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Deviousness `anmari has been spreading her infectious positivity throughout our community for over 6 years. Throughout this time Ana has been at the core of all things devious, passionately developing an eclectic gallery, helping organise devmeets, participating in chat events and also recently completed dedicating her time as a Community Volunteer. We are absolutely delighted to bestow the Deviousness Award for May 2013 to `anmari, congratulations! Read More
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The figures is extremely well crafted, with a solid sense of personal style and really lovely use of layered brushes to both add depth and contrast to the skin, and to lend those many colors that breathe life into the figure.
What is particularly interesting about the piece are the extraordinary detail in the brushwork - note especially the depth of the texture on the wallpaper, the use of strong colored light to suggest a secondary source with a warm red glow from inside the structure, and the sensational way that light becomes form as it caresses and masks the arm and leg in the foreground.
Take a moment to examine the highlight layers on the right side, easing the arm back into an invisible blur and caressing the leg and glowing wall on the right into agreement. The interplay of positive and negative space here almost suggests a sheer curtain, but doesn't and gives strong focus to the patterned array of light cast onto the skin of the leg.
There are some technical limitations to the work as well as some curiosities that leave me a little puzzled as well. Note the stylistic difference between the hair and the pubic hair. This is accented by the difficult to rationalize interplay of nature. It sets the mind in motion - as we've got natural forms in the wallpaper pattern, though they're clearly abstractions, then more natural suggestions on the ground plane - in the form of plants and suggestions that she's seated on soft grass. But the wall doesn't seem suggestive of an exterior and we don't know much about whatever plant life might be lost in the glow behind the left leg. These aren't necessarily bad things, but they do draw attention downward away from the face, which is unusual.
I wonder how adding softness and detail to the face might alter the composition in this case. All in all this is a lovely work, with extraordinary use of light, color and especially texture and form revealed through sophisticated, sensual brushwork. Well worth a closer examination.
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