Xtreme Painter

**Tao jones** · 05 December 2006, 08:22 AM

wow that is a lot of work and a good looking image..well done, regards taojones

**RUSS-USSR** · 05 December 2006, 10:48 AM

Excellent! Raymond,
I`d like to join to Alan
"I've been away for a week and busy with other things and just wandered back here and saw your picture.

I have only one word.

WowzerThatsGreat !"

**Intbel** · 05 December 2006, 01:54 PM

Originally Posted by Tao jones

wow that is a lot of work and a good looking image..well done, regards taojones

Thank you Tao, yes, it was a lot of work.
But what the hell - it keeps me off the streets.

Originally Posted by pauland

Intbel, you must have been crazy trying this - fabulous..

Er ... I didn't try. Just went ahead and did it.
The word "try" is in the same category as "can't" - not at all useful.
Yes, I'm probably a little crazy - the best people are crazy.

Originally Posted by RUSS-USSR

Excellent! Raymond,
I'd like to join to Alan
"I've been away for a week and busy with other things and just wandered back here and saw your picture.
I have only one word.
WowzerThatsGreat !"

Coming from you, Val, that is praise indeed.
Thank you.

**Ron Duke** · 05 December 2006, 03:47 PM

Raymond,
Beautiful work! I'd give it 6 stars if I could.
ron

**Intbel** · 05 December 2006, 04:11 PM

Originally Posted by RonDuke

Raymond,
Beautiful work! I'd give it 6 stars if I could.
ron

Thank you Ron.

I think this is the right moment to explain something.

While this is a work in which I take some pride, for I find the end result very pleasing, some comments are not really justified.

Unlike Val (for instance) who is a talented and skilled artist, I have little in the way of such ability yet.

The Millhouse drawing was achieved, not through skill so much as through patience and tenacity.

Anyone can import a photograph of a painting, zoom in and draw around a coloured shape and fill it with the appropriate colour.
(Okay, a lot of fractal fills)

No skill required for that, I'm sure you will agree.

To get the same result, just do that around 8,000 times.

This is not false modesty (I am proud of this drawing) it is stating things as they are - the truth of the matter.

Patience and perseverence more than any artistic ability is required though I'll concede that an eye for detail and an overall aesthetic appreciation is, perhaps, needed.

The only part which is my original is the sky and the smoke ...

**parahandy** · 05 December 2006, 04:26 PM

Originally Posted by Intbel

[COLOR=darkslateblue]While this is a work in which I take some pride, for I find the end result very pleasing, some comments are not really justified.
The only part which is my original is the sky and the smoke ...

Oh! god and I've put your name forward for a knighthood

**Intbel** · 05 December 2006, 05:35 PM

Originally Posted by parahandy

Oh! god and I've put your name forward for a knighthood

>grin< That's nice. Let it ride ... with the money I make from being a knight I can buy a peerage

**pauland** · 05 December 2006, 06:25 PM

Didn't quite see you as a Patron of labor Intbel.. ;-)

**Intbel** · 05 December 2006, 06:32 PM

Originally Posted by pauland

Didn't quite see you as a Patron of labor Intbel.. ;-)

Good grief!
I'm a fully paid up member of UKIP!

**Smarty** · 29 December 2006, 05:09 AM

Originally Posted by Intbel

Patience and perseverence more than any artistic ability is required though I'll concede that an eye for detail and an overall aesthetic appreciation is, perhaps, needed.

I'd say that the ability to see any work of art through to the end is an integral part of the entire process. No need to be so modest about it.