Hello, friendly reminder that on Wednesday evening at 9pm, there will be a charity art auction held on Four Winds Isle, sponsored by the fine artists of Caeruil Atelier in concert with the Mist Harbor Militia safe-haven building project. Please join us and bring your Mist Harbor promissory notes for this charitable fundraiser. Contributing artists (at the time of this notice) include: Dannia, Jossarian, Lyrna, Naamit, Vehiel, and Ysaeril.
We've also heard the artwork may be eligible for hanging in Premium Homes for this event!
When: Wednesday, June 26, 9pm ET
Where: The Colonnade, Lobby - Mist Harbor/Four Winds Isle (Lich rm # 21142)
What: A charity art auction event sponsored by Caeruil Atelier MHO, benefiting the Defenders of Mist Harbor
Questions: Contact Naamit
We would also like to share an early preview of the paintings that will be up for auction:
The canvas has been painted with only the outlines of a garden party in a tropical setting. The garden area is bordered by gem-inset flowers and filled with people talking, sipping tea, and enjoying other group activities. Each individual has been painstakingly dressed using tiny shards of glass to create formal-wear in a variety of resplendent colors. Beyond the wood and stone inset garden wall, the ocean sparkles in shards of deep blue eostone against a stark, white sand-covered beach.
Title: "Garden Party"
Two elven children play on a deserted beach, leaves and grass swirling in the breeze around them. A seagull, perched on a half buried, dried out log, watches the children. Another gull mischieviously attempts to catch the tailfeathers of the first gull with its beak. The overcast day stretches to the horizon and ships sail in the distance. A pod of dolphins play in nearby waves, some performing acrobatic tricks while others watch.
Title: "Playing with the Wind"
Blended oils, dominated by deep blue and silver-white, form gradients of color punctuated by sharp thresholds of contrast. A cresting wave is caught side-on, with two moons framed above the horizon within its curl. Their light outlines the wave with silver and daubs rippled reflections along its inner curve. The spread of pale stippling nearly obscures a monstrous shadow lurking within the bulk of the wave, its shape distorted beyond easy recognition.
Title: "That Which Abides Beyond Sea and Sky"
*Painting comes with a custom frame!
Jumbles of letters and numeric sequences fill the canvas edge to edge, layered one over the next in a disarray of red, black and blue, bereft of overt rhyme or reason. The anarchic mess seems nearly indecipherable at first glance. But just there -- in the lower left, and up to the right and left, and down in the lower right as well -- four lone letters hide plain as day, if only through the negative space that was spared the torture of such madness.
Title: "M E E K"
Rich, verdant hues tempered by somber shadows define the landscape painting, its subject a tangle of lush vegetation perched high upon a rocky cliff. Vines and moss drape from darkened limbs of towering trees, creeping plants layered to form a chaotic tumble of leaves and brightly colored blossoms. Far beneath, foam-crested turquoise waves crash against ruddy stone, the spreading shadows beneath the waves mirrored by ominous storm clouds looming in the space where ocean meets sky.
Title: "Monsoon on the Horizon"
The focus of the painting is a sleek dolphin with his nose in the air. His lines have been painted with precision to showcase his majestic form. A young lady sits on his back in the clear blue water. Her delicate form and glowing skin are highlighted to show her young age. The girl wears a gauzy blue-green gown that reflects from the sun glistening on the water. Her eyes have been painted with gem-dust infused paint that gives them a playful sparkle and an expression of joy has been painted on her face.
Title: "Niima"
Set on a bleak black background, the spare painting features four sanguine wisps set at lazy back-and-forth angles suggestive of feathers falling from somewhere above. A vertical shaft of dark copper bisects the composition and fades into the background on corroded, yet languid tendrils of color. White streaks and splotches overlap the perch with speckles near the bottom portion of the image in a smeared, cellular fashion.
Title: "Aahlara the Bloody"
Thick roils of grey grace three sides of the canvas, while the fourth depicts a basalt fingers, tall and stark rising from the bottom. Staged centrally, the open space between the dark, craggy prongs depicts an archipelago with several small islets flirting a larger, verdant green landmass. The black peak of a mountain rises far in the distance, followed even further by a completed ring of small black tines rising from the cerulean ocean to encircle the bevy of islands.
Title: "Bird's Eye View"
