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The reason why Ernest Descals' blog is a monster blog is because Ernest Descals is a monster himself! A super-prolific urban landscape monster artist.

I went on his blog and downloaded soooo many paintings… I can't exhibit them all, I had to make a selection. So I decided to present his work through a theme, a color theme: orange, purple, brown.

Ernest Descals was born in 1956 in Manresa (Catalunya) Spain, a city where Saint Ignatius of Loyola stopped to meditate and pray in 1522.

Oh boy, it took me a freakin long time to understand that sentence! I first though the saint took a break from praying! Would you stop praying?! Anyway, The Spiritual Exercises were composed (1522-1524) by Saint Ignatius of Loyola while in Manresa.

Ernest Descals also is a prolific painter of soldiers and nudes. And he takes tons of (dramatically altered and stylish) pictures of himself.

ernestdescals@yahoo.es

Scratchy silk

What is machine embroidery? I planned to present a blog post about it. And I went on youtube for checking out the technique. Instead, ribbon embroidery caught my eye, and this Russian video looked very artistic.

Вышивка лентами ЦВЕТОЧНАЯ РАПСОДИЯ

Rubans de broderie / RHAPSODY FLORAL

So I paused the video when the composition seemed particularly eye-catching to me and made screen captures.

The screen dumps spent a few minutes in Photoshop for their make over: more contrast, almost desaturated colors, dry brush filter.

Drybrush is a painting technique in which a paint brush that is relatively dry, but still holds paint, is used. The resulting brush strokes have a characteristic scratchy look that lacks the smooth appearance that washes or blended paint commonly have. (Source: wikipedia)

Stone ground, flour sacks and domestic dove 

by Michael Dumas with dry brush, watercolor and gouache

The conditions in the interior of the mill influenced my choice of mediums when I set out to do this painting. I chose dry brush for its thin, textural, woven qualities, and gouache (which contains chalk) as being sympathetic to the dry dusty interior atmosphere. The gouache also seemed just right to achieve the bright reflective quality of the areas touched by sunlight. (Michael Dumas, realistic interpretator of nature)

Without source erotica journey

[unknown artist]

This morning at tumblr.com I found this beautiful erotic serigraphy (also known as silkscreen or serigraph printing) and reblogged it, click. The illustration came without any info. So I went to Google search images. But "No other sizes of this image found."

In that case, the browser proposes "Visually similar images". It's funny and surprising where a search on the web can lead you!

 Bosnia folk costumes (in German)
en.wikipedia

 Dakin Weekly by Glenn Dakin, 1985
comics.edpinsent

 El gran cazador de las praderas (in Spanish)
tte3blueberry.blogspot

 Illustration by Jules Grandjouan (in French)
caricaturesetcaricature

 Ilustrovaná žena / Illustrated woman (in Czech)
antikvariaty.cz

 Jacques Callot: St Paul from Les Grands Apotres, etching, 1632
davidsongalleries

 One of the best singles' by the mission' the dark eighties
thepostpunk80sunderground

 Slave Ship, dvd movie
amazon

 Tangles IX, Tipple, Zedbra and Rounding
enthusiasticartist

 The Kathe Kollwitz printmaking two: Hunger (in Chinese)
blog.tianya

 The cowboy in magazines
xroads.virginia

 Untitled lithograph by Tumarkin Yigal
binethgallery

"Tip: Try entering a descriptive word in the search box."

Erotica.

Painterlily photography

 with iPod-Instagram (Brennan)

Water lily photo © Amaries stock 

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 with iPod-Instagram (Sutro)

 Water lily photo © CTP 

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 with iPod-Instagram (XPro II)

 Water lily photo © Ramble paw

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 with iPod-Instagram (Inkwell)

 Water lily photo © Gursesl

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 with iPod-Instagram (Brennan)

 Water lily photo © George Kirk

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 with iPod-Instagram (Hudson)

 Water lily photo © Amaries stock 

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 with iPod-Instagram (Nashville)

 Water lily photo © Renez

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 with iPod-Instagram (Earlybird)

 Water lily photo © fluctui

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 with iPod-Instagram (Amaro)

 Water lily photo © Chihuahua yip

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I'm pretty sure I would enjoy taking pictures of water lilies. Close-ups, high granularity… But I'm a lazy one, I don't travel, I don't even go to the botanical garden. While remaining home, DeviantArt.com is a place I often visit. I look at water lilies pictures.

Photographing the computer screen with iPod, I took low-res square photos of water lily photos. With Instagram, a filter (which add a vintage touch) was chosen.

Painterly means suggestive or characteristic of a painting or of the art of painting: "painterly photography", according to Merriam Webster dot com.


I've tried to make my iPod photos look like paintings.