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guilt.free.indulgence XI

Journal Entry: Tue Apr 23, 2013, 6:18 AM



lovely things I've found with help of #TheWallflowerGarden;
and as always, these are all under 100 favorites
so please indulge freely. ;)











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  • Listening to: Blackmill

guilt.free.indulgence X

Journal Entry: Sat Mar 30, 2013, 8:02 AM



lovely things I've found with help of #TheWallflowerGarden;
and as always, these are all under 100 favorites
so please indulge freely. ;)











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  • Listening to: Celadon

guilt.free.indulgence IX : the wallflower edition

Journal Entry: Sun Feb 24, 2013, 1:46 PM


hello lovely people,

some of you may have kept up with these "guilt-free" journals, which seem to have turned into a feature series of mine unintentionally.  if you like these hidden treasures, then I invite you to come visit #TheWallflowerGarden if you have some time.  it's a group that was essentially born from my thought:  "hmm, I want to make more journals, but I don't have as much time as I'd like to go treasure-hunting for lovely deviations... I'm sure I'm not the only one who has found beautiful art hiding in the corners... I wonder if my watchers would help me out and send me links if I asked them?" and then I thought that a group would make it much easier to collect such pieces.  ^^

so, maybe some of you would like to go treasure hunting with me?  you can read more information about the group here and also on its front page, but basically: all are welcome to join, and all kinds of art are accepted, provided it is "wallflowery", meaning quietly loved and silently talented.  

I know this group will not be everyone's cup of tea, but if it is yours and it is a flavor you enjoy, we will happily welcome you.  as an introduction, here are some of the lovely pieces we've collected there so far:





The Painting EyesOnce I lived within these streets
A wife to have and home to keep
And so many I chanced to meet
Living upon this city.

I saw the market and lived the days
Saw the crowds a cold array
People shades and morally strayed
Given to rapacity.

They wore their hats they'd wear a cross
The yoke of property and sought
For eyes of gain yet blind their loss
Of beauty surrounding thee.

In high hopes I 'sued to try
To pull the veil and bare their eyes
To shed the haze and burn the guise
Perverse from vanity.

I set my easel sat my morn
Sat noon and eve 'til sun crossed shore
In painted motions did I implore
Them to glance the
6 . 7 4 6 117 miles from the
town I grew up in,
there was a river, and a
bridge
a hundred heart-jumps above it:

too-many-thousand
footsteps long,
with a walkway to the side that
didn't feel wide enough.

Cars would
VREEOOWMM
by at
59 miles-an-hour, as
with each nervous step, your feet
prayed to the concrete,

and cold wind would beat
at you between
green, rusted rails,
just to remind you how high up
you really were.

   Every once in a while,
   there would be news that
   someone had "jumped".   
               &
how tall is god, do you thinksometimes i get so scared, right? so i get scared and i turn into this class a weirdo who's got the shakes and the shivers and the quakes and the quivers and i get all crazy, right? i get crazy and i start thinkin. and one time this happened while i was driving my little brother to art camp and there's this really tall building downtown, right? jade, you listenin? allright well there's this tall building.

and i was going crazy and thomas was pointing at it and he asked me johnny why is that building so tall? and i said thomas i don't know, i just don't know. and he said how tall do you think it is? i said tall enough to die if you fell off o






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  • Listening to: Hammock

guilt.free.indulgence VIII + DD?!?!??

Journal Entry: Sat Feb 9, 2013, 7:01 AM



more lovely things;
as always, these are all under 100 favorites
so please indulge freely. :aww:










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edit 02.11.2013
oh my gosh!  I got a Daily Deviation!!  it's on this piece

oh gosh!  oh wow!  oh yay!! yayayayyayayayayayyyy!!  
thank you so much, miss `RockstarVanity!!  for featuring it and saying such nice things about it!! :happycry: :love:


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  • Listening to: howling wind

guilt.free.indulgence VII

Journal Entry: Mon Jan 28, 2013, 6:07 PM



I think I'm on 7...am I on 7?  ^^;
anyhoo, more lovely things I've found
and just the same as always, these are all under 100 favorites
so please indulge freely. ;)
(at least, at the time of this journal's conception:
I wouldn't mind at all if you made their favorite-count skyrocket;
I'm sure the artists would love it too. ^^)











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  • Listening to: Ez3kiel

COOL.

