SUPER-EMOTICON BREAKTHROUGH...

Exactly! Yours for only 5K each.

Any more ideas Velasquez?

Zorro? Anyone?

That one of Feargal Sharkey is very good.

Thanks, crags, it's a Phishing emoticon. Knocked it up in 5 minutes using my watercolour pencils and a wet paintbrush.

i'm sure the modern masters have their underlings monitoring betfair for ideas to steal, expect to see similar works of art on sale for millions in the not to distant future.

alternatively employee me as your agent and riches await

too

OK, Jolly . Unfortunately, there's no money in art unless you can find a rich sponsor like Charles Saatchi.
I have a friend who makes a little pin money selling drawings to a video animator in the States but at $50 a time he's effectively working at minimum wage hourly rates.
Some artists make a living selling prints but you're then limited to producing what people want in their dining rooms which isn't very inspiring.
There are some very talented guys selling portraits and caricatures in the street at holiday resorts but if you work it out, they aren't going to get rich from it, unfortunately.

with my connections riches are assured foinavon.

actually its a bit of a typo as i meant rich tea biscuits are assured.

i got you though didnt i? in much the same way i would get the saatchi brothers to part with their cash

Both Vel and Zorro say they have sold paintings and prints, perhaps there is more money in Scotland. You need to get on the next train to Waverley Street but take a minder with you

the streets of london are paved with gold so i'll stick with what i know. i dont think the mcsaatchis have quite as much wonga although they do seem more willing to part with their cash.

as someone who has no artistic talent its just a joy to see threads which we can all enjoy. no silly arguments, its what chit chat should be all about.

Will try and keep them going, Jolly. I paint a new picture every few weeks, so will post them as and when.

This is one of the best threads i have ever read/ vissually intaked, a credit to all involved.

Does this work?

Yes, I think it does.

YASS!

IS IT LIZ TAYLOR?

KATE BUSH RUNNING UP THE HILL.

She's got a heart like a lion

Crack cocaine Vel

HOMAGE TO FOINAVONISM.

FOINAVON, DOES THIS LAD HAVE A NAME?

PLEASE POST HIS NAME, SO WE CAN SELL HIS STUFF AT THE CHRISTIE'S EMOTICON SALE IN NEW YORK.

Looks lika a MICKEY TRUBSHAW to me...

Good afternoon Vel.
He looks like a NERDICON to me. Very colourful 'n all.

VIOLET TRUBSHAW.

My B/W original is a FLABBOTICON. It turned white middle class when its offspring went to FEE-Paying schools, the state ones only being suitable for the lumpen proles.

Brilliant find that Ian Baker cartoon

CARDINAL ERROR.

Haha, you are on form, I love that one. Velly well done.

I thought the Flabboticon should represent HYPOCRISY.

http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2013/10/8/13812374...

David Mellor - Diane Abbott lovechild emoticon...

All it needs is a name.

AWAITING PHOTO FINISH RESULT.

Fidel Corbyn, leader of the Corbynistas.

LTD. EDITION EMOTICON...

HUGE DEMAND IN CUBA, BUT VERY LIMITED DEMAND IN MIAMI...

Already have orders for half a million priced at one cigar each (+ post and packaging).

Di wants a full-size poster for her bedroom

Photo Finish sums it up well, Vel, the anxiety and all that.

IF we keep at this Foinavon, people won't have to use words at all...SUPER-EMOTICONS will suffice...

^ my best one yet

ACTUAL SOUVENIR CIGAR LIGHTER FROM MIAMI.

The offician KATEBUSHICON

http://cdn.c.photoshelter.com/img-get/I0000ZsMIWLNZwpY/s/900/720/Music-Carto...

You've captured Kate's bottom lip very well there, Foinavon.

No further comment

Glad you like it crags, what do you think of the Punch cartoon? We had a dog who used to sing to her when she started the wowowowow

I do like the Kate one, very cute.

Link doesn't work for me on the cartoon

Just checked it, it seems OK. Are you on the classic forum?

I'm on, what I like to call, the modern forum. Classic is the old one?

