Thursday, 10 February 2022

Thursday Art Date With Rain -- "Romance"

This week's Art Date prompt 
from Rain Frances is perfect
for February's upcoming Valentines Day!

I had to reach far back into
the Misty Vaults of Time
to find something suitable 
for this prompt.

I did this drawing sometime in the early 1970s
when I was a teenager in high school.


It was based on an illustration in 
some long-forgotten book by an artist 
whom I don't now remember either.

Pardon the blurriness of this closeup,
but it's the best I could get
through the glass.


If I were drawing this now, 
I would just ink the entire picture, 
but I was following the original very closely. 

Then and now, I almost never frame anything I do, 
but my hotelier grandma just happened to be 
getting rid of an old framed photo of a Greyhound Bus
(her hotel was also the local Greyhound Depot stop 
in her prairie town), so I used it to frame my drawing.

I made the mat out of a big piece of construction paper.

The original Greyhound photo was, I recall, 
somewhat similar to this old advert --


I should have just kept the framed photo "as is" --
apparently vintage Greyhound memorabilia
is worth a fortune now, LOL!

[Art and photos © Debra She Who Seeks, January 2022. 
Third photo is from the internet]

45 comments:

  1. You certainly have a artistic side! Great work!

    It never fails to amaze me what items can become valuable, such as a Greyhound bus item.

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  2. OMG you draw that when you were a teen?
    Talent!
    I could not even trace that. Really.

    XOXO

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  3. You really do have a talent. I wished I'd saved some of my art work from back in the day. I have no idea if it's good, but it's be nice to see what I was doing in the "way back".

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  4. If I were drawing that now it would look completely crap.

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  5. Amazing all that detail in your drawing.
    Happy Thursday
    Thanks for dropping by my blog

    Much love...

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  6. When I was a kid, my family took a trip across the U.S. via Greyhound. My Dad was afraid to fly. When he arrived in California, my Mom marched up to the ticket booth and got refunds for our return trip. She said to my Dad, you can ride it back, as for me and the children we are flying back. The trip must have also changed my Dad's mind about flying as he flew back too. Four days on a bus--shew!!

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  7. It's a wonder that you went to law school instead of art school.

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  8. Debra,

    WOW, you did a fabulous job on this drawing! I took a couple of years of art in high school but I don't any of my works. I'm sure I felt too insecure with it and tossed it all. The only thing I have left is a flat wood carving that I made for DH while we were dating. I wish I could've drawn as well as you did when I was in high school. Perhaps if I did then I would've gone on to take advanced course in college for something in the art field. Oh well...at least I have the luxury now to dabble and learn. Really this has been an excellent way to do even if it took almost 40-years to do something with my limited artistic skills.

    That's a really cool vintage print. Thanks for sharing and for the visit!

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  9. @ Cathy Kennedy -- Thanks, Cathy! Now that I'm retired, I've started taking formal art lessons too! Interrupted by the pandemic, unfortunately. I have the luxury of time now to dabble and learn too!

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  10. "memorabilia is worth a fortune now"
    I hear that but I don't know anyone that buys memorabilia for exorbitant prices. Who's buying this stuff?

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  11. Wow, girlfriend! That's incredible, and you were a mere child. I love your attention to detail. Clearly, you've always been very patient and gifted.
    Thanks for digging that up to share.

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  12. You're right about the vintage bus print. Now that Greyhound is defunct in Canada, their vintage memorabilia will definitely be worth more $$$.

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  13. You are so talented! I have seen a couple of historic Greyhound bus stations in our area converted into other businesses today. The station fronts are so iconic, like the buses.

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  14. That is an amazing detailed drawing and very romantic!

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  15. LOL..Maybe someday your drawing will be worth a fortune too!! It's very good..

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  16. I'm glad you're revisiting art. Always engrossing and a challenge. Good for you.

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  17. I never took art in school. But now I'm taking it up and it never to late to take up something.
    Coffee is on and stay safe

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  18. I passed a for sale camper this afternoon, the same rounded edges as that Greyhound. Same vintage. Bet it wont be there long.

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  19. This comment is off topic. We saw a Dipper bird today. You can look it up for yourselves. They are cool and excellent.

    I am older person and i am lucky because i have a caregiver.
    Today i wanted to go to visit the river, up there at the end of the scenic drive.

    You never know what you will see.

    So anyway, caregiver asked me what lives up there? What?

    I got started on one of my long stories about dipper birds and how cool they are and how they go underwater. We saw one.

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  20. I really like the eyes of your subjects, and the lace on the sandals. I think you did well framing the drawing. Maybe one day it will be worth a fortune! 😁

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  21. That is a fabulous drawing, so detailed too. I can just about manage a stick figure.

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  22. Some book about Robert the Bruce by chance?

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  23. So, you’ve known your talent for much of your life. Beautifully done. And, yes, too bad you didn’t save the greyhound and frame your art. I’ve lately tried to not think about all the “junk” I should have saved.

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  24. Hello Debra, I would have guessed that was a real print, either sold as such or from a book. Still, as soon as you started telling the story of the bus, I wished you had kept that intact and found another frame. Perhaps as penance you could try a picture of such a bus in front of your grandmother's hotel--perhaps a la Edward Hopper, or you decide the style.
    --Jim

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  25. Wow you are such a good artist.

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  26. @ Kirk -- It's possible. Or some novel by Sir Walter Scott.

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  27. I think of the comic books, toys and other items I owned when I was a kid and realize their value now. If only....
    the Ol'Buzzard

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  28. I like all the movement and pattern in your picture. The pebbles, the fold of her dress, the background and the tent. They all look fairly melancholy so I wonder what is going on? Nice drawing.

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  29. I do like your picture more. But I can see being bummed about not saving the memorabilia to re-sell it.

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  30. make me want to dig out my art supplies. you really are talented

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  31. LOL, Debra! ~ If only we knew back then what would be valuable now! Your drawing is amazing. You have real talent. I'm glad that you are participating in Rain's art theme. I'll be getting back to it soon.
    Hugs toy my friend!

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  32. Fantastic! You were talented early on. I thought you picked up painting and drawing in retirement.

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  33. Your drawing is incredibly excellent.

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  34. Bloody hell, when I was a teenager in school I was drawing David Cassidy.

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  35. your drawing is like taken from one of my old fairytale books :) Love it!

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  36. That's a pretty amazing drawing, Debra!

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  37. That is an amazing piece of art and history. I never tire of seeing your pieces whether they are new or vintage.

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  38. Man, I can't believe you could draw that good as a teen. That picture is totally excellent.

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  39. Amazing Deb! You have always been talented!!!
    Too bad you didn't keep the Greyhound photo, too! LOL!
    Big Hugs!

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