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Read all about this character and all the rest of the “Lighter Side of Dark’ gang in the new series by Paul Rees-Jones and Shannon Rene’ Justice! Available for purchase online! Now you can purchase this design on a variety of new products including tote bags, cards, ties and even postage stamps! Check it out here! ** / Molly the Lil Witch, Oscar and Ophelia by Paul Rees-Jones The night was stormy and rather bleak, / Molly was a little bored witchy freak. She mulled over spells and warmed up her cauldron, / To create some friends to end her boredom. She delicately sewed a doll from rags, / Smiling and singing, a rather cute hag. And when she was done she was bright as a star, / Because held in her hands was the rag boy, Oscar. But soon she thought about the little boys heart, / To be all alone when his life just starts. So she borrowed small string of yarn from his hair, / And fashioned Ophelia, a sister to share. A spell and a cloud of nasty green smoke, / And Molly had made two little doll folk.
Read all about this character and all the rest of the “Lighter Side of Dark’ gang in the new series by Paul Rees-Jones and Shannon Rene’ Justice! Available for purchase online! Molly the Lil Witch, Oscar and Ophelia by Paul Rees-Jones The night was stormy and rather bleak, / Molly was a little bored witchy freak. She mulled over spells and warmed up her cauldron, / To create some friends to end her boredom. She delicately sewed a doll from rags, / Smiling and singing, a rather cute hag. And when she was done she was bright as a star, / Because held in her hands was the rag boy, Oscar. But soon she thought about the little boys heart, / To be all alone when his life just starts. So she borrowed small string of yarn from his hair, / And fashioned Ophelia, a sister to share. A spell and a cloud of nasty green smoke, / And Molly had made two little doll folk.
this is one of the last scenes to my “Oscar and the Roses” story/poem. again it started as Drawing I wanted to do as an Illuminated Manuscript with Oscar as the “O”. “Oscar scoffed the roses, / Til he was full and then grew tired, / Fell into a deep sleep, / And then quietly died… All through the night, / The Stars did mourn, / But when the garden awoke, / The roses had thorns”
Glen Hansard the recent Oscar winner shared with his duet partner Markéta Irglová for Best Original Song in a Feature Film for “Falling Slowly” from the flick, “Once” shot as he said on two handycams. / Busking since the age of 13 Hansard and The Frames had been Irelands best known undiscovered band, even though they had and have a worldwide fan base. Due to my Austrian friend Michaela’s love of The Frames and all things musical in Dublin I managed to take this photo, it was a short time (considering the intervening years) after he played Outspan in Alan Parkers “The Commitments” alongside Colm Meaney, Rob Strong, Bronagh Gallagher, Andrea Corr amongst a host of others including Lance Daly as the kid with the Harmonica see huge list: Jimmy Rabbitte Robert Arkins / Steven Clifford Michael Aherne / Imelda Quirke Angeline Ball / Natalie Murphy Maria Doyle Kennedy / Mickah Wallace Dave Finnegan / Bernie McGloughlin Bronagh Gallagher / Dean Fay Felim Gormley / Outspan Foster Glen Hansard / Billy Mooney Dick Massey / Joey “The Lips” Fagan Johnny Murphy / Derek Scully Kenneth McCluskey / Deco Cuffe Andrew Strong / Mr Rabbitte Colm Meaney / Mrs Rabbitte Anne Kent / Sharon Rabbitte Andrea Corr / Darren Rabbitte Gerard Cassoni / Linda Rabbitte Ruth Fairclough / Tracey Rabbitte Lindsay Fairclough / Greg Michael O’Reilly / Duffy Liam Carney / Pawnbroker Ger Ryan / Father Molloy Mark O’Regan / Roddy the Reporter Phelim Drew / Dave From Eejit Records Sean Hughes / Ray Philip Bredin / Imelda’s Sister Aoife Lawless / Kid With Harmonica Lance Daly http://www.redbubble.com/products/configure/2836519 / sold on rb as matted print to rb member – later delivered by hand to subject oscar winner glen hansard in chicago
Shetland Search and Rescue helicopter Oscar Charlie.
