Seahorse - Spirit Of Contentment by romanceworks
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Description
Seahorse
creature of contentment
symbol of good luck
you roam the sea
slowly and gently
with the currents
like a tiny dragon
of the deep
accepting the ebb and flow
as you survey all that is around you
with inner vision
teaching me
to look
with my physical
and spiritual eyes
at all that is around me
so I can see
what makes me truly happy.
Seahorse-Spirit Of Contentment prose by Carol Cavalaris©
This mixed medium artwork, combining acrylic and digital painting techniques, features a fanciful seahorse happily swimming in a sea of kelp and bubbles, paying tribute to the spirit of this gentle creature who moves contentedly with the ebb and flow of life. The seahorse has very keen vision, and both eyes move independently, giving them a unique perspective of all that is around them. From my Organica as well as Beauty In Nature Collections.
Hope you enjoy. :o)
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Comments (10)
Cyve
What a marvelous creation !!!
drifterlee
Very beautiful seahorse and scene!!!!!
beas62
Love the amazing texture and delightful colors in this imaginative creation! That's the word that sticks - "delightful"
LivingPixels
Beautiful Carol!!
bakapo
a beautiful and colorful image. seahorses are so unique and wonderful and you did a marvelous job with this!
DennisReed
stunning
jendellas
Seahorses are so beautiful, love your work. xx
Detniat
Absolutely gorgeous <3
kgb224
Outstanding art work. God bless.
anahata.c
This is one of your recent images whose 'central subject' seems to use collage---the seahorse is painted, but there's a feeling of pasted jewels, hues, and other things added to your painting surface. You did that with some other subjects recently, and I really, really like it. And it does set off the seahorse, making it like a jewel or brooch floating through these waters.
Seahorses are a difficult subject for me to paint, because they retain the same shape most of the time; but you've given that permanence the feeling of a lavish cut-out placed lovingly into this lavishly painted sea; and the seahorse feels like royalty, here, or like an enchanted character dropped into a lush, beautiful backdrop.
The sea is classic Carol undulating passionate plantlife, rising out of the depths and opening to light on top. Those leaves are sumptuous! So much stroke activity in them, and some areas have surprise hues---like dark reds and deep blues and crimsons and some bright greens with yellows...you have a second-sense of how to add hues to leaves and such; here they make the leaves pulse and gush. Those brush strokes are so alive, and pulsing...the spirituality you speak of is all over this scene. And I really like what you say about the seahorse, that its quiet and slow presence invites us to find that in ourselves, like finding an inner buddha (which the seahorse becomes, in your vision). And man, does the sea around it resonate with its beauty. And you have bubbles---bubbles? They really are gold tinged silvery purple spheres, they feel totally intuitive, like gifts of the sea that have come to the surface to allow the sea's magic to speak to us. Messengers from the deep, and like jewels. And the rush of lines is wonderfully passionate and joyous. You've been painting these rushes and waterfalls of form and hue for so long, you add these hues intuitively, the flow and energies come out of you intuitively; you just dip into your reservoir and put them into 'play'. I know it's harder than that, but the result shows a master dipping into her soul for the answer...and she finds it all the time now, because she's been doing it so long, and trusts what she finds there, implicitly.
There's a ton going on here! And if the seahorse is taking it in with tranquility, he's adorned like a god or goddess on the outside. So many Shivas and Sarasvatis and Kalis and Vishnus (male, female, female, male, all Hindu gods and goddesses) are portrayed throughout the centuries in deep inner absorption; yet their exteriors blast with the dance of the whole cosmos. This image is in accord with that. Peaceful on the inside, radiating with the energies of the cosmos on the out...
Beautiful evocation of your words, and a beautiful creature sitting in one of your archetypal seas of plants and inner light. It's beautiful, Carol, in so many ways.
Carol, I have to go all of a sudden. I will be back in the morning to do more---I don't want this to be a one image session. But I spent time immersing myself in what I commented on, tonight. So you know I walked with your art with all my heart...