Roxy Posted 5 August , 2006 Share Posted 5 August , 2006 Don't blame me - I'm am only obeying orders! August MGWAT: What did you do in the Great War Daddy? (It doesn't need to have angelic children staring into the eyes of weary men, but...) Roxy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Landsturm Posted 6 August , 2006 Share Posted 6 August , 2006 No problem, Roxy... Let's get started, shall we. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Russell Smith Posted 9 August , 2006 Share Posted 9 August , 2006 "I flew the most wonderful flying machines you could imagine in the service of the Luftstreitkräfte." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ozzie Posted 9 August , 2006 Share Posted 9 August , 2006 Absolutely wonderful, the detail! Everything. Cheers Kim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gunboat Posted 9 August , 2006 Share Posted 9 August , 2006 Mind blowing russell, I think you should be banned, your skill deters me even from taking my pencil out the box Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frajohn Posted 10 August , 2006 Share Posted 10 August , 2006 Russell Just had to say what a tremendous picture. Almost like a photograph but with far more personality. regards john Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sgt_Hazell_Great_Grandson Posted 10 August , 2006 Share Posted 10 August , 2006 Russell , as ever , excellent. Roland. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Russell Smith Posted 10 August , 2006 Share Posted 10 August , 2006 Thank you all. Now you know where my avatar comes from. cheers Russ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soren Posted 12 August , 2006 Share Posted 12 August , 2006 This is my entry, a bit of a rushed job, however, this is based on a grave at my local CWGC to a DD Whitham from WW 1 , which had a message from the soldiers wife: 'Sadly missed by Bella, Don and Arthur' One of this soldiers son's went off to fight and and die during WW2, obviously unlikely scene as he probably never had the opportunity to visit his fathers grave, but here goes: You can read about DD Whitham here: http://1914-1918.invisionzone.com/forums/i...c=46768&hl= Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Augustine Posted 13 August , 2006 Share Posted 13 August , 2006 Soren, the emotion is captured perfectly in his face. This one's an early favorite for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gporta Posted 13 August , 2006 Share Posted 13 August , 2006 Excellent entries so far! Here goes my modest contribution -with a slight variation on the suggested theme-: November 11th, 1918. 11.11 a.m. A young conscript and an old sweat who's been out since the Somme, somewhere in France. The Lad: Such silence... it seems so strange. Surely, this is the end of a war to end all wars. The Sarge: Yes, my lad, if your kids want are curious about what a war is like, they will have to ask you... Otherwhise, how will they know? Oh, oh, high hopes Gloria Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Take on me Posted 13 August , 2006 Share Posted 13 August , 2006 I like Russell's, Soren's and Gloria's. The first is such a fantastic picture that I thought that it was a photograph the first time I saw it and it has a genuine feel to it. Soren's is reflective and certainly has fantastic atmosphere about it. Finally Gloria's picture is really fascinating, just to look at it has some of the pain and triumph of 1918 in it. I am going to have real trouble figuring out my favourite. Jon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gunboat Posted 18 August , 2006 Share Posted 18 August , 2006 I hate to sound like an art teacher but: Soren I love how you capture the form of the figure with the minimum of use of line and how you give depth because of the contrast with the thicker background hatching. Gloria I like the comic book look of your work the look of naivity is captured in the face of the younger soldier Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gporta Posted 19 August , 2006 Share Posted 19 August , 2006 Gunboat, thanks for the comment. The idea about the young soldier is how youthful innocence has been disrupted: however, conscripted young men of 18 or 19 did not regard war in the more naive fashion of their 1914 volunteer equivalents: they were more aware about what they would experience in uniform than then. You could say that they didn't join the army starry-eyed, so they were more unlikely to be disenchanted (they had probably lost already a brother and /or father, cousin, friend, neighbour). As Jon (thanks, too) well puts it, is about pain and triumph. Gloria Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Landsturm Posted 19 August , 2006 Share Posted 19 August , 2006 I'm always trying to find some what different angles in our titles. This scene happens somewhere in the 40's... Had to contact my friend who has studied German to do the translation. Was hast du im Großen Krieg gemacht, Vater? (I found a grown-up son addressing his father as "Daddy" little weird. That would have been Vati) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gunboat Posted 21 August , 2006 Share Posted 21 August , 2006 The Lad: Such silence... it seems so strange. Surely, this is the end of a war to end all wars. Gloria Naive? need I say more.... The wonderful thing is that we all see something in the expression. Excellent Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gunboat Posted 21 August , 2006 Share Posted 21 August , 2006 Landsturm This picture is very evocative of the German Poster artwork of the late 30's early 40's was this deliberate? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ozzie Posted 21 August , 2006 Share Posted 21 August , 2006 Lansturm, The memories in the old blokes eyes, and the expression on the young fellow!! Well done. Kim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Landsturm Posted 21 August , 2006 Share Posted 21 August , 2006 Thanks Kim and Gunboat, and the Lawnstrum answers; Not deliberately a poster work, but I see some similarities. And I just chose Germans, since I didn't believe anybody would do that. Had some troubles in German translation, though... Reminds me of my granpa (when still alive) in a military cemetary in Kihniö (Finland, not Germany, obviously). He remembered the dates and the names before we saw the gravestones. