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Deviousness `ChewedKandi has certainly gone out of her way to keep the vector community on the right path. Always making sure that her talents are infinitely scalable, Sharon has put her bezier curves to excellent use, and firmly anchored herself as an inspirational leader. We're absolutely delighted to bestow the Deviousness Award for June 2013 to `ChewedKandi. Congratulations, Sharon! Read More
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Like many visitors to the deviantART site, I spend a lot of time browsing the submissions and stopping for a better look when something jumps out of the screen. With this piece, what catches my eye is the composition.
At first glance this is a classic landscape composition with detailed foreground separated from a distant vista by a well defined horizontal line slightly below vertical centre. Then the observer notices that the trees frame the sky and mountain beyond with an almost perfectly circular window or portal. It is this feature that locks the eye on a point slightly above the distant peak and pulls the observer into the frame.
The surrealism emerges because perfection of shape rarely occurs in nature and the artist takes full advantage of this. The perfect right angle of the river and the slightly exaggerated mist rising from the low fall gives an almost mystic tone to the work.
Apparently good critiques should find some negatives if only to accent the positive. If I were forced to find something I guess I'd point to the shrubbery masking where the river enter on the right. They seem a bit contrived.
Overall I really like this work. The brushwork is finely executed and the composition opens new worlds to explore.
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