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About Me Premium Member Varied Artist Valnor54/Male/Australia Recent Activity Deviant for 2 Years
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2010 Calendar

2010 Calendar featuring my landscape paintings.

Water Color Trad

A selection of my Water Colors - Please consider buying a print for some one you love.

Please enjoy a life time of my love of nature and my art of using Water Colors ..Thanks for visiting ...Arto

House of Usher

This is part of a series of eight digital pictures originally created for a set of books, but I am now remastering all eight. This is the second to be finished.

Newest

I have about 500 works - non derivative - very original - lots of traditional artwork. Many styles and media. I am trying to include a selection of each style.

Random Favourites

When I have time to browse I will add plentyyyy!!!

Where Now?

A funny (not always) free hand drawn black and white comic strip. Regular additions.

Worn Fingers and Optical Art

Journal Entry: Sun Nov 1, 2009, 4:06 PM
Facebook l Gallery l dA Portfolio l Watch Me l Note Me

I made it ,4 days of crouching on my knees and rubbing chalk down with my fingers. I met a really great bunch of Chalk Artists and the organizers were fantastic. I started with a quick sketch and built my composition and design as a whole, creating a story from my poetic beginning, I layered textures gained from a spurt of rain to random foot prints and wind blown chalk, my art was more trad and should be viewed as a normal artwork on a wall. Most of the guys worked from detailed drawing or photos/paintings some were more adventurous, I was in free fall, hanging on the edge of failure, what a buzz!!

I felt the name of this type of chalk art very misleading, assuming each person was going to CREATE an ORIGINAL piece of ART from the starting gun, my mistake, it looks like they should change the name of this type of art to Odd Angle Perspective Rendering. Recreating is NOT creating, no problems, I will definately be doing chalk art again, but this time I will RENDER and RECREATE an ODD ANGLE PERSECTIVE OPTICAL ILLUSION chalk art, which I feel would not have hardly taxed my skills to the degree I put myself through.

I will recovering from this intense time, and will post the picture and any links here.

The theme was Climate Change.

Regards Arto

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  • Mood: Optimism
  • Listening to: Jimi Hendrix
  • Reading: My palm
  • Watching: Blank Paper
  • Playing: Inks and Paint
  • Drinking: Coffee

Journal History

deviantID

I am a visual/audio artist for 35 years and use the pencil/paint/computer/guitar to express some of those life journeys. The ideas I express are universal the instruments of articulation are just channels for my inner being, enjoy my many twists and turns of my art that expesses my inner self.

My Music - on Boost
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My Music - on SoundClick
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If you like my work and would like to see me continue please help by donating.
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You Tube
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Arto's Manuscripts
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My Published Books(out of print)
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My Drunk Duck Page
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Devious Info

  • Current Residence: ::deviantshare.com:add:myspace:artoj::
  • deviantWEAR sizing preference: Medium
  • Interests: Life
  • Favourite band or musician: Nightwish - Jimi Hendrix - Sibelius
  • Favourite genre of music: All
  • Favourite artist: Leonardo Da Vinci
  • Favourite photographer: Ansell Adams
  • Favourite style of art: current
  • Operating System: Vista
  • Shell of choice: Conchoidal
  • Skin of choice: Human
  • Favourite game: Oblivion
  • Favourite cartoon character: Oddball Inventor (arto)
  • Tools of the Trade: Pencil,Paint,Pen and Pick

Visitors

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~Arislan30
Dec 21, 2009
11:46 pm
:iconcomfortlove:
*ComfortLove
Dec 20, 2009
10:06 pm
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~Lady-Estraya
Dec 20, 2009
12:25 pm
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~momo2494
Dec 19, 2009
10:29 am
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*melounovnik
Dec 17, 2009
12:24 pm

Comments


:iconcomfortlove:
Thanks for watching Arto, you've got some really beautiful art!

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Keep working your ass off and you'll get somewhere!

Check out The Uniques comic at uniquescomic.com [link]
:iconxxjackii:
Thank you so much for the WATHCH! I realle apreeciate it!:glomp::heart:

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"La cremallera sería el invento del siglo si se aplicara a las bocas"


Visit my gallery!!!:w00t::heart:
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:iconartsangel:
Thanks for watching my gallery! :heart

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...wait, did I just type that out loud?
:iconokeana:
Thanks for Fav!:)
:icontomwilcox:
Thanks Arto for adding me to your DeviantWATCH. :-)

Tom

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Just published!
An 80 page, 12" X 12" hard cover book of my fractals and a 40 page, 7" X 7" hard and soft cover book of my fractals. [link]
:iconcold-blooded-angel:
thankyou for the watch

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[link] blog

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:iconhankinstein:
Thanks for the watch! :)

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Want to read my comics? Go here! [link]

:music: You take what you want and I'll take the sunshine... :music:
:iconthelma1:
Hello Arto :wave:

Just dropping by to say a big thank you for adding me to your friends list, I am really pleased that you like my work :D :D

:huggle:s Thelma.


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I support Reduced Thanking.
When I can't catch up
this is a collective THANKYOU to all
who fave or comment on my work.

BUY MY PRINTS :please:
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:iconha2693:
thanks for the watch :love:
I'm so honour ;_;
I love your gallery ;A; Watch back >w<
have a nice day :hug:

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    :bulletred: Commission
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:iconehot24:
your work is wonderful.
:iconmistygirlenergy:
Wonderful gallery.

I am never in good terms with watercolors. I really love looking at traditional art, like yours for instance.

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:devart: is teh :love:
:iconthedeathrealm:
Hey, I really like your art! A lot of it is very atmospheric :D Adding you to watch!

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Who wants to be normal when you cn be WeIRd!! :D

Check out my gallery!! :gallery:
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:iconlovemecancerously:
I can't even begin to describe the awesomeness that is you, and your awesumnessossity. (You can ignore my made up words) But anyway, you are truely amazing. It's realy impressive to be SO good in SO many media. especially because no matter what media it was it still kind of had the same signature "your style" to it.
Luv it all.

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Sometimes I wonder if I'm maybe a little insane,
but then the voice says: "That's just silly!"
So I let it go...
:iconsedeslav:
You've got an absolutely stunning gallery, very inspiring and beautiful!

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"Forge Is Like Life! What Doesn't Break You, Makes You Stronger!"
:iconentwined-rose:
Wow, your drawings are beautiful! Instant watch! :D

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:iconlessanguish999:
Of course your years of hard work have been rewarded...you're a fantastic artist :w00t!:
:iconstranger-in-paradise:
Awesome!!! <3

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"Evil is a point of view..." - Lestat de Lioncourt


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...die young and live forever·
:iconokeana:
Works shaking at you,magic!
:iconstelathestar:
grate gallery!
Have nice day :blowkiss:

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Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. Edgar Allan Poe

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