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I’m hesitant to put this on Redbubble, as there seem to be so many people in the world with a snake phobia and I have already been scolded three times by friends for drawing snakes … FEATURED BY REPTILES GROUP – 19th May 2008 FEATURED BY ART UP CLOSE GROUP – 25th September 2009
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Chernobyl was an important ship building town. These half-finished boats were contaminated in the accident and have rusted untouched for over 21 years.
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To the Chinese the Tiger is said to be lucky, vivid, lively and engaging. Renowned for their incredible bravery and willingness to engage in battle it is often wondered if a Tiger is so brave because he is so lucky. It is said that having a Tiger in the house is the very best protection against the evils of fire and burglary. The Year of the Tiger is the third in the Chinese astrological cycle following the Year of the Ox and recurs every twelfth year. Though the starting day of the year may vary the majority of people born in the years 1914, 1926, 1938, 1950, 1962, 1974, 1986 and 1998 are Tigers Tigers do not find worth in power or money. Completely honest about what they feel they expect the same of you. They seek approval from peers and family. Because of their charming personalities Tigers are usually well liked. Failing at a given task or being unproductive in personal or professional life can cause a Tiger to experience a depression. Even more damaging is criticism from loved ones. Lke all felines, Tigers land on their feet, ready for their next act in life, pursuing it with unyielding energy and hunting to perfection. Tigers are relentlessly competitive – they cannot pass up a challenge, particularly if honor is at stake, or if protecting those they love. Tigers are unpredictable and it is fatal to underestimate their reactions. Even when appearing calm they may pounce without a moment’s warning. Always natural leaders, they have a strong sense of their own dignity, and when finding themselves members of the rank and file they can be stubborn and obstinate. In positions of power they are difficult though stimulating bosses. Tigers are intelligent, alert, and farsighted. Formidable enemies they are good strategists and tacticians always with a hidden agenda. Their only apparent weakness is they can risk their luck too often, and have great difficulty keeping their restless nature under control. More often than not their tactics pay off in life. The Chinese name for the Tiger is HU, the sign of courage. February is the month of the Tiger and as such the Western astrological counterpart is Aquarius. Tigers are known for courage, vehemence, self-Reliance, friendliness, hopefulness and resilience. Their weakness is vanity and a disregard for others. The Chinese character for the Tiger.
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Fire Tiger 1926 and 1986 Fire Tigers are eccentric and dramatic; they are aglow with passion and verve. Fire Tigers are outgoing and expressive. They always look on the bright side of things. All Tiger’s have a natural ability to lead and excite others with enthusiasm. Fire Tigers can be funny and have great senses of humor. Tigers are powerful figures and command the ability to persuade crowds with their speaking skills. Tigers seem to have an endless supply of energy and often appear a bit dramatic. This tendency can make them sensitive and cautious to being approached by others. No doubt about it Tigers are incredibly sexy people, beautiful and sensually romantic. Creative and spontaneous lovers they never lose their creative spark or flare for an evening of passion. Their partner is always exposed to a hint of danger and the curiosity of the unknown. A Tiger once committed will want to dominate and lead you. This natural nurturing mechanism if left unchecked will lead to complete control. This is one controlling and negative effect a Tiger can have on their partner, as opposed to the myriad of positive elements they bring to a relationship, trust, passion, politeness and spontaneity to name only a few. Tigers love excitement and require a partner who can keep up with all they want to see and do. The potential partner for a Tiger must be able to stand the random mood swings, the ups and downs, the good with the bad. Wood signs will feed Fire, Water Signs will quench their heat. Earth signs will be created by Fire, Metal Signs will be melted by Fire. With just these few simple concepts the Fire Tiger can seek the partner of their greatest compatibility In matters of love Fire Tigers fare best with the Horse, Dog and Pig.. Avoid the Monkey, Snake and Ox.. In short marry a Wood Horse and avoid the Water Ox. To the Chinese the Tiger is said to be lucky, vivid, lively and engaging. Renowned for their incredible bravery and willingness to engage in battle it is often wondered if a Tiger is so brave because he is so lucky. It is said that having a Tiger in the house is the very best protection against the evils of fire and burglary. The Year of the Tiger is the third in the Chinese astrological cycle following the Year of the Ox and recurs every twelfth year. Though the starting day of the year may vary the majority of people born in the years 1914, 1926, 1938, 1950, 1962, 1974, 1986 and 1998 are Tigers Tigers do not find worth in power or money. Completely honest about what they feel they expect the same of you. They seek approval from peers and family. Because of their charming personalities Tigers are usually well liked. Failing at a given task or being unproductive in personal or professional life can cause a Tiger to experience a depression. Even more damaging is criticism from loved ones. Lke all felines, Tigers land on their feet, ready for their next act in life, pursuing it with unyielding energy and hunting to perfection. Tigers are relentlessly competitive – they cannot pass up a challenge, particularly if honor is at stake, or if protecting those they love. Tigers are unpredictable and it is fatal to underestimate their reactions. Even when appearing calm they may pounce without a moment’s warning. Always natural leaders, they have a strong sense of their own dignity, and when finding themselves members of the rank and file they can be stubborn and obstinate. In positions of power they are difficult though stimulating bosses. Tigers are intelligent, alert, and farsighted. Formidable enemies they are good strategists and tacticians always with a hidden agenda. Their only apparent weakness is they can risk their luck too often, and have great difficulty keeping their restless nature under control. More often than not their tactics pay off in life. The Chinese name for the Tiger is HU, the sign of courage. February is the month of the Tiger and as such the Western astrological counterpart is Aquarius. Tigers are known for courage, vehemence, self-Reliance, friendliness, hopefulness and resilience. Their weakness is vanity and a disregard for others.
