232 - PICASSO'S NANNY GOAT - DAVE EDWARDS - COLOURED PENCILS - 2008

SHE IS SWEET, WHAT, THE RATE TO HIRE HER…

UHM, NO NOT FOR THIS, ....DOES SHE SIT WITH THE KIDS? LIKE TAKE CARE OF THEM AND STUFF?

Dave he looks such a friendly fellow. We are having some rain here the grass is growing, no he might eat the gold fish in the small pond we have here now.

Your work is so interesting and unique.

wow! what a fabulous drawing! Looks like a painting! just excellent!

Great detail in the body Dave.

She has a very crafty look in her eye,Dave,the moment you turned your back you would feel the full force of her intentions on your butt,well done!!!

Bony AND stony!!! This is great!

like this, love the way you are thinking!!!!

Great image. I like the little creatures (worms) popping up from the landscape and the cross hatches in nanny’s round belly. Lots of expression in the goats and purple creatures too. Love it.

I do like your styalised goat Dave, it has good form and texturing. What is the significance of the gold leg bands?

no…. we all love an original thinker!!! lol :>)

SEEE!!! You have been doing Ekphrasis art for AGES! lol we all have :O)
This is a GORGEOUS GOAT! I am so glad you painted your impression of the sculpted one :O)
BRAVO! ♥

Very true Dave. I’ve come across many non-artists who are ‘experts’ in interpreting other people’s work and in many cases talking total rubbish. Remember the school visit by a group of child physcholigists who gave in-depth reasons why a child painted his sky brown. The simple answer the kid gave when asked was he’d run out of blue paint.

wonderful, I say from my heart.

fantastic work,,,,

Thought I had commented on this already but apparently I didn’t! Old age kicking in already for me? =P
I think you turned this into a great version of Picasso’s goat, keeping a lot from the original yet still making it your own. Love the cross-hatching on the belly and the nice bright background (especially the blue contrasting against the yellow-orange of the goat). =D

Haha nahhh, don’t worry, I don’t think you’re ancient! Though you’re getting there. =P
But really, you’re not old yet, only a bit older than my parents (and they haven’t had their own teeth since they were young!). =)

Congratulations on being featured in the Exceptional Ekphrasis Group!!

Lol. i love this!
so very cool !:)

DID I SAY IT YET, MOST WANDER FULL, CUDO…=WANDER…

cute goat. nice tones and composition.

very beautiful. Awesome colours and compostion. Wow :o)

Dave I really love this image. You really have mastered the medium!

What a fantastic goat!

Hihi, this shines a little sunshine through today’s dark clouds… Great drawing!

wonderful art

STILL LOOKING GOOD….

before I go to dreamland ..when did you load this one…? great nanny goat! your style is so unique…great art again Dave and a fav. Also like the abstract background and colouring.

was going to answer that point in my mail to you which I will do tomorrow..too late now..I do a lot of my work from photos and I see no harm either …you can always do your own spin on it anyway and why not take advantage of technology. It is not like you can always set up your easel and paints in the middle of a storm or on a rainy day but if you like a subject you can take a photo and paint it later hey! ......this one did not come into my watchlist either so glad I saw it.

This is one of your best in my opinion. She is one mean Nanny.
I tease my wife about being a goat ( she’s a Capricorn) – so will show this to her.
(Hope I survive the night!!!)
Great work, as usual.
Cheers – Rainer :)))

Still here…... Phew!!! (she loves it too)

Loves what? ... being teased? She probably tells people you are her old Billy Goat Gruff :P

beautiful use of colored pencils to say the least…WOW…if i was a goat this is how i’d like to look!
sarah

There’s something so endearing about this goats face. She’s lovely! I also love how the sky is just as stylized as everything else, really gorgeous piece :)

3/31/09

LOL!

lol!.. i love this goat.. cheers.!. what wonderful hands you have ..

Well done, Dave! Lovely detail :-)

Excellent news Dave! I LOVE this goat!

you old goat!! i have a matisse book, ? doe,nt everyone? and for fun i played around with every art piece in it, a pals came by and looked at it and said lord walt, you need be be hung for this or knighted-for it is ,hell learious-and shamful to art purests, but one nice thing about being 75 and almost dead, is you don,t care all that much about fun killer,so sue me and get my ashes!haha hope you have a good england day dave pax

just fantastic Dave!

Outstanding work !Pure magic! Instant fav!

I like this, quite surreal. It’s almost as though BLYTHART got hold of Picasso by the hair and Dali by the scruff of the neck then banged their heads together.

ha ha…yes it is funny :))

Thanks for adding your goat to Globetrotting Goats :))

Missed this one Dave, and think this is just great!! The overall comp is pleasing, the goats belly is perfection, and if I may say, somehow reminded me of Holman Hunts ‘Scapegoat’:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e6/The_Scapegoat.jpg
Though nowhere identical, just hit me as similar…. :)

I love this…
excellent work Dave

well deserved!!! :))

great drawing…didn’t know there is a goat group, love goats