070 - IF ONLY THESE BRICKS COULD TALK I (WATERCOLOUR & INK) - 1997

I think it works really well Dave…and not to mention, it looks fantastic!

Thanks Terry & Penny. I did this eight years ago and I can see loads of faults in it, but who cares :-) I mentioned to Penny that producing a painting must be like giving birth. To continue the analogy, however bad our paintings may be we still love them. Having said that, I have torn a few up in disgust, but I try not to make a habit of it.

Hi Dave, brilliant concept…love it! You might be seeing faults but I’m just looking at the overall picture and see it as amazing;)

Good concept and well executed.
I like the reflections.

I am bowled over by your comments … you are all very kind. if the people in my home town are as kind as you, my first little solo exhibition next year should go well. So many people comment on artwork with “very nice, but …”and then a lengthy critique follows. You guys are really nice.

I Love it..very original and well crafted

I love this idea, so wish I’d thought of it! :) Love the way your work makes me use my brains (what’s left of them at any rate).

This is very clever! Have you considered book illustration, even for magazines?

Thanks for your support. I added you to my watchlist, I just worked out how to do it!

Thanks Jackie. My wife has been suggesting for years i do illustrating. As my pictures are all small (A4) you may have a point. I once had three or four of my pen and inks in magazines locally and I got a thrill from it. My original interest in art was inspired by the illustrations of Aubrey Beardsley, whose original drawings I once had the privilege of holding in my hands at the V & A, London.

This one is deadly!!!!

cleverrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!! simply amusing. LOVE IT!!!!!!!

Hi Dave, I’ve seen most of your work but not altogether like this and must say how impressive it is. You’ve great versatility and a lot of imagination. I’m lucky as I live near enough to see your coming exhibition. It’s no wonder that you get so many compimentory comments from around the world.

wow good work it is beautiful|

Its great, but mate, the girl bricks would be the only ones talking! The bloke bricks would be wondering what they did wrong!! LOL

Very intriguing image. You’ve got a great collection of artwork!

beautiful creativity, alot of work in this, great work Dave!

Love it

Love the concept. Well done

VERY ORIGINAL AND I LIKE IT.
SHARON A.

Great, novel idea…

Very nice

Very nice work.

This is awesome great work

love it ! very imaginative

very creative it tells a story and i love it

This is very creative and fascinating.

you made the fetured list congrats.

Such a UNIQUE artwork, Dave..I wonder what your bricks will tell : – ))

Very unique

this is fabulous!

Strange – not really.
Clever idea – certainly

Hey, this is positively quirky! I love the diversity in your work. Good luck with the exhibition!

Everything about this is just very pleasing to the eye.

Wow really well done and original!
nice work

Amy-lee
xXxOoO

Fanastic

Oh wow awesome creativity!

fantastic work!

Like the querkyness of this…reminds me of the phrase “talking to a brick wall” and the kitchen wall that Shirley Valentine use to talk to in the film.

This is so cool I don’t know why i didn’t see it before!! I love it!

Awesome work

truely awesome work, love it

I really like this. Great concept, and well excecuted.

I like this, it’s very cool!

Great work!

just wonderful! i really like this work!

Very original. Great work again

Great work, and idea Dave. Well done!

Well..YES..I remember I already commented this work…and I found it again once more..I think its superb concept to some situations at life, at times…
If only the bricks could talk… He’ll ask her : ...” So how old are you?....”
And she’ll answer : ” what hour do you go to sleep : – ) ... ???...Or when do you get up ?...
just kidding here : – ))
בוקר טוב שומר שלי
זו התגןבה היחידה שלי מניבחרים אילו לבוקר זה וגם…כן

Good morning from Israel…
enjoy your day,
Nira

Cool work! You have a very unique style and a cool imagination

A very clever composition Well rendered. This is another favorite of mine.

You are so creative! I am sure they have a lot to talk about a history of the town.

This is really interesting. I love your landscapes as well. Keep up the good work :)

I love this concept, very nice mate.

~Shepy

this brought a smile to my face…thank you, great work!

Interesting and well-composed concept, Dave.

The minimal hint of background buildings, are well defined.
And the middle-distance bricks, to underline your brick concept, are a fine touch.

This is so cool its is insanely fantastic ! Brilliant work well done !

What a clever idea. This is so different. I like this.

extremely creative:)

but they are talking….. we just need to listen….great work

this is brilliant

really neat :]

so cool !

