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Ultra Violet / blacklight Reflective Art

debi@creatingartmoods.com (PORTFOLIO HOME PAGE) — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Black-light reflective Goddesses
"Her musical talent began at a young age and her passion for
This goddess inspired art transforms in depth and detail when displayed under Ultra Violet lighting. What appears to be a flat block of color in regular light magically alters under Ultra Violet light, revealing hidden textures, brushstrokes and a variation of tone and expression.

Inspired by nature the Elements, and the changing Seasons, the woman in these paintings depict Mischievous and Seductive yet Bold and Elegant beauties of the night. They reflect intricate patterns of light that skip across a dance floor.

It is important to make our lives a dance with the divine. Allow the goddess to radiate and find truth and inspiration in our surroundings. Let nature’s power guide us to celebrate the gift of happiness thus enabling us to glow in appreciation.

Out of the darkness emerges light, and she dances gracefully across the earth, spreading love.

Debi has displayed and rented out her art for a variety of music eventsaround San Francisco including Super Club, Sea Of Dreams New Years eveparty, Lucient La More Valentines in LA , Carl Cox massive, Symbiosis festival, Big Bounce festival, TunOf Sand at American Steel, Opulent Temple & Center Camp Burningman,1015 Folsom, Annon Salon, Alameda art walk and a variety of privateevent spaces.

Commissioned pieces available- I can create a ultra violet pieces of art work based on * You* or your *partner* Or art that *reflects your love* for each other. (if you have a particular vision then please share with me I can translate your ideas onto canvas)

This artwork needs to be seen by the naked eye under the ultra violet lighting, as it is far more impressive than a photo reproduction.

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Sketch Ideas

debi@creatingartmoods.com (PORTFOLIO HOME PAGE) — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Imaginative Sketch Artworks.
Fairies and Mystical Forest Creatures

New Gallery

debi@creatingartmoods.com (PORTFOLIO HOME PAGE) — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 16:34:17 GMT

slide show

American Vintage in Oil

debi@creatingartmoods.com (PORTFOLIO HOME PAGE) — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 00:00:00 GMT

American Vintage Vehicles - Oil Paintings on Canvas
Tonges rusting vintage vehicles are bathed often drenched in natural light, dramatic contast of shadows and shafts of sun sculpt objects they fall across.
Beams penetrate their way through back ground foliage and expand across fields and junk yards. The warn down metals reflect the warmth of the day and sun rays bounce off the multitude of colors found in rusting metals.

Her oil paintings portray sweeping dramatic representations of Americas past still surviving today, objects of function yet possessions of pride that evoke stories of nostalgia.
Calm yet powerful images of American culture, her classics stand weathered and broken, deteriorating statues that have seen many a hardworking day during the 30's to 50's era now stand proud to rest becoming slightly more fragile with age.

"I want to entice viewers to take a stroll down memory lane, their first repair project to shine up. A car that frequented the drive in movies and ice cream parlors. "

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Close ups of textured Paintings

debi@creatingartmoods.com (PORTFOLIO HOME PAGE) — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 20:39:23 GMT

Travel Sketches and Diary

debi@creatingartmoods.com (PORTFOLIO HOME PAGE) — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 20:29:17 GMT

travel photo

debi@creatingartmoods.com (PORTFOLIO HOME PAGE) — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 20:20:26 GMT

About The Artist

debi@creatingartmoods.com (PORTFOLIO HOME PAGE) — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 00:00:00 GMT

INSPIRATIONS

Travel is the largest source of inspiration for Debi, from her recent road trips in America to her backpacking ventures in Asia. Her fascination for rusting vintage vehicles began on a journey with her father, who flew over from Britain to experience and photograph some of America's outstanding national parks. Whilst Tonge senior was concentrating his skills on landscape photography, Debi was off sketching and writing notes on inspirational moments that could initiate new painting projects

"It's the classic opening scene to a western movie, envisage tumbleweed lifted by the breeze gently bounces across our path. The road ahead travels straight across flat dusty plains as far as the eye can see, and the sun peaks through an overcast sky, catching the tips of distant mountains, which shape the surrounding landscape. It is on these journeys that I will stumble across sleepy rusty truck towns... A few scattered homes, maybe a dusty saloon bar that is frequented by cowboy hats... I find myself submerged amongst icons of American culture."

