Pocket Dictionary

beautiful image,,,, well done

very awesome.. i like the really old look you got there… good work

wow this is a very beautiful image i love the texture. great work

Fantastic texture and illustration

Hey paul, really dig your fine style. Right up there with Gorey, Tim Burton, etc. Love it.

Totally awesome & beautiful, love the vintage look & feel, & i love your meduims you work with, ink, tea, milk, :O))))) Your work is exquisitly Fabulous & Magnificent

“I just received the card I ordered of this work. It looks fabulous. In fact, it looks too good to give away.”

Excellent work ;-)

Great work!

Fantastic

Brilliant….love this too.

great work welldone

your work is lovely.

this is fantastic Paul, very nice work

this is gorgeous!

Great image, love the whole feel of it, and the broken, discarded book.

Wow i love your style
Soo much talent! :o)

Amy-lee
xXxOoO

All of my books aspire to be this well loved =) Thanks for capturing that, its great to see.

I love it! Very smart peice!

Cool!

How have I not seen this earlier? This is fricken awesome. The exact kind of style I love. I LOVE working with ink and tea staining too.

I love this. It’s so simple yet so complex at the same time. Great work!

A wonderful and simple design. Very classy and nicely stylised.

Your still life illustrations are all stunning! They are really exciting.

Such Beauty in a little book ! Texture awesome..

great composition

This is an amazing drawing. Only one subject but you create such a special mood around it with your textures and stains. Instant fav.

Love this piece of work….....great idea and interpretation

This a lovley piece of work.

wow wee, do I like your style!

Very nice

Nice

Ooooh, I love this…. You’d be crazy not to do more like this… Please tell me you’re not crazy :)

Re comment above, i’d rather hear that you are!
Love, love, love this – I can almost feel the dryness of the paper….love the textures and tones

Paul, I love this. It makes me want to get back into bed with a cup of tea and a book! Thank you for introducing me to this group.

I also like this one.. the book is full of words and meaning and mental pictures but none of this is visible.. its a very simple picture that is brim full of a million possibilities. Every person who views it instantly has a book they know and a story they recall.

Is the book a cheap trashy novel, or a horror story.. a love story ? Or is the book a metaphor for your life.. you’re obviously quite a good way into it.. and the viewer is allowed to see the cover but none of the detail. My guess is you are a starving artist.. because you obviously can’t you afford clean paper ;)

very delicate, lovely

i had the very same dictionary, and then ive lost it.. may be this is mine?)))))

I LOVE the rustic feel of this! It somehow makes me feel at home.

Perfect…feel the history

This piece feels very organic, looks like you enjoyed making it. The book pops off the page beautifully.

Wonderful job! I love all the delicate detail!

what I want to know, Paul, is why someone isn’t paying you to draw pictures all day long. Mind you, you’d want to be drawing the sort of pictures you want to draw! And don’t worry about what that Andy Mercer says about clean paper…he has spaghetti and tomato sauce on all of his!

I think you have a real talent for isolating these seemingly “normal” objects and giving them a spooky special life of their own….like you could turn any everyday object into the subject of an oh so exciting mystery story. Hope you are writing the stories too!

A very nice idea with great results. Well done.

There are no words I can see – but I can feel..
My heart beats in a rhythm of joy
I can see you flying…..( no school today :-)

Great Drawing Paul ! BRAVO ! ..Please have a great weekend . Andre

YOU TOUCH ME A LOT AS WELL AS YOUR ART WORK ….( I MEAN IT! )

love it !!!

you have a fantastic hand for these lovely delicate detailed works. really good!

Love the detail of the torn and wrinkled pages, and the fact it’s turned down as though abandoned and just left there to wear away and get buried (until you unearthed it). Love the media you’ve selected as well; both the image and the paper is very antique.

Is it me or is there an angelic white figure at the top of the book to the right?

Austin

My light’s not too good cause I meant to the left. LOL, the large white figure at the top to the left.
I can’t shed light, I would sooooo mislead people. :-)

Austin

marvelous tones and texture. Great job!

This is extraordinarily captivating…..I want to pick this book up and inhale its delicious papery smell, & see what lyrical wonders are contained within. Just gorgeous, gorgeous, gorgeous!

this is so fabulous Paul, i can’t believe i missed it :D
wow~

Paul, i don’t know how i missed it but I absolutely adore this :)

you’re very welcome. books are more fun and better than many people I know…

So much detail in an image, it’s like you can peel back the pages of history here, that lovely old feeling just leaps from the pages….you have an amazing talent Paul!!!

I love this!

beautiful.

Always Love to Paul , will write to you soon …..Kind regards , andre

How on earth did I miss this little gem!!! I reckon this book is a well-worn copy of
Wicked that you’ve read a hundred times :)) My copy has been read by my wife and I and is now out on loan to someone.

mmm this makes me smile so much .. it’s so completely ambiguous and i bet there are a hundred wonderful tales within it ~ xx

Beautiful detail – love the textures.

Tonnes of compliments here but I still insist on squeezing in mine ;p ..
This is absolutely, simply Beautiful Paul!

So delicate – and I love the soft colour.
“A picture paints a thousand words!” :)

Now this is VERY Cool!

SUPERB,WONDERFUL…..........

Fantastic little piece of work Paul. Your rendering on the book is amazing.

absolutely wonderful!!!

Hi Paul .. delicate, sensitive and masterly in conception … such admirable creativity and skills. mklau

Oh yeah, what everyone else said, what a great work!

this is a simple image that is so thought provoking, im really drawn to it, i love it, love the way the book is discarded, full of words but we dont know by whom the book is discarded by or what the book is, there is so much meaning in this, beautful work, and the staining on the paper is a very atmospheric touch. Excellent piece of art Paul !

i can smell that book!

True talent. Great from concept to outcome….
“Vision – It reaches beyond the thing that is, into the conception of what can be. Imagination gives you the picture. Vision gives you the impulse to make the picture your own.”
Robert Collier.

Hi Pau, congrats on seeing this image featured on the Fine Arts Challenge page. I want to pick this book up and see what page its turned to.

This is just brilliant – love the feel of oldness and your drawing is immaculate

very nice work well done

love the antique quality and the beautiful sensitive drawing.

Love the drawing and the textures, Paul!
(coffee’s good too!)

I think they call pocket dictionaries “Blackberries” nowadays. Kidding! This is a great piece of art! =D

You may be my favorite living artist…ok, that’s a bit much: you’re at least my favorite around here! And I love this (but, you know, as a writer, I’ve a thing for dictionaries!)

so cool…aha!

very nice sketch.

Excellent!

Always loved your imagaination Paul…and still do…SUPERB!

This is so very interesting. I don’t know what to say because the comments before me beat me to the punch …....especially ….simple yet complicated. Wonderful piece.

Gorgeous piece of art.

BONNE ANNEE PAUL AND LOVE _ALWAYS TO YOU , BISOUS-Andre

I like the sense about this, pual! Well done.

you’ve got some fine work happening here Paul. i like the fine penmanship in this one.

just divine. truly. x

FANTASTIC WORK!!!

Beautiful, wonderful details and textures.

JUST PASSING BY ;)))) AND WANTED TO SAY TO YOU PAUL !
HAVE A MAGIC WEEK AND I HOPE ALL IS WELL FOR YOU PETIT ANGE !;)
LOVE, ANDRE

I love this sort of vignette style. Outstanding.

Ahh… an ode to the magic of pulp fibers and the transformative powers of paper…

possibly this….I like the idea of somehow including a book as one of the photographs I want to use is of a spooky old school building