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Just faffing about on the computer while it is raining, and decided to do a bit of manipulation. I put a pen and wash effect on this old pic of a Mint moth. It's the Rembrandt in me.

wow zonda!

what a beautiful effect, so you'll be using this on all your images from now on then!............

gary.

How about this Dalìnesque butterfly ?


I thought i would call it

"Retribution of the Neglected Sofa with Unsung Funicular"

Salvador Charli

Yes Charles, 'Soft construction with roadkill ', seriously good art. Not like all this unmade bed rubbish, and piles of bricks, but good organic, from the heart art. I can see that on walls countrywide. What was it before you mangled it?
I'm through posting boring old photographs, i'm gonna put some art in 'species specific'. Or not.

hi Zonda... you are obviously a man of discernment & taste.

I prefer to use the term "transformed" rather than "mangled" but there we go....

this was a heath fritillary from france before its transformation

Charlì

Shall i frame it for you? I noted the lack of one. Looks a bit naked.

as you put it charles superbly, "transformed"

and as for the finnishing touch of your framing zonda, im just speechless! well only one word, pure class......... sorry thats two words.

gary.

I like the framed Mint moth Zonda, not sure about the drowned Frit though Charles


Regards Gruditch

There that's better, it cant go to Tate Modern undressed.

charli dali,
i can definitly see the direction from salvador in your latest piece but i think that the gold inlaid background has more influence from master klimt.

gary.

firstly thanks for the lovely frame Zonda

secondly well spotted geniculata... i adore Klimt as well as Dalì

thirdly here is a painting i did of a Pasha in France. Luckily it stayed still long enough:






Charlì

I like the surrealists too, but after Dali i veer towards Max Ernst, or Giorgio De Chirico. I did a Painted Lady in the style of Beryl Cook, it couldn't fly naturally.

On balance tho, i think i still prefer the pale washes and ink outline. I can imagine a well-to-do lady from the Regency period taking months to do it.

oh joy!

the pair of you have inspired me so much that if feel im compelled to go forth once more and put brush to canvas, my faith in art being totally restored,

once more to the breach!

gary

One senses that one is taking the *iss. Unless one wishes to contribute to the thread. Brush to fence might be more appropriate One might also have to make ones own calendar, if ones UKB calendar does not show up soon Grud.

Zonda wrote:One might also have to make ones own calendar, if ones UKB calendar does not show up soon Grud.

Read the ad, not distributed till first week in December, the woman down the Post Office loves me

Kind regards Grud.

im back with my contribution to the esteemed gallery.

its taken me literally minute's of hard slaving at the easel, but i think ive done it!
i could feel the anguish drain from my very soul and a sense total accomplishment as my latest masterpiece came to fruition.

ill call it "a clockwork silver studded blue" ( after bacon) ....sir that is, not the pork variaty.

oh no i feel my anguish returning , were's my razor, ive a sense i have one ear too many.

OK. I love my Post Office woman as well. Gosh! should i be saying this. WOW! i'm a big Bacon fan. That is outstanding. Aah! those were the days. I dont suppose anyone remembers Melvin Bragg and Bacon.

glad you like it, you've just saved my ear!

can you frame it for me zonda? oh please! pretty please

It is a masterpiece

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