h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Yea, well, his pictures are special anyhow. A bit more like photography or so. You see eg the legs with the green shoes in the upper right corner of the picture? That's typical I think, just cut off the rest of the body.

Yes. I love it. But then, Rene Magritte is my very favourite painter.
http://images.google.com/images?q=Magritte+&hl=en&btnG=Search+Images

Actually, I made an entire calendar of images in which I montaged my dog into all the great paintings, including this one. He was trying to catch the train.

No, surrealism is serious. That one's called 'Time Transfixed' - and it happens to look just like the fireplace and mirror in my living room (only mine is minus the train, and has a dancing Shiva instead of a clock on the mantel). And my dog would definitely go after the train.

I think its silly that you made a calender with your dog inserted though.

Oh, yeah! I made a page for each month, and took a painting from a different era or school, and inserted my dog and cats in the picture. For instance, the dog is in 'Whistler's Mother', looking up at the lady in the rocking chair.

I can't draw, and I was trying to get good at montage with the photosuite software. So I manipulated each image until it looked like it belonged in the picture. Getting the dog and cats into things like Hieronymus Bosch is fun.

Well thats cool!

Maybe when I have time, I'll go on your art site and post some of them. The cats look good in Dutch masters.

You might have to check the rules about other people's art. I don't know how it would work.

Ah, true - although Duchamp got away with the Mona Lisa. After all, it's public domain.

All I do is photography and montage. I can't draw.

I couldn't either at first! Dogged practice and now I can draw... things... I guess.

It's a vision-problem thing. I can only do abstracts using straight-edges and the like. Sometimes I do those on the paintbrush programme for fun.

Huh. Some people do really cool things with digital art.

I'm hoping to get better at it, but right now I've got other stuff to do.

Understandable.

Cool, wish I understood art beyond the basics of photoshop. I was certain I could have drawn some of the later pokemon cards in the neo series though in seventh grade... I couldn't.

Comment on sketch please?

Night!

I feel gypped.