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kramus · 07-19-2006, 06:18 PM

I have done a few Tree Dancers, and a couple of related drawings, in the last few months. I have noticed that the good folk of TFP seemed to like the ones I have posted

, so I thought I would show a few more that are currently sitting in my sketch book. A couple of these will be getting cut out of said book soon, but there will still be some left inside for when it winds up on the shelf.

kramus · 07-19-2006, 06:19 PM

And one more.

Charlatan · 07-19-2006, 06:21 PM

Hoom hom...

The Entwives have been found at long last!

I really like the second last one.

Excellent work Kramus.

ngdawg · 07-19-2006, 07:13 PM

Cut out of the book???? I hope you're going to have them mounted and framed or something.
Beautiful, Kramus....They should be out there, on little cards so people can write sweet words inside....

Zeraph · 07-19-2006, 07:59 PM

Very nice. They'd make pretty cool garden statues.

amonkie · 07-20-2006, 02:52 AM

oh so very fluid - I can't pick a favorite, the works of yours I see

captobvious · 07-20-2006, 08:38 AM

Really nice work. My favorite is the last one you posted. I really like how the lines flow, and the circular curves in the background frame the Tree Dancer beautifully.

JustJess · 07-20-2006, 08:46 AM

You need to be on staff for a fantasy book publisher!

I really like these, the fluidity, the greens...

snowy · 07-20-2006, 09:02 AM

Oh, how I love your art. Such wonderful work, kramus. Thank you for taking the time to post these here. It's nice to see what you and your pencil have been up to lately.

maleficent · 07-20-2006, 09:11 AM

you do color so infrequently, it's different... but I love it - that last one is exquisite...

and they should be notecards or framed work... they are beautiful... and should be shared

aberkok · 07-20-2006, 09:46 AM

Amazing. Beautiful.

I seem to recall you being interested in helping on the design of my album. I'll see if you're still up for that when it's in post-production.

kramus · 07-21-2006, 02:37 AM

Hoom hom indeed Charlatan

Actually, there is a related set I have never drawn, but I like the idea of - and that is Mist Brides, who would be cousins to the Entwives but live where land and water meet.
Thanks ng - I was thinking how the little images I can attach to the posts here at TFP look like cards. They look pretty neat that way, don't they. Maybe I need someone to help direct what I do so that it ends up as cards that carry sweet words. I know that would be a wonderful source of income, in addition to the pleasure I would get from sharing in such a manner. Actually there is a show in Toronto called Square Foot http://awolgallery.com/ to which I am submitting 3 pieces for consideration. That is why I am cutting some out. Wish me luck

I have heard that Zeraph - and it is a very interesting idea to interpret these in 3 dimensions, in a manner that would fit with the outdoors. I should look into it.
Thanks amonkie and captobvious. Creating that flow is a very fun part of doing the work.
Thank you JJ. Green is my favorite colour. And if you know a way to knock on a fantasy publishers door . . .
Onesnowyowl I am glad to share. TFP gives such a wonderful vibe

I like colour Mal - I just have concentrated so much on drawing with pen and pencil that the colour sort of became secondary. That is the beauty of drawing with colour pencils, eh? Two birds and all that

Thanks aberkok. I am interested any time. These days the studio time would be hard to work out if I was to draw you recording, but if you are willing to go with something I produce in my own studio . . .

So, here is another one I did last night to get ready to submit to that show.

little_tippler · 07-21-2006, 04:07 AM

These are reallly nice, as usual you have a great technique in your drawings that is very personal. My favourite is this last one you have posted, because I feel that this is the one where you have meshed body and tree the best. Also it's the most artistic one whereas I feel the others would be more suited to illustration. Congratulations and good luck with the show!

maleficent · 07-21-2006, 04:37 AM

that last one is really cool -- and seems to have a lot of emotion -- it's either really uplifting with a sapling sitting on the bigger trees knee while it's being told a story... or it's really sad like it's a tired old tree knelt down in prayer.... or sometimes a tree is j ust a tree and i should avoid commenting on art

I really like it..

kramus · 07-22-2006, 08:52 AM

Thanks little tippler - this is the third of the 3 submissions I am making.