Journal Entry: Sun Jan 20, 2013, 1:33 PM




:icondhbraley::icondhbraley::icondhbraley:    :iconcolorfulstarsinajar::iconpardnaskela::iconcolorfulstarsinajar:    :iconcomputerfreak7::iconcomputerfreak7::iconcomputerfreak7:    :iconmicneamol::iconlove-life-peace::iconlove-life-peace:        :iconblackboxplz:
:icondhbraley::iconvampirenyan::iconvampirenyan:    :iconpardnaskela::iconlove-life-peace::iconpardnaskela:    :iconcomputerfreak7::iconvampirenyan::iconcomputerfreak7:    :iconmicneamol::iconlove-life-peace::iconlove-life-peace:        :iconblackboxplz:
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:icondhbraley::icondhbraley::icondhbraley:    :iconpardnaskela::iconcolorfulstarsinajar::iconpardnaskela:    :iconcomputerfreak7::iconcomputerfreak7::iconcomputerfreak7:    :iconmicneamol::iconmicneamol::iconmicneamol:        :iconwilliamjohnholly:


yeah ^^
(I had wayyy too much fun with this...)


also, check out the winners of my Celestial Signs Contest
:winner:







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  • Listening to: Tycho

hello everyone!
is it kind of silly I couldn't wait for the new year to begin so I could make this seventh installment of this journal series? ^^;

but really: my art had been on a bit of a hiatus (due to architorture school) and it is very personal to me; it often feels like parts of my soul skinned and strung out for any vultures to potentially pick at.  and I felt quite a lot rusty trying to get back into photography and drawing and everything this past year.  so the fact that you guys have shown these pieces of me love I couldn't fathom is......

I want us all to frolic happily in sunny fields (with vitamin-D-rich rays that are joyously cancer-free) and have hugs and ice cream and fun and make dark, creepy, happy art together!! :happybounce:

but I haven't figured out how to achieve this yet, so I hope you will enjoy this feature of the lovely people who had a stroke of insanity and decided to follow my gallery this past year.  it was such an awesome journey through your galleries and I hope many others will love my findings as much as I did.  :heart:

january



february



march



april

:thumb302412345:

may

:thumb305487411:

june

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july

The Waste WorldShe said create the world, so I did. I made it dark and dusty, coughed up from my own black lungs. I gave the trees an ashen hue and the ground a color to match the starless sky. The creatures were murmuring oozes, globs of drying acrylic that inked across the orb of my bubbling imagination.

Repulsing, it was in fact the product of an industrial mind. I was born from man's smog goddess and, if memory serves me, her breath was laced in exhaust which I inhaled nightly with her songs. She was soothing and complacent, her voice smokey like a hazy bar. No one could deny her features were hideous beyond belief. Her skin dripped pollution like morp


august



september

:thumb291046714: Visions Of VoodooIt's nice. These days a cup of warm soup is hard to come by. I clung to it, grateful of the heat radiating and warming my hands. I willingly sipped tiny mouthfuls, sighing every time the warm liquid hit my dry tongue. Since the war, not many people come across hospitality as good as this, especially from the enemy. No sooner did the thought hit my brain did he appear, the harsh fluorescent light bouncing of his effortless features. 'No' I thought to myself. Getting close to them is what they want, what they crave. They draw you in then spit you out, literally. Jenna had been my best friend since I joined the academy all those years ago. She w

october

:thumb346050378: Conspiracy theoryI believe in lies.
Truth betrays.


november

:thumb314829511::thumb336674227: FishesIf wishes were fishes
and I were the sea
Then a sea without fishes
or wishes
I'd be
:thumb318385677:

december

:thumb244438796: red cocktail dressesyou remind me of those women,
the ones with curled eyelashes and thick
eyeliner
and
tight red cocktail dresses,
who
look up at boys
with pale moon eyes.

but

my dreams are shrouded in white fumes
of last year's chemical reaction,
and i wish my hands would
stop
trembling.

so

when i listen to the rustling
city,
its hustling clocks
and yellow cabs,
i wonder if you still love me,
the way we should
love one another,
but only sinners shed
tears.

i wonder how long you've lied
for me,
because my seams are opening,
and my pulse is
beating.

and i'm worried
i'll be one of those women,
drowning in their
cocktail dres
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Some people haven't posted any deviations yet, but deserve so much love nonetheless:
:iconhikarunyan: :iconthe-next-dimension: :iconkatyleskat90: :iconglitterbubblerain: :iconvysseris: :iconzekirge: :iconpaulocastelo: :iconakiganeum:


