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This week I posted diary with a proposal for an Orange Revolution flag, - the Orange Roger. Then I worked on more Orange Revolution designs, and Pirate portraits. Here are the results.
The Cheshire Cat Moon design was pure fun to make. When the Cheshire design, with its statue at the top of the Capital Dome, suggested something else, it offered an opportunity for serious comment. My thanks to the Kossack who requested an image with a Bush smirk. The moon is shown as "gibbous" - similar to the phase it will be in on/after July 23rd, 2007, when progressives gather to protest in Washington, DC.
Music and lyrics often inspire me. I've always loved Pirate Jenny from Brecht and Weill's 1928 Threepenny Opera - the Judy Collins version is a favourite. I've included a line of lyrics in the image, in German.
Pirate Anne Bonny is shown with an Orange Roger. This was inspired by a painting by
one of the "Golden Age" illustrators who taught me so much about painting and colour. It was delicious to work with pomegranate red, gamboge, amber, citron, viridian and coral orange. See the Howard Pyle image here: http://www.nmm.ac.uk/...
Images are made using Compositor for Macintosh, with a few touchups in Painter. Compositor is great shareware - try it free for 35 days from http://www.artlythere.com.. It's one-tenth the price of the big brand items, and can do almost everything Adobe and Corel do. - Peace Out!