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Remembered Today:

Good bye old friend.... Genre


Soren

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Hi Pals

I thought I'd also share this, one of my street drawings, well not on the street but on my easel in the street, based on a WW1 memorial that I had seen on the web... a 2 hr study in charcoal quite big ( A2 ish )

Thanks for looking

Soren

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Soren,

That is amazing. I only wish I could draw like that.

Stunning stuff.

Cheers Andy.

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Soren,

This is magic

brought a tear into my eyes

kind regards

sabine

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Soren, at last!!!

A horse!!!

And so beautifully done.

The line of the forelegs are so eloquent, and the the muzzle explains all.

I've waited along time for this. Knew you could.

Thank you.

Off to get the tissues.

Kim

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  • 1 month later...

I think the memorial referred to is the 58th (2/1st London) Division memorial on the Somme.

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Great work Soren !, Ivisited this memorial last year, it is in the village of Chipilly on the Somme.

regards,

John.

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Yep, knew it straight away, got photos of me crying bucket loads in front of it.

But Soren has, in putting it in black and white, drawn a new emotion to it. The artists lines making it starker, and more painful, - if -that could ever be.

It just hits harder, somehow.

Kim

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There is also the contemporary drawing by Fortuninio Matania and entitled Good-Bye, Old Man, which may well have inspired the 58 Div memorial. The ethos of your drawing, Soren, is also reflected in the play War Horse, currently running in London's West End (see separate thread on this and also under Culture).

Charles M

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There is also the contemporary drawing by Fortuninio Matania and entitled Good-Bye, Old Man, which may well have inspired the 58 Div memorial.

And inspires me every time I look at it ...

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Thanks to Boomers, I have a copy of Goodbye Old Man above my desk. My eyes are often drawn to it.

Micheal, I never picked up on that. I see what you mean.

(My eyes go to the horse, everytime.)

Cheers

Kim

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