Apparently my computer doesn’t always ‘work’ these days. So, if I suddenly disappear, that’s probably why. Also, here’s my drawing of Jules Verne.
Jules Verne Drawing: “Imagine, if you can, a world filled with lighter-than-air machines… of submersibles… capable of exploring the greatest watery depths…”
Me: “Or, if you can, imagine a technology that always works… just as it’s been designed to do… with the simple push of a button!”
Jules Verne Drawing: “Dude! You are totally blowing my mind right now!”
About this image: charcoal drawing on Bristol Board
Refrigerator Magnate 
Primo charcoal. It is one of my favorite media…even if it can be very messy.
Messy is how my comment wound up on a totally different page. Still waiting for SIG to tie together the space time continuum
That is talent, my dear ❤
Bob is our artistic Willy Wonka:
Come with me and you’ll be
In a world of pure imagination
Take a look and you’ll see
Into your imagination
We’ll begin with a spin
Trav’ling in the world of my creation
What we’ll see will defy
Explanation
If you want to view paradise
Simply look around and view it
Anything you want to, do it
Want to change the world, there’s nothing to it
There is no life I know
To compare with pure imagination
Living there, you’ll be free
If you truly wish to be
If you want to view paradise
Simply look around and view it
Anything you want to, do it
Want to change the world, there’s nothing to it
There is no life I know
To compare with pure imagination
Living there, you’ll be free
If you truly wish to be
This is just far too cool…
I don’t even know how to follow-up in a way that’s fitting enough…
although if there are any Oompa Loompa’s lurking around here I might not even get a chance…
AAAHHH! RUN! RUN!
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Hahaha… I was thinking about doing an Einstein portrait at some point…
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I’d pay you a commission to do an Einstein. If only the statute of limitations would run out on that bank robbery thing. And I knew where Guido (an old acquaintance from Detroit) had stashed the loot. No. the tips. Yeah. the tips.
Seriously, would adore seeing what you would come up with on RapMaster MC Squared.
your art, inspiration and methods always astound and delight me.
Hahaha… well, I’d probably accept ice cream as payment… and I suspect you’ve had quite a few people offer to drop some off!
Speaking of Rap / Einstein… that Einstein vs. Hawking thing (I think you posted that, right?) was HILARIOUS!!! Seriously… so very wrong, but so very, very funny!
Thank you so much for your incredible kindness, Ms. B! Your comments spoil me!
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Thanks, Red!
My thoughts exactly… great/fun to work with… would be nice if it was just a bit easier to keep everything tidy.
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oh wow, this is so well done, SIG! very impressive. thank you for sharing, once again.
and yes, imagine such a technology….. would be most helpful for non-techy types like me 🙂 all the very best to you and your computer. hang in there. you both have my vote!
Thank you very much P&K! On both accounts! 🙂
It’s pretty hit and miss… some days everything seems fine… other days it seems like it may never start-up again (I fear that machine might not be long for this techy-world)!
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Your drawing is awesome. I hope that your computer works well. 🙂
Thank you very much!
You are incredibly kind, sir!
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I love this. And now I want to play with Jules Verne’s beard.
Laura we are all waiting
That would definitely go viral.
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Hahaha… great success!
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Great drawing Robert and BTW I have no desire to play with his beard. I would have liked to have sat in on the conversation though. Hope your computer ills get corrected in a hurry. Most of my computer problems come from a loose nut on the keyboard or mouse.
Many thanks, Bo!
Hahaha… duly noted, sir!
Ha! Oh, boy… I hope that thing isn’t metric… 🙂
I get upset every time I see things in metric measurements. I have worked for a surveyer and the metric system does not make sense. All of the Standard measurements we use can be estimated pretty closely without measureing tools. An inch is about the length of the first joint of your thumb. A foot is …well about the length of a foot and a yard is from the tip of your extended arm to the tip of your nose. I could go on but then that is what you would want me to do… GO ON!
Hahaha… I hear you, Bo! Everyone tells me it’s much simpler, but I have my doubts, because it messes with my mind (and if it really is an easier system to use my simple-mind should be proof of that)!
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this one really caught my eye in my reader! well done, SIG! and love your dialog! 🙂
Thank you so very much, J.G!
I sincerely appreciate that!
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Haha. Awesome drawing. Even better dialogue 🙂
I have to admit I was kinda proud of that…
for once I actually had the first clue what to write about! Although my computer can feel free to quit inspiring me any day now. 🙂
Good God, what do you draw with, a camera? This is amazing work, Sig!
Have a great week! 🙂
You are far to kind to me, Deb… thank you!
Sometimes when I draw them really big and then shrink them down they wind-up looking okay-ish on screen. If anything is happening here it’s only that.
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They’re a lot more than okay, Mister Robert!
I will say I think I’m getting better.
Maybe with about 25 years more work I’ll start feeling pretty good. Maybe. I hope.