absence_of_color · 07-24-2006, 07:25 PM

I thought the first one was best. I didnt see the human form at first, but then when I did, it lept from the paper, contrasting to the white background. Very oriental looking. All the others are impressive, too. Ive always loved the concept of tree people.

kramus · 09-04-2007, 06:05 PM

I'm going to bump all my art threads - attachments uploaded to TFP are going to be deleted as per http://www.tfproject.org/tfp/showthread.php?t=123398, and I would like to put this stuff out there one last time

07-19-2006, 06:18 PM	#1 (permalink)
kramus loving the curves Location: my Lady's manor	Tree Dancers Gathered I have done a few Tree Dancers, and a couple of related drawings, in the last few months. I have noticed that the good folk of TFP seemed to like the ones I have posted , so I thought I would show a few more that are currently sitting in my sketch book. A couple of these will be getting cut out of said book soon, but there will still be some left inside for when it winds up on the shelf. __________________ And now to disengage the clutch of the forebrain ... I'm going with this - if you like artwork visit http://markfineart.ca

07-19-2006, 06:19 PM	#2 (permalink)
kramus loving the curves Location: my Lady's manor	And one more. __________________ And now to disengage the clutch of the forebrain ... I'm going with this - if you like artwork visit http://markfineart.ca

07-19-2006, 06:21 PM	#3 (permalink)
Charlatan Getting it. Super Moderator Location: Lion City	Hoom hom... The Entwives have been found at long last! I really like the second last one. Excellent work Kramus. __________________ "My hands are on fire. Hands are on fire. Ain't got no more time for all you charlatans and liars." - Old Man Luedecke

07-19-2006, 07:13 PM	#4 (permalink)
ngdawg peekaboo Location: on the back, bitch	Cut out of the book???? I hope you're going to have them mounted and framed or something. Beautiful, Kramus....They should be out there, on little cards so people can write sweet words inside.... __________________ Don't blame me. I didn't vote for either of'em.

07-20-2006, 02:52 AM	#6 (permalink)
amonkie Drifting Administrator Location: Windy City	oh so very fluid - I can't pick a favorite, the works of yours I see __________________ Calling from deep in the heart, from where the eyes can't see and the ears can't hear, from where the mountain trails end and only love can go... ~~~ Three Rivers Hare Krishna

07-19-2006, 07:59 PM	#5 (permalink)
Zeraph Banned Location: The Cosmos	Very nice. They'd make pretty cool garden statues.

07-20-2006, 08:38 AM	#7 (permalink)
captobvious Insane Location: Somewhere	Really nice work. My favorite is the last one you posted. I really like how the lines flow, and the circular curves in the background frame the Tree Dancer beautifully.

07-20-2006, 08:46 AM	#8 (permalink)
JustJess Unencapsulated Location: Kittyville	You need to be on staff for a fantasy book publisher! I really like these, the fluidity, the greens... __________________ My heart knows me better than I know myself, so I'm gonna let it do all the talkin'.

07-20-2006, 09:02 AM	#9 (permalink)
snowy Kick Ass Kunoichi Location: Oregon	Oh, how I love your art. Such wonderful work, kramus. Thank you for taking the time to post these here. It's nice to see what you and your pencil have been up to lately. __________________ If I am not better, at least I am different. --Jean-Jacques Rousseau

07-20-2006, 09:11 AM	#10 (permalink)
maleficent Junkie Moderator Emeritus Location: Chicago	you do color so infrequently, it's different... but I love it - that last one is exquisite... and they should be notecards or framed work... they are beautiful... and should be shared __________________ Free your heart from hatred. Free your mind from worries. Live simply. Give more. Expect less.

07-20-2006, 09:46 AM	#11 (permalink)
aberkok “Wrong is right.” Location: toronto	Amazing. Beautiful. I seem to recall you being interested in helping on the design of my album. I'll see if you're still up for that when it's in post-production. __________________ !check out my new blog! http://arkanamusic.wordpress.com Warden Gentiles: "It? Perfectly innocent. But I can see how, if our roles were reversed, I might have you beaten with a pillowcase full of batteries."

