Christo and Jean-Claude are famous for their large scale art projects many of which involve wrapping buildings or landscapes such as a Paris bridge and the Berlin Reichstag. They are controversial but I love their work, I was fortunate to be able to see the Gates installation in Central Park
We have all heard the term "Impatient As A Flamingo", have we not? Well, probably not, I just made it up since I couldn't think of anything else for this topic.
I started with a portrait in sepia ink of the late Irish novelist, John McGahern, a current favourite of mine. I modified it by reworking it with black ink and then I subsequently used an old Microsoft Paint It program and made 2 other modified versions
I was a Cobol programmmer for almost 25 years and I am now semi retired. One of the best things about retirement is to finally have some time to play at being a visual artist again, something I was not able to do for a long time