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[Cutter]

This is for Shan. I've done pen and ink and was thinking about a realistic image of the last stand. Your "left behind" has all the elements to do it. Have you thought about doing a piece like that?

[joewiggs]

Cutter, did you do the above.

[Cutter]

Yup, is a good study for pen and ink, Albrecht Dürer. the size doesn't do it right. Will put up if y'all want to see.
Main point is getting a time point with the last stand.
Voss's trumpet call would work for me, looking from where do you all think? West to East?

[shan]

Hi Cutter

In answer to your question, no I haven't done any pen and ink work like that since I was at Art school way back when in the mists of time. I do draw mostly with a pencil, but they are generally rough studies for a character or the body position of a particular person or animal I'm thinking of putting in a painting. My various paintings of the LBH battle, with numbers of falling and dying men and horses would be a good case in point.

Over the last year or so my paintings have featured Nuns on Stilts and falling cows, { Don't ask me why!} and given that in both cases I've never seen either, I have had to work out what a cow would look like flying through the air and then hitting the ground, likewise, what a nun would look like trying to walk on stilts.

With my paintings of the battle, although I have done several big panorama type depictions, I tend to like to feature some personal aspect of the battle rather than those that are generally centered around Custer himself.

Left behind is a case in point, here we have an unnamed troopers being cut off in the Keogh area, other paintings feature that poor man who feigned being dead until the squaws, having stripped him, were about to cut off his manhood. Moments like that are ones that tend to get ignored when it comes to depicting the battle, whether this is because of prudery in that case, or because the artists generally tend to think that the public is only interested in a work if Custer is shown somewhere within it. A close reading of the battle reveals that there are many such small personal moments, small sad deaths on both sides that tend to get ignored in art works.

If I knew how to do it I'd post a few images for you, but although I read the help and advice given to others on other boards, people like me who would like to do the same sort of thing, no matter how many times I read the advice, my small pea sized brain when it comes to the matter of computers and soft ware thingamabobs and their mysterious ways, simple blinks and then goes out.

Blue Dog

[Cutter]

Shan, I understand about depicting a personal aspect of the battle, small parts of a greater whole if you will.
My bugaboo is that aside from Rolston's "Last Hope", there isn't a completely bullet proof depiction of LSH, or the environs. I understand the fact of smoke and dust, and the general "Fog of War" would make it pert'ner impossible. I've thought about photoshop, think that might hold possibilities. Not looking for a artistic depiction, but something one would have seen if there.

BTW, your Nuns are cool.

[joewiggs]

You guys are absolutely talented!

[Cutter]

This is for Strange. This is one of the political cartoons I did in the '90's when I thought that Clinton was terrible. Geeez, I miss him now.

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[strange]

It reminds me of the furnace from Home Alone!

Fantastic job. I'm not sure if I could do buildings. Using any pencil in that? I of coarse stay away from pencils at all costs, not even using them in the early stages. Teir scratch sends a chill up my spine and I am afraid to look at them. I had to literally quit school for this reason. They don't like to see assignments being turned in with pen, the bastards.

ps
Clinton was terrible.

[Cutter]

Pen and ink.