall dark ambered tone...and of course all the eyes. Terrific. And a wonderful gift for Ana, to which I say, again, Happy Birthday Ana, and many more!!!! You deserve it all!!! (Ok, a thought on pastels---I'm in agreement! I've probably said this to you before, but I prefer pencils over chalks too. WAY. The chalk-pastels were made as punishments for good-intending souls everywhere, they're so hard to work with, and how artists get detail with the things is beyond me. As for your thought that the powder gets everywhere---hooo boy. Everywhere. Like someone spilled 30 flavors of melted ice cream on the carpet. Did you ever make your own paints? Ever get pure pigments? Well I'm sure you've seen pure pigments, even if you never made paints. As you know better than I, pastels are the closest thing to pure pigments, they're just pigment, some adhering agent, and maybe chalk. Isn't that it? (A little oregano, a touch of salt...) Well it's such a terrific idea: Near pure pigment in all its eye-drenching richness: You just die to see them sitting there, just waiting to be touched---esp the soft pastels: They're so delicious and seductive. But then you DRAW with them: My god. It's hell on wheels! And Helle ups and does them out of the blue, and her 2d and 3d outings are beautiful. I did a pastel about a week after Helle's 3d effort, and it was so awful---mine---I wouldn't even throw it in my garbage for fear of insulting garbage. And powder? My table, rug and clothes looked like I'd gotten nuclear burn. So I understand: Pencils are the only way, except for those chosen souls who "get" the whole process. When I look at Degas' pastels---his ballet series---I want to die...And then you have to FIX the things. Dayum! ((damn ala american-ese.) You FIX them. Like neutering a dog!!! If I remember, Degas used pure methyl alcohol---quite toxic!---with some resin or oil, right? I used to spray clear acrylic medium on it. But other times I'd yell at it---STAY PUT, YOU LITTLE S___S! There's just too much trouble. Too much trouble. But I really love your drawings, and this is just wonderful. If you've got these hanging out in your closet, man, let us in that closet! Wonderful dedi for our dear friend, it was wonderful of you to post this for her. Happy Birthday again, Ana!) (I'll be back for a long session soon, where I'll try to keep the comments manageable...)

Just excellent work.

I just love reading Mark's comments; regarding the piece, and his rambles too. I also love this artwork, it has elements of manuscript illumination; were you a monk in another life, working in a scriptorium? So beautifully done!

Marvelous work, love it!

This is one of those treasures I miss when I'm away for extended periods of work-related absence. It's also one of those gems I discover and re-discover when work related craziness is all over for a couple of days. I have so much catching up to do, and I figured this is a great place to start simply because there's a delicious sense of play in this image. I love all of the critters in this image and their wonderfully-expressive, playful, clever eyes! This is marvelous, and the colors are superb. I've been lurking at the used bookstore across the street from where I work, mostly looking for books, but primarily looking for book covers. You see, I'm pretty interested in acquiring and re-acquiring paperback books released by Bantam Books, in the late, late 1960s on through the early 1970s. The "Bantam Modern Classics" editions and the science fiction novels published at the time all have wonderful covers, some of which feature "real" art by those fun abstract expressionist sorts of painters. So, anyway, this all leads me to what I'm supposed to be writing in this comment. This image reminds me of something I'd expect to see on that sort of book cover: real art, accompanying a real work of literary importance, though the fish and maggot eyes would probably indicate that the work in question is not quite as ponderous as, say, The Last Temptation of Christ...despite its gorgeous cover. This piece of brilliance looks like something that would accompany the more friendly brilliance of...oh...Ludvík Vaculík, yet another of those brilliant writers from the long-ago land of Czechoslovakia. Anyway, this is the kind of stuff I love to see. The colors are nicely soft, but not "weak" and everything fits so perfectly within the interesting, fun, playful world of the picture, and it's all-around perfect. And since I went rambling on and on about book covers, I'm going to see if I can (eventually) write something that would benefit from a cover illustration featuring a maggot, fish, and leaves with really friendly, happy eyes! I love this! It's really inspiring too, and it's a fantastic dedication.

Great artwork, Andrea!! Very creative - find the fishes! ;o)

TOP CLASS! I spent some time looking at this piece. It seems to embrace your love off nature so well. The mix of plant and sea creatures even a birdlike little creation! I always ended up with more pastel on me than the paper!

I could see this work of art becoming a corporate logo. Nicely done my friend and I like the bird's face very much!