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Cave Painting
Primal art has a feature that sets it apart from "modern art" or "contemporary art" or even "classical art" - namely tha...
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Lightshow
It is a fact that any time I move into that arty frame of mind, I get given gifts from the Universe. The other day I got...
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DH Painting
Four days and five nights ...
If anyone ever tells you doing art is for lazy people, don't believe them ...
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Art Dolls
During my original voyage into primal magic - which is where primal art came from! - I happened across Voodoo and the id...
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1st Art
Art is a very personal journey. And every so often, there are these priceless experiences that one really can't put into...
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The Sand Shaman
Inspired by Will Taylor's new album, I found myself wanting to make a spirit doll (art doll) for the first time in a lon...
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Overcome By A Painting ...
I've heard tell that as a painter, the holy grail is to "get a reaction from the audience."
Well I can proudly report t...
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Celebration Design
The "Celebration" design for the 10th Anniversary EmoTrance Conference.
EmoTrance is an amazing modality; indeed there ...
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A Painting Painting Itself: Gold Fall
Alright so no painting is painting itself here literally. A canvas jumping out of the cupboard, sticking out it's littl...
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Classic Symbol Painting: The Traveller
Just put this title down - that's funny. A "classic" symbol painting. A traditional symbol painting. The first one of th...
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Genius Symbol Mandala
I love The Genius Symbols. They have brought immeasurable joy into my life, I have just had such a good time making di...
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Seahorse
Some time ago, I sent someone a The Gift and it was a Seahorse. First time that I can recall I had any dealings with thi...
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Genius Symbols Public Demonstration Set
I gave a short 15 minute presentation on The Genius Symbols at the AMT conference last year. Normally I draw the symbol...
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Ronnie O'Sullivan Portrait
A portrait of former snooker world champion Ronnie O'Sullivan based on an original photograph by by Monique Limbos.
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Leo The Lion Painting
A commission for an August birthday - Leo The Lion.
Inspired by Taurus, my second Star Sign Symbol Hypbrid painting.
H...
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West End & Dancing Through The Hard Symbol Painting
Must be something in the air - silver and gold?
Two new classic symbol paintings for July 2011, West End and Dancing Th...
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SFX At The Console
Once in a while, it's time to update the self image - lol!
The picture of me that's widely used everywhere was taken in...
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Star Child Fairy Tale Illustration
The book of fairy tales, The Golden Horse, originally had for every story a symbol hypbrid painting as an illustration, ...
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Poem Dreaming Tree
Honestly! Some works of art seem to have a mind of their own ... This "poem dreaming tree" is elusive! First it went und...
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Digital Restoration: Fire
One of the most fascinating things I've learned about art is that art doesn't get better when the artist gets older. A...
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Angel City
There's some thing going on with angels at the moment, don't know what it is ...
Still, angels are a good thing so let'...
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Everything Is Possible
Once in a while, it seems my marps want to do their thing.
This little painting is one of those occasions ...
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White Dragon Design For Project Sanctuary 11
Project Sanctuary 1993 had the original "DragonRising" as its logo.
Now it's 2011, the new Project Sanctuary book is ju...
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Joy of Cross Dressing - Mystery Solved!
Now this is one of these weird things that I've observed and wondered about over the years - WHY is it that out of all the many peoples in the world, only the ENGLISH have a situation where fully grown heterosexual macho men will throw themselves with glee and much delight into women's dresses given the slightest chance and half an opportunity?
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What's with the English joy of cross dressing?
This is a mystery I've noted for about 30 years and this strange joy of cross dressing of the English reaches all across other forms of divide. It doesn't matter if a man be rich or poor, well educated, straight, gay, bi, confused or otherwise, macho to the hilt or effiminate - if he's English, he'll literally JUMP into a dress if the opportunity is offered - and enjoy himself completely!
You couldn't beat your average German bricklayer into a wig, high heels and a woman's dress with metal rods! Much the same holds true with US bikers or police officers, Dutch army officers, Russian sailors, Turkish wine merchants or French window cleaners. The joy of cross dressing seems truly unique to the English.
How did that come to be? Is this a weird genetic twist in the English "race"? Is it the climate or the laylines? The language?
So I wondered on and off - and the other day, I got the answer to the question.
It's the English QUEENS that have caused this!
The ultimate authority over everything in the days past - and THEY ARE WEARING A DRESS!
The army officers all have to swear to serve "her" majesty; of course, so do all the civil servants, the politicians. All the subjects to this very day walk "on the Queen's highway" and the criminals serve their sentences "at her Majesty's pleasure".
The joy of cross dressing observed amongst the English is simply a case of cultural role modelling of the greatest power in the land. Which in England's history were to a high proportion and certainly recently, WOMEN queens with inconsequential consorts.
This works not just to explain the androgynous appeal of glam rock and the Monty Python public schoolboy fascination with cross dressing, but also the Suffragete movement, Margaret Thatcher and the other little quirks, such as that the UK has more BDSM divas per capita than any other country on Earth by a factor of ten.
Amazing. Funny. And so simple!
Ah well. Another great mystery of the ages - finally resolved :-)
SFX :-)
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