Castles in the Sky by auntietk
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No AI - This artwork was created entirely by hand or with traditional digital tools.
Description
My brother, Trent (the lovely model in this montage), is all about houses.
Well ... he has other interests as well, and has a busy and fulfilling life, but professionally he's all about houses.
He's a builder and an interior designer, and buys houses to live in while they remodel and resell, as well. (You can see some of his remodeling work in his gallery here on Renderosity.)
I emailed this piece to him and said, "What are you thinking about? What would you call this?" I gave him a couple of my own thoughts, and he promptly said, "Castles in the Sky!"
So there you have it.
All my own original photographs.
I made the brush from a family letter.
Apo 2.09 for the fractal.
Title by Trent.
:)
Comments (22)
wowie! super looking image, like the guy in thoughts.
I love this. It has such a reflective mood with Trent dreaming of his Castles in the Sky. Great work, Tara.
This is cool, Tara May wonderful smiles warm hugs, Linda Kaye
Your brother seems to have a wonderful imagination. Outstanding imagery.
Wow! This is so very cool! 10+ for sure!
This is a dream. Nice work Tara.
Very cool montage!!
Wonderfully rich!
WOW!!! Tara. THis is really stunning and so beautiful! The title is just perfect. Love this piece :)
I like this very much! It would look great printed and framed...you are a truly versatile artist, my friend!
Very nice Tara! love the PW and color of this image. I also can see this framed.
wonderful comments above, and well-deserved. (As you know, I've always wanted to follow such comments with "this is maybe the worst piece of art I've seen in 35 years." But I won't. I'll spare you the cheap comedy...) It's beautiful. First, it looks like you've taken tree photos and embossed them: The bottom forms look like trees or plants, embossed/modeled (ie, the pre-software term meaning 'made to look 3 dimensional'---you heard that a lot in graphic design back then). They could also be mold growing along a surface, or perhaps fabric---this is about houses & interiors, after all. You also have a stairwell with stairs that seem to have ornament growing out of them---there's a juxtaposition there that's quite enticing. And the windows whispering in the background---they seem similar to the windows in your old family-montage a few weeks back. Maybe not, but they look similar...Then there seems to be a moon, only made of fabric? And cloths, fabrics or just plain digital surfaces undulating & winding throughout the piece; a motif of yours which you use very delicately in your montages. Well, it's another evocative, moody and beautiful tara montage; and trent's face blends-in without an ounce of intrusion, as someone who looks-on calmly as all this stuff appears as if from inside him...It feels very 'interior' to me, with the heavy greens & blues (marine hues, underwater hues, etc). And the fractal energy-lines---near the top-- seem to fit with the inner-dream feel, like the energies just couldn't be calm anymore & so coagulated into a 'burst'. (The old letters work seamlessly too.) Beautiful montag-ing, Tara, and of a single gentle mood...
Well, this is just lovely, Tara! Although I've never met your brother, this image makes me fell like I know him. The thoughtful pose and his expression combined with your exquisite work, truly gives us a personal insight to Trent and his life. A lucky and blessed man it is who loves his work. This one is just beyond words. I just recently upgraded from Apo 2.03 to 2.09. WOW! I was up until about 2:00AM the other night palying with it - sooooooo addictive! :-P
Great render Hugs Susan~
How intensely COOOOOOOOL!!!!!! :)
Beautiful! This makes me think of staring out on nothing and letting the mind wander where it will. Thoughts, places, and people all intermingling randomly. I agree with Mark, there is a seamless quality. One thought merging with another, in an easy and relaxed way. It made me think of the word woolgathering, which I haven't thought of in a while. I love it when that happens. Wonderful composition and mood.
Very nicely done montage! Great job!
I usually read all the comments prior to writing mine but have not done so this time...I am afraid all the best comments may have already been made. So let me say this is probably my most favorite 2D piece you've done. The focus initially may be Trent, but then there is such a wealth of suggested thoughts wafting about...moon moodiness, old letters, stairs, windows, dreamy trees, a fractile that could represent all sorts of budding or discarded thoughts. And the colors...favorites of mine...mostly translucent...indicating to me a layering and an overlapping of thoughts. If somebody asked me to illustrate someone in deep thought...I don't know where I'd begin but you've done it!!! Superb and a favorite for sure.
A lot of different thoughts come to mind when I see this; I saw it earlier but couldn't quite get words together, as some of everything else was going on at the moment. Now that I'm back, much, much later, and listening to rather moody music (the soundtrack to "The Social Network", a movie I have no interest in seeing) I'm struck by the intensity of the mood in this piece. I love the layers, each and every plane of this image; it has a wonderful depth, and the largely blue-green color gives this a deliciously aquatic feel: castles in the air is decidedly dreamy, and dreams are the native dwellers in the seas of the subconscious, and so it's reasonable that the image itself would reflect that, among other things. I love each of the elements in this, and I recognized Trent immediately. I love the written material, the moon, the trees, the multiple environments all tied together in this. It would make an excellent book cover, too, and it looks like the kind of book cover material Bantam Spectra books made quite good use of in the later 1990s, and there's nothing bad about that! On another level, I'm reminded of some of the stuff Mina did: the style is nicely complimentary: rich with self-replicating symbols that shift around like cards in a Tarot deck. Marvelous! I like this immensely!
Great mood. Thanks
Wonderful colors, details, mood, and portrait too! A fabulous whole, Tara!
Fantastic collage Tara,I'd have gone for "Lost in thought"....This reminds me of one of those 'motivation' posters, love the tones, he could almost be stareing into some strange underwater world.A very relaxing image (if that's possible) got to be a fave.