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Another one.

I like the car this dude is cradling in his hands, reminds me of the Hupmobile on the back of a ten dollar bill.
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Here's a corner of one set of grandparents' gloomy old Victorian farmhouse outside of Danville, Illinois, circa 1960, with its no-frills 194Os furnishings still intact. The walls were covered in a 192Os oatmeal cartridge paper embossed in a damask pattern that had faded to a uniform brown, and the rug was stiff & scratchy blue wool where it wasn't worn down to the backing. The ship-motif stuff--a jigsawed-wood sailboat shelf, a linen hanging done in colored linen batik & the ships'-wheel clock on the floor radio--was all stuff my dad made when he was in school or stuff he bought before he left for college, and the hodge-podge of cut glass & pressed glass & porcelain had all been given in trade during the Depression for baskets of my grandmother's cantaloupe & tomatoes & my grandfather's onions, all of which regularly won prizes at the Vermilion County Fair. Danville Stadium was just across a big open field to the north of their house, but my grandfather never went to a game there, he just sat in the big chair, smoking unfiltered Lucky's & listening to the Cardinals games on the floor radio.

After he died, my grandmother packed up the dishes & the silver & the stuff in that one corner, sold the place and moved into town.

These days, there's a dozen houses--crummy little houses, which look worse after 20 short years than my grandparents' house had looked after a whole century of neglect--on their old property, but the ships & the brass lamp & and the three-mold glass are all at my place. The only thing I didn't have was an interior photo of the house--it was way too dark inside to take to a decent picture--so a few years ago I painted this instead, from memory. The coat in the doorway--originally ink-blue embossed velvet with a lining of Persian lamb, but faded & dusty by the time I was old enough to recognize its strange character--hung there in that same spot, unworn, untouched, for my entire childhood, and it was still hanging there on the spring day when, laden down with armfuls of white lilacs from bushes that already had a date with a bulldozer, my grandmother and I pulled out of the gravel drive for the last time. There had to be have been a story behind that coat, but whatever the story was, she didn't say, and I never thought to ask.

MAGNAVERDE said:

Here's a corner of one set of grandparents' gloomy old Victorian farmhouse ...

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Beautiful art and story-telling. Thank you for sharing!

Very nice,Magnaverde!
I think the painting alone may tell a similar story to many of us...

HD

Are you even mortal?

Johanna, I've looked at your photo's, your art, and even some of your blogs. You are beauty incarnate.

Qwkslvr said:

Johanna, I've looked at your photo's, your art, and even some of your blogs. You are beauty incarnate.

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Thank you so much!

Johanna said:

Thank you so much!

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~tips hat~ Oh no...thank you!

deanglen said:

Many thanks, dashiell. She has done comission work...but only when the muse is upon her. I'm sure she'll be encouraged to do more with kind words like yours. Thank you again.

A few more (because I couldn't get them all in one post.):

dean

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Sorry for such a late post on this, I know this was a while back, but I just came across this and HAVE to say that your wife has AMAZING talent!!:eusa_clap :eusa_clap What a gift she has been blessed with!

I made this guy recently...

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This is last week's full moon rising over the historic district where I live. I can't believe I was the only one in the big city park out shooting this...[huh]

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Quigley Brown said:

This is last week's full moon rising over the historic district where I live. I can't believe I was the only one in the big city park out shooting this...[huh]

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Oh that's beautiful Quigley! Is there a trick to taking good shots of the moon? Everytime I try it looks so small--hard to explain but maybe you know what I mean?

imoldfashioned said:

Oh that's beautiful Quigley! Is there a trick to taking good shots of the moon? Everytime I try it looks so small--hard to explain but maybe you know what I mean?

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Thanks. You need a telephoto to get a shot like this. The one I used isn't that powerful of one (only a 200mm...a 300mm would have made it even nicer). The full moon always appears larger when it's rising on the horizon as a backdrop to buildings and such.

Quigley Brown said:

I made this guy recently...

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bwahahahahaah !!!!!!!!!!!!!

what are you reading professor??????? lol

Here's a sample of some of my photography:

Is that Tonya Kay behind the red curtains?

Sincerely.
The Wolf

I've been working professionally as a sculptor, illustrator and production designer for quite a while now. Here's a few things from my portfolio. You can see more of my stuff at: http://davinci41.deviantart.com/

Oh no . . . . :eusa_doh: Many apologies for the monster-sized images at the bottom. Does anyone know how I can trim those suckers down a mite?

Curt Chiarelli said:

Oh no . . . . :eusa_doh: Many apologies for the monster-sized images at the bottom. Does anyone know how I can trim those suckers down a mite?

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I see they are hosted at photobucket- click "edit" and then "resize."