Preston
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Sisika and Pete
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Oct 18, 2007 6:53:34 GMT -7
Post by Preston on Oct 18, 2007 6:53:34 GMT -7
Graehstone, Welcome to the forum, I missed your first post but late is better than never. Can you give us a little bit on your avatar and poerhaps a larger pic of it. It looks to be a tapestry of sorts and I'd really like to study it closer. Again, welcome.
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Graehstone
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Joined: October 2007
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Oct 18, 2007 7:37:42 GMT -7
Post by Graehstone on Oct 18, 2007 7:37:42 GMT -7
Hi there, oh boy don't get me started on pictures and designs and stuff as that is one of my great weakness'. lol "I come, I see, I snag" I have literally several thousand of them and that's just birds with another couple of tens of thousand "other" things that tickled my fancy. Glad you liked my Avatar, here is a larger version of it and the version I wanted to put in my signature but the sites limitations skew it a bit. Hope that you are having a good day and that the world treats you with kindness.
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Oct 18, 2007 12:40:14 GMT -7
Post by Jane on Oct 18, 2007 12:40:14 GMT -7
I like that avatar. I have a framed page of the Illustrated London News from 4 March 1865 showing drawings of prize birds at the Crystal Palace Show. There is an African Grey parrot but the likeness isn't very good - it looks quite fierce. There is a 22 year old Cockatoo as well and other birds described as a white Linnet, a white Jackdaw and a white Blackbird.
Jane
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Preston
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Oct 19, 2007 7:15:15 GMT -7
Post by Preston on Oct 19, 2007 7:15:15 GMT -7
Thanks, I'm not sure of the goings on at the bottom. Had they not been there I'd say 19th century Amish. Their art always had several scales, perspectives, and vanishing points, but you could see the life in the subject. Very very nice pen and ink. I wish you had some history on it because the bottom sketches are hard to figgure out and may have been added sometime later. Thanks for the look see.
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