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Portrait of Georgia O’Keeffe. Oil on Canvas / American Artist. Georgia O’Keeffe was raised in Wisconsin, educated in Chicago and Virginia, taught, painted, and lived on the east coast until her early sixties when she moved to Abiquiu, & Santa Fe, New Mexico. Close to one hundred when she died in 1986, living alone and painting in scenery that inspired her famous flowers in closeup with strong sexuality, voluptuous lilies and poppies, stark desert landscapes and animal skeletons. She worked in charcoal, water color, and finally oils, and worked large. I’m not sure her story is known well outside the states. She was photographed, courted, and married (1924) by famed 1920’s photographer Alfred Stieglitz who adored her, left his wife and family for her, and made her more famous than he was. She too, was madly in love with him. His black and white photographs of O’Keeffe filled Stieglitz’s famed “291” gallery in New York and caused a sensation with portraits focused on her beautiful bone structure and striking looks, and spectacular nudity. He took over 300 portraits of her from 1918 to 1937. Stieglitz may have been in love, but smart enough of a businessman to cause O’Keeffe’s work to skyrocket in price, averaging $100,000 a painting, monumental for a living artist and a woman in that time. What he did for her career lasted, interest waned some but revived and her work is priceless now. Every girl painter can use a Stieglitz, few get one. Stieglitz died in 1946 and she moved permanently to New Mexico three years later after cataloguing his work and papers. She was 59, began a new life in a landscape she claimed as her own. “God said I may have that mountain,” she’d written, “if I paint it enough.” So she did. / I painted this from one of Alfred Stieglitz’s famous photographs of Georgia O’Keeffe. / When you do portraits, you start to hear conversations from that time, get a sense of the thinking of the subject, smells and impressions wander through you or assault you inescapably. It’s a fascinating and somewhat dangerous occupation because when you put down the brush and turn away you wonder where the hell you’ve been and question your sanity. I’ve come to accept it as just what happens and there it is. One cannot help but see Stieglitz’s fascination with O’Keeffe’s profound physical symmetry. It bothered me. I thought it annoyed Georgia, too, that he was making more of it than in truth was there. Certainly a thoughtfully bright, introspective & solid woman. But he did not capture the O’Keeffe who stood in the desert in thunderstorms alone in the middle of the night to draw the electricity in the air into her being, which she was notorious for doing. Or the O’Keeffe who lived alone on her Ghost Ranch, and drove in her Model A Ford recklessly to plateaus and mountains of New Mexico to soak in the wilderness. DH Lawrence, Ansel Adams, the Lindberghs were visitors. / It’s not the last portrait I’ll do of her, but I wanted to see more in her than Stieglitz’s precision, no matter how beautiful that is to see. / I think he was incredibly kind and thoughtful about this woman’s life, and helped her reach a financial independence undreamt of for an artist of her time and sex. Stieglitz said of the first drawings of Georgia O’Keeffe that he saw: “Finally, a woman on paper!” He admired her, and he loved her. I can’t blame him for thinking her perfect. I’m just not so sure he saw the savage in Georgia. Other US photographers who did some earlier radical work in b/w, nature, and nudes you might want to visit: Ansel Adams. Brett, Edward, and Cole Weston. Edna St Vincent Millay wrote: “My candle burns at both ends; / It will not last the night; / But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends— / It gives a lovely light!” / Which, published in 1918 became an anthem to end constraints on overwatched Victorian girls. A wild, free life… edged with death. / The Hawks Perch
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ink on mylar (pointalism)
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This was one of my attempts to depict depth.