07-21-2006, 02:37 AM	#12 (permalink)
kramus loving the curves Location: my Lady's manor	Hoom hom indeed Charlatan Actually, there is a related set I have never drawn, but I like the idea of - and that is Mist Brides, who would be cousins to the Entwives but live where land and water meet. Thanks ng - I was thinking how the little images I can attach to the posts here at TFP look like cards. They look pretty neat that way, don't they. Maybe I need someone to help direct what I do so that it ends up as cards that carry sweet words. I know that would be a wonderful source of income, in addition to the pleasure I would get from sharing in such a manner. Actually there is a show in Toronto called Square Foot http://awolgallery.com/ to which I am submitting 3 pieces for consideration. That is why I am cutting some out. Wish me luck I have heard that Zeraph - and it is a very interesting idea to interpret these in 3 dimensions, in a manner that would fit with the outdoors. I should look into it. Thanks amonkie and captobvious. Creating that flow is a very fun part of doing the work. Thank you JJ. Green is my favorite colour. And if you know a way to knock on a fantasy publishers door . . . Onesnowyowl I am glad to share. TFP gives such a wonderful vibe I like colour Mal - I just have concentrated so much on drawing with pen and pencil that the colour sort of became secondary. That is the beauty of drawing with colour pencils, eh? Two birds and all that Thanks aberkok. I am interested any time. These days the studio time would be hard to work out if I was to draw you recording, but if you are willing to go with something I produce in my own studio . . . So, here is another one I did last night to get ready to submit to that show. __________________ And now to disengage the clutch of the forebrain ... I'm going with this - if you like artwork visit http://markfineart.ca

07-21-2006, 04:07 AM	#13 (permalink)
little_tippler Leaning against the -Sun- Super Moderator Location: on the other side	These are reallly nice, as usual you have a great technique in your drawings that is very personal. My favourite is this last one you have posted, because I feel that this is the one where you have meshed body and tree the best. Also it's the most artistic one whereas I feel the others would be more suited to illustration. Congratulations and good luck with the show! __________________ Whether we write or speak or do but look We are ever unapparent. What we are Cannot be transfused into word or book. Our soul from us is infinitely far. However much we give our thoughts the will To be our soul and gesture it abroad, Our hearts are incommunicable still. In what we show ourselves we are ignored. The abyss from soul to soul cannot be bridged By any skill of thought or trick of seeming. Unto our very selves we are abridged When we would utter to our thought our being. We are our dreams of ourselves, souls by gleams, And each to each other dreams of others' dreams. Fernando Pessoa, 1918

07-21-2006, 04:37 AM	#14 (permalink)
maleficent Junkie Moderator Emeritus Location: Chicago	that last one is really cool -- and seems to have a lot of emotion -- it's either really uplifting with a sapling sitting on the bigger trees knee while it's being told a story... or it's really sad like it's a tired old tree knelt down in prayer.... or sometimes a tree is j ust a tree and i should avoid commenting on art I really like it.. __________________ Free your heart from hatred. Free your mind from worries. Live simply. Give more. Expect less.

07-22-2006, 08:52 AM	#15 (permalink)
kramus loving the curves Location: my Lady's manor	Thanks little tippler - this is the third of the 3 submissions I am making. __________________ And now to disengage the clutch of the forebrain ... I'm going with this - if you like artwork visit http://markfineart.ca

07-24-2006, 07:25 PM	#16 (permalink)
absence_of_color Insane Location: in a golden garden of grey	I thought the first one was best. I didnt see the human form at first, but then when I did, it lept from the paper, contrasting to the white background. Very oriental looking. All the others are impressive, too. Ive always loved the concept of tree people. __________________ ...absent of everything.

09-04-2007, 06:05 PM	#17 (permalink)
kramus loving the curves Location: my Lady's manor	I'm going to bump all my art threads - attachments uploaded to TFP are going to be deleted as per http://www.tfproject.org/tfp/showthread.php?t=123398, and I would like to put this stuff out there one last time __________________ And now to disengage the clutch of the forebrain ... I'm going with this - if you like artwork visit http://markfineart.ca