Spirit Of The Buffalo by romanceworks
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Brown Buffalo
Spirit of strength and independence
Your deep connection to Mother Earth
Tells us to honor the sacredness of all creatures
To protect those who are endangered
To respect all paths, though they may be different than ours
To praise all that nature and life has given us
And peace and abundance will flow into our world.
Spirit Of The Buffalo prose by Carol Cavalaris ©
Credits: Another in my Dream Catcher series, paying tribute to the power, strength, and survival of the magnificent buffalo, the spirit animal of abundance. Created in Photoshop CS, using buffalo photos, painting techniques, and dream catcher and Native American feathers by pixels29.
Hope you enjoy.:o)
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Comments (47)
superbe image!!
Wow!This is such an Amazing image!
EXTRAORDINARY SCENE, SUPERB DONE !!!!!!!!!!!!!
so beautiful !
I think Buffalo's are lovely animals, I love their heads. Great image as always Carol. xxx
Awesome.........I love it !
A beautiful work with a lovely soft finish to it. Excellent brushwork and colouring.
Beautiful work.
You do such amazing artwork! Gorgeous!
Wow! This is awesome!!!!
Splendid composition and details !
an AMAZING image! what is there more to say? a wonderful work of art!
Your brush strokes and blending are fabulous. I don't know how you do it.
Excellent piece!!!!!!!!!!!!
Love it! A def fave!
Such wise and caring words you write here Carol, full of your love of nature. The picture as always is breathtakingly beautiful!!! hugs Jane xx
there's a now-famous tale of how a Native American had a dream that a mountain opened up and all the buffalo stampeded into the opening and then were no more. It was an apocalyptic dream of the end of the buffalo and (by extension) the end of the Native American presence in America. Buffalo, to many of us, are like a mythic creature until we're privileged to see a herd of them: In herd, in the wild, they stand like huge-shouldered, hunched gods & goddesses, they move slowly as if they had nothing to fear; and, despite their fierce look, they embody the kind of energy & spirit that conjures awe, especially as you see them graze slowly with such gentleness. You captured that mix of fierce power & gentleness in this beautiful portrait. The upper buffalo has amazing attention to detail (in the hair, eye, lips, even in the horn), and you've applied your usual rippling light & shade which gives its hair a gentle energy which seems to come from within. While the buffalo's eye is normally separated by a lessening of the hair, you've made it stand out a little more, so that it seems eloquent & articulate. Then the racing buffalo, below, looking at us as if to check us out (but not caring enough to stop), is in a wonderful posture, and you've articulated its coat with deep purple shadows and a prairie-golden top. Very fine choices. And, typical of your attitude towards animals, it's engulfed by the body of the upper buffalo, whose coat canopies the lower one as if in protection. You do this in your animal series: You create a protection and care between your animals in the way you place them and articulate their coats, manes, etc. And in your also typical fashion, you've faded the ancient prairie into the dream catcher so that it's present but also melded into the power of the catcher itself; and surrounded it all with your usual undulating (and caressing) space. A beautiful and actually soft vision of these fiery & powerful animals, and of course filled with the love you carry for all of them.