Tried it again but no joy.

This is what I get..

Your search - http://cdn.c.photoshelter.com/img-get/I0000ZsMIWLNZwpY/s/900/720/Music-Carto... - did not match any documents.

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Sorry about that. Best you don't look though as you are a big fan of Kate.

I googled Punch Kate Bush Cartoon, poor dog

was a bit funny I suppose

I am a big fan of Kate, you're right there. I even buy her branded white goods

SOVIET ERA FRIDGE MAGNET SOURCED FROM THE KAMCHATKA PENINSULA.

The Miami cigar lighter arrived in the post this morning Vel. Works great. I've already set light to the curtains.

I also had a quiet word with Mr Pootin about your "holiday" in Siberia. He said that if you return his fridge magnet tout de suite, all will be forgiven.

You got me freaked oot!!

11TH CENTURY VIKING EMOTICON.

THE BLUE SPECKS ARE LAPIS LAZULI, SUGGESTING THE VIKING LONGSHIPS MADE IT AS FAR AS AFGHANISTAN.

AUSTERITY EMOTICON DISTRIBUTED IN ROTHERHAM AND HALIFAX BY THE CALLAGHAN GOVT. DURING THE WINTER OF DISCONTENT 1978-9, IN WHICH BAGS OF USED EMOTICONS LAY UNCOLLECTED IN THE GUTTERS FOR MONTHS.

Inspired by Lewis Carroll, the "Eat Me" cake definitely makes one grow larger and is iconic to the gravitationally challenged.
It's great advantage over "Sunny Jim's" Austerity diet during the "winter of discontent" is that it is decidedly less flatulogenic.

In Glasgow, 90% of cakes look like that!

BETWEEN SURPRISE AND INCREDULITY -- THE BACK VIEW.

Isn't that a Tunnock's teacake (viewed through a yellow filter)?

er...yass...i mean NO....move on please.....

yellow filter = custard.

Well, it's wonderfully abstract and ought to interest the Tate.
"Symmetry in custard Number 1"
I like it

......will post one soon...

I don't have another emoticon just yet as I've been working on the definitive FOINAVON painting. It's not quite finished, need a few more days.

ACTUAL PAINTING BY IAN DAVENPORT...I GIVE UP WITH THE SUPER-EEEES...AND I MEAN IT...

So THIS is the front view?

Surely you haven't run out of ideas???
We are not finished yet.

An early design of lapel badge for the Presidential inaugural dinner and dance next month.
There are rumours that it might be replaced by a chain-link and barbed wire design, which if implemented, would make this a rare collectors' item.

Yeah, I like this - would have made a great Pink Floyd badge...

Foinavon...TURNER on film4 tonight...9pm...

Thanks, Velasquez, have set it to record.

If you stare at the wall icon for any length of time you will quickly slip into a trance.
Deeper....Deeper....d.e.e.p..e....r.

I LIKE THE WALL

Let's hope there's no graffiti numpties about...

It didn't take them long

Every time I see this thread, I think it's for a Placepot Competiton.

Good work, Foinavon

That wall circle would make great t-shirts and prints, etc...IT'S VERY COMMERCIAL...

With or without the graffiti Vel?

With.......you get customers to put their own graffiti on it.....klondyke!!

Great idea Vel. I'll be first in line, if I may.

3xl Black or Green, I'm not too fussed wiv a bit of old school graffiti...

"Gravity's A Myth.
The Earth Sucks".

2 4 1

From Baird & Co. of London.

The stag's heid is the new proof of Scottish gold from the Edinburgh assay office.

Google it.

http://www.edinburghassayoffice.co.uk/content/eao/news/scotgold-a-scottish-a...

There you are, Foinavon - you've got customers already and gold has appeared!

Thanks, Vel, that Scottish coin looks tasty. The streets of Embra paved with gold, whoo hoo.

Tell you what, you make the tee shirts and sent me 10% royalties. This time next year we'll be rich.

Modern art in the 21st century

http://www.bfnn.co.uk/dead-homeless-man-in-london-art-gallery-sells-for-reco...