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Oil on canvas, 16"x20".
Autumn spirits gather along the ancient crannog at dusk.

Luminorphs (or 'spirits' as the locals call them) like to seek shelter amid ancient ruins along the lakes, streams and forests of the countryside.
They are attracted to light amid the darkness such as the phosphorescent fungi and the fire.
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:icondanchampy:
Great image, especially the colours!
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~Tolkyes Mar 1, 2013  Professional Traditional Artist
Thank you.
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:iconkrigl:
A magical scene...one can see why the locals would think of them as spirits, as well as why they are something more than just shades of the dead...
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~Tolkyes Jan 22, 2013  Professional Traditional Artist
Thanks. I'm glad that they came across that way to you.
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Mood: Love ~emmasugarman Dec 25, 2012  Hobbyist Traditional Artist
Your artwork is amazing. Where do you get the inspiration for those luminorphs??? Please tell! :D
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~Tolkyes Dec 25, 2012  Professional Traditional Artist
Thank you!
Since college I've always liked to draw and paint spontaneous organic forms. In surrealism this is known as 'biomorphism'.
Years later I began to formulate a story or sort of mythology linking my surreal/fantasy landscapes together. I started to think of my biomorphic forms within these landscapes as trans-dimensional beings of some kind and started calling them 'luminorphs'.

Also, I like the ghostly and other-worldly quality of glowing multicolored organic forms that actually exist in our 3 dimensional reality: unusual deep sea creatures like jellyfish, luminescent fungi and nebulae. I've gradually combined these shapes with my own biomorphic imagery in varying degrees to create more luminorphs.
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~emmasugarman Dec 27, 2012  Hobbyist Traditional Artist
Wow I didn't even know that! It's really admirable and inspiring to me how you basically illustrate this fictional world you have fabricated all from your own mind. What I love about your work is that it always has that same theme, something about the way these luminorphs look is really attractive for me!

I watched the David Attenborough documentary, Blue Planet, and the episode called 'The Deep' shows you all that stuff. Looks so cool, it literally seems like it isn't from earth cos it's so different to everything you would normally look at!
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~Tolkyes Dec 27, 2012  Professional Traditional Artist
I'm glad you like the world I created- "New Terra" I call it.

I've always liked David Attenborough and his nature shows like "Blue Planet".
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~Tolkyes Dec 11, 2012  Professional Traditional Artist
Thanks.
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