Surrealism can project many things,and i always find it thought provoking and entertaining,love it,Dave!!!

My son thinks this work is very funny! Me too! Like this idea, very original!

this is still nice your ok dave like me you go on and on with your art oh on your new photo your eyesand around your eyes look very much like my late dad dave you even have his hair line he lived to be 88 i hope we do too but it is up to the boss have a great day there

This is super, very clever idea, nicely executed …

Wonderfully, creative art…love the colors!

brilliant image my friend

Beautiful, love this..

Clever use of imagery!

sooo very good!

Congrats on the 1000 viewings that really is very good you know. On the sales thing.. I think it would be a good idea to have a think about your key words for this.. and try a few test searchs.. This work could easily be an illustration for a book on “well known sayings”. So it may be worth doing some research of this type of book for keywords. You have to consider that someone might be looking for a particular image for a particular work.. if they want “brick” “sayings” and “drawing” you want your image to pop up in searchs. Hope thats usefull.

Also I would get plenty of north east references into your key words generally.. “tyne” “northumbria” even slang words etc etc you have an audience up there already and you want and their friends and other folks who recognise your locations to be able to easily find you.

congratulations on your 1000th viewing it is a great peice…the most viewings I’ve had is about 50 wanna look at my work?

This is wonderful. would love to see your work on my network at http://www.sabet.tv

I love the creativity of this!

Yes I like it too!

it is brilliant, well done

I like the idea here and the colours are great and it makes a good talking point, just found your link from Woodie, it don’t look like the river blyth over to Cambios dave,

Great work, cool idea with the brick figures.

Very creative. Well done.

Very interesting and so well done!

What immediately sprang to mind is the old stereotypes of neighbors gabbing over back fences, ladies leaning out apartment windows day dreaming, and childhood warnings of such things as “If you keep doing hat with your face, it’s going to stick that way.”

This is cute, on top of being very high quality work.

Not strange, fantastic imagination.

Such a wonderful interpretation.

Fabulous!

this is brilliant/your creative style unique

good idea

brilliant, I love this kind of work and a n image like this goes to no 1 in my fav’s for the day :)

I guess this has had so many viewings because it is so thought provoking and resonates with the millions of people who live in cities these days. Also the fact that it stands out in a row of thumbnails can only help. Nice work!

hi Dave, I came from featured work of RB. you have two collections there. you are really great and i love this picture very much. excellent!

this is excelllennnnnnnt

i like strange…this is great i love it..color me strange…thanks keep it up i am watching…francesm

ha very odd

Very Cool!

nice

Excellent surrealism,
love the cartoon style you used for this work.

my goodness ive come across you again…this is fantastic

This image is simpler, but it contains the idea and presents it, bam!

trippin balls yo!

I like your creativity ,

This is very cool and very creative. Awesome work my friend. :o)

Wow…very creative…well done Sweetie…hugzzzzz

I really like this. I’m always finding places up high to look at the scenery and I never want to make a painting with me in it. But the way you did this painting the watchers are there but a second thought. It’s an interesting way to author a painting. thanks for sharing.. well done.

This is very clever and i like it,beverley

great abstract!
please check out some of my work!

In my opinion I think this is one of your more eminent drawings.
Great idea!

I can understand why this is a favourite of so many. it is a really interesting piece. Every time you look at it, you discover something new. At first all I saw was the brick wall as my eyes immediately went deeper into the scene. The second time i saw the conversation. Brilliant work. Very clever.

WOW.

It reminds me of the illustratations in the books by the author Babette Cole-

Watercolour and ink is special to me – I love the lines that are created. A great piece, Dave!

Yes and I wander what they would talk about! This is a very interesting concept and image! Well done!

stunning;

cool as!

this is neat….love it!

Now, if all of those viewings would have added a comment this would be too long to read!! Great work, Dave:)

so very true:)

guess you could call me ‘someone’ lol :-)) great metaphor you got going there, Dave!

Great idea!

Just needed to say that I viewed all the pages here at Red Bubble and your work was at the end. It was worth the viewing and scrolling.

ingenuity.making the important statement ..as pink flloyd did so well ” Just Another brick in the Wall”

WOW!!!! I see what you mean Dave!!!! ‘All in all’, I agree with Anna (above me)! I wonder if you are the World Champion for Redbubbled views?