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Owen D Posted 21 August , 2006 Share Posted 21 August , 2006 out since the Somme Surely the saying is "out since Mons" Landsturm's is my winner so far. Really ought to do something myself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Landsturm Posted 22 August , 2006 Share Posted 22 August , 2006 Surely the saying is "out since Mons" Chevrons in his sleeve say "3 years"... coloured in blue, but if the soldier had been in service overseas in 1914, there was a red one in the bottom. I'd say Sarge is one of those who came to look for adventure and enlisted. Young lad is obviously a draftee... At least that's how I saw this illustration. Landsturm's is my winner so far. Thank you, but surprises happen, when time comes to pick up the the Pals' Monthly Fav. I still remember that plain, black blank that won... Really ought to do something myself. Please do! There's still time! Quickly! (points his finger at you) What did You do in the Monthly Great War Art Thread? BTW, dear Artists, who gets to choose the September title? Who hasn't done it yet? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Owen D Posted 22 August , 2006 Share Posted 22 August , 2006 Sturmy, Missed my point, I know all about Overseas Service chevrons,ta. I was referring to the Old Bill cartoons of Bruce Bairnsfather, who when he showed an old soldier would say "out since Mons." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spike10764 Posted 22 August , 2006 Share Posted 22 August , 2006 Some great efforts so far..... I'm back from me hols, relaxing time was had(apart from the grassland fire causing the campsite to be evacuated and getting lost in Barcelona trying to find the airport on the way back- had to ask a policeman Donde este el aeropuerto ? ( so my son in first year secondary school spanish told me) . No great war even, no books.... nowt ( well..... I did take a picture of a memorial in the Pyrenean walled town of Villefranche de Conflet- to groans and dark looks from the wife) and after a busy week at home last week I've finally popped in to the forum again. Voted in last months poll and will try to come up with an effort for this months Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Landsturm Posted 22 August , 2006 Share Posted 22 August , 2006 Nice to have you back! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spike10764 Posted 22 August , 2006 Share Posted 22 August , 2006 Here is my August MGWAT effort ( done tonight) in the category ( my effort isn't august, it's just my effort and the month is August). What did you do in the Great War Daddy ? "What did you do in the Great War...Daddy ?" "Well Lass, I'll tell yer....." Shall I tell you I dug holes ? Big holes, little holes, trenches, mineshafts dugouts. I shifted more soil than an earthquake...... killed more worms than I ever did Germans. Should I tell you that I never seen a German ? Not a live one at least, though I did dig up a few things that once were. Should I tell you I carried stuff ? Big stuff, small stuff,dangerous stuff, harmless stuff. Stuff that killed men and stuff that saved them. But you don't wanna hear about stuff- Stuff and Nonsense. Can I say I was scared, scared witless and even sh*tless, caught in a huge bombardment, watching my mates dying, copping it and so frightened I couldn't even help them as I lay curled in my own stink ? Sole survivor, a much overused phrase, Lass, but at least my digging skills came in handy when we had to bury the poor *******. Thank god I'm no good at writing, so I didn't have to write and tell their families. Can I say I was a crackshot ? No, you know I couldn't hit a cows **** with a banjo, you've seen me out hunting. I had a rifle, but keeping it from tripping me up or some other poor ******, was the bane of my life. Still what good did guns ever do, Little Tom Akitt, sniped right through the head, shortest man in the platoon (perhaps that made him too confident), never fired a shot in anger himself. Should I tell you about my greatest skill ? Making finest gravemarkers out of old crates and boxes- some of mine are still there now. Not a great claim to fame, but I tried to make a memorial for each poor mothers son. The mass graves were the hardest- it fair broke my heart to see so many with barely a cross to mark the spot. Should I tell you about my training ? My old RSM- Harris, walrus moustache, 6ft of solid bone, with the heart of a bull and the manners to match " Johnson, lad , we'll make a soldier of you yet, God help me we will" Well he did, just not quite the soldier he envisaged, or maybe it was and he had me figgered out form day one. He went out himself you know didn't have to, but he had the courage of a lion and the spirit to match A shell crippled him in March 1918- I used to see him selling matches at the station after the war- always gave him what I could - "Made a soldier of you Johnson" he would cry "Told you I would".- but what did it make of him ? "What did you do in the War Daddy, I'll tell yer Lass"....... "I was the man who captured Ole Kaiser Bill, I was. Right at the palace in Berlin Come on out Billy I says, Nien, Nien says he. Now Bill I don't want ter tell yer twice. So I puts one up the spout, well, Bill never moved so fast....OK Tommy I go to Holland now.....quicksmart."" There's plaque you know, in Berlin, by his palace marks the place where Kaiser Bill surrendered to a Private of the Pioneer Corps armed only with a spade and a cross with Bills name on it." The war was won by the spade you know, not the rifle, machine gun or howitzer, the spade and the bloke carrying stuff...... That's why I will always stand tall and answer that question with the words " Well, I was proud to be, a Pioneer" Spike Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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