Good call thug! this is the block from a Jaguar XJ12 vandenplas and they are a race of miniature people who worship at the hood ornament! lol great pic dmv!

ya know i wasn't even thinking about an engine block LOL! looks like it's over heated thanks for your comment guys:)

yeah, it does look like an engine block! It's got a cracked head though, for sure, with all that heat, and that guy looks like most of the mechanics I know!

Wonderful scratchy colour and composition.

oo I like all these wild colors together..cool pic

muchas gracias xo, a

But, but... we didn't get to have a party!. :(

go to the bottom of the page here //www.cenedella.com/stone/archives/000302.html for the reference. and thanks DBA for the help!

OMG! I went, still laughing, can't breathe.... to the worst album cover page... your reference.... That is some of the funniest.. Devastatin Dave the Turntable Slave? Thug, where in the world do you come up with these ideas? You are sooo funny!!!! You did a great job of reproducing their geekiness!

=)

I see faces :o)

You TErro-est est est. AH forget......
Thats makes me XD.

This is so friggin sweet-first its an awsome concept and second that's like a totally cool way to portray it-I love it-finish soon!

I have been there, done that, got the t-shirt. Excellent idea for a drawing, I love the straw and cup with the slurpy. You know when you suck out the juice and the ice whitens and then it is hard to get the rest because it lost its liquidity(hope that's a real word)? One of my friends called this slurpy phenomenon polarization. Just a bit of slurpy terminology for all the sluppy fans out there.

hah! i remember! there was an old movie poster had a similar image to this... i knew i had it in my head from somewhere. anyway...thanks for the compliments. sigh. im so content. i'm smart enuff not to take a huge gulp of anything that cold OUCH! burnt my tongue on this darn hot coffee! }:(

<melts> Excuse me, I'm moving into your pictures. At least when I'm having dental work... ...I have favourite mental places I go when they're working on my teeth (I don't tolerate local anaesthetics, so I *have* to use those sorts of techniques...), and your pictures have now become the first paintings (by *any* artist) to make the list. You may take that as the high compliment that it is, and well-earned, at that, Cindy. <smiles with sincere admiration>

I've never looked out from the Mesa Verde ruins at sunset (those ladders are scary enough in daytime, and that's BEFORE I became acrophobic), but this looks just like the kind of thing I'd expect to see, so you've got the feel you describe, dead on, with this picture. *impressed smile*

I hope there are more pieces of this type coming... ...and at this rate, I may have to ask you if I can save some to my hard drive, as I'm not sure I can stand to part with them! *wistful grin*

On the useful suggestion side of things, I thought you might like to think about using a glow similar to the one you used on the horse and cowboy, to edge the ruins (should you work on this further locally, or do more pieces like this, since I see that this one is marked as "finished"), and give an indication of the light pouring up and over their edge, from the sunset, because I think it would have that same almost magical effect that it did in the cowboy picture.

And, as an extremely minor detail, there's a stone that appears to be sticking out toward us, about 3 rows below the bottom of the window on the viewer's left, beneath the middle of the window, which gives me the feeling that it's about to pop right out of the wall toward me, and cause the window to cave in. It could be intentional, it might not, and it's perfectly believable either way, but it gives me a loss of the feeling of tranquility that this piece otherwise conveys, and instead creates a sense of dramatic tension, as though something in me is waiting for the remainder of the wall and window arch to collapse. I thought you might want to play with that, in future works, since your paintings tend to have a very emotional impact on the viewer (to judge from my own response and that of others), making that emotional effect into one more tool in your palette, so to speak.

P.S. to thug: Cindy is not alone in putting in 3-5 hours at a stretch on a single piece of artwork; I do it too, (and though I don't compare my work to hers, so do many of the *other* artists whose work I like) and that's not allowing for interruptions. How did you think that her pieces got so good, anyway? *grin* Good artists aren't *necessarily* speed demons (though they can be); what makes a good artist, IMHO, is that they're just good at being expressive, whatever their medium of choice, regardless of how long it takes them -- which is reassuring to those of us who take longer on our own pieces, even when we aren't at Cindy's skill level. :)

I hope this comment has been useful, and not *too* long, this time... *worried look* I tried to cut out anything not directly related to *this* picture. I don't see anything left I can leave out.

About 5 hrs in one sitting is an avg. for me here... some I worked on for 8 or more at once, because they usually take up so much space that I can't get back in to edit w/out asking for more space.

Gee, thanks alwayslearning... maybe you should have a job as a writer? lol And yeah, the rocks that appear to be about to come out are intentional... these things are barely standing as it is and crumbling as we speak. I'm so glad that someone recieves the feeling I try to impart when I paint (or draw). That's what makes it satisfying. This place has inspired me to bust my real paint out again.

you always do the coolest skies. :)

This is awesome clox!
Your shading is always so nice!
Great job, esp on the hair!

this is best 1 n this page

Nice bed head look. HA! HAAA! Good to see you sir. :}

lol hey a Cat Eye from ICat..! interesting...Yes..cats are spooky when they stare you down...in medieval times they were beleived to be the carriers of demons for that reason...

haha EyeCats-wow I didn't even notice you said that Divinci-ok I'm blind-I love cats-even wh they stare you down cause then you just get taller than them and they have to look up and if they're too proud to do that they just look at something else..lol

thanx 4 the comments

This is really interesting, has great texture, has depth, and the colors you chose give a cold eerie feeling. Stick around and draw some more!

whoo, spooky! Like how the colors contrast like blurred street lights.

Thanks, Cindy, I'm pleased ta meetcha! :) I'm even more pleased that you found the comment helpful, and that it cheered you up. I know what it's like to have too many nights when sleep eludes you, and a friendly comment can make a world of difference to me, so I try to aim for saying something both friendly and useful.
FYI, my hallucinations tended toward the bizarrely entertaining, the sole convincing one being <flourish of trumpets> a cardboard box. It's a funny story, message me sometime when you're bored or need a laugh, and I'll tell it to you. :)

Wow! This is beautiful, DBA! I love the sunset sky! And, I think that the horse's shadow is sooo cute! ^_^

Willow: no, we're fun to talk *at* :)