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Old 19-08-2010, 15:03   #65
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Re: Accrington born artists.

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Originally Posted by Tealeaf View Post
Well, thank you for proving my point - of course the proportions are correct - thats what happens when you copy from a photograph. You can get machines to do it for you now, or if you don't want to invest in one o'them, you can always send the piccy off to China with a few specs; within 28 days you'll get a nice oil or watercolour back at a total cost of about thirty quid (inc p & p). No doubt it would look good over your mantlepiece alongside the ducks.

My table mats, by the way, are Linum (thats a brand)...fourteen quid each from Selfridges a few years ago. As for the Asylum, I do believe that one of the standard treatments for the demented is to get the inmates to do sketches, followed by paintings, just as in the manner you describe. So where were you? Broadmoor..Rampton....? Pray tell.
Not that I think art appreciation can be taught, but after leaving QEGS, I spent five years exclusively studying art. First at Blackburn, then in Liverpool, where I got an honours degree.

Although my exquisite taste was already well formed before entering primary school.

Selfridges?

Isn't that the American department store, where the aspiring middle classes go to, to purchase (naff) fish knives, to match their plain white place mats?

All a bit too suburban for my tastes.

I hear there's still places left on the empty plinth in Trafalgar Square.

We should put your name forward.

The Freaky Philistine Juggler and his Linum mats.
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