Additionally, these are not the only treasures to behold; please give these lovelies a visit too, if you've a chance:

My lovely watchers : Part VI
My lovely watchers : Part V
My lovely watchers : Part IV
My lovely watchers : Part III
My lovely watchers : Part II
My lovely watchers : Part I



Thank you sooooo much to everyone who has given me comments, +favorites, +watches, or any sort of love; sometimes you guys make me think there's something wrong with my eyes when I check my inbox because it's brimming with so much awesomness -- I truly appreciate each and everyone and I hope this shows my most sincere gratitude. :tighthug: :thanks:

guilt.free.indulgence VI

Journal Entry: Tue Jan 1, 2013, 7:03 PM



lovely things I've found for the beginning of this new year;
and just the same as last year, these are all under 100 favorites
so please indulge freely. ;)










these features are so fun to make ^^
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  • Listening to: Toundra

guilt.free.indulgence V

Journal Entry: Sat Dec 22, 2012, 5:54 AM



even more lovely things I've found;
and as you probably know by now, these are also all under 100 favorites!  
so indulge freely. ;)











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  • Listening to: Zoe Keating

guilt.free.indulgence IV

Journal Entry: Tue Dec 11, 2012, 5:47 PM



even more lovely things I've found;
and as you probably know by now, these are also all under 100 favorites!  
so indulge freely. ;)











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  • Listening to: Baroque variations on Christmas classics

guilt.free.indulgence III

Journal Entry: Sat Dec 1, 2012, 3:46 PM



and again, some more lovely things I've found;
and again, these are also all under 100 favorites!  so indulge freely. ;)











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  • Listening to: Explosions in the Sky

returning madness about madness returns

Journal Entry: Thu Nov 15, 2012, 9:03 AM



hello dear friends and watchers; I hope you're doing well. :aww:
sorry I've been somewhat spamming your inboxes lately, with many of them being American McGee's Alice - inspired: I attended my second convention ever (Anime USA) this past weekend and cosplayed for the first time as, yes:
Alice in Madness Returns.
so I'm having a second bout of madness for the game and thought I'd find some lovely mad things to share with you guys. :)





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  • Listening to: The Birthday Massacre

viii.

Journal Entry: Sat Nov 3, 2012, 8:06 AM
  • Listening to: Zymosis

guilt.free.indulgence II

Journal Entry: Thu Oct 18, 2012, 1:11 PM



and again, some more lovely things I've found;
and again, these are also all under 100 favorites!  so indulge freely. ;)
(it's also a bit of throw-back: they're all pieces I first enjoyed when I first joined dA)











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  • Listening to: Solar Fields

guilt.free.indulgence I

Journal Entry: Fri Oct 5, 2012, 11:11 AM



some lovely things I've found;
and you know, they're all under 100 favorites!  so indulge freely. ;)











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  • Listening to: Bluetech

vii.

Journal Entry: Sat Sep 22, 2012, 7:49 PM
  • Listening to: Nomo

well, it was bound to happen:

Journal Entry: Sat Sep 15, 2012, 9:31 PM


I got a facebook page.  Really, I feel rather silly and quite a bit awkward about it...but I guess it had to be done.

So, if that's the sort of thing that suits your fancy, you can find my shiny-new-and-empty facebook page at
SophiaAZhou.SometimesArtist
;because sometimes I do art.
Additionally, if you have a facebook page, I do encourage you to leave me a link in a comment below because I'd surely love to check it out.  

(You may also leave a comment if you've always wanted a giraffe friend or are craving pumpkin muffins.)


And while I'm here, if you like tumblr and/or sketch-type blogs, you can also find me on tumblr at
sophiaazhou.Tumblr
and for random shirt designs, I am also at
RedBubble.sophiaazhou
And there's always my site
sophiaazhou.com
,which I like best because it's become my strange little diary.


But anyway, that's quite enough of me; please enjoy these following pieces:
(oh my god it's not a square composition! :nuu:)


  • Listening to: the crickets serenading outside my window

vi.

Journal Entry: Thu Sep 13, 2012, 7:18 PM
  • Listening to: Lana Del Rey

v.

Journal Entry: Tue Sep 4, 2012, 7:53 PM





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  • Listening to: Above & Beyond

iv.

Journal Entry: Sun Aug 26, 2012, 4:57 PM








I'm having a contest at my stock account;
please come say hi.  :]



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  • Listening to: Sleep Party People

which one is best for a print? (even if you won't buy any, all feedback is very helpful :meow:

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