This picture was inspired by the Pre-Raphaelite painters as well as lovely artist Isabela Lepek.

This past weekend I went to the Salton Sea and the nearby sand dunes. The Salton Sea is a little known treasure in California. It used to be a sea and it got its water from runoff from the Colorado River, but since that water stopped flowing it has been in the process of dying. The beaches have fish bones all over the place, there are abandoned things everywhere...a surreal place. I didn't get to explore a ton of it because, like the blonde that I am, I got my car stuck in the sand while trying to drive to the beach. 4 hours and a drastic drop of temperature later, someone managed to pull us out. I did this picture right after that on the beach and lit the scene with the car headlights.

A picture from the sand dunes to follow :)

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I think it is hard to look at this and not know what inspired it...though really it was more a recreation of The Death of Marat by David :-)

I've heard the sentiment that there is too much levitation flying around flickr (pun intended) and I agreed in some respect, so I did a 180 and dove straight into one of my passions - recreating classic paintings.

I posted a little "making-of" photo and this final photo on twitter before anywhere else. I surprisingly love twitter!

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Tags:   brookeshaden selfie marat death david fabric rich feather paper bandage bathtub there is nothing that I hate more than sitting in a bathtub....I mean....gross! A very, very slight and altered texture by Les Brumes I love about the painting that it seems to be a staged murder...so I wanted everything to look just in the right place, though because of that fact seem oddly off explore front page

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I do love my dead animal paintings.

Because my public reception for my gallery exhibition is 2 weeks out, I'd like to somewhat more formally invite everyone if you can or would like to come. Visit my website for details. Pass this along to anyone you think might be interested!

Thank goodness for flickr :-)

Tags:   brookeshaden selfie dead animal sheep painting gallery exhibition february 4 7-11 pm san pedro los angeles I never mind making myself super ugly for a photo...especially not if it means capturing the essence of a dead animal! u r soo not ugly oh thank you! but really...in this photo....I certainly don't look attractive =P

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I've got that Picasso print hanging on my wall and I've always wanted to put myself in that painting.

texture, though it is pretty unrecognizable after my toying with it.

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blog for inspiration, which was drawn from the very talented Rossina Bossio.

Tags:   brookeshaden rossina bossio depth perception painting brushstroke red cloak water woods textures by les brumes :) thank you Kate, over and over and over, for sewing this cloak and putting up with me and thank you Olivia, for splattering mud all over your body and face I never knew that the clone stamp tool could come in so handy LittleRedRidingHood

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