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The Tiger by ~elliegreco:iconelliegreco:

Categories Traditional Art > Paintings > Surreal

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The Tiger (Dreams to Destroy Your Dreams I)
Oil and tempera on board, 32x41cm, 2007

The first piece of "Dream to destroy your dreams" series
The second work: Self-control
The third work: The second: The Painter
A drawing for this work can be seen in "here".

One day, I dreamed my sister in a real tiger skin standing in an emptyness. Remaining how I love animals and how I was shocked when I visited a zoo next to my school and learned numbers of tigers are killed because of their beautiful fur and bones regarded as medicine by scary dark photos, I finally figured out the girl wasn't my sister but actually, me. So I painted the situation as my unconventional self-portrait.

I know the legs and feet are off... and pencil drawing version looks better than this one. Oil is still troublesome medium for me.

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~kajnova Jul 17, 2007, 10:03:06 AM
I love this work, it's a very interesting representation of your dream..

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:heart: ~evicaro

Lara :alphaosiris:
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~elliegreco Jul 17, 2007, 10:06:43 AM
Thank you very much, Lara:D
And thank you for :+fav: also:)

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-Dream to destroy your dreams.
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~Roadless-I-Travel Jul 17, 2007, 11:11:40 AM
I like this one just as much as the original if not more!
The tigers face seems softer, kinder, or perhaps more sorrowfull in this version,
in the other the face seems more pearcing.

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"I would rather have a bottle in front of me, than a frontal lobotomy"

~Tom Waits~
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~extremendousness Jul 17, 2007, 4:53:48 PM
I like how the floor pattern wood stuff is kindof similiar to the tiger's stripes. and the texture on the wall is stunning, it really blows me away!:nod:
and the picture as a whole is great too, a very original self portrait:)

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"If the Modern Artist dedicates their life to art, then Graffiti and Street artists dedicate their art to life." ~ a good book.
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=just-joking Jul 17, 2007, 5:24:43 PM
this is really good!!!

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:frail: "lovehurts" but "always somewhere" there's "stairway to heaven" :frail:
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~gr8nachan Jul 17, 2007, 5:29:42 PM
うわわわわ、すごい。
the hairs toka its soo detailed.
i can't make such details when i do oil painting
honntokakoiidesune :]
aa~ demo nannka when i look into the tiger's eyes..nanntonaku it makes me sad..
nanndedarou?

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~ nacre8s ~
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~elliegreco Jul 17, 2007, 7:30:06 PM
Thanks!

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-Dream to destroy your dreams.
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~elliegreco Jul 17, 2007, 7:39:51 PM
Do you really think so? I feel... releaf!:D
Thank you very much.

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-Dream to destroy your dreams.
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~elliegreco Jul 17, 2007, 7:44:15 PM
Thank you for your interesting comment! I've never thought the floor pattern resembles to tiger's one:D

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-Dream to destroy your dreams.
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~elliegreco Jul 17, 2007, 7:49:43 PM
どうもありがとう！
Oil painting ha kakeba kakuhodo omoshiroku nattekuru medium desu yo.
トラの目が悲しく見えるのはなんでだろう…多分描いた動機のせいでしょうか？　上野動物園のトラ展示で知ったのだけれど、乱獲が酷くて、絶滅寸前なんだそうです。

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-Dream to destroy your dreams.
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