Conversation Between Turtle and modest

turtle is currently engaged in original work afield. by all means help yourselves to any of his stuff you can lay your hands on during his absence. . . . .

Oh, Lord. Somebody let the Turtle out of his box. Oh, well—we might as well grab his stuff and get outta here

we been wonderin' what happened to cousin thibodeaux.

I love turtle too. My grandma's family came up from Louisiana and she made the best cajun snapping turtle soup.... mmmm.

~modest

Bitte schön. Thanks for the inspiration. As an artist yourself, you know how we're always clambering for attention.
The background for the kiter is mottled because of the paper I used; "newsprint" paper of the kind packers use to wrap articles before putting them into boxes. The figure is fountain-pen on the paper, then scanned, then applied some digital filters to color it.

The clammer background I made by overlapping 2 stock background textures that came with my image software, then from a scan of the pen & paper character I selected/copied an inverted image with the 'magic-wand' tool (effectively this copies only the lines) and finally pasted this onto the background.

Looks like I have found time for a new fixation.

Hey now I caught a Turtle diggin' for clams in my user profile page. Beautimus maximus clammus—if I do say so myself. And all the others were just as praiseable. I particularly like the inked "trekking" and I'm curious how you did the background for the kiter and the clammer. I'd be guessing it's painted and scanned, but I'd be really interested in the particulars.

Muchas Gracias amigo

somebody thought it would be funny to flip me on my back. we are not amused. now where's my liquor!?

Has anyone seen a missing Turtle? :'(

No need to hold me ; I shed my shell annually. may as well have a couple while we're celebrating though.