Tonges rusting vintage vehicles are bathed often drenched in natural light. dramatic contrast of shadows and shafts of sun sculpt objects they fall across. Beams penetrate their way through back ground foliage and expand across fields and junk yards. The warn down metals reflect the warmth of the day and sunrays bounce off the multitude of colors found in rusting metals. Her oil paintings portray sweeping dramatic representations of Americas past still surviving today, objects of function yet possessions of pride that evoke stories of nostalgia.
“Deteriorating statues that have seen many a hard working day during the 30's to 50's era now stand proud to rest becoming slightly more fragile with age.

“Travel and cultural diversity fascinate me and I draw an incredible source of inspiration from my travel experiences. Submersing oneself in a seemingly alien culture is my research laboratory that gives me deep motivation. I am attracted to strong features or a warm smile or glance, perhaps across a crowded market place. I try to address and transform the notions of beauty, such as beauty displayed as in strength of character. I am constantly searching for ways to speak an element of the truth, and I believe it is important to incorporate each fragile and beautiful laughter wrinkle that frames smiling eyes.
I hope to evoke intrigue and wonder from my audience, by recreating the raw realness through my subjects glance or confronting stare. My attempts are to capture my character with a sense of immediacy to create a snapshot of daily life- a fleeting moment in time. My goal is to allow the audience to be creative with their perception of that person’s character."

"The every day illuminates my imagination with painting potentials … if only I could paint every face and every character that fascinates me – I’d have to live forever.”

This artist has another commendable talent that relates closely to her passions for painting. Reading some of her entertaining diary exerts helps to re-enforce her motives and embellish on incidents that have inspired her.

TECHNIQUE

The art reproductions in her portfolio are so life like that they are often mistaken for photographs. Standing in front of these incredible and meticulously rendered oils, one is drawn into the depth of realism they portray. Viewers instinctively move close to inspect all the intricate visible brushstrokes and textures that give her work depth beyond the
abilities of snapshots.

“It is important to pay attention to how light and darkness travel across objects molding them and providing the illusion of the third dimension. Balancing color and tone to captivate a still elegance of these weathered beauties."

"I don't like the grain of the canvas to dictate the direction of my textures, I prefer to create my own so that I feel I have control of every element put into a piece. I use gesso and dry brush oils to give a relief, then a succession of glazes to combine the tonal ranges, balancing colors so that they work in harmony with each other."

Her work is fascinating to view close up. Each painting is built up with many transparent glazes. She rubs oil pigments into her textured surfaces which give her art a three dimensional feel. The focal areas are painted with heavier opaque brushstrokes and her colors spanning across the whole canvas are kept vivid fresh.

"I am constantly experimenting with color combinations, and I love to study color theory. And in pursuit of achieving harmony I keep my color pallet bright though still staying within the boundaries of colors found in nature."

Photography Pin up

debi@creatingartmoods.com (PORTFOLIO HOME PAGE) — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Recreating 1950's pin up illustrations for an all american pin up calender

I created the painted mural backdrops, costumes, set design, gave model direction and also worked on the post production work.

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For Sale

debi@creatingartmoods.com (PORTFOLIO HOME PAGE) — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Giclee prints are the most beautiful and accurate art reproductions that have ever been made; and now, using recently developed archival inks and papers and canvases, they are also among the most archival.

Any noticeable shift in color integrity occurs. They are truly museum-quality Fine-Art reproductions. forms of reproduction is the truly stunning accuracy of the prints. In traditional reproduction technologies, Even under high magnification the dot pattern is virtually invisible and the image appears to be continuous-tone - like the original artwork itself Giclee prints achieve near-perfect fidelity to the original artwork - from across the room even its hard to distinguishing the print from the original!

Giclee reproductions done on a special large format printer. Giclees are produced from digital scans of existing work. Giclees are superior to traditional lithography in several ways. The colors are brighter more accurate, last longer, high-resolution so that they are virtually continuous tone, rather than tiny dots .
The range, or "gamut" of color for giclees is far beyond that of lithography, and details are crisper. They are priced midway between original art and regular limited edition lithographs.
Limited edition litho prints are usually produced in editions of 500-1000 or more, all at once; but giclees rarely exceed 50-100 reproductions, one at a time thus become a more valuable art item.

They are coveted by collectors for their fidelity and quality, and desired by galleries.

