Happy Birthday, Yves!!!
(January 28)
(Cyve)
In French
S'il vous plaît tolérer mon pauvre Français...Je ne possède pas votre talent merveilleux et magique pour les portraits. Vous créez des mondes entiers avec simples coups de pinceau élégant. Et des coups de pinceau magique. Votre pinceau est vivante, elle chante des arias pour nous...
Vos portraits sont chics ("classy"). Ils sont intelligents. Ils sont plein d'esprit et magistrale. Vous peignez nus avec grand panache... mais, lorsque vous ajoutez des vêtements: Vous créez des sonates. Vous créez des sonnets ... « Style » peut être superficielle. Mais votre style est profonde, belle, très intelligente et pleine de grâce: Vous peindre des lignes gracieuses merveilleusement. Vos femmes soar, ils sont contemplatives, ils sont aussi forts que les montagnes, ils sont délicats comme les oiseaux...et ils se déplacent avec la grâce intérieure. Et vous n'oubliez pas de nous tous: Vous dédiez images pour nous tous. Pour cela, je dis, je vous remercie.
Je n'ai pas dessiné un portrait depuis de nombreuses années. Ce portrait est dessiné avec des encres, et achevé en Photoshop. Elle est basée sur plusieurs photographies de ballet. C'est un « danseur de la nuit ». Un « esprit »... Merci, Yves, pour votre constante fontaine de l'art et pour votre gentillesse constante pour nous tous. C'est un plaisir de « marcher dans votre monde »... et j'espère que votre monde va continuer à s'épanouir et vous apporter joie et grande source d'inspiration. Avec de nombreuses bénédictions et Merci pour vos dons prodigieux (que vous partager si généreusement avec nous tous), Mark
In English
Please bear my poor French ... I don’t have your wonderful and magical talent for portraiture. You create whole worlds with simple and elegant brush strokes. And magic brush strokes. Your brush is alive, it sings
arias for us...
Your portraits are classy. They’re smart. They’re witty and masterful. You paint nudes with great panache ... but, when you add clothing: You create sonatas, you create sonnets ... "Style" can be superficial. But your style is deep, beautiful, very intelligent and full of grace. You paint wonderfully graceful lines: Your women soar, they’re contemplative, they’re as strong as the mountains, they’re as delicate as birds ... and they move with inner grace. And you remember us all: You dedicate images for us all. For this, I say ‘Thank you’ .
I haven’t drawn a portrait for many years. This portrait is drawn with ink, and completed in Photoshop. It’s based on several ballet photographs. It’s a “night dancer,” a “spirit”... Thank you, Yves, for your constant fountain of art, and for your constant kindness to us all. It is a pleasure to "walk in your world,” and I hope that your world will continue to flourish and bring you joy and great inspiration ... With many blessings and thanks for your prodigious gifts (which you share so generously with us all), Mark
(I’ll return to commenting soon: Thank you so much for coming here during my absence!)
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Comments (24)
RodS
This is wonderful, Mark, and sooooooo perfect for Yves! I have GOT to try something in a style similar to his one of these days..
I really love what you've done here, and I know he will, too! Happy Birthday, Yves!
Faemike55
This is a stunning and beautiful dedication! the lines are your own as are the colours. A great complement!
giulband
WOW !! wonderful image very very expressive and interesting tschnique !!!!
wysiwig
This reminds me of Neil deGrasse Tyson's motto, "Always remember to keep looking up." A wonderful gist for Yves. Bold, heroic, dare I say revolutionary. She stands solidly like a granite pillar but retains a certain fluidity and grace.
UteBigSmile
Excellent looking work & great birthday gift to our dear Yves, I bet he loves it!
Cyve
YES I LOVE !!!
1.000 thanks for this fantastic and wonderful birthday card... It is very kind to have thought of it. You filled my day of happiness!!!
This image is striking of beauty and the dark beautiful background is fantastic... You used pink and mauve tints for the character, this idea is really AWESOME!!!
1.000 mercis pour cette fantastique et merveilleuse carte d'anniversaire ... C'est très gentil d'y avoir pensé. Vous avez remplie ma journée de bonheur !!!
Cette image est saisissante de beauté et l’arrière-plan beau foncé est fantastique ... Vous avez utilisées des teintes rose et mauve pour le personnage, cette idée est vraiment GENIALE !!!
eekdog
Happy birthday Yves. Man what a gorgeous piece of work for our dear friend. Nice dance pose and coloring my friend.
blondeblurr
Happy Birthday also from 'moi' - to YVES, one of the most talented artist here at RR and someone who deserves all the accolades he gets from everybody... but you run pretty close second to Yves - Mark, right next to him ! a different type and style of art, but what a result, it's remarkable, so organic - IOW - stupendous !!! and I am also very happy, that it is 'about a dancer or about dancing'... it adds some impressive dramatics.
Be well and cheers BB
photosynthesis
Beautiful, Mark - I love the upward thrust & energy of this dancer...
LivingPixels
A wonderful dedi Mark and an excellent piece of classy looking imagery so cool and well done my friend!!
sandra46
EXCELLENT!
DennisReed
cool
GrandmaT
Magnificent work and dedication for a very talented artist.
goodoleboy
Oh-em-gee, Mark, among your many talents, you are also bilingual - or perhaps, even multilingual. All I know in French are hors de combat, bonne nuit, joie de vivre, coup de grace, la femme, escargot, melange a trois, and vive la France! But I digress. Gad, I wish I had had a photo or drawing of a female to dedicate to that splendid illustrator of same, our friend Yves. This one is great with its high contrast effects in its endeavor for the wraith-like figure to soar into the firmament above. The stellar blends and high contrasts add to this most apropos dedication, and pays homage to Yves's favorite subject matter.
nickcarter
A beautiful tribute to a great artist and friend of ours!! Un bel hommage à un grand artiste et ami du nôtre!! Un bellissimo omaggio ad una grande artista e nostra amica!!
Richardphotos
very intriguing painting and a superb dedication
Wolfenshire Online Now!
Wow!! Now this I really like!
verod
Nice work!
durleybeachbum
I'm not sure how I missed this! Terrific pose and so dynamic! I LOVE the garment!
auntietk
Such beautiful work! I love the energy, the movement, the excitement. Wonderful!
romanceworks
A wonderful birthday tribute to Cyve and his art. I agree, his paintings are superb and filled with spirit, life, and panache. And what a spirit-filled drawing you created, Mark. It really does feel like her spirit dancing, with the fluid movement of her clothing so free, and her body so strong and posed. It is almost like a dance of life and death, a celebration of both the joy of life and the mysteries of after life, a total release of the spirit, as her face has an almost skeletal appearance. It is a dramatic and powerful drawing, filled with the music of creativity, and she seems to be feeling the dance in her soul.
MrsRatbag
Fluid, energetic, and overall incredibly graceful and lovely; what a beautiful piece of art! Your skill astounds me sometimes, like this; you seem to move from medium to medium and style to style with a minimum of effort (or so it appears to me), always producing something that takes my breath away. You do things I've only yearned to do with line and flow. Wow, Mark! An amazingly beautiful dedication, happy birthday Yves!
flavia49
wonderful
beachzz
Speechless---this is stunning. I can see her move, feel her energy and hear her sing as she dances!!! I LOVE this!!