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Published: 2008-07-10 16:51:41 +0000 UTC; Views: 1098; Favourites: 31; Downloads: 29
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Personal card art depicting the late virtuoso Yehudi Menuhin in action. Uh... not a very accurate likeness... but I'll just pretend there's more to conveying a person's essence than just technical accuracy.
I have no idea why the lower part of the picture came out so light. Also... I know it looks like I used different colours, but it's all just black ink. Apparently, when you dilute black fountain pen ink with water... really bizarre things happen.
[The rectangle you see around the picture was where I was going to crop and frame it. A friend convinced me that the raw wood strokes worked better as a natural frame. Thanks!]
Size: approximately 22cm x 15.5 cm.
Materials:
Quink fountain pen ink (black): diluted + neat (initial sketch done with *very* diluted ink)
Chopstick: one (sharpened)
Pieces of wood: two (leftover material from my Brandenburg gate wooden model)
[no, there's no need to start a collection to buy me real brushes.
I *have* brushes. I just like using wood more]
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Comments: 60
I really like this, it's very dramatic. Love that you've left the edges as they were, as well, it really works with the piece!
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Thank you very much! and yes, I've become rather fond of the edges myself.
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Well that's good, they're cool
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Thank you very much, Mel!
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Can you get any weirder? Seriously! First, cardboard, toast, now chopsticks?! 
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Thank you very much!
although, of course, the last was coloured digitally. I'm just returning to something I haven't used in two years.
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Remind me never to come to your house for dinner. Heck knows where those chopsticks have been. 
So, what'll you be using next? Garlic skin? Coffee grounds? 
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Hey, I'm always up for a challenge. You supply the coffee grounds, I'll do a picture with 'em. 
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I really dig that last one! You should do more fantasy stuff! 
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I keep wanting to expand the Wilbur & Aidan series, but for some reason, other projects keep cropping up.
[waits for the Tomb Raider picture]
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Ooo, Batty made of coffee grounds.
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Oye! No, that wasn't a hint or anything!
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Well we could use oatmeal...
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Wow, lovely work! Technical accuracy, my foot. I once drew a portrait in which each eye was looking off in a different direction, yet folks faved and loved it.
...yes, each eye in a different direction.
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Well, seeing as that's a well-documented medical condition...
Thank you very much, Steph.
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nice piece, you can just tell how much he loved playing... and I'm 100% ignorant as to whom this is...
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Thanks, Tom! Menuhin is one of the most famous violin virtuosos and conductors of the 20th century (and a child prodigy). He was born in America, but later became a citizen of UK. Aside from an illustrious career as your usual concert musician, he also played for allied troops during the second World War, and people liberated from the Bergen-Belsen camp, and was the first Jewish musician to reconcile with Germany after the Holocaust. He died in '99 in Berlin, while in town to conduct a concert.
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thanks for the info Far, my ignorance has been partially remedied!
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I'm glad to be of some service... I'll leave you with the following to contemplate.... "HK, do you know what love is?"
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Technical accuracy doesn't always convey as much emotion as a piece like this. I think this is fantastic, it's raw.
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Thank you very much (and for the framing help!). 
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Far!! 
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Ow! ow! ow! hey, you don't have to spank me every time my confidence ebbs!
[Uh, and thank you. You know
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So then should I just spank you for fun?
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What then? Batting practice?
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[Far dumps Bunny into a swimming pool filled with jello]
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*Whips out her huge swimming pool jello straw and starts slurping*
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I'd like to see you eating your way out of THAT!
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Then put your goggles on my boy. This could get messy.
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I think when it comes to messages and displays of essence, being really eccentric with your materials is all the more brilliant <3
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