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Published: 2007-08-29 09:44:40 +0000 UTC; Views: 547; Favourites: 13; Downloads: 0
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This is one-colour self portrait; when I showed this one to one of my students, she didn't believe it was me.
This is watercolour, about 9" by 12". The original is owned by the lovely and talented .
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Thanks very much! For these, the sketch is harder than the painting because everything has to be in just the right place; it looks very odd if something's a little "out of place".
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I can only imagine!
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Very interesting! Looks like a photo with extreme contrast.
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Thanks! These are pretty hard to do because I don't consider myself very good at drawing; the sktch has to be right or it doesn't come out right. I was really disappointed to learn that a similar effect can be gotten with Photoshop. 
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The same is true of pointallism...but I still do it anyway! There is always a certain feel to something handmade that a computer could never purely duplicate.
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That's an excellent point! I'm glad they don't make computers with an imagination.
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I love this one. I really like this technique.
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Thanks very much! It's an odd style for me because I usually paint following a really bad sketch. With these, I have to be really careful with the sketch and then I can just slap the paint on.
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Well, you did an excellent job.
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Thanks very much! The lady in the background is a member of my motorcycle group; the snap I used to paint this one from was taken at a meeting of our group and I decided I'd leave her in.
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It's a blessing from God.
Look after it well, young Padawan.
From a tiny seed, sprouts the tall life-giving tree.
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XDD You're double-funny...you know that.
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I was being serious. 8(
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Oh, I'm sorry! It was just so poetic that I thought you must be joking with me. XD
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Everyone thinks i'm a joke. u_u
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Not so - anyone with as many pageviews as you have must be taken seriously (unless their gallery is full of pictures of feet or stomachs).
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Feet and stomachs..
Hmmmm.
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Hmmmmm~ That might be an interesting piece to paint next year for Art.
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Icky! You know, there's a point at which art passes beyond the meaningful into the bizarre... XDD
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That's what art's all about. Pushing the boundaries, and stepping over the clichΓ© and generic reproduction, i supposeeee.
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Perhaps I just have a more traditional view, but I don't think bellies and feet are pushing any boundaries. XDD
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They are..if you...
try.
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ya this is hanging out at my dads house
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I'm so glad you're the one who got this one. I'd be awfully disappointed if it was in some grotty trailer owned by some guy named "Bubba".
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I like it, it's quite impessive that you painted it by hand, most people just do these in Photoshop and other photography manipulating programmes, but I must say this is cooler. Also, your moustache looks fun
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Thanks! I didn't know until I'd painted a few in this style that you could even do stuff like this in Photoshop!
Oh, thanks! I've had a whopping great big moustache for a long time now - I look pretty strange without it! Pepper hates it when I curl it up, though.
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I can't understand why she does that, it's incredibly cool!
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how could she not know it was you? it looks exactly like you! o:
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Howdy-do, Klazien!
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Aw, shucks. I think I'd rather be the pudgy scientist - at least he was funny.
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I thought the pair of them made the film, I really enjoyed it
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It is rather a good movie - I like the fact that they didn't take themselves too seriously. Serious "giant creature" movies usually seem pretty ridiculous; at least they started with the premise, "Okay, now I know this is ridiculous..."
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Yep a lot of people didn't like it, i think they didn't realise it was supposed to be tongue in cheek
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I'm usually guilty of not figuring that kind of thing out, but in that movie, even I understood it was all kind of a put-on.
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I think the original tongue in cheeck horror of my time was american werewolf in london, the start of the big special effects and a bit humour
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That movie had some seriously scary moments! It was really unusual because it had a lot of really funny lines but some gross scary stuff, too. Great date movie.
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Yep and they've still come along way with special effects but it's still a classic
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You know, it's interesting you mention that - the special effects in Werewolf work really well because they realised the limitations and used the technology they had at the time to best effect; instead of "that's good enough", it was more, "that's the best that can be done". Made a lot of difference, I think.
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Because they have computer graphics now there's no need for makup 
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Maybe she didn't recognize you because you have hair in this??
I like this a lot. totally impressive like always.
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