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Edward Hopper (1882 –1967) Hopper was a painter of silence. In his world, time stops. People live frozen lives. Here is a gallery of his work.

I'd just like to say thanks to the following board members for posting in this thread. Your comments have been deeply appreciated - frequently heart warming, occasionally thought provoking, and always positive! I apologise for not having found the time to acknowledge each of you individually. I hope you all have a great New Year! Sardo Numspar, nearmint, jimjum12, Sqeggs, MrBedrock, Kevin.J, comixnoir, adamstrange, DavidMerryweather, goldust40, Foxtrot70, RedFury, godquest, comicjack, Yellow Kid, Comicopolis, jbcomicbox, pcalhoun, Comixcroz, Twistty1, Buzzetta, comicwiz, Senormac, Sal, thehumantorch, 40YrsCollctngCmcs, BOOT, Theagenes, buttock

Here is a work in progress based on the pen and ink collage I posted earlier. This is actually a picture of a rock overlaid on my drawing. Now I have to engage with both surface and image, in order to excavate what lies beneath. So the issue with using Photoshop is a parallel concern to that of transforming drawing convincingly into paint. How to transcend the medium? How to create density of feeling in one so facile, when you can simply request a filter to render an image in any way imaginable? One day perhaps I'll know.

I've been thinking a lot about cave painting recently, about how the artist/shaman [probably a woman by the way, as shamans are to this day in Siberia] worked harmoniously with the surface of the rock face to evoke the form of the ur-animal she wanted to depict - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lascaux

Or if not him then Turner