venessa in pastel

small triumph managed to get twitpics working for me again

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withall the user [deleted] appearing everywhere on flickr ..it did seem that the yahoo/flickr police might finally be getting around to purging the once great place of all the image theives and fakers... not so ...i asked a couple of friends that have started wearing that badge... the truth is they deleted themselves... sick of not being able to post into their favorite groups... the problem is dead or at least sleeping admins... and the new safe only default conditions

so the slow decline of flickr as a cool place for the creative and interesting to gather and exchange is now accelerating ...so sorry bill ...it is not just you a lot of other are suffering from the "its nudity, it must be pornography its not art!" misconception.

a bit of nauti cal ness

for those of you that think eurovison is tacky & kitch ... well it is ... but if that upsets you look away now



i know this didn't score well but the nauticalness appeals to me

back to charcoal rub

Being busy is no excuse

kate pastel, originally uploaded by sigh clone.

I got mysef a great CD , Little Eve by Kate_Miller-Heidke... and I'm chalking up some serious Ipod hours with it ... the tune "Don't Let Go" is a bit of anthem for little moi at the moment

"First of all I apologise for this long period of silence.
Being busy is no excuse to pull away and lose touch with my friends."

Don't Let Go - Kate Miller-Heidke

[via FoxyTunes / Kate Miller-Heidke]

ashely watercolour

2 minute (& a bit) torso

i was waiting for a big weather event ...yes a true cyclone ...thought it would be a great opportunity to paint ... and it was ...but my inexperience with acrylics is clear so i did need to "finish" off with pastels


The music is In my garage by EST

Honesty about art and nudity

I do get a bit sad at how the USA-based self absorption about the moral high ground (which they certainly don't occupy) dominance in the politically correct self appointed web 2.0 police tend to categories my humble efforts as UNSAFE on Flickr, pornographic or even worse being called tasteless ...but heck I see beauty in nudity and something to be celebrated, no appologise there ...(just look away if you are easily offended) ...so I was pleased to see this BBC report.

back to the 2 minute torso

No better way to get the creative juices flowing again than to tackle a 2 minute torso and a good coffee (at the same time) ...happiness!

Has it been that long?

Sorry it has been so long since I posted ...

... but its hard to post when i haven't had a pencil or brush in my hand. Must be time to fix that

still flickr'ing

perhaps i am admin for too many groups ;)

nude as text

yet another text art image ... not txt as in mobile phones... just more fun with the alchemy filter

hooray for google

Whilst it is not my art... i must applaud google for their scheme to allow you to put artist based themes on your homepage ... i want to see more real art on technology ... it will humanize us all and sooth our spirit


bravo google

torso as text

sorry about the long absense from things net... i'm just bouncing around in wonderful places but they are outside the webs influence. I happened upon this method of photomanipulation playing around with the alchemy add-ons for corel paint and making a brush that was infact text, the word torso actually... it has given the subject a charm of its own... I hope you agree?

monica's torso

I decided its time to rekindle the two minute torso sketches... and monica had been given an anniversary surprise by hubby chris .. a nude spread on flickr .. how could I resist

I have found my old webcam and decided to film myself sketching (ok ok the quality ordinary! but such is life!) ....ok it also took more like 4 minutes not 2 ...anyway happy anniversary chris and monica

tawnee sketch

tawnee sketch, originally uploaded by sigh clone.

my charcoal "rubbings" are coming along just fine ... good therapy and quick ... however i seem to have to find the image rather than be able to construct it ... my depeast thanks go out to however figured out about kneadable soft putty rubbers.

the dilema

I get asked to do a lot of sketching on flickr... and don't do it most of the time ... all too often their subject are clearly stolen images... taken from others on flickr or web sites .... its actually very hard for me to figure out what is and what isn't but a grey bot buddy icon and different models, glamor style lighting and certain poses are usually enough ... also i'm well behind the eight-ball when it comes to recognizing "adult movie" starlettes ... but the widespread practice of posting stolen photos is really ruining flickr and I'm not going to play

txssizetits sketch, originally uploaded by sigh clone.

Having said all that this wasn't a request anyway. I had seen a few of Txssizetits's post (she's apparently very web famous as samantha, and that probably isn't her real name either) on my boob oriented group for grown ups, the funbag fascination. I did suspected they may not be her own images but they were consistent and her smile was very infectious ... anyway she (ok its mainly about her cleavage) made a wonderful subject for a charcoal sketch.

... so I apologise txs size ... sorry i thought you where a bot or a fakr

Seeing double

One hassle with my eyes is i see a lot of things as a kind of double vision... particularly when my eyes are tired or there is a glare ... or just about any time i actually want to see... but now I am starting to see the same two ghostly apparitions in the left hand field of my view... when i turn to study them they vanish.... they ae just there to distract me when I tried to sketch...

... but why are they so thin? ....such is life!

Simply seeing

B E
I N G
B L I N D
I S A P A I N

But it does not need to be!

thanks to jan for indirectly drawing this to my attention

Not so foolish

Each year on this day you can get a special gift from fd of Fd's flickr toys if you use Scout .... it will generate posters of all of your images on flickr ... have fun it only last today!