Still, I thank you very, very much for your great kindness, sir!
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The charcoal drawing is excellent. The conversation with the artist and the subject: brilliant.
Thank you very much, Ms. D!
Hahaha… I’m happy to hear you liked that! Although I do wish we would have had some other news to discuss!
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Beautiful!
So very kind of you to say! Thank you!!!
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You ARE talented! Very nice. Have a great week and good luck with the computer! I feel your pain. Robyn
As are you, Robyn! ANd I thank you! Very, very much!
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Yeah, what Rachel said (in her poem!). Oh my, Amazing!!! I’m so impressed. I can’t believe all the detail here, Robert (look, I called you Robert). You are so talented!!! And, you can talk to your drawings and have them come to life, a useful skill. Best of luck with the machine. I feel for you. You know I understand. – Amy
You always spoil me, Amy… you are so very kind! 🙂
Hahaha… I thought that was kind of funny. For some reason it amuses me to imagine these great minds using words from our time… like ‘dude’. Always makes me laugh… not really sure why.
Indeed! I was actually thinking about your previous experience(s) when I was writing this post! Awful! Anyway, it’s bizarre… sometimes it seems fine… other times it just goes dead and doesn’t want to start-up again. It would be really nice if it could just hang-in there a bit longer (I use the silly thing almost every day)…
Impressive – he looks very affable.
Thank you so much!
I thought the very same! Those old photos of him… he has a look as if you almost knew him some how… kind of interesting…
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Magnificent, as always. This one has a real softness to it that makes it seem different than your other drawings. The eyes are amaaaaazing. Please just have a gallery show and get rich quick. Nooooo problem.
And you are far too kind, as always, U.M!
I always start with the eyes… I’m starting to wonder if my mood might not be affecting how I ‘translate’ them… because I know how I’m feeling when I edit a photo has a HUGE impact on the end result…
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Just amazing, SIG!
This portrait makes me want to travel around the world with him – in 80 days of course.
I’m so happy to hear you liked this, Ms. C! Thank you!
Wouldn’t that have been wild?!
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Completely amazing! How long did this drawing take? Well done!
Thank you very, very much, Nancy! I’m… not quite sure… I’d guess… about… 12 hours +/- (I’m ridiculously slow like that, you know).
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Excellent work. Luke Bo I have no desire to play with his beard. I would like to have a beard but my wife is in total opposition to that idea.
That should be like Bo, not luke Bo. I don’t know who Luke is, nor why he gate crashed my comment
Weren’t ‘The Dukes of Hazzard’ named Bo and Luke? Maybe you were just channeling classic T.V, Tony!
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That’s it. I channelled from the TV channel & didn’t even realise
Hahaha…
Do you get cable, too, Tony?!
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Tony your wife probably sent him with the razor after hearing all of the talk about beards
He must be a member of the beard police, Constable Luke Bo
Hahaha…
I think it says that on the badge.
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Many thanks, Mr. M! A guy’s gotta do what a guy thinks his wife thinks he should do (I think, anyway)!
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When the wife’s happy everybody’s happy.
Upset the wife & you’ll pay. Oh how you’ll pay…
I would imagine. 😉
No… seriously… I’m pretty fortunate in that department.
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Artisticality and brilliance spring
to mind here, it is very well drawn.
What an incredibly kind and generous thing to say!
Thank you! Very, very much!
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I have sent you an invite 🙂
Thank you, sir!
Hahaha… I now feel like a master navigator!
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I am glad you said navigator 😉 lmao
Ha! Me, too!
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😉 🙂
Robert, your drawings are amazing, really they are, I don’t use that word often.
And the conversation made me smile. I empathise: my afternoon post yesterday turned into an evening post due to the excessive rain.
The network I use gets slower and slower when it’s raining and sometimes drops out altogether.
That’s why I’m late this time plus I’m a bit under the weather myself. Ho hum, tomorrow is another day.
Thank you very, very much, S.E… I sincerely appreciate your generosity and kindness! 🙂
Sounds incredibly frustrating! Technology is so strange… the things we can do, when you stop to think about it… they are mind-boggling, really. But then when things don’t work as they should… grrrrrr!
I’m very sorry to hear that, S.E… I hope you feel much, much better very soon!
A visionary painting a visionary! nice work sir!
Far too kind, as always, Mr. B!
Thank you so very much, sir!
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Beautiful! These charcoal portraits that you do are always incredible.
Have I mentioned how kind your comments always are?! Because… you know… INCREDIBLY kind! Thank you, sir!
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Very talented work by Jules, Thanks for sharing Bob 🙂
Thank you, Jake!
You are always so kind!
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I hope you haven’t been exploring the great watery depths with your electronics. Jules was rather handsome, you have done a great job of portraying him. I had the same thought as Deb, the likeness looks like a photograph.
