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#561

beautiful work dear mark

#562

Thanks Coyote :slight_smile: hope all is sooper with yoo .
Thanks Erik for the great tune :slight_smile: and the kind words.
Blueferret , thank you. No apologies needed for wandering off. In Portugal and Brazil I guess the word for the emotion in that particular image is Saudade. This picture? Chaos, mania and going it for it ‘till you run out of juice :slight_smile:
Vahid, thank you kind fellow- best wishes.

#563

I love it! Beautiful

#564

Looks like I need to go to Brazil the next time I wonder off and hopefully find you there :sunglasses:

#565

i like the color~and is so cute:bulb:small_orange_diamond:laughing:small_orange_diamond:laughing:

#566

The Balloonist flies to his love .

little balloonist_4web choice.jpg

ZBrush, Keyshot, Tea , Cherry Sponge

Ciscoraya, thank you, blueferret - meet you in Brazil and Wanying xu - thank you :smiley:
Yours Aeronautically,
Boozy

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#567

I have always liked your choice of colors and composition, but this one really stands out.
Not that I want to enter into the marshes of theory - any great work will always go beyond whatever theory - but the repeating curved lines, even the pencil line around the moon …
did you ever paint? Or do you still paint?

No song this time. Let’s invent our own…

#568

mark that was so gooooood i mean : keyshot,zbrush and tea… please add your tea render settings…
and by the way your work with your subjects hits and strikes beautifully to the eyes of audience and thanks for beautiful work

#569

great workkk

#570

Wow, I like this one even more than your other recent works. This could be a beautiful, poetic animation. An Oscar-winning one of course.

#571

" CHAPEAU":D;):+1:

#572

♪ Fly ♪ me to ♫ the moon ♫ ♪ ♪…

#573

Great as always.

#574

Thanks Erik, yes before computers and t’internet I was a traditional Illustrator for many years in London and also to a New York Agent in the company of such illustrators as Ronald Searle and Edward Gorey - both sadly no longer with us.

My journey from traditional to digital art has been a journey of circumstances. Following a very intense workload I was struck by Spanish Flu and having all but died I fell bedridden in a hallucinating fever for 6 months. Following which I changed my life, sold the house in London and moved back to Scotland to enjoy a cooler wind up my kilt. As they say, calm waters do not skilled sailors make.

Debilitated then and now by such a close scrape with death (of which there’s been quite a few over the years) it was a friend who suggested that maybe working on a computer would be a means of creation less physical than painting that I then switched over to digital work. Not long after that I discovered ZBrush V1 and in it I found a means of expression again.

Bless you Vahid ,I shall add tea to my render settings. I love that thought.
Metin - thanks M’Duck hope you’re bobbing along nicely?!!
PFC666 - salutations to you and beautiful Barcelona
Paleo - ….let me play among the stars
Rulonis - thank you very much - your strawberries are delicious .

Yours etc,
Boozy

#575

Thank you @boozyfloozie for your beautiful work and share your experience of life. Zbrush has also helped me overcome a very painful experience… Salutations from Barcelona too.

#576

Thanks Cisco, Barcelona - you as well?!! Lucky:D
Here’s a video to inspire when life knocks us down - get up and dance:D
Cyd Charisse (1955) It’s Always Fair Weather [Baby, You Knock Me Out]

#577

Hey, thanks Mark for sharing this. I do remember Searle - not personal but from a book I bought with his satyrical drawings - and also Eggbert - by Lester A Friedman - from when I first visited Swinging London.
To me, your post reveals part of the mystery of your very personal style and the song of experience that has polished it.

Art vs commerce usually ends with the utter frustration of both: no more inspiration because the lemon is squeezed and no money because of not enough production and deadlines…

Glad you’re still here with us and we can enjoy your creations!

#578

Alway a pleasure Erick to read your correspondence ,

“The chief enemy of creativity is ‘good’ sense.” (Pablo Picasso) :smiley:

Perhaps when you’ve backed yourself in to a corner of pragmatic ambition , when your aesthetic judgement and aesthetic preference is codified by your field of expertise , when you reject anything that threatens your aesthetic rules , when you dialog only amongst those in your field of expertise ………

Is it the skills essential to get the job or the skills essential when you lose your job that fulfil a happier and ultimately longer creative life?

The squeezed lemon of creativity is only possible if your ego takes the credit for your finger’s good fortune :smiley:

#579

Thanks @boozy floozie !! ohh! I loved the video of Cyd Charisse. I have never seen it, I will look for it. I love the musical films of the 50s, Gene Kelly, etc …
I really like Macoco! The Pirate (1948) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c18WhJb80h4

However, to motivate me I use sports videos or current movies.

#580

Thanks, Mark. I’ll keep that in mind.
Life is of course more important than what one does in it, so the most important skill is to be happy and fulfilled.
Ahhh… the layers of the onion we call ‘I’ …
Loved the Syd Charisse scene.

I like the Picasso uote.

Here’s one by Vangelis:

“I was under the impression that in order to be alive and to be able to create what I had in mind I had to become successful. I realised that success and pure creativity are not very compatible… Instead of being able to move forward freely and do what you really wish, you find yourself stuck and obliged to repeat yourself and your previous success.”