spike10764 Posted 6 February , 2006 Share Posted 6 February , 2006 If nobody minds, I'll suggest February's topic...I'll start a new thread. The title for this months topic Men(or Women) Could Do No More Good luck everyone, lets have a few new artists also(come and join in if you're reading this) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redbarchetta Posted 6 February , 2006 Share Posted 6 February , 2006 Might "They could do no more" be a little catchier...? Sorry, just a thought...! Nice title though, the broader they are, the better the selection of interpretations you get submitted. Looking forward to seeing them !! Jim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spike10764 Posted 6 February , 2006 Author Share Posted 6 February , 2006 Might "They could do no more" be a little catchier...? Jim It's a quote (Men Could do No More) from the Battalion diaries of the 11th Border Regiment just after the 1st July 1916, so has a little personal touch to me....... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ypres1418 Posted 7 February , 2006 Share Posted 7 February , 2006 Thinking cap on, Spike you know I can't draw! Oh well I'll have to see what I can do! Mandy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roger Posted 9 February , 2006 Share Posted 9 February , 2006 Here is my entry. An exhausted Liverpool Scottish Lewis Gunner who " can do no more". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spike10764 Posted 9 February , 2006 Author Share Posted 9 February , 2006 Roger, I can't see the picture Seriously I can't see it ! It's the old little red cross thing. Partial screenshot Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roger Posted 9 February , 2006 Share Posted 9 February , 2006 I can, can anyone else? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roger Posted 9 February , 2006 Share Posted 9 February , 2006 Bruce I don't know what's 'appening, I can see it. But i'll post another one here just in case. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shaymen Posted 9 February , 2006 Share Posted 9 February , 2006 Roger Stunning piece of work Glyn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spike10764 Posted 9 February , 2006 Author Share Posted 9 February , 2006 Blooming magic Roger, I can see it now mate Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roger Posted 9 February , 2006 Share Posted 9 February , 2006 Glyn, Spike thank you. I cant see the first posting of the Lewis gunner now. Deja vu or what? I'm beginning to regret winding Spike up in Decembers comp. Roger. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spike10764 Posted 10 February , 2006 Author Share Posted 10 February , 2006 I won't bother to enter methinks, Spike you can have my my fanbase of 1 which I think is you anyway No, you are the reason we all bothered in the first place, Soren. The MGWAT wouldn't be the same without you, mate. Do us a piece with poetry....go on....you know you want to Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soren Posted 13 February , 2006 Share Posted 13 February , 2006 They could do no more dead soldiers with crosses on their chests and stretcher bearers wlking off in to the distance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roger Posted 13 February , 2006 Share Posted 13 February , 2006 Exellent drawing Soren and a very good interpretation of this months topic. Roger. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarylW Posted 14 February , 2006 Share Posted 14 February , 2006 Soren Another excellent drawing and so poignant. Reminded me of an article I came across the other day in a copy of 'I Was There', that I thought was very sad Article title They saw their crosses being made Written by Paul Maze, a French observer to General Gough before the 3rd Battle of Ypres This is part of it ...As on my way up to the line one morning I rode slowly alongside a marching battalion . I heard the regular sound of an engine and saw puffs of smoke shooting up from a house on the road. A steam saw was cutting rythmically through wood, working at high pressure with a tearing sound. Seeing the yard in front of the house piled high with wooden crosses and thinking to spare the men this ominous sight I hurried in to have them removed. The Belgians engaged in the work through up their arms in despair and pointed through the window at the back where there was a still bigger pile. Nothing could be done. I watched the men as they passed by - some smiled, others passed a joke, some wouldn't look. But I knew they all saw and understood... Caryl Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John W Posted 14 February , 2006 Share Posted 14 February , 2006 Nice one Soren, I really like that Note to self keep away from Ebay for a bit John Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soren Posted 14 February , 2006 Share Posted 14 February , 2006 always always friends and family rates!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soren Posted 14 February , 2006 Share Posted 14 February , 2006 heers John, Roger & Caryl, Not sure that the scan does the drawing justice, the bit I like is the soldier nonchalantly smoking on the ridge and the lead stretcher bearer looking back at the viewer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ypres1418 Posted 14 February , 2006 Share Posted 14 February , 2006 so poingnant! Like them both. where is yours spike/ Mandy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spike10764 Posted 14 February , 2006 Author Share Posted 14 February , 2006 Busy time at work have had no chance to draw it yet. Believe it or not I set the topic and I can't decide what to draw!...... Still a few days of the month yet to go..... We would like an effort from you please Mandy, doesn't have to be a drawing (eg Rogers model), a poem, a collage some prose, whatever you feel comfortable with (as far as I'm concerned its all art- I mean; modern art can be two bricks and a cow pat-so no excuses) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ypres1418 Posted 14 February , 2006 Share Posted 14 February , 2006 Ok, I'll see what I can come up with. Probably be a little story as you know I can't draw! Mandy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spike10764 Posted 14 February , 2006 Author Share Posted 14 February , 2006 Here's my entry(well hopefully , eh Roger ) Men Could Do No More Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roger Posted 14 February , 2006 Share Posted 14 February , 2006 I can see it and it's very good too. Roger. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soren Posted 14 February , 2006 Share Posted 14 February , 2006 Cheers Bruce! (don't worry I'll still get nil points in the vote!) Spike, I'm probably gonna look really stupid but, is that your own poem? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spike10764 Posted 15 February , 2006 Author Share Posted 15 February , 2006 Spike, I'm probably gonna look really stupid but, is that your own poem? No Soren,if only , it's the poem used on the 1917 obituary of my Great Grandfather, posted in the local newspaper(see my signature). Apparently it is a 'real' poem(as opposed to a made up one) as someone on here once pointed out. I reckon that is the case as I have seen it used on another obit, in another local paper later in the war. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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