Athena's Messenger
by Cheryle Gannaway
Title
Athena's Messenger
Artist
Cheryle Gannaway
Medium
Painting - Digital Manipulation Of Acrylic Painting
Description
Original digital manipulation of hand painting by Cheryle LL Gannaway (Morghaine's Faeries)
This piece uses my original painting, "Child of Night", as the starting point. Then I made the mirror image of the piece to create the whole face. Interestingly, you can see a human figure has appeared in the background/head-dress of the owl. I'd love to say that this was intentional, but it was just a magical accident! For real raptor enthusiasts, you can now print the right and left eye separately and create your own really big pillow owl!
Original painting: https://fineartamerica.com/featured/child-of-night-cheryle-gannaway.html
For this piece, I hope to convey the feeling that the owl is being painted into existence (or I guess dissolving into the night). I love the eye and periocular region of animals because it is so expressive...in an animal kind of way. The feathers, beak, and eye are painted by hand using squeeze bottles of high profile fabric paint. There are no stencils or pre-existing patterns used; it's all "free-hand". The pupil itself is negative space.
As with all of my owl paintings, the proceeds from the sale of this painting will be donated to the Raptor Center of Minnesota.
https://www.raptor.umn.edu/about/giving-raptor-center
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November 12th, 2018
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Jan Mulherin
Congratulations and Happy New Year!! This stunning image has been selected to be featured for the week in the “Art for Ever with You” Group Home Page. You are welcome to add a preview of this featured image to the group’s discussion post titled “2019 January: Stunning Group Featured Images and Thank-you’s” for a permanent display within the group, to share this achievement with others. Also feel free to post your feature on our group Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/groups/296998814248643/ . If the activity is allowed, your image will also be posted to our group Google+ page. Thank you for your participation in the group! ~Jan (January 29, 2019)
John M Bailey
Congratulations on your feature in the Fine Art America Group "Images That Excite You!"
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