Fantastic Carol so well done!!

Thanks so much, Shroom.

What a clever idea Carol, this looks fabulous as it swishes and swirls, love it, well done. hugs Jane xx p.s. practising creating a video for youtube :D, you got me going :D x

So glad you like this, Jane. And how great you are learning how to create a video. I'm so pleased mine inspired you. I think you'll have fun with this medium.

Stunning!!!! I love the movement and beautiful shapes of the waves, and the colours/texture are extremely pleasing to my eyes. Well done!

Thanks so much, Denise, for your very lovely comment.

I agree with the others, stunning work. xx

Lovely Van Goghish Starry Ocean with a Katsushika Hokusa influence Romance style! Beautiful work Carol!!!

Wow, who knew all those were lurking in this painting. :o) Thanks for the fun comment, stramp.

A splendid ocean abstract that looks so real I feel as if I am right inside the wave. Superbly created in lovely colors and texture.

And from the two inward and mysterious and gentle moon-goddess images, we now go back to a tumultuous gem-like tactile visceral image of waves and crashing energies, and a lot of very affirming energies at that. (See what I mean by the many sides of your art...) Some of these alcohol-based images are one big entity, process, etc. It's as if you saw the energies, and just gave into them, just as they are. You have these surging waves, whooshing into each other with a jewel-like, even metal-like sheen on them; as if they were made of many pieces of fine enameled metal jewelry and you shone lights on them. They have that kind of sheen and rippling surface. And they just converge, whooshing away at each other; and you have the 'froth' which is many more of those "cells" that you've unearthed in these alcohol-based paintings. And they fly around, and fill many portions of the waves too. Related (visual siblings), you have those cells and nodules of compacted energies strewn throughout the waves. And the major convergence---the place, near the center, where all the waves seem to collide---is a riot of converging forms and splashes. You use a lot of blues and greens too, but boy you get variety in those hues: It's like you chose a few hues and then shone a million lights on them, so we got all these varieties. (I know you didn't do it that way, I'm just being metaphorical.)

And the upper portion---the top of your image, it's "sky"---is a big orange-yellow sunlight-like background, feeling almost like the gold leaf backgrounds in medieval temperas, even though there's no iconography here. But it has a graphic feel, an opulent-background feel. Which is so right for the image, yet still a total surprise. There are lots of "right surprises" in this style! Surprises, but totally right...

It's not a large image, but it's packed. A movement from Beethoven, or a passage from Van Gogh, rushing, whooshing, converging and blasting with lights and energies. A 'moment' from the cosmos seen through infra-red lenses. Beautiful work, Carol, which is a big "duhhhhh" (like, what else could it be?); but one never tires of saying it. It even feels like stained glass in parts...really, this has a connection to many religious images, except that this is about sprit rather than 'religion', and is therefore more essential and universal. A wonderful slice of life from the inner chambers of a heaving galaxy...

Mark, enjoyed your comment very much. I did indeed go from the gentleness of the moon to the tumultuous sea. The moon goddess art detailed and calming as I moved through the work from beginning to end, giving me time to imagine and think and make decisions and changes. The heart of the ocean alcohol ink tossing me this way and that, not letting me go until it takes me where it wants me to go, on a heaving, whooshing wild ride. Both types of art are very stimulating, and very different experiences, for me and I think for the viewer, too. That's why I like exploring different mediums, even if I get tossed around and messy in the process. It really does give me a new way of expression, a new way of feeling the art. The sky was a surprise because I accidentally dropped a big splotch of yellow ink, and then I had to literally go with the flow ... or splotch, if you will, and make something happen. Digital painting is slow,precise, intensely introverted and personal. Alcohol ink painting is fast. No time to ponder and dwell on and wonder if. The ink is oozing and moving and drying and leaves no time for thinking, only doing. And the artist in me says that's a good thing.

J'adore ta nouvelle création, qui est vraiment magnifique!

Outstanding work. God bless.