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A tribute to everyone’s favourite 1980s World Cup (except España 82, obv).
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Tribute to the goal Diego Maradona scored agains England at the 1986 World Cup in Mexico. Instant hero…...not just in Argentina!
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This photograph of the SeaView Cafe in Hope , Alaska was taken in 1986 using a Mamiya Universal medium format film camera. It has been re-touched and altered somewhat to salvage a faded and rather grainy color negative.
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This is my favorite singer since childhood, John Denver for whom I would not have learned how to play the guitar without his influence in my life.
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Another occasion when the car had to be abandoned in the middle of a busy road while I recorded an incident unlikely to be repeated
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At first blush, I thought I found some interesting ruins. Turns out that was half right. This is a wave organ created from a demolished graveyard someone in San Francisco. Marvelous, huh? The idea is that there are long tubes that open out over and under the water and the sounds that come thru the end when people sit and listen are the organ. The designers said it was best enjoyed placing your ear by one of the holes at a time (no kidding?). There wasn’t a lot of hope I’d stick the side of my face against an open hole that could have freaking BIGFOOT inside it so I passed on the organ concert.
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I admire the work of Riley and Vasarely. Here is an old drawing of mine aimed at producing a dizzy effect. It was difficult to draw because … I kept feeling dizzy :) VIEW LARGE VERSION AND CONCENTRATE ON THE BLACK DOT IN THE CENTRE, PREFERABLY AFTER A FEW PINTS OF BEER :)
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He was inside a good protected area, but he was high sitting up where I could see him. / Taken with a Pentax LX and Sigma 70-300 mm lens at 300 mm. Later in the day while dodging kids I fell over and broke the lens barrel, which fortunately was still covered by guarantee.
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An old goldfield town and they built the town hall when things looked very rosy. It is now a center for tourist visits. Taken with Pentax LX camera and 28mm Pentax shift lens on Kodachrome
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Daylesford is an old gold mining town, where people who had made it retired to see out their days. They did not all build fancy houses, but some were more than the small original homes that were built in the 1860’s. Taken with Pentax LX camera and 28mm Pentax shift lens on Kodachrome film
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This is looking the opposite way to the renowned 12 apostles from the track leading out to the viewing headland for the 12 apostles. This is a wide angle view of the same two rock stacks I had in closeup earlier. Taken with Pentax LX camera and 28mm Pentax shift lens on Kodachrome film
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This is an upmarket house made possible by the gold mining. It has been preserved by being lived in and should see many more years. Taken with Pentax LX camera and Pentax 28 mm shift lens on Kodachrome film.
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Gold mining was paying well in Daylesford in the 1860’s and the people showed their faith by building to glorify God. Those buildings are almost all in use today, albeit with smaller congregations than in the days they were constructed. Taken with Pentax LX camera and Pentax 28 mm shift lens on Kodachrome film.
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This isn’t a recent drawing by any means – it is 23 years old, but I thought some of you may like to see it. It means a lot to me, because I was friendly with a professional artist and I would often show him my work. When he saw this drawing he told me it was of a standard that could be sold. I then proceeded to do a series of 27 drawings of our town and sold a few thousand prints of them in the shops. FEATURED BY # 1 ARTISTS OF REDBUBBLE – 8th November 2009 / FEATURED BY JOURNAL JUNKIES GROUP – 15th November 2009 /
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The Paddle Steamer Cumberoona has been cruising the Murray River at Albury-Wodonga since 1986. The original Cumberoona, built in 1866 was a paddle steamer which operated on the Murray river between Albury and Echuca when water level conditions were OK. Once railways became common to the environs of the Murray river in the 1870’s this meant that there was no longer an economic reason for running a steamer. The final nail in the trade was construction in the 1930’s of dams on the river at several places, and the subsequent use of the river for irrigation supplies further down the river. / In 1986 for tourism an authentic reproduction of a traditional Australian river steamer, based on the design of the original Cumberoona was built and is centred on the Murray at Albury. Here it is just departing for an evening cruise and dinner. Taken with a Pentax SLR camera on Kodachrome 200 film.
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