Bus sketch'es 1.2.3.4.5.

[coops]

Dear Eighty, so sorry I missed them. They are beautiful and wow what a great painting it is. THANKS SO MUCH they are very much appreciated and they smell lovely too.

[eighty+]

Katie Katie Coops ok

Thanks Pleased you found them are they a bit wilted you better get them in

water quick

by the way katie as your the Gallery girl have you ever given a thought

for a gallery for our family critic I'm sure you would get a good reponse

from the member's wether with paintins or saying's ok

[pat1940]

Thanks dear eighty I will check that Massing out, great sketches and painting you have here, have a great day

[eighty+]

hi Pat nice to see yuh see yuh nice good you've seen it looks like one

hell of a book it be aright for me as I can look at the Picture's

----E/S


Katie's Flower's

[eighty+]

hi Lord White well thats is what I called him cos he looks like a

Lord White just found who he is Sandio Botticello ?? Painter or

Priest ?? ask Caesar he'll know ok donn't know why but lost 20% ofthe

paint so it looks as if its back to the drawing board ok

[jonwood]

Nice work on Sandio...

[Lima]

Hey those are beautiful. Your Massing is terrific. Great book that one isn't.
Great work young fellow.

[eighty+]

Thanks JW liked your Norman

Hi DOC nice to see work always give's me some to copy that

massing is ok as i just bash the paint on then fight like a maniacetill I think it ok i think the last 6 I've done is by massing this one I've just done realy made me sweat the hardest so far have a look and tell me what u think
and don't pull your punches ok nice to have you back

A girl my copy by Teacher Zhang

[D Akey]

Acturally, the Florentine chappie is a painter from the Renaissance whose name is Sandro Botticelli. You can Google him. You must have already looked him up cause you're doin' 'is ruddy portrait a couple times. Maybe only looked at the picture though.

He's the bloke what painted the puff piece: The Birth of Venus (or Venus on the 'alf Shell). . . The model was probably the wife of a certain bloke, though she was also the side squeeze of one of diMedici boys, Guliano, who was also Lorenzo's brother who you may have heard of as super patron of so many great works of art. But Guliano was later assassinated while in chapel owing to a running business rivalry. And as any screen writer would have it, Lorenzo escaped the assassination to turn the town upside down in vengeance against the family what had it in for 'em. . . but I digress. Watch the Godfather. It's shorter.

Anyway, Botticelli was one of their painters. Among modern Art Critics and collectors, he was considered a lesser artist until around the 1970s or thereabouts when prices of paintings went through the roof. Suddenly everybody started scramblin' ta collect 'im. And voila! Instant street cred.

His style is considered a linear approach which then gets colored in, as opposed to the tonal approach that Michelangelo used.

Botticelli has become very famous, almost iconic owing to some of his grander paintings like the Venus one.

I wouldn't be surprised if he wasn't an old relative of Roger Daltrey the lead singer for The Who. Give 'im a fringe coat and a hand held megaphone and strike up the Renaissance tune favoured by wandering minstrels: "m-m-m-m-my g-g-g-generation baby. . ." and then tell me I'm wrong, eh?

[D Akey]

Oh, laddie, you have me chooklin' . . . very witty to study the master forger. . . hahahahaha. Looks like yer both about doing copies. Master Zhang and the Right Honourable Xerox-san Ploos. . . .

Zhang and Xerox, forgers extraordinaire! Side by side you two would look like ZZ Top. You should call yourselves ZZ Rox.

You are a clever fellow, I must say. Very funny but also there's a wee bit o' the research scholar coursin' through yer veins, Master X.

And what's got me so pleased is your work is really shapin' oop.