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Butterfly butter, Butterfly fly !!!

Spring arrived at last and I am looking out for my first flying friends this year. I only saw 2 or 3 up to now
While waiting show me your butterfly art if you have some !!!!

Here are some great works from DA:

no photo of butetrflies, but handmade beauties

everyone probably knows it, i still love it so much, i need to share

wanted this as a print for forever

awwwww

what colors !!!! amazing isn't it?

Greta sp. (mabe "oto"), seeing one of them live is true magic

want one so bad !

this one is SO under appreciated, please show it some love



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last but not least

I love books, I am not picky about books, I reed chick stuff, children's books, history novels, the old classics ... I just love books in general.
To me every book is like a vacation, I could read for days and days and do nothing else,
in fact I did that some weekends, I only lay the books down for sleeping and toilet, though sometimes...well I don't wanna go into all the glory details
I just love books
and as I am not the only one here,
I am quite interested in your opinion.
So I thought I'd like to make up a tag thing, I found the "7 deadly sins of reading" on youtube very intersting,
created by  BookishlyMalyza www.youtube.com/user/Bookishly… and she got the idea from a beauty 7 sins tag thing.

I will take those 7 questions and add some of my own, hope some of you will participate, my answers will be last in the post.

So here we go: books books books

1. GREED What is your most expensive book? What is your least expensive book?
2. WRATH—What author do you have a love/hate relationship with?
3. GLUTTONY—What book have you deliciously devoured over and over with no shame whatsoever?
4. SLOTH—What book have you neglected reading due to laziness?
5. PRIDE—What book do you most talk about in order to sound like a very intellectual reader?
6. LUST—What attributes do you find most attractive in male or female characters?
7. ENVY—What books would you most like to receive as a gift?


8. Is there a book in your collection you are ashamed of?
9. What 5 books would accompany you to a desert island ( no 5 series, actual single books)
10. What books are you going to read next and why?
11. What is the first book you remember from childhood?
12. Do you owe an e-reader?/ would you like one?
13. A book that truly changed your life:
14. A book you hated to read:
15.A book you would recommend to me:



I tag:

  


Even if I didn't tag you I'd still love to know our answers!!!, just thought 15 questions 15 tags
go ahead and tag some of your da-friends and watchers


My answers:

1. GREED What is your most inexpensive book? What is your least expensive book?
- inexpensive one is probably "the five people you meet in heaven" by Mitch Albom, which i bought for 20cents (Euro) in Spain in an English second hand bookshop,
it was the cutest place and the book was really a nice read.
Now my most expensive one is an anatomical drawing book, it's really huge and massiveand costed around 70 Euros (~90$)

2. WRATH—What author do you have a love/hate relationship with?
- I guess Stephenie Meyer, I doI like the Twilight series, but her characters are flat and acting weird, I don't genuinely like them...it's weird

3. GLUTTONY—What book have you deliciously devoured over and over with no shame whatsoever?
- it's Harry Potter without a doubt, reread/listened to the books more than 10 times each

4. SLOTH—What book have you neglected reading due to laziness?
- War and Peace  by Leo Tolstoy,
I want to read it, really, I started it some time, but all those names and it is so freaking long....yeah i know how that sounds from someone who just admitted she read all HP books more than 10 times^^
I hope I'll get around reading it one day

5. PRIDE—What book do you most talk about in order to sound like a very intellectual reader?
- I never tried to sound intellectual talking about books, but I read a lot of classics, so maybe Shakespeare, Edgar Allan Poe,  Goethe and Schiller,
and I really enjoy reading those!

6. LUST—What attributes do you find most attractive in male or female characters?
-For women strong and smart characters, that are not so needy ( not Bella from Twilight),
for men it's harder, I guessa very male one, not the totally good guys, the hard shelled ones with a soft core, who have some humor.

7. ENVY—What books would you most like to receive as a gift?
- all Terry Pratchett books that I don't owe already, if someone wanted to be extra good, a signed book would be a great thing.
I usually don't give much about autographs, this one would mean something to me though.

