Wednesday 27 January 2010

Words And Pictures

I just came across this great story about Guy Shield, an artist in Australia. He carefully prepared a series of seven pictures - it took him about a year to plan the project and then a fortnight of actual drawing and painting.

As you can see, they are all fairly unremarkable street scenes - although many feature signs or graffiti. I like the style of his work.

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He took them with him when he and his girlfriend Lizzie went on holiday to Bali.

[It was Lizzie's birthday]

Then he cut and folded them, and joined them, concertina like, and draped them across the bed in the hotel room.

Then he suggested to Lizzie that she should fold them up into a bridge like structure.

With a little help, she did...

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And the message was revealed - will you marry me? 

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You'll be glad to hear she said 'Yes' and last Saturday's post was ...

engaged!

How romantic - may they have many happy years together!

3 comments:

  1. Well...what can one say?! What a lot of thinking he must have done to get that worked out!

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  2. So heartwarming :o) What a lovely and story and wonderful artwork too.

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