The Waters Up Above: A DIgital Painting from a Traditional Work
The Waters Up Above
This artwork is inspired by one of my dreams.
Let me tell you a short story of how I almost got drowned into an ocean full of sharks but then saved by the colorful jellyfishes.
These Jellyfishes do not sting on my skin but they do have a silky texture and so comfortable with. They gave me an oxygen bubble to resurface back up to the top. We played a little bit.
Suddenly, the biggest Jelly Fish starts to glow and every other jellyfish glowed too. The surroundings darken and they started flying above the waters, in the air. The air bubble I'm still in began to float too and then they carry me up to the highest until we reached the outer space. From there i could see the moon and other stars but no traces of the earth, no traces of the ocean either.
These are my favorite parts:
About the Artwork
How is it done?
It is a watercolor illustration I did a long time ago. I scanned it and manipulate the properties, I inverted the colors and I love the result. Later on I add some background like a silky wave to make it look like flowing.
Little did I know that it would appear in my dreams.
After that moment, I sketched the dream virtually and immediately worked on my pc to paint the world I witnessed.
These were the first stages of this artwork:
First painted using watercolor on paper
I already printed out some copies of this for the fundraising at Creative Street before.
Loom at this tails !!! I love it so much like I love Matcha Green Teas !
Next in my upcoming blog:
The continuation of this dream
The Place wwhere I and Happiness Meet
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Thank you so much Curie. It's another pleasure to be curied by you. :)
So cool, @aalagenesis :) Love the process and the journey of this artwork, and the colours are very amazing !!! <3
Thank you!
Wow!!! This is what they call talent. This your piece is exceptional even the one you used watercolor to paint is mindblowing
Thank you so much, the amount of comments and message i receive here is so overwhelming.
amazing and exceptional works attracts alot of people. Your work is really good especially if one takes time to read through.
This was in your dream for real? A non-stingying jellyfish, mush have felt really nice and comfortable. You must have some really magical and colorful dreams (was the color there too?)
I do love the water color painting, the glowing jellyfish is just cool and I love how, scanning it on your computer and putting in that extra work took it to a whole nother level!! I love it!!
Yes they are in my dreams. I really wish there are big and non-stingying fish. I believe that some jellysfish
do not sting like this one:
Yes they are colorful really colorful and glowing.
Thank you so much :D
These ones don't sting? They look different from the usual singing ones... And, they are not big enough. hahahah...
The glow is awesome!
My Pleasure!
Those are some magical and very colorful jellyfishes . Perhaps when you take the right paint ( i saw some at a big online warehouse beging with A :-) ) your jellyfishes could also glow at night :-)
And yes the little tails are very sweet! Fantastic art work @aalagenesis
Yes @avizor, these are from my dreams. I drew the jellyfish a long time a go and revisited it many times. May be that's why they also visited me in my dreams and started to play with me.
I really wanted to use those glow in the dark paints but i havent found one nearby. Thank you for the suggestions :)
When I have a dream, I can only remember a few scenes. Why is that?
Does it shows that I have a memory gap? Maybe.
Illustration or make some draws on my dreams would find me difficult to finish it. I could not even start lol!
You have a clear and beautiful imagination @aalagenesis indeed!
Its very obvious in your artwork.
I'd love to see your next and continuation post.
I wish I could also be in that place.
I think that is common, because i and my friends and based from what I read on Psychology books, only a portion of dreams are retained in our memory and there's a lot more happening behind these scenes but we can't remember.
That was me before, i could not paint or draw my dreams so I started writing them and then draw a little bit of what i've scene.
Thank you so much for your appreciation on my post
You're very much welcome!
During old times as what I'd read from other books, dreams served as guides to people of old. They follow their dreams. It shows that they can remember fully their dreams. Nowadays its contrary. Only a little part we could remember and sometimes we couldn't or no dreams at all. And most of the time dreams aren't true and will never happen. I don't know with other people, but that's what some of my friends and relatives also had experienced.
I love your watercolor work, you put all colors so nicely, did you want for them to dry up, I know from doing watercolor it takes time and I am not patient sometimes, but if you do not wait then the colors look "dirty". The way how you put them in digital art made the colors bright and shining and this is how we imagine deep underwater when you switch the light in a depth.Thank you for sharing your tips,
Cheers, from Art-supporting blog @art-venture
Thank you so much for the nice comment :)
I always love water color since 2015. :)
And I have been using photoshop since last year.
Putting them together is a paradise for me <3
@aagenesis The painting of the jellyfish in watercolor is incredibly spectacular. What a great talent you have with a very creative imagination grabbing all the impiracion of the idea in your dream. How you drew the whole dream scenario with the jellyfish in the ocean is super fantastic. Then how you wear it and work on the pc is imprecionante the image you achieved. Congratulations on your great talent. Excellent work.
Thank you so much for your appreciation. It melts my heart whenever i see complements like yours. Have a nice a day
I am so so so glad that you got a Curie on this post- so well deserved. I love the piece - the colours and the feel of it are completely magical - but I especially love how you included the original watercolour in the post so that you can really see the work you've added digitally to create your final piece.
Amazing that this has developed from your dream - I saw in someone else's comment they asked whether you dream in such strong colours?
I'm really looking forward to your next post following the series to where it goes next. E x
Thank you so much. I really love to put colours that I saw on my dreams on this one. Maybe because it's really what i also feel, it's like i'm bursting in happiness and colors that moment
That must feel so wonderfully magical. I think that feeling comes across in your piece! Beautiful! Hope you have a wonderful weekend. E x