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here is one of the stories i have been working on in the
silkscreen laboratory. it's a long story. it takes me 45
minutes to tell it.
but it becomes a favorite among children i have told it to
and they always ask to hear it again on other occasions.
once in etching lab at columbia i illustrated "ajam boglay".
and just for fun i am including it here with the first stage
negative image of the new picture. i changed the story a
little bit because my dragon, in my psyche is a two headed one.[/SIZE][/FONT]
"before very long he heard a fury of sound; the ground shook
beneath his feet and the dragon came…its two heads snorting, galloping down
the path and switching his tail.
ajam boglay rushed at him and with one swipe he cut off one
head. with the next stroke of his sword he cut off the
second head.
although this was the first dragon he had ever fought, he
knew enough to chop it in pieces and pin the heart to the
ground with his dagger lest the beast should reassemble
itself and rise up to attack him again."
below is the etching version:
by the end of june i will have four stories and illustrations finished.
well, that's my aim.
and we all know that man proposes and god disposes.
Sounds very interesting. Going to be some lucky kids.
I love the dragon. He looks very wicked. Are you illustrating and writing a childrens' book Scott?
yes. teaching stories from around the world. 🙂
I don't like 'cutting heads off' (gives me nightmares), but I'm sure children love to hear the story :devil:The etching is very powerful! And I like the dragon :awww: In the negative I symphathise with Ajam; the dragon looks really nasty :knight: A question about your technique: For your silk screen, do you paint the resin with a brush onto the screen?
:up: I like the paintings, the emotions and struggle clearly shown.
Nice dragon. In Scandinavia we usually cut off its tongue, and bring it to the king to collect the ransom, but chopping it to pieces might work too.:knight:
:yes:
ha ha martin,i can see the symbology of the tongue and i like the idea of collecting from the king. although, most of us dragon slayers just do it for the glory. but glory doesn't put fresh strawberries in your kitchen. 😎
kiran,thanks for the comment. i appreciate your taking the time. :happy:
yes mar, i paint the stop=out on the screen. in this case, for a clear linear image, we then paint the other side with a different stop-out. then wash the screen. the water takes away the drawing and the second material away wherever it touches the drawing. this way we get a positive image.
Most Norse heroes prefer a bag of gold coins or five horses to an enternity of glory. For the very reason you mentioned. On the other hand, we still tell their stories, so in reality they got both.
we call that a 'win win' situation. :happy:
I hope you add an audio meli :heart: you have very smooth voice, it will be fantastic!*proud of you* :love:
hi meli :heart: i hadn't thought of it but i will try. thanks for the idea. hmmm my last computer recorded sound, but only one minute. maybe this new beast has a better application. :happy:then i just have to find out how to add a sound bite in the blog. someone must know. faq here i come. 💡
:hat:It will be fantastic!!!:doh: I said it above already! 😆
fantastic, fantastic, fantastic. :happy:
Great stuff, Scott. As chance would have it I saw a sci-fi movie last night called Wyvern. It was actually pretty good for one of the SyFy channel's produced movies. I don't know what the difference is between a dragon and a wyvern. Perhaps they are cousins. The wyvern only had one head and did not breathe fire.
One of the Norse myths tells the story of Fafnir, who was corrupted by greed and lust for power, and eventually transformed into a lindworm by a cursed ring, he stole. I think this story gave J. R. R. Tolkien the idea to the Gollum character.
Originally posted by Aqualion:
i totally agree. everything comes from somewhere else, doesn't it?someone said you couldn't make up a totally original animal without using the parts of known animals. 💡
well, ed, the wyvern has wings like a pterodactyl. i like my dragons to breathe fire. they are horned dragons with a scorpion stinger. anything to make them more unbeatable. i may try one with wings soon.thanks for commenting. and for the cool picture of the wyvern. :happy:
Inspired by your post :up: I just did one on the wyvern. :)I have to admit that the breathing fire thing is pretty cool. You can thank Wikipedia for the photo. :p
yeah, i noticed. i always wiki things i don't know. :idea:i'll come and see it. :happy:
This must be a wyvern, then. Just thought it was a dragon when i drew it.
totally a wivern. now we know. 😆 it is a very good drawing. :up:
Thanks. It's from my 'ink' collection. Don't have any tattoos myself, but there are a few of my friends who have motiphs I scetched sitting on their skin. And that would typically be of the reptilian sort. I like dragons.
hey, martin, you missed my dragon marathon….http://my.opera.com/I_ArtMan/blog/2008/03/04/there-be-dragonsthis is my self-portrait dragon:
"sixty minutes" last night had a segment on cloning the wooley mammoth from dna. can you imagine if they find a frozen dinosaur? it'll be "jurassic park" for sure.i don't suppose you get 'sixty minutes' in denmark. but maybe online they posted the story. CBS. i found it:http://www.cbs.com/primetime/60_minutes/video/?pid=OeSXxrAp0IfWo2sL_W82cwUtFdYdBCyK&vs=homepage&play=true
Very cool. What fascinates me with dragons is the fact that everybody knows what a dragon looks like, even though noone has ever seen one. All cultures have stories about them.Makes me wonder, when will they come back?
I like that beard – Scott cum Dali? :p :heart: :wine:
Actually they do send Sixty Minutes on Dansih television. Only, it's really late in the night. Thanks for the info. I have read about the project before. As far as I remember there's similar research going on at a Danish institute. Think I read something about it in a newspaper recently. Science seems to have no limits. They can even keep Keith Richards alive… Hey, wait a minute. That's not science, that's… erm… chemistry?;)
good one martin… i guess it's all chemistry when you investigate; chemistry and physics.hell, they can clone me if they want to but would i be myself? 💡
mar, my artwork is derivitive… from altimara caves, greek, ancient india and china, lots from japan,cum dali, davinci,hieronimous bosch, buonarotti,bottichelli.mary cassatt, monet,lautrec, vincent, of course, gauguin, of course, kandinski and a thousand others, like wyeth… i love wyeth. i am a sponge.and yet, at the same time, i am very original.like this prophetic opus i spent a year on in 1958, called 'progress', (ironically) sometimes i called it 'protest'. it was in my father's collection which i inherited. i was glad to have it back, but then it was stolen from me in venice.http://www.hungryeyegraphics.com/Oils/progress2.jpghaving made up my mind not to tell what is wrong with the world anymore. i didn't stick to that though. two other anti-war paintings. i couldn't help it.the very next painting i did at the tender age of 15, says it all in a nutshell. it is a masterpiece. it was stolen on the venice boardwalk also.http://files.myopera.com/I_ArtMan/albums/4993/lovers2.jpg
Great to see another art-story from your pen(s) Scott. :up:
yes. and i am very glad of that. 🙂
thanks ed, for dropping in and commenting. :happy:
No thanks needed really — you are one of my Opera friends. 🙂