{"id":403,"date":"2007-01-08T08:58:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-08T14:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/?p=403"},"modified":"2007-01-08T08:58:00","modified_gmt":"2007-01-08T14:58:00","slug":"2007-01-07-illustration-friday-buzz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/2007-01-07-illustration-friday-buzz\/","title":{"rendered":"2007-01-07 Illustration Friday &#8212; Buzz"},"content":{"rendered":"<style type=\"text\/css\">.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; }<\/style>\n<div class=\"flickr-frame\">\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/royblumenthal\/350442126\/\" title=\"photo sharing\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/137\/350442126_129a86fa59.jpg?w=605\" class=\"flickr-photo\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\t<span class=\"flickr-caption\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/royblumenthal\/350442126\/\">2007-01-07 Illustration Friday &#8212; Buzz<\/a>, originally uploaded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/people\/royblumenthal\/\">royblumenthal<\/a>.<\/span><\/div>\n<p class=\"flickr-yourcomment\">\tFinished this painting late last night. Took me a good 10 or so hours of dedicated work in MUGG &amp; BEAN, Cresta to make it. Got kicked out around 9:30, and worked into the small hours of the morning.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.illustrationfriday.com\/\">Illustration Friday<\/a> topic this week is &#8216;buzz&#8217;. My contrarian brain immediately rejected &#8216;bees&#8217;, &#8216;snoring&#8217;, &#8216;flies&#8217;, and anything kinda tame and mild.<\/p>\n<p>I started hunting through my little brain vault for thoughts. And found one. I thought&#8230;. &#8216;Hmmm! How about painting a chainsaw warrior!!!?&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>So&#8230; uh&#8230;. lacking a warrior to pose for me, I did the posing. In my lounge. Wearing a purple sarong. And holding a tube of roled up paper as my chainsaw-surrogate. Cos&#8230; uh&#8230; I don&#8217;t own a chainsaw. In fact, I&#8217;ve never even SEEN a real one. I searched the web for a pic of one, and found a lovely model in some online catalogue.<\/p>\n<p>And&#8230; uh&#8230;. lacking gigantic muscles and ultra long, flowing, warrior-locks, I kinda beefed myself up to some extent.<\/p>\n<p>The only thing that I CAN say about this pic with any degree of certainty is that I&#8217;m truly capable of pulling EXTREMELY ugly faces. I can make small children burst out crying in terror. Although sometimes they burst out laughing.<\/p>\n<p><i>This painting was made using <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ambientdesign.com\/artrage.html\">ArtRage 2.2<\/a> on my trusty Toshiba Tecra M4 tablet pc in Mugg &amp; Bean, Cresta.<\/i><\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\">Roy Blumenthal is a writer, director, artist, and <a href=\"http:\/\/snipurl.com\/visualfacilitator\">visual facilitator<\/a>. Hire him to make pictures of your meetings or workshops.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2007-01-07 Illustration Friday &#8212; Buzz, originally uploaded by royblumenthal. Finished this painting late last night. Took me a good 10 or so hours of dedicated work in MUGG &amp; BEAN, Cresta to make it. 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