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    Bored, so I'm painting on the ceiling...

    Mrs T99ford has decided we need to do some interior decorating. Knowing my airbrushing bent, she suggested this idea to use my skills for her in the house. Not really sure how i feel about it, but here we are so far...



    Still got a couple of angels to paint into it, but I'm getting close. Anyway, certainly out of the ordinary, and you know how i like things out of the ordinary...
    Healthy is merely the slowest rate at which you can die

    Some people will tell you that slow is good - and it may be, on some days - but I am here to tell you that fast is better. I’ve always believed this, in spite of the trouble it’s caused me. Being shot out of a cannon will always be better than being squeezed out of a tube. That is why God made fast motorcycles, Bubba….Hunter S. Thompson
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    Very interesting, you have skill!

    Think, the sistine chapel could have been painted way faster if only Michelangelo had an airbrush...
    Nathan
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    • #3
      Very cool!

      Looking forward to seeing the finished product... and maybe a closer shot of the cherub?
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      • #4
        Wow! Nice! If I tried something like that, it would end up looking like Snuffleupagus sitting in spaghetti.
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        • #5
          Very Angelic!

          (cool & sharp were already used)

          When will this cieling mural business start traveling. My wife would love that!
          Tom Clisham

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          • #6
            I think this was from Monty Python:-
            How much to paint a ceiling?
            And it took him four sodding years?
            Never hire that Michaelangelo fellow again!
            Fred Hill, S'toon
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            • #7
              Man it took me a bit to see that as a ceiling, looked kinda like plexiglass on a table. Maybe I need to back off the recreational......nah, bad idea.
              Trapped in time. Surrounded by evil. Low on gas.

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              • #8
                Originally posted by Elevener View Post
                Man it took me a bit to see that as a ceiling, looked kinda like plexiglass on a table. Maybe I need to back off the recreational......nah, bad idea.
                i am with Elevener. it took me a bit to see that it was th ceiling. just a trick of close up photography. as far as the rec well i am sticking to my rum lol
                but yes very nice work!
                if it has screws in it i am gonna screw with it!

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                • #9
                  Well Rome wasn't built in a day and all that, but I dare say you have made alot better headway on that ceiling than a 16th century Italian.

                  I had an art teacher once told me I had alot of artistic talent in me, cause I had yet to let any of it out.
                  Life is what happens while your planning everything else!

                  When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

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                  • #10
                    Thanks for the kind words! One of the art masters i am not--this is kind of crude compared to them. Imagine if those guys had had an airbrush, though!

                    Interestingly enough, I was 'recreating' while painting this. Maybe that releases the 'artist' in me?? Christian Brothers VS brandy, yum! Calms the hand tremors, too!
                    Healthy is merely the slowest rate at which you can die

                    Some people will tell you that slow is good - and it may be, on some days - but I am here to tell you that fast is better. I’ve always believed this, in spite of the trouble it’s caused me. Being shot out of a cannon will always be better than being squeezed out of a tube. That is why God made fast motorcycles, Bubba….Hunter S. Thompson

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                    • #11
                      Originally posted by DGXSER View Post
                      Well Rome wasn't built in a day and all that, but I dare say you have made alot better headway on that ceiling than a 16th century Italian.

                      I had an art teacher once told me I had alot of artistic talent in me, cause I had yet to let any of it out.

                      Thanks for that. My art teacher was not so kind
                      Phil
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                      • #12
                        "I was 'recreating' while painting this"
                        I knew it!
                        Nice work. I'd like you to lay some of that talent onto a tank for me some day.
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                        • #13
                          Ha, It seems brandy helps bring out the creative spirit

                          Just let me know when you want to paint, G. It'd be an honor to paint one of your clean machines!
                          Healthy is merely the slowest rate at which you can die

                          Some people will tell you that slow is good - and it may be, on some days - but I am here to tell you that fast is better. I’ve always believed this, in spite of the trouble it’s caused me. Being shot out of a cannon will always be better than being squeezed out of a tube. That is why God made fast motorcycles, Bubba….Hunter S. Thompson

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                          • #14
                            Hmm, seems to be missing something. You ever see the cartoon where Doonesbury is offering suggestions to Michelangelo up on the scaffold painting nymphs on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel?
                            Ken Talbot

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                            • #15
                              Lol! I told my wife that if I was going to do this silly project, all the creatures would be asexual. The nymphs donthave me scared, but my airbrush don't do boy "parts"!
                              Healthy is merely the slowest rate at which you can die

                              Some people will tell you that slow is good - and it may be, on some days - but I am here to tell you that fast is better. I’ve always believed this, in spite of the trouble it’s caused me. Being shot out of a cannon will always be better than being squeezed out of a tube. That is why God made fast motorcycles, Bubba….Hunter S. Thompson

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