Clever Concept & Composition
Beaut Brickwork
Delightful Design
Incredible Ink
Quick but Quality
Fantastic & Featured

I think I know why. Other than it’s an imaginative and very fine painting. There is little movement in these first page images. As when I put in ‘watercolour painting’ I always see this image on the first page.

Hope that helps with the mystery.

I’m not sure. Whether it’s high views or whether they are just frozen there by a technical glitch – but they need moving, so others can have their work on the first page. It seems unfair the way it is.

I may mention this in a forum.

I see NO flaws! It’s perfection!

bravo great piece

the guardiens at the gate of edwardsville kingdom of heart, yes yes thank you for your kind?thoughts my friend, if? i can be allowed to say friend?we all know you are tarrrrr fifff iccc so any art of your is looked at an thought, wow what a crazy n wonderful guy,i hope? his wife keeps feeding, till he runs out of colors

there is absolutely nothing sub-standard about your painting WOW
fascinating, Wonderful BRAINial concept ~ I love your art
thought provoking and magnificent

Hello there Dave..
I read your info about this image.
In fact, personally I fav it few times… and even commented twice before.
Several times, without visiting your portfolio.. I reminded of it also.
Today, I fav. several more paintings of your which has a specialty of style and charm – the cat’s paintings.
BUT…
In this specific painting, I feel you manage to create situation, which in a way was part of my personal life….in a way still.
I wonder, why you personally created it… I mean what sort of inspiration led you to deal with this subject or work…
I believe different people can look at this painting, with different understanding, according to who they are…
To me it has ONE MEANING.

really well executed! :)

a deserving feature. ;)

that’s because it looks like a wonderful illustration…..

i think it’s the imagination of the piece….to brick people chatting while overlooking the city…it’s unique and fun….and that’s what makes u like it…or that is what makes me like it….

Hello again dear Dave..
I agree with your reply 100%
For me this work
or their interpretation for me represent something in my “BOX”... Started 12.5 years ago.
As if you put it into ART, Just for ME.
Thank you !!

wonderful, really interesting

interesting work :) I like

Everyone of your ART works are wasted on here Dave, you could make a decent living by using them in Magazines etc,

seeing this reminded me also of PINK FLOYD (Thers another brick in the Wall”
This is talent I really admire.

malcolm

I’ll e.mail you, Dave.
thanks again.

brilliant:)

far from sub standard my friend,, this just evokes the mind too the max,, wonderful piece of imagination,, which you have,, love it,, peace and love linmarie

LOL!!!!!! I believe you could take over the world with this one,, and why you ask??? too me this drawing says,, Breaking down the walls, open ourselves too new horizons and life altering experiences. the grass is greener on the other side if you are open minded and don’t let the walls hit you in the head,,, Therefore you can love thy neighbor!!!!!!peace LINMARIE

Hello Dave.. early morning now, as I saw your image once more, in “my bubble”.. and since i know it is viewed so many times… here’s another one.. WHY NOT… :-)
I’m sure the viewers of my portfolio enjoy it a fav. of mine.
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And i imagined another painting inspired by this… according to the title..
Lets say, the female bricks are talking to the male bricks… Perhaps she can…
and the male bricks would not answer from 1 reason.. or another…
or vice versa.
The male bricks talk, while the female can’t
Good morning

You know… we talked about this idiom..
And since i know you work sometimes with bricks…
There’s an idiom, in Hebrew:
דבר אל הקיר”, daber el ha’kir = talk to the wall.
That means you talk to the wall…the wall, referring to someone.. but this person, you talk to, would not answer… would answer as these bricks.

There is a lot in internet communication, which can be direct, or indirect.. its material for thoughts for you also, Dave.. perhaps for future artworks. Internet communication, is inspiring to me, at least.
Enjoy the weekend.

Actually its all about building “walls of defence”
Ha’internet hu maka… pashut maka.

Thank you Dave.. I saw it.. And just now commented on it once more, in a different way.

Please do, Dave.

Your a clever boy!!

They talk to me.
Love it!

they david, nice work
you may be interested in the Just Walls group

i will change it just for you

Awesome Dave; great imagination!

You’re perfect for our group! Please click our banner to join and enter the challenges!!

Ah, with so many views and comments who’d want to be ‘left-out?’
Yes, if bricks could talk… I recently moved into an old condo building with brick party walls… sometimes in the still of the night… what’s that murmur?...
Love your sense of fun!

very nice. watercolor and ink is one of my favorite types of art.

entertaining