From the Block Pet series. / BEHOLD THE TYPICAL PANDA!! enjoy!
Oscar Wilde tribute. This design belong to a series called ‘Born to..’
As I was looking at this photo, I began to think about the trust a baby has in it’s parents. Oscar here trusts because he does not yet know the possibilities of what could happen. All he knows is that it is a a great place to sleep. He trusts because he has to trust. This is the way God is wants us to trust him. He wants us to babes in His hands. After all, “he has the whole world in his hands”. My son’s hands look strong and capable, however, I cannot see the Lords hands. So like this babe, I have to just assume that His hands are too. There is one big difference. The lord promises us that he will “Never leave or forsake us.” Man cannot say the same, because even if my son wanted to never leave or forsake his son, there may come a time when he might have to. My hope for my life is that I will trust the Lord the way Oscar trusts his daddy. Simply with blind faith, to believe that I can trust that I can.. /
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2009 Oscar Winner Kate Winslet!! I am so happy for her that she won finally!! I just love her as an actress and a person. This was taken at the infamous Vanity Fair party (on the Sunset Strip) that I have attended since I was in my teens. The location was a new one this year as Morton’s closed down last year. The spot was pretty good, as I worried. I got some great shot of Oscar winners! Shot with Canon 40D. 70-200 L series Lens, 430 EX flash.
Your lovers are not dead, I know. They will / rise up and hear your voice / And clash their cymbals and rejoice and run to / kiss your mouth! And so, Set wings upon your argosies! Set horses to / your ebon car! / Back to your Nile! Or if you are grown sick of / dead divinities Follow some roving lion’s spoor across the copper- / coloured plain, / Reach out and hale him by the mane and bid / him be your paramour! This is part of a poem that Oscar Wilde wrote for Marcel Schwob in 1894 “in friendship and admiration.” The whole poem called The Sphinx – is really worth a read. Music – New Age Painting on canvas using acrylics, oils, pigment and inks.
Winner of Guinness Book of Records for the world’s hardest Lego construction. The Penrose Triangle. / / Created for the A T-Shirt Revolution Speed Tee Challenge in less than two hours and twenty minutes. / / Phew! / / DETAIL / /
Hand drawn, Prisma colored pencils. Poor Oscar the Periodical Cicada is in trouble
can I tempt you with our finest cameo? *picture courtesy of Paul Compton
Another one down, like 15 to go, lol. One of the reasons i have been so absent. i feel bad, but i am really trying to get this book done. One drawing takes forever, getting the composition can take days, or longer, then starting the sketch. i started this in pencil on 2 May, 2009. Finished in pencil & started in Prisma colored pencils on 9 May (my brother Chris’ birthday), & just finished today, 22 May (my Dad’s birthday). i will take a slight break & hopefully have time to come around. Really missing you all, but i gotta keep cracking the whip, really hoping to get this book completed.
From the Black Butterfly series. Mini portrait of Oscar Wilde – 10×8” Charcoal and white pastel pencil on Mylar film. A copy of an early draft of Roses and Rue, in Wilde’s own hand, shows through the translucent Mylar. Roses and Rue by Oscar Wilde, for actress Lillie Langtry Could we dig up this long-buried treasure, / Were it worth the pleasure, / We never could learn love’s song, / We are parted too long Could the passionate past that is fled / Call back its dead, / Could we live it all over again, / Were it worth the pain! I remember we used to meet / By an ivied seat, / And you warbled each pretty word / With the air of a bird; And your voice had a quaver in it, / Just like a linnet, / And shook, as the blackbird’s throat / With its last big note; And your eyes, they were green and grey / Like an April day, / But lit into amethyst / When I stooped and kissed; And your mouth, it would never smile / For a long, long while, / Then it rippled all over with laughter / Five minutes after. You were always afraid of a shower, / Just like a flower: / I remember you started and ran / When the rain began. I remember I never could catch you, / For no one could match you, / You had wonderful, luminous, fleet, / Little wings to your feet. I remember your hair – did I tie it? / For it always ran riot - / Like a tangled sunbeam of gold: / These things are old. I remember so well the room, / And the lilac bloom / That beat at the dripping pane / In the warm June rain; And the colour of your gown, / It was amber-brown, / And two yellow satin bows / From the shoulders rose. And the handkerchief of French lace / Which you held to your face- / Had a small tear left a stain? / Or was it the rain? On your hand as it waved adieu / There were veins of blue; / In your voice as it said good-bye / Was a petulant cry, “You have only wasted your life.” / (Ah, that was the knife!) / When I rushed through the garden gate / It was all too late. Could we live it over again, / Were it worth the pain, / Could the passionate past that is fled / Call back its dead! Well, if my heart must break, / Dear love, for your sake, / It will break in music, I know, / Poets’ hearts break so. But strange that I was not told / That the brain can hold / In a tiny ivory cell / God’s heaven and hell.
