This is AMAZING

[Gracie]

Paintings For Ants. Enter the Universe of Lorraine Loots

Link has more tiny images.

 

[Gracie]

Did you LOOK? Go see! Stop with the paris/ISIS/obama/blahblahblah for a moment and take a gander at some talent!

Makes me wanna buy some paper and colored pencils. If I can hold one. Still...it makes me kinda motivated to try.

 

[Gracie]

 

[Gracie]

The damn detail just boggles my mind.

 

[TheOldSchool]

This is her:

 

[TheOldSchool]

Oh this one's just too excellent:

 

[Pogo]

Cool stuff.

I can't draw -- wish I could -- but long ago when I worked in a machine shop I picked up a piece of scrap wood and decided its shape reminded me vaguely of a grand piano. So I made it into one. Had tiny little legs, even tinier three little pedals, a lid that opened and penciled-in 88 keys, A to C. And the name "Steinway" stamped on the front. Thing was no more than six inches wide.

 

[Pogo]

Oh this one's just too excellent:

Damn. She's gotta be severely nearsighted.

 

[Gracie]

She is very talented. And my specialty before painting big assed pieces of furniture was miniatures. Never used colored pencil though. I did do a few ACEO paintings and sold them on ebay but that was long ago and I was just toodling around.

 

[Gracie]

Oh this one's just too excellent:

Damn. She's gotta be severely nearsighted.

Magnifying glass, like what jewelers use that is a tabletop sorta gadgetry thingy.

 

[Pogo]

Oh this one's just too excellent:

Damn. She's gotta be severely nearsighted.

Magnifying glass, like what jewelers use that is a tabletop sorta gadgetry thingy.

No doubt. I'm severely nearsighted myself, and it helps a lot.

 

[TheOldSchool]

How the hell did she manage this one?!

 

[Gracie]

How the hell did she manage this one?!

Very very squinty?