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Jeffrey Mao
2001-12-01 |
Wow. :). Intricate, elegant, beautiful concept, and a greate impression of material and depth. Usually I try to leave a comment that would possibly improve the piece, but really, I think this is great as it is! Very cool.
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Nick Graves
2001-12-04 |
Very beautiful. I'd defiantly hang something like that on my wall...and...just hope the writing around the edges didn't translate into something like "Welcome to the house of the idiot who displays things they can't read"
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| (Jessica Palmer) |
Ha! I wish it did say that. . . the runes are based on some of Tolkein's scripts. The large ones (should) say "winter, spring, summer, fall." But I am not a scholar of elvish so please don't read too close. ;)
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so MK
2002-03-11 |
This is SPLENDID ! that's it, you have a new fan... Just polish your anatomy and we'll have to kill you *lol* Do you have prints to sell for this one ?
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Adam Noble
2002-03-21 |
really excellent. Great understanding of line and pattern! I love the way you weave the antennae.
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May-Lin Iversen Demetriou
2002-06-17 |
I love this painting. The combination between "controlled" and "non-controlled" watercolour is stunning. Did you use salt for the back ground?
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| (Jessica Palmer) |
Yes--I used a combination of salt and water from a squirt bottle, when the paint was still slightly wet. And I tilted the board so the paint would run off at various angles. :)
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Bartek Jurkowski
2002-07-12 |
This is really nice. Looks like several book covers.
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| (Jessica Palmer) |
what book covers does it look like? I'm curious.
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Regan Johnson
2003-02-06 |
I've been looking at this for long enough I think I should comment... I really like the tension I'm probably imagining between the stone/fixed knotwork pattern and the flighty/delicate insects... One seems to be ancient and the other just happen to land or crawl to this one position that maybe would only last a second before a bird landed and ate them up, or a human girl stomped them dead... nice combination, and the colors are great :)
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| (Jessica Palmer) |
That's so interesting. . . I was taken more by the decorative, almost artefactual shapes of the insects, which allows them to fit easily into a carved relief. So I wasn't thinking of them as delicate or flighty at all. But I think the fact that they are delicate/transient as you mentioned is why this painting works, because I was imagining the pattern as a sort of seasonal keystone (those are the names of the seasons on it), representing the passage of time and the permanence of time, mortal insects against timeless stone. (Thank goodness I don't really think all of this out before I paint something, or I would never get anything done at all.)
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Carrie Hall
2003-06-18 |
Ohhh I like this one too, I think you did a very nice detailed job on this piece. I have a weird thing for insects... they fascinate me for some odd reason. you also used them in a way I haven't seen done before with nice tight watercolors...again good job girlie.
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LeAnne Hess Belmont
2003-12-05 |
Absolutely wonderful. You mention the decorative aspects of the bugs, have you ever seen Escher's bug mandalas? You should check them out. Anyhow, I think this is a fantastic piece.
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| (Jessica Palmer) |
Actually, no. I'll have to look them up!
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Anthony Rosbottom
2004-01-25 |
Hey Jessica, this is an excellent painting. I love the way you've captured the irridescant look of the insects, using watercolours! that's an amazing feat of controlled technique.
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| (Jessica Palmer) |
Thanks Anthony - it's not so much technique as just a LOT of time and patience. :)
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Gábor Szügyi
2004-03-11 |
to jessica
nice, sensitive work:)
the typo the ornaments and the insects fits together well.
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Amy Edwards
2004-03-16 |
beautiful!!
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