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Fragile Serenityby `alexiuss

Traditional Art / Paintings / Sci-Fi

A massive traditional painting, made up of four wooden panels- each 5’ by 5 feet, making it 5x20 feet in size.
(1.5 by 6 meters)

This work was done with a mix of: acrylic paint, charcoal, marker, and chalk.

This piece was completed in 3 months with the help of my apprentice Milena C.

Top photograph: the entire painting
Bottom photo: showing the actual size of one panel with me in the front of it, to show actual size.
The bottom photo is more yellow because I was screwing around with lighting on set and photoshop adjustments afterwards.

Oh, and if you are or have been to Toronto- you can recognize some of its architecture in the top left panel.

Closeup of all the panels:
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This project is a recollection of civilization’s greatness and its plausible downfall due to the pitfall of the double edged sword theorem that is technology.

On one side we created great cities, raised skyscrapers to the heavens, chased away the darkness of the night with electricity and have lengthened, greatly simplified and improved human life, curing countless deceases, saving lives, exploring the micro and the macro, reaching beyond borders of our planet and into space.

And on another side- we have the atomic power of war to flatten the landscape into an infertile desert, as shown practically in the Chernobyl incident; we have numerously blackened the ocean with oil spills, scorched the earth in wars, raised the global temperature, clogged the sky with poisonous air pollutants, and over-populated our species to the point where many thousands starve everyday lacking food and shelter.

Painting #2:
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~jerenda Oct 5, 2011 Student Writer

Is it shallow of me to be just as interested in who this lovely man is that you got to pose for you (or possibly drew in >_>) as the picture itself? Because I am...

~OfFrostandFlame Nov 9, 2010

You painted that? It's incredible. I am awestruck. Whats with the difference in color? The zoomed in version is more yellow. It's an amazing painting. And I love the way you pose for it.

~RubyRose2094 Feb 22, 2010

That's so crazy awsome it blows my mind! Superb job!

~thelittledeadgirl666 Feb 18, 2010 Student General Artist

Now that I know that you're a fellow Canuck, you became that much more AMAZING in my mind.
The sheer size of this blows me away. I just love your use of cold and warm colours. It makes the destruction which is occurring in your work stand out that much more, and the darkness of the concept even more impressive. Even the human figure, touched by the warmth of coming doom and almost touching it in return, seems dire and cold. I just love your work.

*Almatheya-Andra Feb 18, 2010 Student General Artist

hmmm...what is all these updates on Doomsday now...?I mean all of your work is an apocalyptic theme,but wasn't the group Doomsday now ,a club for your comic book Romantically apocalyptic?

`alexiuss Feb 18, 2010

it's not just a "comic club", it's also a group of over 100 DA members that work on the RA film production.

check the category: [link] placement, you will understand.

I've put all my doom-related artwork into "stock" folder for designers on the RA team to use as backgrounds for poster designs, mattes and textures.

*Almatheya-Andra Feb 18, 2010 Student General Artist

aha...thanks

just wanted to know

!Red-Carnation Dec 31, 2008

If I had a lot of money, I'd make an offer to buy this painting. For me, I find a lot of personal significance in this work, it's intimately beautiful, there's a great mind behind it.

There's such hope represented here, because even though you've got the darkness of civilization's imminent downfall and decay, you have the light that is coming from between the clouds, which along with the woman, to me would symbolize hope.

I love that you used all kinds of different media to create this, it gives it such a gorgeous, textured feel, the whole thing is just incredible, and the dimensions give it a very panoramic look, which adds to the overall effect of the darkness being contrasted with that light.

I absolutely love this painting, it's my all time favorite on deviantart. You have an immense amount of talent, and I hope you continue to paint and make incredible art like this.

`alexiuss Jan 16, 2009

thank you for the kind words

!Red-Carnation Jan 17, 2009

You're so welcome, and you absolutely deserve them.

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