Betelgeuse and Mintaka, the Boltzmann Dragons - introduction video version II

A new version of Introduction Video "Betelgeuse and Mintaka, the Boltzmann Dragons"



I would love you to take the time to watch the new video and then the old one again and decide which version is better.

The old version:

2009 Calendar - Mintaka and Betelgeuse

The 2009 Fantasy Calendar has just been released. I hope you like it.

The Fantasy Calendar as you can imagine is about imagination, dragons, fantasy, space and Betelgeuse and Mintka ofcourse. All the images come from the story "Betelgeuse and Mintaka, the Boltzmann Dragons". The are lost of new images, you will find them in the new video that I hope to finish soon.

2009 Fantasy Art Calendar by kasiamuminek

The same calendar has also been released by RedBubble.
2009 fantasyartcalendar by kasiamuminek

Have a look and compare the different shops and different prices :-))

Mintaka out of the egg

Mintaka is awake for a few months by now and he grew up and changed his shape......and I forgot to tell you about this.
He looked at me today very upset and somehow sad and I had no choice than to promise him to put him online. And here he is, my sweet Mintaka with his funny-brush-like tail.
I didn't suspect an alien species of narcissism. Maybe he is already to long on Earth. Probably Jim had a bad influence over Mintaka. Ha......ha. It is not my influence on Mintaka, as an artist I am very humble of course. :-)))

Here he is, do you like him?

Mintaka, Kasia and sleepless night

©kbt 2008 -mixed media

I am painting millions paintings in my brain

I don't sleep. I can't sleep.

As a substitute for a sleep I imagine that I paint and

Indeed I am painting millions paintings in my brain.

I am dreaming and Mintaka is watching over me.

My brain creates millions images and impressions in my memory

My memory is trying to remember my dreams and my visions.

My hands are drawing the encoded scraps of the past reality in my sleepless grey matter -

the wonderful past reality of those nights when I had been painting millions painting in my brain.

Kenneth Clark & A Stick in the Mud...

I know this video has nothing to do with the Fantasy Art but nevertheless it has everything to do with Art.
And we are chatting here about art.

Kenneth Clark was an extraordinary man. With his passion for art, humans and his believe in the Goodness of homo sapience.

His TV program 'Civilisation: A Personal View' about art and in general the human civilisation was a very unusual one,a masterpiece.
"It is lack of confidence, more than anything else, that kills a civilisation. We can destroy ourselves by cynicism and disillusion, just as effectively as by bombs."

I just created a New Universe

This is an image of the Universe, the one where Mintaka and Betelgeuse supposed to go.
I used my abstract painting - "Just at the right side"and manipulated with it.
(All my abstract paintings, fantasy art, surreal paintings and digital images will be soon to see on my new website.)
I like it very much actually, what about you?

My FantasyArt images

Some Fantasy Art images, photos and paintings I made.

1. Weird World - based on a picture of the sky I took a year ago at the Beacon Hill. I manipulated the photo, I turned it around.
   
2. Fantasy - The green part of this image is a photo - I took it in Williton, it is a meadow/ a field a few minutes walk from our house here. The dark part I painted in the Adobe Photoshop.
   
3. Fantasy Evening in Cologne - I love Cologne, I think it is a wonderful city, great museums, very interesting collection of art, nice city for a long walk, the old part is small but cosy. And the Cathedral is just amazing. But about the photo - ordinary photo with some extra visual effects - the planets. When we stood at the other side of the river and were taking the photos of the evening, the bridge and the Dom I just thought/ had a vision "it will be wonderful if you could see beautiful big planets in the sky in that spring time...in Cologne (don't do any association with the song Spring Time for Hitler from the Producers (nota bene I love this movie)). Made in Photoshop too.
4. Panta Rhei - my oil on canvas painting. The inspiration for this painting was Callas, Maria Callas. I listened to her singing the most beautiful arias from the less popular operas and just painted. By the way Panta Rhei means " everything is in a state of flux". This is a famous aphorism and it comes from Simplicius but it used to used to characterize Heraclitus, one of the greatest Greek philosophers. Phanta Rhei: the ocean, the bird, and the doors to our desires and our dreams and our subconscious.
   
5. Wormhole - this is pure digital image. I was experimented with Photo Shop and discovered per accident lots of possibilities presented inside the Adobe Photoshop. I drew some stuff and than just used some tools I discovered. It is fun!

More digital images you can find at my facebook page:
http://www.new.facebook.com/home.php#/album.php?aid=20387&id=608063290

I would love to here your comments what do you think about my surreal/ digital/ fantasy art paintings/ work.

Some of the images are available as wallpapers. Here is the link to that page:
http://fantasydragonart.com/wallpaper_download.html