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About Me Traditional Art / Artist Premium Member Claudia HahnUnited Kingdom Groups group avatar #Creative-Obsessions
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I'm delighted that two of my wildlife paintings made it to the finals of the BBC Wildlife Artist of the year 2012 competition! It's the Tawny Owl in the category 'British Birds' and a jellyfish in 'Natural World'.

Please, wish me luck! :)

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*Heliocyan

Artist | Traditional Art
United Kingdom
I studied graphic design and Illustration in Freiburg/Germany, now I'm based in the United Kingdom where I work as a freelance graphic designer/illustrator and photographer. I have always been inspired by nature itself, as well as fantasy and fiction literature, movies and comics. I illustrate and paint mostly in traditional media; mainly acrylic and pencil, sometimes oil, as well as digital in Photoshop or Illustrator.

I hope you like my artwork, any comments are warmly welcome, please don't be offended if I can't always answer very quickly - I will eventually get around to answer all comments!! :)

Current Residence: Guildford near London, UK
Favourite genre of music: Metal, Punk, Prog, ... must have lots of guitars!
Favourite photographer: Lasse Hoile, Tom Oldham
Favourite style of art: Everything, as long as it's unique and takes my breath away!!
Operating System: Apple G5, iMac
MP3 player of choice: iPod (LOUD!)
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Mood: Wow! ~ezliribs-apprentice 8 hours ago  Hobbyist Traditional Artist
wow...your artwork is just...wow...
Thank you so much for sharing it:D
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~MelloW77 May 14, 2012  Hobbyist General Artist
Claudia, You are brilliant artist!
Thank You so much for everything You have created and for everything that You will!:huggle: :rose:
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*Heliocyan May 14, 2012   Traditional Artist
Mila, thank you so much for your kind words! They are very much appreciated! I will try my best to create more great work, I promise! :hug: :heart:
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*SethFitts May 12, 2012  Professional Traditional Artist
I was going through my favorites and came upon Niroot's "Leonardo's Angel" piece. I recall that I told him about an artist who works in gold metal point and read both of you went to the exhibit at London"s National Gallery. I thought I would share the info with you as well. If anything, you may enjoy looking at his work.

The artist is Gordon Hanley. I discovered his technique of drawing in gold in an article of International Artist #80 (Aug/Sep 2011). His website is www.gordonhanley.com

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"Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art. "- Leonardo Da Vinci.
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*Heliocyan May 14, 2012   Traditional Artist
Oh, thank you so much, Seth! I have not heard of him before. Fantastic to see there are artists keeping old techniques alive.

His work is quite impressive, although he defeats the object slightly by completely filling out his backgrounds (in my humble and unworthy opinion). This media is so wonderfully delicate, nearly airy. That is what makes the old Renaissance illustrations so magically - to me, anyway. Metal-point used as if it was charcoal destroys this unique look and his work looks very heavy. I do *love* how Niroot managed to keep the spirit of the original painting and technique very much alive. I think this medium suits him very well.

There is another wonderful Leonardo DaVinci exhibition on at the moment: All his anatomical work which is property of the royal family. They show it until the 7th of October. I know it's unlikely, but just in case you should be in London until then, I can only recommend it! Have a look at this little video they produced to advertise the exhibition: [link]

I know, we are spoilt here! :)
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*SethFitts May 14, 2012  Professional Traditional Artist
Ah what a treat! Thank you for the link!!

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=NicksPencilArt May 10, 2012  Hobbyist Traditional Artist
You have been featured here at #BritishPencil-Paint

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*Heliocyan May 10, 2012   Traditional Artist
Nick, thank you so much for including me in your feature. I'm honoured!
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=NicksPencilArt May 10, 2012  Hobbyist Traditional Artist
You're very welcome :)

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:iconalrasyid:
you are great artist! your art works are incredible,,,especialy your mythical imaginations..i'm so honoured to be appreciated by you..it's very nice to be your friend :)
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*Heliocyan May 7, 2012   Traditional Artist
Aw, thank you very much for your kind words considering my work! I'm looking forward to see more of your amazing paintings in the future. :)
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Thank'ee kindly, m'deer :bow: for the favour you's granted me work :D
T's muchly appreciated :hug::rose:

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"He who could do little, did nothing."
Prof. Eugene Odum
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*Heliocyan May 7, 2012   Traditional Artist
You are very welcome! :hug:
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Worse Case Scenario for the :earth::sun:

"He who could do little, did nothing."
Prof. Eugene Odum
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~vicharris May 3, 2012  New member Hobbyist Traditional Artist
Love your traditional art. You obviously like cats. Even the only one of a person 'Temptation' looks feline!
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