Bee Polished: art

Death and Desire...

It's day four of the Digit-al Dozen's celebration series, The Digit-al Dozen, Does it All Again! Today's challenge was art. Although I enjoy art as much as the next person, I'm not super artistic so last time we did art it was a bit of a challenge for me. This time I wanted to stick with something I know I'm pretty good at and also try to recreate something. I caught this picture of a Cy Twombly painting called "Hero and Leander" and I fell in love with it. This is actually the fourth in a series of paintings done by him. All of his work is sort of defined as calligraphic-style graffiti paintings, on solid fields of mostly gray, tan, or off-white colors.

Hero and Leander were lovers in ancient Greek mythology who both drowned. The painting is an evocation of death at sea, as well as their desire for one another. I love the colors and the emotion that this particular painting evokes and it was easy for me to decide to reinvent it on my nails!

I hope you love these as much as I do!!

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The art of neoplasticism...

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It's the final day of the Digit-al Dozen challenge! Today is me only recreation of an art piece for this challenge. It's a recreation of a painting by Piet Mondrian. Mondrian was a Dutch painter and a very important person in the De Stijl art movement. The basis of his work, and of the movement, was to use only white, black and primary colors and to use grids to create patterns. The movement went on from around 1917 to 1931. I really love the idea that these artists had only five colors and straight lines to use and yet came up with endless pieces of unique art. It goes to show you that you don't need a lot to create when you have an imagination. :) I hope you all enjoyed the challenge! Please check out the art my fellow dozeners came up with for today's challenge and stay tuned for the next installment in my New Year New Nails series! It will be coming this weekend. :)

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Watercolor my world...

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Day two of the Digit-al Dozen art challenge is here! Today's inspiration was water color. I used to really love using watercolors as a child and I still love the soft, sheer quality they have about them. I used a new technique for this challenge and I'm considering making a tutorial for it since it's super easy and the effect looks really intricate. I used a creamy base coat to sort of represent a canvas and then I used a fan brush to make patterns on the top. A few days after I had this on I decided to add some glitter and it looked pretty amazing but then it started peeling off in sheets. Fail. I think the glitter with the Gelous with the top coat with all the layers already on just became too thick. I'll definitely be revisiting this technique so maybe next time I'll get it to work! Don't forget to check out the other girls art inspired mani's for today!