Still refining this ginkgo breeze painting. It's etched silver leaf and the leaves done in copper. That amazing antique kimono is about 2/3 painted. It's a slow process.

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A small serene 9x12 painting to get your Zen on with a gorgeous koi in a rippling pond. With their little moustaches, I find koi always seem like they are wise elders that hoard their secrets.

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Week 4 of portrait practice. Still trying to get that glow! Since I'm practicing portraits right now anyway I have a special on my website for a custom 9x12 portrait of your own for $100. Mercurialmuseart.com
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Week 4 of portrait practice. Still trying to get that glow! Since I'm practicing portraits right now anyway I have a special on my website for a custom 9x12 portrait of your own for $100. Mercurialmuseart.com
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Finished this up in time for St Patrick's Day and thanks to a suggestion from a follower here I have named it The Morrigan after the Irish goddess of war, fate, and death. Wreathed in gold leaf.

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Continuing to get into my portrait practice today. I have a special on my website where you can support my portrait practice with your own picture. For $100 you get a 9x12 painting. You send me your favorite headshot and get a work of art in return. #art #painting #mercurialmuse #artsky #bskyart

A portrait of sunshine, soft and sweet,

With golden filigree to make it complete.

Soft and watchful and not to roam

A guiding spirit to watch your home

Gold leaf and oil paint.

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Painted the background yellow originally and the person got lost so I wiped it off and went for this luscious purple paint instead. I think I'm on the right track now. Still work in process.

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Doing some alla prima practice today. A 3.5 hour portrait painting. I'm getting much more consistent in shorter amounts of time. Maybe someday I'll be able to get similar results from life painting.

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Desirous to mimic his monarch, the cardinal too sits for his portrait desperate to shine in the fashion of the crow court. Will the court of poppinjays laud his image or cry "fowl" at his attempt and decry and mock his imitation of the kings portrait.

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The crow king sat for his portrait, commissioning only the most notable of courtly artists to depict his regal self draped in the symbols of office. What a glorious cacophony will be great at its unveiling! Long live the king!

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Pretty sea pony...he might be preggers? Could be a total night-mare galloping through the waves. Ok ok, I'll rein it now and stop horsing around before you hoof it along and we can remain neigh-borly
Painted on silver leaf

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Do you like blue bees? I like blue bees.

Oil paint and glittering gold leaf with a honeycomb motif.

This piece can be found at the curious nest store .

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I gave my Cone-on painting to a friend who is a chiropractor. I made him a customized matching frame and he hung it on his office and occasionally sent me photos of his clients. One must appreciate the dedication to the bit.

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Oil painting of a bluebell forest path. I loved learning to paint dappled light from this

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Portrait of a beautiful woman in robes like a goddess of shimmering blues, purples, and gold. She is staring down T her hands that contains a large shell with water pouring out. She has flowers in her hair and jewelry. She is framed in a halo of real gold and a black background with gold Jagged lines

Oil painting on gold leaf. I'll post a video sometime showing the design in the gold. The lightening elements are also painted with 24k gold

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Painting of a regal Crow with an engagement ring on its head indicating it is the king. It is standing in front of a gold background with stones embedded into the gold. He is standing on top of a small horde of other gemstones and one foot on a crow's skull. The gold is embossed with designs and the border is raised and there are carnelians embedded directly into the panel.

The crow king! The centerpiece of a triptych I created using oil paint, gold leaf and real gem stones.

#oilpainting #art #goldleaf #crows #crow #crowgifts #preciousstones #artwork #modernicon #mercurialmuse #beautifulbizarre #darkart #gothic #Raven #King #painting #landscape

Apainting in gouache with a black background. In the foreground is a delicate teacup and saucer with the rim in pink and small flower motifs on a white background of the teacup. Sitting on top of the teacup poised and looking over is a red-eyed tree frog with bright green skin and red toes

I painted this little delicate frog in teacup with gouache during a seven day challenge I made for myself to paint cute critters. #1

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A painting in oils of a crow standing on a rock bowing his head to the right underneath his head is a small blue stone. The background is burnished gold made from 24 karat gold there are blue stones set in 3 of the corners of the painting. One of the stones is missing from the painting and the crew is offering it to the crow king not pictured

2 of 3 from my crow triptych. This oil painting is on gold leaf with real stones set in.

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A crew with blue highlights stands in front of a background of gold with circular designs in the gold and along the borders. Embedded into three corners of the panel are rose quartz except for the bottom left there is a vacant hole and the crow holds the gym in its beak. Reaching up to the top right stone is a frog trying to pull the stone out of the corner. It is an oil painting done with gold leaf traditional gesso and semi-precious stones.

This crow is done in oils with gold leaf background. Also included are rose quartz cabochons.

#oilpainting #art #goldleaf #crows #crow #treefrog #frog #crowgifts #preciousstones #artwork #modernicon #mercurialmuse #beautifulbizarre #darkart #gothic

A crow with a bear skull sits on the top of a fence post head pointing towards the right over his shoulder is a full moon. The crows feathers gleam with a blue purple refraction. Both the crow and the moon sit in the foreground on top of reflective silver leaf

Sort of a work in progress, I don't know, maybe it's finished. Oil painting on fine silver leaf

#crow #Raven #fullmoon #gilding #silver #macabre #macabreart #darkart #oilpainting #painting #art #artwork #Moon #artofbluesky #mercurialmuse #crowart