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Saturday, July 17, 2010
Surrealist fish ladder
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Tuesday, July 6, 2010
Drab as a fool, aloof as a bard
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This is a painting I did last year using acrylic on card, with an impasto base.
The idea was to create a stylised picture based on a palindrome. The picture had to work the right way up and upside down, like the design for the backs of playing cards.
My palindrome was "drab as a fool, aloof as a bard".
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