CPD-Looks Can Be Deceiving...

CPD-Releasing the Genie

Cynnefully Poetic-Breakdown

Purely Cynnefull Designs™ Portfolio...

Butterfly Wings...

Butterfly Wings

© 2009 Purely Cynnefull Designs

This is one of those pieces of artwork that I just pulled from everything that I could think of that I wanted in the picture and then scaled back to produce Butterfly Wings. Not quite sure why the blue is in there... this was originally going to be purple and black color scheme but it looked cooler with them there.

Little Worlds...

Little Worlds

©2009 Purely Cynnefull Designs

Bubbles are happy things... I wanted to create a picture that used bubbles and happy things. Rainbows, multi colored bubbles, nature and some fairy elements are incorporated within most of the bubbles.

Widowed Lies...

Widowed Lies

© 2009 Purely Cynnefull Designs

Purple is a beautiful color and I realized that I needed a design that incorporated it more than just a splash here and there. Weird random thoughts kept popping in to my head... the one that stuck was the words: "Little girls are made up of sugar, spice and everything nice..." So the picture began to take on more feminine attributes to reflect this quote. Having different types of various females exuding different personas of the female made sense to me. The blue galaxy is the focal point to bring you into the picture so that you take in the message as a whole; not in the sum of the pieces within the picture put together. At the end I was trying to come up with the title of the design [I never name it first without seeing the finished product... even when doing them for my poems] the ending theme song from The Fifth Element" popped into my head. The song was called "Little Light of Love" by RXRA and when I heard the line 'little light' my mind changed it into Widowed Lies...

Ice Queen...

Ice Queen

© 2009 Purely Cynnefull Designs

Ice Queen is an emotional piece with a mixture of white ice, snow and blues. At one point in my life I was an extremely cold and cruel person. My whole world had ended when my Nana died; she took with her all of my May day happiness and this summer knew what it had meant to become winter. It reminded me of the Greek myth of Persephone and why we have the seasons... Demeter's dying every time her daughter would go to the underworld causing the changes of the seasons. In this case the season being my life. Some of the ice is smooth likened to my expression back then; I was too numb to pay attention to anyone or thing. Icicles were my pointy daggers that I would throw to people who commented on how cold-hearted I had become. My body was covered in sheets of ice and was used as an armor towards the outside world. Soon I was dubbed, "The Ice Queen" or "The Icy Bitch." Winter was permanent for me; my heart locked away in a very cold and intolerable place. Depression soon set in and nothing mattered much in those days... that is why the color chosen was for the "blues."

Mysty...

Mysty

© 2009 Purely Cynnefull Designs

The Ocean and Icebergs were always a point of interest to me... under the fullness of the moon the ocean ebbs and flows like a metronome counting out the precise rhythm of life. That visual picture in my head was the one that sparked this design to be made. Mysty is one of my more subtle pieces of artwork that involves very few layers but gives the desired effect the way that I had it intended. The iceberg int this picture was meant more to look like mist [myst] so that it took its own shape and form within the picture. Adding the hint of the Japanese cherry blossom tree in the top left corner really gave the picture a feeling of land in the background... but there isn't; the blossoms come out of nowhere and meet with the mist out of the clear midnight blue sky. It has been said that the ocean is like that of a woman so I incorporated that aspect within Mysty... this design was also one of my myspace backgrounds as well.

Emmeralde

Emmeralde

© 2009 Purely Cynnefull Designs

Green is the closest color that my energy vibrates to... sometimes a mixture of blues and yellows but for the most part its emerald green for it vibrance. I wanted to create this ensemble of green colors together to show my blend of the energy with a hint of pink to represent the 4th charkra- the heart. Originally this was used as one of my own myspace backgrounds and that is why the "Property of Ashlee Lindsay" is not on there...

Purely Cynnefull Designs w/ Descriptions...

By popular demand I am now adding a description of how I created/ concept behind each of my Purely Cynnefull Designs™ artwork creations!

Previously, I have added them within the comments when another person leaves a message, but now I will take the time to go back into my design blogs to give you the full lowdown about them!

This is really something that I am truly excited about! Hope this gives you insight not only into my artwork but into myself as well.

Enjoy!

Purely Cynnefull Design Questions...

Many have asked me where my inspiration comes from when I create... and why I call my works Purely Cynnefull Designs.

Well... To answer your questions:

My inspiration comes from everything around me, my mood and the photos that I have taken. Usually, my creations have a central theme with a lot of imagination. Since I am a person of much depth, I need a canvas that will let me have multiple layers to get across my idea/concept of the picture. Nature is my biggest pool of reasources to choose from since there is so much to reveal. Sometimes, I just see a picture and know that I want to use it for my next piece of artwork. Other times it's a process of trial and error. Rarely, do I create a picture from my poetry; it has been known to happen.

Purely Cynnefull is a play on words. In old english cynne is pronounced "kin" making it Purely Kinfull Designs. One day it just came to me: Showcasing the two sides of a person's heart; the pure, the sinfull and the struggle inbetween. So depending on how you look and read my name you will get either one. It goes deeper into the duality of good and evil; within us, all around us and what we choose to do with that knowledge inside our hearts.

I have only uploaded the "Property of: Ashlee Lindsay" creations due to people not giving me credit for my work on their sites and passing them off as their own. There are .jpeg pictures of my artwork without the text on them; they are on my hard drive. Yes, the text is an eyesore and does take away from the artwork but it is necessary! It pains me having to show my creations in this manner, but at least this way people can't take them without my permission. I use my real name for obvious reasons over them...

Lingering Moonbeams

Lingering Moonbeams
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Moonbeams is a culmination of many images blended into the whole picture. It started out as a woman on a cloud with the moon behind her. then added the layers from there.

Lightning

Lightning
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Lightning... enough said. Added the ice to give this picture a sence of electricity.

Inspiration From Above

Inspiration From Above
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I used zodiac pictures to get the concept of astrology and divine inspiration to create Inspiration from above.

Ferns of Cynnefull Gardens... All Versions

After flipping through all of my photograhpy pictures that I took I found this wonderfull image of ferns on a side of a hill. Couple of picutes later I stumbled on the purple flowers and decided to add them as well. I didn't know which direction that "flowered fern" (as it is saved into my hard drive) was going to take.

Ferns of Cynnefull Garden
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I ran out of time and saved it just like this so that I could come back and work on it at a later opportunity.

Ferns of Cynnefull Gardens 2
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This next version has more of the inital fern covered but it adds depth to the picutre. As much as I liked this version, I knew that it was missing something...

Ferns of Cynnefull Gardens 3 ©Purely Cynnefull Designs

Spiderwebs and some female fairies was just what was needed to make this artwork whole!

Intertwined Connections

Intertwined Connections

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Intertwined Connections concept was to show that everything in this picture is connected by some sort of path.

Golden Enchantment

Golden Enchantment

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Not quite sure what to wirte about this creation...Golden Enchantment is one of those pictures that didn't have a theme or a concept to go with it. It simply is.

Fire

Fire

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Felt like designing a creation that has fire... many different types with color.

Eye Plural

Eye Plural

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If eyes are the windows to your soul then this creation is filled with only half souls. I didn't want both eyes; just one eye represented by many eyes giving to the name Eye Plural. This is just a really cool picture to stare at.