8. Is there a book in your collection you are ashamed of?
- There was a time when I had a hard time admitting I liked Twilight, the movies are just so horrible and all that fandom
same with Eragon, some times people look at you funny when you say you liked those books.... I don't give a **** though anymore

9. What 5 books would accompany you to a desert island ( no 5 series, actual single books)
- yeap I know this is a hard one.
I personally would pick 3 Harry Potter books, the first, the 4th and the 7th to reconstruct the story
one Terry Pratchett book, though I am not yet sure which
and last a book that I havn't read yet,a big one, maybe War and Peace  by Leo Tolstoy

10. What books are you going to read next and why?
- I planned rereading Terry Pratchett books, next will be the carpet people,
I love Terry Pratchett he is my favorite author

11. What is the first book you remember from childhood?
- the name was "Kater Mog" translated "tomcat Mog", it a chubby tabby cat that goes around doing his thing and you always get shown what the kid is doing.
The cat washes itself with his tongue, wile the little boy is in th bathtub etc.
lovely book by Judith Kerr, I'd totally buy it for my children

12. Do you owe an e-reader?/ would you like one?
-I'd really like to have one,
as much as I love actual books, the prospect of always being able to carry hundreds of books with you and get all the classics for free, that's just great
still...eve if I had one I'd surly still buy books from paper.

13. A book that truly changed your life: How to win friends and influence people by Dale Carnegie

14. A book you hated to read: Homo Faber by Max Frisch,
I cheated and didn't read all of it, didn't even buy the book, but what I had to read in class was plain awful...

15.A book you would recommend to me: The is pointless without a person who was tagged, but my general suggestion is:
How to win friends and influence people by Dale Carnegie, it mostly contains common knowledge, but it is good to be reminded of once in a while.

Hi,
I just had this idea for a "mass" art-collab in the style of the scribble contest.
My watchers might have seen that I had lots of fun with this contest.
I thought it was so much fun and very inspiring-> I want more like that.

I wrote a forum post >> forum.deviantart.com/art/digit…

But in short:

one person creates a scribble like we had in the contest,
without changing the settings of the canvas, a second person makes
a sketch or painting underneath the scribble,
a third person will render it all out on a layer over the scribble incorporates everything nicely,
paints details makes changes here or there...
after that he/she either calls it finished or let someone else take over who repeats step3
until some one finally calls it finished.

I think it could be lots of fun, inspiring each other, learning from each other etc.

would be cool if the one or the other of you would join us and don't worry about being not good enough or whatever, this is truly just about the fun
of creating some art together !!!!

And by the way, I recently reached the mark of  more than 100 watchers -wow ,
I'm truly thankful that you think I am worth watching !!!!!!!!!
Thanks to every single one of you, ven if I do not thank you after every fav you do, I always appreciate it very very much !!!!!!!

THANKS

It would be great if you could all take part in the survey for my study,
it's about gaming habits and will only take a few minutes!!!!

www.q-set.eu/q-set.php?sCode=H…

Thank you very very much !!!!!!!!

So here is something I thought would be nice.

As you may have noticed I try to get back on the track of making at least one deviation every day.
Up to now I haven't done so good, only 54 of 181 that is quite poor.
But luckily i still have some month of the year left to change that

So as I am doing dailies again, I would like to give you the chance of getting nice-price commissions from me.
I'd like to have a premium account once to see what it is like,
so I'd say for every daily painting I do for you, you pay me the amount I would need for one day premium membership.
A day for a day

That's about 7 points.

I will be spending 30 to a maximum of 90 minutes on every piece, just as I did on all daily painting up to now (have a look at my daily gallerytrutze.deviantart.com/gallery/…)
sometimes they turn out better than other times, but I'll give my best- promised.

You would describe a rough idea to me, give me a reference picture or something around that,
and I go and see what I can do with it.

Important would be :

first --> that the reference is either your own, mine or free to use on DA, if you like to use my painting elsewhere it would be important that the owner of the ref is ok with that too !!!

Second-->  that I have enough creative freedom with your idea or ref as this is of course still my every day practice and with a too detailed idea I might feel forced to spend longer on the picture than actually intended

third --> as a week has 7 days only and some week i might not be at home each day or have other ideas etc, I'd say a maximum of 4-5 commissions each week

Any questions?

What do you think?