The Fine Art Blog of Daz and Holly

This art is by Chris Brogan, an artist who has found a more ‘useful’ identity bringing people together for business and pleasure by blogging on social networking.

I know Mrs. Chili will like this pic!

Chris meet Chili – Chili meet Chris!

My niece says "bawwoon".

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Youdle is over 30 years old, which makes him a senior citizen in terms of the life of a teddy bear, oh sure there are antique bears but most of them are not alive with the magic that only a child can animate them with. Once the child stops believing then the bear becomes just a pile of stuffing and fabric ready for another person to give him life. Youdle was brought to life in the UK then shipped to Hong Kong in a packing crate and again, years later in a box to Peoria USA, he has had a lot of surgery’s and his ears have holes where Sonja, well, I don’t even want to know what she did to his ears but they are worn clean through.

Youdle is my sister’s bear, the last surviving member of the time when there were many animals that had personalities, and while she is very much a responsible grown up she still has that connection with her childhood when Youdle was born. Now her daughter is enjoying the magic of Youdle! I’ve owned Youdle.com since 2004 and this is it. Youdle doesn’t mind. This post is dedicated to Jean aka Cheerful Monk as I think she understands, at least her recent blog post made me think so!

And Youdle believes that the purple squirrel is a miracle rather than a freak of nature as miracles are more fun!

Youdle Bear – Youdle.com "love is the answer!"

So I’m on the beach with my camera on this beautiful day, not for any particular purpose except that I wanted an excuse to not walk too far or fast, just fart around and soak up the sun and think. I took some pics of the sky and randomly thought about Billy Meier, the Swiss photographer who can supposedly take photographs of ufos by telepathically asking them to show up. So I asked for a ufo to show up. It was too sun-shiny bright to see in the window on my digital camera so I was just pointing and clicking and basically letting serendipity aim the camera , then after a few snaps I saw a ufo. I swear to God this photo is un-tampered with. I realized it wasn’t the Pleiadians, the aliens who visit Billy, when the thing looked like it was being tossed about by the wind. I thought it was a skydiver doing tricks then it looked like a hot air balloon that had lost the basket and was deflating, which is a pretty unusual sight and a little worrying! It was falling fast and ended up about a mile down the beach. I rushed down there to see that it was a balloon, a tissue paper job almost six feet in length! I’d never seen a balloon made out of tissue paper before and heck, I saw it first so I took it! It’s hanging like a big trophy fish from the ceiling in my apartment thanks to the convenient piece of string on the top of the balloon. I think I’ll bring it over to my niece this weekend and see if we can inflate it somehow!

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 making art for someone is a wonderful thing and better still when that art is appreciated…I have been enjoying drawing these tiny pencil drawings and surprising my friends with them!

Lantern girl and panda – drawn today at wurk! and below "1000 cranes" My friend Marisa told me of a Japanese legend where if you can fold a thousand origami cranes you can save someones’s life. I was really inspired by that.

I wrote on this drawing for her, "One thousand! How many to save the world?"

and below, A collage of some of the drawings I have done for my friend Marisa.

From top left to right on down: Holy carp (something Marisa says which is funny) and based on a sneeze she did, then Pheonix from a monitor then Balloon ride and bat then Monkeys at night then Pegasus saves the day then Eat more Oranges with my famous giant squid motif squeezing orange juice for a marisa motif!