Iguana - Spirit Of Contentment by romanceworks
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Iguana
you look like a jeweled dragon
from an ancient time
sitting so regally
with great contentment
to just be
you can change colors
and escape danger
and so you rest peacefully
you teach me
to be grateful
for all that I have
to adapt to my surroundings
with calmness
to accept my purpose and place
in this world
to relax and enjoy
who I am and where I am
and to simply be
happy.
Iguana - Spirit Of Contentment prose by Carol Cavalaris©
A colorful iguana sits like a jewel in the sunshine, content to just be. This is a semi-abstract mixed medium work combining alcohol ink, photo reference, and digital painting. From the Organica Collection of art by Carol Cavalaris. Special thanks to Denise (Mrs Ratbag) for the use of her beautiful photo.
Hope you enjoy. :o)
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Comments (9)
DennisReed
stunning
A_Sunbeam
Excellent colours and painting!
LivingPixels
A round of hearty applause Carol outstandingit is in every way and most happy to drop by!!
giulband
Unique !!!!!!!
kgb224
Outstanding work. God bless.
jendellas
Handsome critter!!
Jollyself
this is so wildly cool... great work
ANGELFIRE999
GORGEOUS!!
anahata.c
I can see the alcohol ink in here; and you've made a bejeweled, multi segmented piece; like an iguana made of inlays---themselves made of rare jewels and metals. And many of those segments are, themselves, colored and textured like pieces of turquoise, other luminous stones, enameled metal, even colored glass. I assume it takes great patience to articulate all this. As a consequence, you've taken the iguana's natural patterns, and emphasized every segment, every scale and protrusion, etc, as if each were a jewel in its own right. The iimage, as a result, sings. It radiates. And your background is remarkably vital with all those blurbs and bubbles and cells. And you get different textures in them---the top right has waves of light blue, dark blue, even some green and yellow. The bottom left is a packed compendium of bubbling crystals and rounded cells, all piled into each other. And so on.
And in the iguana's head, you've used some of the same bold, rushing, opaque strokes that you've used in some of your flowers: The strokes on his head are blazing squiggles, almost flames, in peach-pinks and oranges and blues---like big currents shooting off of him because of his latent power. It reminds me of some of the lines which the ancient Chinese put into their dragon paintings...fire and divinity to the Chinese. Probably the same for you.
It's not easy to make all this hold together as 'one', I assume; but the lizard seems to grow out of the morass of energies and stones and jewels around him; and he emerges with a monumental air. Monumental in his pose as well as his gaze. Terrific painting, Carol. You've totally met the alcohol based medium head on; this has mastery written all over it.
romanceworks
Thanks for your wonderful comment, Mark. I am quite fascinated with the colors and textures of the iguana. They really are an endless world to explore, like opening a treasure chest and finding more jewels the deeper you go. This took a lot of time and patience to create, and yet I could have spent many many more hours on it. It's strange, but within all the complexity I found a calm peaceful place. A kind of contentment in all the chaos. Even the alcohol inks, that always make me a little crazy, were very challenging at the beginning of this work, and then just became a part of the whole. When I worked on this I didn't know the iguana was the symbol of contentment, and didn't find out until I finished the painting and did some research on this magnificent creature. That really is the beauty and adventure of creating, I don't always understand where I am going, or how I will get there, but if I keep working, I usually find my way to a good place. In this work,I found my way to a happy, contented place within the spirit of the iguana.