Last night I was sitting at the Seattle Coffee Company in Hyde Park, with a whole bunch of books from the Exclusive Books next door. One of them was ADULT CHILDREN OF ALCOHOLICS by Janet geringer Woititz. She lists a …
2006-08-11 Illustration Friday — PlayOriginally uploaded by royblumenthal. This week’s Illustration Friday topic is ‘Play’. I searched stock.xchng for ‘poker’ and ‘cards’, and found two reference images which I combined in CorelDraw. One was A good poker hand for me …
2006-08-10 Illustration Friday — Capture Originally uploaded by royblumenthal. This week’s Illustration Friday topic is ‘Capture’. I’ve just extricated myself from a co-dependent relationship. And this pic really illustrates co-dependence for me. Here we’ve got a cat… ostensibly the captor, …
‘S’ and I are fully broken up. She had some kind of a fling with someone in Cape Town two nights ago, and has been carefully keeping the information away from me. Doing a bit of a Bill Clinton. We …
‘S’ kisses someone to clarify her feelings for me. Bye bye, ‘S’. Read more »
2006-07-30 Long Dark Teatime of the Zoloft Originally uploaded by royblumenthal. I’m now on my fifth day of starting Zoloft, a medication akin to Prozac, used for fighting depression, and, in my case anxiety. I’ve been distrustful of psychiatry for …
Here are some of my voice-clips, in case you were thinking of using me as a voice artist. Thanks to the wonders of ISDN, and the fact that South Africa has a very highly advanced advertising industry, I’m available to …
Roy Blumenthal, Voice-Over Artist, gives you some sample clips of his voice Read more »
2006-07-27 Illustration Friday — Clean Originally uploaded by royblumenthal. The topic for Illustration Friday this week is ‘Clean’. Which gives me the excuse to paint my bathroom. And to reflect a bit on clean starts in relationships. I’m working through …
2006-07-27 Roy Blumenthal Self Portrait After Chatting To ‘S’ Originally uploaded by royblumenthal. Just had a long chat to ‘S’ on the phone. She’s in Cape Town. I’m in Joburg. When she left to drive down, we parted under a …
2006-07-27 Roy Blumenthal Self Portrait After Chatting To ‘S’ Read more »
Roy Blumenthal Originally uploaded by fionalongart. Yesterday I painted a portrait of Fiona Long, a British artist I came across on Flickr. Today I found a surprise in my inbox… this awesome watercolour portrait of me by her. Thanks Fiona. …
Your artwork SHOULD be around in one-hundred years time. How certain are you that yours will survive the ravages of exposure to ultra-violet light? Be sure you’re using archive-quality materials, and you’re well on the way to ensuring your work’s …
Tutorial: How to Test Your Art Materials for Colour-fastness and Longevity Read more »