A photograph of a lipstick heart drawn on Oscar Wilde’s grave in the Pere Lachaise cemetary, Paris. The grave is covered in kisses from admirers. Some minor adjustments were made to the contrast. Taken with a compact Canon IXUS 80.
“I knew that I had come face to face with some one whose mere personality was so fascinating that, if I allowed it to do so, it would absorb my whole nature, my whole soul, my very art itself.” ~ Oscar Wilde ~ The Picture of Dorian Gray My solo show is scheduled to open at 33 Collective Gallery on September 18th. I have just a couple more wall holes to fill before then. “The Picture of Dorian Gray” (36” x 28” charcoal on Mylar drafting film in vintage mirror frame) is another work for Black Butterfly: The Muse, my series inspired by the arts, with my subjects coming from the various artistic disciplines. This is a portrait of artist/musician/model Ryan Dies I met Ryan in an art jewelry shop, 1 ofmykind jewels during a recent trip to the historic town of Galena Illinois. Ryan was friendly and engaging right off. He was wearing a heavy beaded choker of his own design and looked so handsome I couldn’t resist asking him if I could take a few photographs to be used for a drawing. Ryan was happy to pose for the references, and the natural light was beautiful that day. Peacock feathers and ornate gilt mirror frames were part of the décor of the shop, so ideas for the drawing were formed almost immediately during the shoot. We had a nice conversation about the Chicago art scene and I talked with Ryan about a couple of his very good surrealist paintings that were on display. Later as I looked through the photos I decided Ryan would make the perfect model for a contemporary “Dorian Gray.” / The Picture of Dorian Gray is the only published novel by the Irish poet Oscar Wilde. It is a story about a handsome young man who becomes enthralled with the idea of a new hedonism. He begins to indulge in every kind of pleasure, moral and immoral. I used a compilation of several of the reference photos from Ryan’s shoot for the finished drawing. The peacock feathers seemed a natural symbol for Dorian’s pride in his physical appearance, the pride that made him wish to never grow old. I took liberties by changing Ryan’s existing forearm tattoo to one with a butterfly and poppy flowers – symbols for transformation and for “Dorian’s” travels to an opium den as a way to escape his crimes. I decided to add the skull ring on Dorian’s hand – a design by Jodie McGill of 1 ofmykind. I thought the skull was very appropriate as a reference to the plot of Wilde’s novel. The butterflies in this work refer to Dorian’s muse: his own handsome mirror image; saved from corruption by the putrefying portrait that grows more horrifying with each sin committed by his increasingly evil character. I decided that I’d prefer to keep the decaying “picture” implied only, by using the ornate mirror frame to display this work. Outside of physical beauty there is no comparing Ryan’s pleasant personality with the ugly character of Dorian Gray. He has been delightful to work with and I look forward to following this talented young man’s career. Here’s a fun and appropriate related video Enjoy!
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From left to right, Belle , Mollie and Oscar Just after their baths / /
“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.” – Oscar Wilde Watercolour/Ink/Acrylic 220×320
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