~~ beautiful world.

[reenka]

so. i read the last chapter of `beautiful world' around sunrise. strangely fitting, actually. and i couldn't really come up with anything to say-- partly 'cause i was/am falling asleep, partly because instead of feeling -sad-, i felt strangely peaceful and faded, like the world had become softer and more fragile, and somehow more luminous. i didn't want it all to be so... delicately sublime, like a watercolor painting, but it wouldn't move, just sort of floating across my mind. there was pain somewhere out there, but i couldn't feel it, it wasn't -real-. there was only this feeling of shimmering sadness, like a dawn rainbow after a nighttime rain.

so instead of a review, there's this.

Comments

[clodia-of-rome.livejournal.com]

Were you trying to intentionally invoke a Turner painting? Gawds, it's pretty! And it does have a Turner feeling. You know like his Venice paintings and such. Pretty. And all light, transparency, and layers.

[clodia-of-rome.livejournal.com]

hmmm. where did you get your icon of Luna. It is horribly beautiful.

[yourpoison.livejournal.com]

hee. nah, i've never heard of him ^^;
i -am- addicted to layers & transparencies though, hehehe, as i see you can tell ~:)
i pretty much can't seem to do anything in paintshop or photoshop without them anymore. it's er... well... i could with a -tablet-, but with a mouse it'd just kill me. but thanks :D

the icon is glockgal's drawing of luna~:)

[clodia-of-rome.livejournal.com]

William Turner is the name. A fabulous English Romantic Artist. Influenced the French Impressionists and quite possibly one of the first people to make us "look at a sunset/sunrise" as an "object." Here's a link to one of his works:
http://www.abcgallery.com/T/turner/turner30.html

[yourpoison.livejournal.com]

ah, that explains it. i am sadly limited in my knowledge of landscape painters. as in... wah. do i know -any-? well, probably some. mmm, pretty though. and the sky is probably one of the few objects of landscape that i don't think one -can- make boring. you'd think beach scenes wouldn't be either, but. wah. people largely draw the ocean in such... strange ways, that it doesn't even look like water half the time. or maybe that's just me-.-