Four Horsemen
Eques aurei clematis
Paradise lost : Gracefallen
Artist // Professional // Traditional Art
- Dec 23, 1993
- Russia
- Deviant for 16 years
- vk.com/clematis_grata
- She / Her
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Hello, I'm Grata.
I'm an architect and professional traditional media artist. My main focus is on graphic artworks, book and music albums covers and book illustrations. I mostly used to represent oldfashioned things: old stories from XIX century, medieval architecture, myth and legends.
Commissions are open! Just message me.
Favourite Visual Artist
Gustav Dore, Theodor Kittelsen, Kay Nielsen, John Bauer, Arthur Rackham
Favourite Bands / Musical Artists
Opeth, Tristania, Blind Guardian, Swallow the Sun, Epica, Within Temptation, Nightwish, Empyrium, Moonspell, Haggard
Who from all my archangels is the MOST handsome buddy?
7 votes
Certainly blondy Michael
No doubt: epic Gabriel
Of course awesome Uriel
There is ONLY ONE handsome buddy, ave Satan!
Grata, are you mad? They are archangels, not handsome buddies!
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Watercolor tips and tricks: interior
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A short story of "how to" create light and transpaernt architecture interior via watercolor.
This is the interior of romanesque church in France. Pretty simple and brutal: squat and simple columns, bare vaults without decorations and carvings, laconic arches. Perfect thing to make it bright and unusual with the help of color.
For this work I was using only six colors:
- ocher
- cadmium yellow
- english red
- carmin
- violet
- ceruleum
Pairs of ocher + english red and cadmium yellow + carmine gave me the main base colors. Here are two secrets:
- mix in different proportions, see how it fits better, make overflows.
- in each pair, one color is transparent, and the second is opaque. Ocher and cadmium are transparent, english red and carmine are opaque.
But basic colors are not all. Artwork need a shadow. Usually the shadow is cold, but for my taste with ocher and especially english red, blue shadows do not work well, so I took violet. It has excellent coverage and, when mixed with
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I am into 19th century as well, nourishing from there....I am glad you are publishing here 
Nice to meet a gentleman from good old 19th century here 
I have to disappoint you, I am not that old ... not a Dandy .... maybe you can call me a Flaneur - but Never ever a Promeneur, whom had been ascribed taking care of a turtle walking along with themselves, to keep a low and calm pace, as Walter Benjamin says in his Arcade Project.
Well then, I will call you a Flaneur 
Thank you so much, iIt's a big honor and very proud to be awarded a Quartz badge, dear artist friend
You are welcome
Dear Grata, your work is absolutely magnificent, both very realistic and, in some cases, very surreal. Your paintings are particularly vivid, full of emotion, and each one tells its own story beautifully. I love your work and can't wait to see more.