Hahaha! D-oh! That explains so much! I was just trying to clean-things up a bit! I mean… it had been weeks since my computer had taken a shower! Hilarious, Patti! I love it!
And thank you, very, very much!
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“Mais le brouillard ne devait pas tarder à se lever. Ce n’était qu’une brumaille de beau temps. Un bon soleil en chauffait les couches supérieures, et cette chaleur se tamisait jusqu’à la surface de l’îlot.”–L’Île mystérieuse
I wish I could attach an audio file! Jules Verne is so beautiful in the original that it deserves to be spoken rather than read.
What a beautiful, beautiful charcoal piece. I’m at a loss for words, really. Hence the quote.
Thank you for sharing your stunning work and also for visiting my artistic endeavor.
I wish I could speak French! It always sounds so beautiful! Jules Verne in his native language must be incredible!
Thank you so much for your incredibly kind comment! I sincerely appreciate it!
And not at all! I very much admire your talent, creativity, and honesty / courage!
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[…] capable of exploring the greatest watery depths.”
Having read that my first thought was “Oh, would you imagine this, Robert?”
II am sure you will be delighted what Jams ‘ODonnell at the Poor Mouth posted today.
In case you do not like commenters setting links, please just delete this and forgive me with a lenient smile.
Not at all! That is AWESOME! I had never heard of Sue Austin before… what an amazing woman! Thank you so much for sharing that!
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Ah, glad you enjoyed. ‘Amazing’ is certainly a fitting word,
I would love to bring back the beard or manly stash but I can’t grow whiskers like Jules Verne
Tough to compete with that set-up!
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Was going to comment with something profound (!) but then I read about @Laura wanting to play with his beard . . . and then there’s that twinkle in his eye!
Hahaha…
absolutely! Seems like old Jules is doing well for himself!
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That is, undeniably, one sexy man.
I’m never very sure about that…
but from what I’ve been able to piece together from the comments on this post he did probably did very well for himself!
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This is the first time to meet Jules Verne! 😀
Hello, Mr.! You look fabulous!
What a kind thing to say, Cristina!
I’m sure Jules is very, very flattered by that!
Thank you so much!
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Another excellent artwork Bob – at least Charcoal always works 🙂 You’ve really captured some of the 20,000 leagues in those eyes! And maybe there’s a hint of seaweed about the beard too 😉
Thank you so much, sir! Very kind of you, Martin!
Hahaha… sounds like me and salad!
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I’m behind in my visiting blogs….fantastic rendering with the charcoal! Love!!!
I can relate, Mary!
And thank you! Very, very much!
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Great art and love the fun and banter in your comments. 🙂 Would love to see your Einstein if you draw him.
How kind of you to say! Thank you! Very, very much!
He’s defiantly on the list… I’ve got at least one more ready to go first, though…
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Great composition ! He looks very friendly, almost smiling not the typical stern pose of the times. Is it your interpretation or are there photos of him in a more relaxed attitude ?
” Around the Virtual World in Eighty Seconds” …..computer boot-up time may alter time frame of this goal. 🙂
It might be a little of both. I did get that impression from the reference image I was using (you might be able to pick it out with a quick ‘Jules Verne’ ‘Google-ing’). I suspect that carried through a bit when I was working on this, too! Kind of interesting, as you say, because I think the long exposure/sitting-times from photography of that era usually produced that more stern look. I get that feeling from a few old photos of Abraham Lincoln, too – not so much in his over-all expression, but in his eyes…
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I feel your pain 😛
Seriously! What’s the deal lately?!
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Maybe aliens are involved?
Hahaha!
It seems possible to me! Who knew the aliens would be such jerks.?!I’d be much more impressed if they went around fixing things.
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Oh my, oh my! This is amazing!
Thank you very, very much! It probably looks a bit better at this small of a scale.
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Very amazing! This is a big wow!
Thank you so much for all your kind thoughts! It is very rare that someone takes so much time to look through my posts… I really do appreciate it! Especially from someone whose work I admire as much as yours! Thank you again!!! Very much!!!
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I take my time when I see good work! And I am not that kind of person who just looks at the latest posts and then move on… I have noticed that it’s very common on wordpress, people are stressed and they hit the like button and then they moving on to the next… If you know what I mean. Nothing wrong with that, but I like to really take my time and going through someones work.
I really appreciate your kind words too and all your likes and commenting on my blog. 🙂 So thanks to you too!!
I know exactly what you mean! And I can very much relate to being stressed (or busy)… that happens to me more often than I would like (so I certainly appreciate any amount of time someone spends looking at my blog). It’s for that very reason (knowing how much time it takes to look at so many posts), that your visit particularly made my day! I sincerely appreciate all that extra time (and patience)! So I thank you again for that! Very, very much!!!
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My pleasure. And I will be back… 😉
Wonderful! Thank you very much!!!
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