[Art] Sea Otter as Totem

[moonvoice]

ebonhost, do you want to email me at ophelias.diary@hotmail.com to yay or nay this piece? :)






$70 US / AUD (on hold)
18.5 x 20.5cm (or 7.4 x 8 in)
illo's board, fineliner, aquarelle, pencil, metallic paint

Comments

[rainsingingwolf.livejournal.com]

I really like the colors in this one.

[umbreons-shadow.livejournal.com]

ohh, pretty! I love the blue/purple/pinks. :P

[lupabitch.livejournal.com]

I like the way you arranged everything in this one, the way everything's laid out. Lovely!

[halfapersona.livejournal.com]

I've been watching this one in the corner when it was black and white, wondering how it would look coloured, and I'm really happy that for you that it's turned out so well. The colours are awesome, and I love the bold black line that surrounds sea otter.

^_^

[netdancer.livejournal.com]

That is awesome. Can't wait for him to wake up and see it. :>

[enhydrasf.livejournal.com]

beautiful

[jesspark.livejournal.com]

I love this! The way it's laid out makes me think of an otter surfing an incoming wave, and the colors are -- as usual -- gorgeous. Otterly beautiful! :D

[moonvoice.livejournal.com]

Yay! I'm glad you see it. The composition is laid out to be evocative of an otter in the water, surveying its ocean. :)

[x-raeya-x.livejournal.com]

Oooh I like this. He really pops out of the page, which is a little unexpected because this visually looks like one of the simplest compositions you've done so far, though not simplest in the small details. lol

[mirrorred-star.livejournal.com]

I like the colours! S/he looks very serious... I like how S/he's behind the black instead of in front of it.

[paleo.livejournal.com]

Very lovely. I'm almost certain that Sea Otter is my mother's totem, though she doesn't believe in anything like that.

[zuki-san.livejournal.com]

Oh? Why does she ping 'Sea Otter' to you, if I may be so nosy?

[paleo.livejournal.com]

Well, I know that someone's favorite animal isn't neccessarily going to be their totem, but in my experience when a person who isn't too thrilled about animals in general feels a need to experience the energy of a single species over a long period of time, *something* is going on.
My mother always had to visit the sea otter colony on trips to California and started collecting them out of the blue.
Personality wise, Sea Otter does seem a good match. She is very playful and maternal, the depths of her emotional life are oceanic, she loves working with her hands, and she prefers community to solitary life.
I tried once to explain totemism to her, but she isn't into "weird" things for fear of what others would thing. A shame really, because if Sea Otter isn't her primary totem, it surely is at least a guide.
When she was pregnant with me, she became interested in koalas. She used a koala stuffie during childbirth classes and my nursery was done in koalas. I think there is something to the fact the both Koala and Sea Otter have a very nurturing, sometimes "clingy", approach to maternal issues. Goodness knows I had to deal with her being waaaaay to overprotective when I was a child.

[ebonhost.livejournal.com]

*makes a few incoherent squees* He's lovely!

[ebonhost.livejournal.com]

You might need to clear out your mailbox, my email got bounced back to me as 'mailbox unavailable', which suggests that yours might be full.

[moonvoice.livejournal.com]

Whoops! I had a brainfart and gave the wrong address. It's:

ophelias.diary@gmail.com

Sorry!

[aleia-kali.livejournal.com]

Beautiful

[zuki-san.livejournal.com]

I like it. Big suprise, I stole your other otter image for my new default image for-the-meanwhile.

But I really do. The big black swath and the two lines that help to define it, along with the coppery-golden tendrils and squigglies suggest the surf the sea otter is chilling in. The shape of the head and the forward-brush of the whiskers looks just right. This is one of the images where the 'power circles' really remind me of the passage of the sun through the sky--hangin' out in the waves, bobbing along all day.

Yay, sea otter!

[snowymoon.livejournal.com]

Another "WOW!" from me. Amazing. Just amazing. I love the colors and the details. May I ask what you are using to create these works? It almost looks etched to me.

[moonvoice.livejournal.com]

I use cold-pressed crescent illustrator's board, draw the black background on in water-fast fineliner, and then loosely colour the whole thing in watercolour pencils, and then finally go over the watercolour in things like fineliner, paint, texta and regular pencil to add detail and further texture. :D

[snowymoon.livejournal.com]

Wow. I did not understand any of it (my sister is the art major, not me), but it sounds complicated. Regardless, the end effect is quite spectacular and just amazing. O.O

^.^

[starla80.livejournal.com]

He's amazing! Beautiful job, the colours are so uplifting.

[forest-choir.livejournal.com]

I love his Very Serious look. :)

[morgandria.livejournal.com]

I find otters sinister. Same with beavers.

You Otter Know...

[perzephone.livejournal.com]

(Yeah, groan at my comment title...)

I lurv it! Its attitude makes me think someone or something is encroaching on its territory and it is getting ready for some smack-down... Bold, brash and otterly fantastic! (I can't help it, I am Atilla the Pun!)

[gemfyre.livejournal.com]

Wow, that looks almost like a photo.

[darakat-ewr.livejournal.com]

I do like the realism in the fur, though I think the scan has left the color a little flat, pity really. I do think river otter is cuter however (sorry but i do)

[heathwitch.livejournal.com]

I love the colours in this one, and his wise, knowing look. Brava!