Secret Moon Art

Zounds! My drawing Spooky Fairy Night takes all the cake crumbs as Secret Moon Art's top ranking most-viewed image ever. Published here November 2009, almost 900 peeks have accrued for what really is a simple drawing of white on black. Some shading has been added but only by hand. As for your part, m'dears, I'd say 900 peeks is Very Well Done! ~:~ Secret Moon Art : five years & still publishing the original drawings and paper collage images of Jude Cowell! Edge of Petrified Forest , all art copyright of artist-author ~:~ Here's something you might enjoy. Or not. :D

Someone seems to have discovered the reason why over the years Vincent Van Gogh's famous yellow Sunflowers have been fading into a brownish haze. Don't leave us, Van Gogh's Sunflowers! Even if you are a floral symbol of monarchy ! (Sun = Leo = natural ruler = divine right of kings , as they think.) Well, truth is, I have no sunflowers about the place for publishing here but I can sympathize with one of my favorite master painters. If only he could be around to decry this unfortunate fading which is seemingly due to something Van Gogh added to his palette himself to make his colors...brighter! It's a sad and classic case of unintended consequences, right? This reminds me of some artwork I perpetrated in 1996, the first I'd drawn on black paper since high school art classes; then I had photos taken of the pieces which were transferred onto slides - no desktop publishing then, at least not for moi. But when I scanned the slides for my art files later on, I found that...