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David Bowman
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Signing off. I'll allow all the much better artists to fill your thread with delight rather than I.
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Illustrator, coder, reader, bon-vivant. Please don't ask about HAL 9000...I don't like to talk about it.
Portfolio: www.dlbowman76.com (available for commissions)
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David Bowman
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Signing off. I'll allow all the much better artists to fill your thread with delight rather than I.
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David Bowman
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What art have you published?
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David Bowman
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Uh. You're quoting Malcolm Gladwell and I have strong opinions about that guy. Unless, of course, you're telling me that my art is all mediocre. Which you are permitted to assert.
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David Bowman
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The "Feck Index".
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David Bowman
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What a noble fish is the salmon? How fine and delicious. I love you and all of your offspring. When I eventually become food for worms, I would not mind if my remains found their way into a clear lake to feed your children.
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David Bowman
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No worries, you're fine. My upbringing has inculcated me with an instinct to always be placatory and bite my tongue whenever I am displeased. I'm working on this.
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David Bowman
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I shall simply bite my tongue. *ouch*
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David Bowman
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I'm going to put something out there: consensual sex between consenting adults is in fact a *good* thing. Even if you think others' sexuality is peculiar, provided they are consenting adults, IT'S NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS.
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David Bowman
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I will admit, I not only gave a *look* but I was criticized for the harshness of said look. (I have a very *mean* face when I'm in a bad temper, it would seem.)
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David Bowman
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"Risible" is a marvelous adjective. For usage: virtually all of the recent opinion pieces in the NYT and the Washington Post are utterly risible.
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David Bowman
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Elmore Leonard was a supremely *efficient* writer. There is literally NO waste in his prose. If a detail is noted, it is for a reason.
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David Bowman
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My family give me shit for this, but I have to repeat my mantra: I may never sell another work of art or work of fiction ever again. But NO ONE can take away from me the FACT that I have a bibliography. I DID that. It is mine and mine forever. Now how's about that then?
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David Bowman
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Art is an act of friendship. We make it because we must. We share it because we can. We sell it because...well, the bills aren't going to pay themselves...
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Absolute master. The only one in his genre that I might put on his level for wit and craft is Donald Westlake (The BOSS.)
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David Bowman
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Having just subjected myself to some *awful* prose, this evening I'm going to relish some wonderful writing. I'm thinking Elmore Leonard will hit the spot. (Don't scoff, he was a *master* craftsman.)
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David Bowman
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Twee. I'm willing to deploy that cruel adjective.
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For my sins I read this, and what a load of portentous, pretentious, pompous, piffle. And I don't care who objects to that amount of alliteration.
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David Bowman
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Thank you! I love your work as well. 🙏
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David Bowman
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“Colossus” (Aquarelle on paper)
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I'm in. I haven't had the pleasure to meet Laird as of yet, but I *have* met (and *ahem* illustrated) John, and I know this will be interesting and cool. 👍
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David Bowman
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If you see this, post a bird! 🖤
#SciArt #birds #drawing #art
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David Bowman
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I'm ah...somewhat...upset at the moment. But I shall do the right thing and *get over it*.
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David Bowman
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An actual thing that an actual member of my family said to me today: "Why are you moping? So what 1/3 of your colleagues got laid off? You didn't. Work harder!" I shall leave it to the reader to envisage the look upon my face.
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I've made peace with my pallor. It's part and parcel of my whole genetic package that will very probably kill me before I reach 80. So it goes.
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David Bowman
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That's not a half-bad superpower. I spend 15 minutes in full sun unprotected and not only am I as red as a lobster, but I need to visit the dermatologist to see if any of my melanoma landmines (AKA: moles) have gone off.
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Oh. Portrait idea has decided that it is going to be slightly erotic. Shall definitely consult with model before sharing. (Boundaries are *good*)
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David Bowman
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To me, there is something quite magnificent to stand upon a beach and gaze out on the waters with no land within vision. (My compadres who know the Great Lakes here know this feeling, yes?)
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If the avalanche of lawsuits from IP owners don't stop it, the governments will.
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*I have a mission* Who do I know in North Wales who'd put up with me for several weeks? (I'm happy to help with the tidying up.)
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Oh gosh! I've given away that I've never had the pleasure to be there in person. I know the one at the bottom of the very steep hill, how many are there?
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David Bowman
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To amuse your Friday afternoon (or evening) here are five symphonies I cannot live without. Feel free to add yours: Mahler 6 Sibelius 5 Beethoven 7 Pettersson 7 Brahms 4
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Wicked! 😘
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This post is deeply felt.
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David Bowman
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You utter platonic flirt.
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I know I'm certainly not your type, but you've moved me to grab an ice-cold can of polar "Cranberry Lime".
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David Bowman
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A strange, unhappy thing has happened in the last few years. Any websites that are ad-supported are now fundamentally unusable on smart phones. You've all experienced this. You click through to an article that looks interesting then: POPUP! POPUP! DISCLAIMER FOLLOWED BY POPUP!
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Conventional wisdom is that people move to the political right as they age. I'm 48, and if anything, I'm moving further to the left on a daily basis.
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David Bowman
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One of my life goals is to paint the Anglesey lighthouse in person.
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David Bowman
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It's unseemly to kick a man when he's down...but in this case I shall make an exception. (Tell me this isn't a still from a Kubrickian horror film.)
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Now that the Tories are in the minority for a while, we are about to witness the apotheosis of a certain type of Brit at their least appealing: Queuing and moaning at interminable length.
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Thank you! This is why I love editors. 🙏
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I kind of love the fact that I've gotten a bunch of people to think about a 92 year old* horror film which is actually more romantic than scary today. *usage issue. I feel like a hyphen should go in here somewhere, but I require editorial assistance. Send help. (I have tea and biscuits)
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David Bowman
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600 drawings. Roughly 3 years worth of work.
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David Bowman
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There IS something strangely wistful and sad about completing a sketchbook, isn't there. I have 7 sheets remaining in my current one and I know I shall shed an irrational tear when that final drawing is complete.
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David Bowman
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You've seen photographs of me...you know what to expect!
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Heh. Whereas I work on a daily basis to *try* to make my voice as un-accented as humanly possible. I'm usually successful but if I spend more than an hour on the phone with any of my UK compatriots, I'll start sounding like Jeremy Paxman.
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Like I say, I went to an all-boys private school (scholarship kid, not a toff but painfully middle-class) and I *KNOW* his type on both sides of the Atlantic.
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🤜 🤛
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I do apologize, I'm *torn*. I think that billionaires should not exist...and yet...I think it is a pretty decent dress.
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David Bowman
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I hope you're wrong but fear you're right (Says this survivor of an all-boys private school...)
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