Fury Rising

The second painting from the Fury series is completed: Fury Rising

The Fury, previously shut up and shut off rises to remove some of the most powerful sources of mass-delusion. Those that affect almost every adult man or woman today, either directly or indirectly. Those that attack when the pray is young and teach and stand for all the wrong things. Those that pour billions into brainwashing. They misrepresent and depreciate the female body, they spread disinformation about love and sexuality, and generally spread hogwash in regards to what is supposed to matter in life.

Losely inspired by mythology, the Sabinian Fury is an archetypical symbol of power and justice, representing the Fury that either lays dormant, or roams, inside of every woman.
Fury Rising, painting by Sabina Nore

Physical size of the painting: 90 x 70 cm. Click on the painting to see a larger view.

Divine Fury

I always listen to music while I paint, and this music is forever linked to the painting. It is carefully selected by me in order to help me set whatever mood I need for the particular painting.
 
Since I anyway always do this I have decided to share the album to the painting, so to speak – for each of my paintings, starting with “Divine Fury”.
 

1. The Fury, John Williams
2. The Host of Seraphim, Dead Can Dance
3. Ederlezi, Goran Bregovic
4. Koyaanisqatsi, Philip Glass
5. I’m Going To Make a Cake, Philip Glass
6. Amen, Atticus Ross
7. Sovereign’s Theme, Sam Hulick
8. Lateralus, Tool
9. Dream Within a Dream, Hans Zimmer
10. Brides, Wojciech Kilar
11. Opening Titles (Ninth Gate), Wojciech Kilar
12. Masked Ball, Jocelyn Pook

 
The music here is dark, painful, feminine, rising. You can listen to it right here (the music player is above), or visit my 8 tracks page.
 
So that brings us back to… the painting.
Divine Fury is finished! The first in the series of Furies. This subject is very close to my heart, so I hope you like it!
 
Divine Fury, painting by Sabina Nore

Primordial Tango

The tango painting is finally completed. “Primordial Tango” is more complex, symbolically speaking, and more challenging, artistically speaking, than most my paintings, but I am happy with the result! You can see the enlarged view by clicking on the painting.
 
Primordial Tango, painting by Sabina Nore

The physical size of the painting is 50x60cm.

Perception

Me: How do you like it?
Him: It’s not one of your better paintings. In fact, it may be the worst.

It began as a cloud exercise. I liked the clouds and kept going. The woman in the painting is drowning, or panicking at the very least, yet help is all around her. All she needs to do is look around instead of focusing on the drama of the situation she found herself in.

Perception, painting by Sabina Nore“Perception”

Sage

Sage is a British Shorthair, and she is a beauty, though it’s not her beauty that makes her special.
She is a dog-cat. She is affectionate without being clingy, she comes when you whistle, she awaits in the entrance room when any of us come back home, she moves around the house with us and is mostly wherever we happen to be, and she is incredibly playful. She likes to play hide-and-seek.

Here are a couple of snapshots of Sage on my desk.

A snapshot of Sage

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Digital Painting

 

Digital Painting, artwork by Sabina Nore

 

So much of our life happens on a digital canvas nowadays that it is only natural that art, such as the art of painting, has extended to include and express itself through the digital medium, bringing us digital fine art (or new media art) – an exciting, non-linear possibility of self-expression.

And so I have switched over.

 

I may still paint an oil painting here and there, but my main focus is most assuredly on digital paintings.

The finished artworks are printed on fine art paper or canvas, depending on the artwork itself. Limited edition prints, naturally.

 

Digital art means infinite creation yet it’s green too! Eco-friendly art has to be the art of the future.

The Transition from Traditional to Digital Painting

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Grimms’ Fairy Tales

My first photo post since September 1st! I think I might be a tad too critical in regards to photos, my own as well as others’. I don’t aim for a career in photography, I never have, so I’ll try to take my criticism down a notch or two.

 
Grimms' Fairy Tales

Most Important Movies

Inspired by an online blog of one of my recent online acquaintances, I have decided to include movie reviews into my scrapbook-inspired journal.

After all, I own a collection of more than thousand movies and TV-series (original DVDs and Blu-rays only), so it seems fitting to mention some of them. I’ll begin with a few recommendations off the top-shelf, movies which are generally not considered classics.

Since these are three of my favorite movies, I am all talked out. Instead of detailed reviews, I offer my warm, very warm recommendation, and a relevant quote from each movie.
 

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The Kiss

The second of my Rodin-inspired paintings is “The Kiss”. The primary keyword here is tenderness.

The Kiss, painting by Sabina Nore