East Wind

It's just a painting of feelings..

Last days I suffered of loosing inspiration. Then I remembered of old picture I made in 2001 in quite small size. I found it and redacted to get more expressive look.. So now you can see the final version (I hope)..

I think it comes somewhere from the songs.. All you see is just the feelings and associations of some songs I love, It's also reflection of myself and my feelings.

I can't put here all the words I hear when I look at this picture. Here are just some of them..

Foreign skies that blinded me to empty charms
I crossed the ocean and fell into your arms
So sure, so wrong
You sang me a simple tune
I took it for a song ..
('Like a Baby' George Michael)

She runs through the streets
With her eyes painted red
Under black belly of cloud in the rain
In through a doorway she brings me
White gold and pearls stolen from the sea ..
('Running to Stand Still' U2)

And others that I can't remember now..

Another song I love:

I have a lover
A lover like no other
She got soul, soul, soul, sweet soul
And she teach me how to sing

Shows me colours when there's none to see
Gives me hope when I can't believe
That for the first time
I feel love

I have a brother
When I'm a brother in need
I spend my whole time running
He spends his running after me

When I feel myself going down
I just call and he comes around
But for the first time
I feel love

My father is a rich man
He wears a rich man's cloak
Gave me the keys to his kingdom coming
Gave me a cup of gold

He said I have many mansions
And there are many rooms to see
But I left by the back door
And I threw away the key
And I threw away the key
Yeah, I threw away the key
Yeah, I threw away the key

For the first time
For the first time
For the first time

I feel love

('The First Tine' U2)

This song has no relation with the picture, but it shows how simple words can express so deep feelings, so I want to paint them to see all colors of them, to look at them forever..

Something about colors..

For me every little thing has color. The numbers, the letters and all other that you cant't imagine in material.. And also the South, the North, the West and the East have their own colors. The South is Gold, yellow, orange, lemon and all other sun colors. The North is Silver, white, blue, ultramarine, stormy blue and other cold colors. The West is Emerald, green, ocean green, spring green and others. And the East is Ruby, all reds, pinks, purple, fuchsia..

So this picture is all in this colored feeling of East Wind. These colors were on original photo. I took it from one of my Photo-clipart CDs. The quality was too bad and the picture was small, so I resized it a little and redacted to hide all defects.

The girl was paited with the mouse in Photoshop. I know she is not perfect. My mouse is too bad so I can't completely controll it when I'm drawing..

I also worked a lot to make the photo look more like paited pictute.

I used Ester's brushes [link] to add more blurry feeling.. And also I used paper brushes by Chain [link] and Roshiweb Brush Set 15
by Roshi [link]

On the background you see transparent photo of petrified leaves I took from Photo-clipart CD.