SOON Signed Limited Edition Giclee Prints On Canvas will be available for purchase soon.

SOON Rust and Wrinkles coffee table book available

SOON Children's Vegetable Character T-Shirts

SOON Children's Vegetable Character Book Marks with Educational Nutrional information on the reverse

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debi@creatingartmoods.com (PORTFOLIO HOME PAGE) — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 21:18:55 GMT

Drawings

debi@creatingartmoods.com (PORTFOLIO HOME PAGE) — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 00:00:00 GMT

CONTACT DEBI TO COMMISSION A PORTRAIT IN PENCIL OR CHARCOAL

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Leather Feathers and Chain

debi@creatingartmoods.com (PORTFOLIO HOME PAGE) — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 17:08:53 GMT

Portraits

debi@creatingartmoods.com (PORTFOLIO HOME PAGE) — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 00:00:00 GMT

CONTACT DEBI TO COMMISSION A PORTRAIT IN OIL

A portrait painted in oil creates an ever lasting memory and is a wonderful means of celebrating those we love.

Debi captures an authentic likeness of her subjects, infusing vitality and moods through her color pallet. Recreate the innocence of childhood, celebrate the intensity of love, beauty of a nude, or commemorate an achievement honor a deceased relative with an oil painting or pencil sketch.

Portraits are Debi’spassion. Here is the opportunity to create art that is beautiful and timeless could one day become a cherished heirloom and provide pleasure for many years to come.

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Illustration

debi@creatingartmoods.com (PORTFOLIO HOME PAGE) — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 00:00:00 GMT

illustration art work.
Editorial, Book Adult fiction,
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Landscapes

debi@creatingartmoods.com (PORTFOLIO HOME PAGE) — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Landscape Artworks, Classic Realism to impressionistic styles in oil

Travel Inspired Gallery

debi@creatingartmoods.com (PORTFOLIO HOME PAGE) — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Travel and cultural diversity fascinate me and I draw anincredible source of inspiration from my travel experiences. Submersing oneself in a seemingly alien culture is my research laboratory that gives me deep motivation.

I am attracted to strong features or a warm smile or glance, perhaps across a crowded market place. I try to address and transform the notions of beauty, such as beauty displayed as in strength of character.
I am constantly searching for ways to speak an element of the truth, and I believe it is important to incorporate each fragile and beautiful laughter wrinkle that frames smiling eyes.

I hope to evoke intrigue and wonder from my audience, by recreating the raw realness through my subjects glance or confronting stare. My attempts are to capture my characters with a sense of immediacy to create a snapshot of daily life- a fleeting moment in time. My goal is to allow the audience to be creative with their perception of that person’s character.

The every day illuminates my imagination with painting potentials … if only I could paint every face and every character that fascinates me – I’d have to live forever.

Please join my mailing list by e-mailing me your address and you will be informed of new works and upcoming shows
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Children's Book (Imaginary Friends)

debi@creatingartmoods.com (PORTFOLIO HOME PAGE) — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Charismatic & Imaginative Children's book illustration

The story is about a little girl who has an imaginary friend, The young girl invites her father to a pretend tea party,
while they start to talk, the girl shares with her dad that kids tease her about her imaginary friend.
Her dad gives her confidence in that she is not the only one with an imaginary friend, and that when he was little he to had an imaginary friend when he was her age.

written by John Ornellas

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Mural

debi@creatingartmoods.com (PORTFOLIO HOME PAGE) — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Murals for Private Home and Commercial Spaces
such as Restaurants and Bars and Shops
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Children's Book Characters

debi@creatingartmoods.com (PORTFOLIO HOME PAGE) — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Let me create your own custom character.

Your ideas transformed into oil paintings

A perfect gift for a friend or a child. For example, your child loves their pet cat and also loves to have stories read to them, so I would custom design that visual. Maybe your friend collects frog ornaments and loves to dance the tango or your grand child tells you stories of how they enjoy tea parties with their favorite teddy. Maybe you have an idea for children book and need to translate your vision into art

These charismatic children's book characters were commissioned by a publisher to be printed as educational book marks. The happy and vibrant illustrations on the front and nutritional information on the reverse to encourage a healthy living in children's diets.
Valuable and fun way for kids to learn about vitamins and minerals.
Options are endless

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