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About Me Premium Member Illustrator Claudia HahnFemale/United Kingdom Recent Activity Deviant for 4 Months
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Save the houseboat & Wildlife Artist competiti

Sun Nov 22, 2009, 1:33 AM
We can all fall on hard times, and none of us know what's around the corner.

Some of you have probably heard from the source of Nigels troubles from his journal entry, about how he is desperately hoping to keep his business and his house boat "September Song". That journal almost broke my heart, but for those who haven't, please have a read here at this [link]

A few wonderful people on here have set up a [link] called, "Save The Houseboat" for Nigel.

I believe it goes without saying that anyone who has had the pleasure to talk to Nig, read his journals, and view his art truly understands what a great guy he is, and what a valuable member of this community he has become.

Let's try together to help him out, especially this time of year known for charity and caring. Now you guys, let's get donating, so Nigel can keep his home and his business. You have until Christmas Eve so good ole Sir Nig can keep his houseboat. Nigel is always a good friend to everybody and can give so much and even during his hard times he thinks of others. I think it is time that somebody thought of him and gave back to him.
So if you can help please follow the link above and give a little, every little helps!

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Call for entries: Wildlife Artist of the Year 2010

Something completely different, I thought I spread the word of this great competition.
It is run by the David Shepherd Wildlife Foundation [link] which celebrated their 25th year this month.

Everyone over the age of 17 can take part in the competition, the entries can be submitted via the internet (unfortunately it's not free, but that's how they collect their money). In case you get the selected for the exhibition, which takes part in the Mall gallery in London, United Kingdom [link] you have to bring (or send) the original artwork to them.

I think this competition is a great opportunity for traditional artists to show their work to a bigger audience, and great prizes can be won! Have a look at the entries they had for the previous year to see what they are after! :)

  • Mood: Optimism
  • Listening to: rain
  • Reading: manual for the dehumidifier
  • Watching: mushrooms growing in my flooded office
  • Eating: toast
  • Drinking: tea

deviantID

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 fantasy and fiction literature, movies and comics as well as by nature itself. I illustrate and paint in traditional media; mainly oil, acrylic and pencil, as well as digital in Photoshop or Illustrator.

It was only fairly recently I discovered Photoshop and the graphic tablet for drawing completely in digital. I love to include textures I have scanned, such as old wall papers or sweet wrappers. As reference for my pictures, I try not to use stock photos but my own photographs. I hope to get more of my digital work finished and uploaded soon :)

I joined deviantart recently and hope to get some feedback to improve my work. I hope you like my artwork, any comments are warmly welcome!! :)

Devious Info

  • Current Residence: near London, UK
  • Favourite movie: Star Trek, Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, Snowcake (Alan Rickman rocks!), any intelligent plot ......
  • Favourite band or musician: Pink Floyd, Porcupine Tree, The Cult, internet radio. And of course Audiobooks while painting!
  • Favourite genre of music: Metal, Punk, Prog, ... has to have lot's of guitars
  • Favourite artist: Dali, Klimt, Escher, H.R. Giger, Brom, you name it, there's so many amazing people out there!
  • Favourite poet or writer: Poe, Franz Kafka, Stephen King, Lovecraft, Goethe
  • 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
  • MP3 player of choice: iPod (LOUD!)
  • Favourite game: World of warcraft (I'm on Ghostlands, Europe), Scrabble, Tetris
http://heliocyan.com

Comments


:iconalbertoguerra:
Hi! greetings from Mexico, i love your animals paintings!, I saw your journal about entries for Wildlife competition, I want to enter in.. so i hope to see you there... thanks for notice! :dance:

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God is definitely, painter.
My gallery: [link]
:iconheliocyan:
Oh great!! Good luck for the entry!!

I had a look at your gallery, great art! :) :)
:iconalbertoguerra:
thanks! :D

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God is definitely, painter.
My gallery: [link]
:icon00tiger00:
Beautifull gallery, anytime you want to paint a tiger, just ask me for a high resolution picture ;-)
:iconheliocyan:
Oh, I might come back to that offer soon: I'm planing to take part in a wildlife artist competition, want to paint a tiger for that one. :) Great, thank you for this!
:icon00tiger00:
Just ask me, I have plenty of tiger pictures, I would be so glad to help you.
Your work is really fantastic, it would be an honour for me, really :-)
:iconfluffyturtle:
i love your gallery, you have very beautiful work! :heart:

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I never know what to comment on peoples work! Or even in general! D: i am horrible at wording things half the time!

Whats even worse even if i did I COULDNT SPELL IT TO SAVE MY LIFE!

I FAIL!! TT3TT
:iconheliocyan:
Thank you, very much appreciated!! You have a nice gallery as well, looking forward to see more of Owari! :) :)
:iconfluffyturtle:
your welcome! :D
thank you! and i hope to be drawing and posting more of him soon xD

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I never know what to comment on peoples work! Or even in general! D: i am horrible at wording things half the time!

Whats even worse even if i did I COULDNT SPELL IT TO SAVE MY LIFE!

I FAIL!! TT3TT
:iconstainless2009:
Hey thanks for the support :)
:iconphotonig:
Thanks a lot for mentioning me in your journal, Claudia. I appreciate it loads. Noticed your favourite authors I always look at these things. EA Poe, HP Lovecraft? You only need MR James and you have the three writers that have influenced my reading matter over the last *&^" years. :D

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The Village Green Preservation Society *VillageGreen-Society
help save Fu Manchu, Moriarty and Dracula
:iconheliocyan:
You are very welcome! :) Sorry for my late answer, I normally answer quicker, but I'm busy fighting the swamp out of my garage-office at the moment! That must be a real big advantage of a boat, it doesn't get flooded, or am I wrong there? ;)

I have to admit I don't really know about James, have to get some of his work! Well, growing up in Germany I had different influences, I was more into Franz Kafka and Kurt Tucholsky, they wrote some really great short stories! It was our English teacher in school who introduced us to Poe, he gave us the option to read either P. Highsmith or Poe for our exams.
:iconphotonig:
These floods don't affect me at all. I will just slacken my mooring ropes to take up the rise in water level, and just hope I don't land on a towpath when the level drops. That could be a bit embarrassing. Sitting there like an ark.

Your English teacher sound a damned sight cooler than mine. We got 'Cry the Beloved Country' and no other option. My dad got me into Poe and HP Lovecraft. He was an extremely laid back bloke who loved tales of the macabre. :)

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The Village Green Preservation Society *VillageGreen-Society
help save Fu Manchu, Moriarty and Dracula
:iconbrianv948:
Gorgeous work, especially love the birds!

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